A Bahraini court has sentenced four men to death for killing two police officers during the pro-democracy protests.

Britain has revoked a royal wedding invitation to the Syrian ambassador because of violent attacks on protesters there.

Pomp and ceremony joined with a mutual love of rugby in John Key's one-day visit to Paris.

Sunni-Shia hostility in the Muslim world is likely to deepen because of the demolition of Shia holy places in Bahrain.

New documents have raised questions over Britain's involvement in the Iraq war.

South African judge Richard Goldstone said yesterday that he did not plan to seek nullification of his highly critical United Nations report.

Oil states are, by their nature, undemocratic.The despots who have ruled the Arab world for half a century are not giving up without a fight.

Through the cobbled alleys of Damascus' old city and beyond into the drab jungle of Soviet-style apartment blocks, nothing, it seems, misses the Syrian President's gaze.

Gwynne Dyer examines the western coalition's motives for taking action against Muammar Gaddafi's forces in Libya.

Simon Sebag Montefiore tells Stephen Jewell about writing ‘the greatest story ever told’ and why the history of Jerusalem is the story of the world.

Middle East tension poses a threat to the delicate global recovery.

Higher fuel prices are likely to mean lower profit margins and lower real wages.