Yemen Parliament approved a state of emergency on Wednesday, giving President Ali Abdullah Saleh extra powers for a month to quell the uprising.

Google has been fined 100,000 euros (US$141,000) by the French National Commission on Computing and Liberty, for recording personal data while taking photos for its Street View mapping service.

Squatters have occupied a 10.6 million pound (about US$17 million) London villa purchased by Moammar Gadhafi’s son—but they use only the living room and bathroom, keep it clean, and have banned alcohol from the premises.

Egypt’s nascent democracy is taking its first steps along a difficult road toward genuine democratic governance.

NATO and Afghan security forces on Thursday evening killed a cousin of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, during a house search involving a neighboring building near Kandahar City.

The number of civilian deaths in the armed conflict in Afghanistan was 2,777 in 2010, according to an annual report published by United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) and Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission.

The corruption trial against former French President Jacques Chirac was suspended by presiding judge, Dominique Pauthe, on Tuesday.

The Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry on Saturday announced a ban on all demonstrations, marches, and protests saying these go against Islamic (Shariah) law and the kingdom’s traditions.

The Danish family and their yacht that were seized last Thursday by pirates have been moved to Somalia’s coastlin.

Tunisia’s interim Prime Minister, Mohamed Ghannouchi, resigned on Saturday after protests demanding his resignation left three people dead.