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Britain revokes wedding invite for Syrian ambassador
Britain has revoked a royal wedding invitation to the Syrian ambassador because of violent attacks on protesters there.
Linchpin Arab state at crossroads
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.
15 dead in new clashes in southern Syria
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.
Middle East unrest doesn't equal revolution - professor
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.
Power of brutality and its limits
Lessons from an extraordinary uprising - for protesters and police alike.
Success: Business banks on mobile money
Cellphone entrepreneur tries again, with venture targeting emerging markets.
Three Wise Men and a couple of burqas
The presenters of motoring show Top Gear have caused controversy after dressing in burqas while filming in the Middle East.
Syria: Stripped and battered in Damascus
You can't run and nor can you hide in a Syrian bath house, explains JJ Somerset.
Syria bans full face veils at universities
Syria has forbidden the country's students and teachers from wearing the niqab - the full Islamic veil.
Syria: In charge of a tour group - and 16 camels
Will it be useful to add to my CV, I wonder, the title of honorary Bedouin camel trekking manager?