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

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.

Syrian police launched a relentless assault on a neighbourhood sheltering anti-government protesters, fatally shooting at least 15 in a pre-dawn operation, witnesses said.

The wave of protests across the Middle East and North Africa don't yet constitute revolution and real democratic change may be decades away, Auckland University associate professor Stephen Hoadley says.

Lessons from an extraordinary uprising - for protesters and police alike.

Cellphone entrepreneur tries again, with venture targeting emerging markets.

You can't run and nor can you hide in a Syrian bath house, explains JJ Somerset.

Syria has forbidden the country's students and teachers from wearing the niqab - the full Islamic veil.

Will it be useful to add to my CV, I wonder, the title of honorary Bedouin camel trekking manager?

The ancient city of Palmyra is home to some striking ruins - the most impressive of which is the Temple of Bel.