Established in the mold of British imperial army, Pakistan's military transformed itself to accommodate Islamic influences. Can this change in culture weaken the military's ability to counter the threat of Islamic extremism?
Bare breasts, hijabs, and fried eggs are not common ingredients in social protest movements.
Hundreds of protesters have gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square in the biggest protests seen since the mass demonstrations that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak in February.
Poland's Baltic Sea port city of Gdansk enjoys iconic status as the birthplace of the Solidarity trade union that helped bring down Communism. The city fell on hard times after the Iron Curtain fell. But in recent years it has begun retooling itself to become competitive in the global economy.
Afghans are used to bad news, but the multiple crises of the past week have managed to defy even their low expectations.
Elected local councils are Afghanistan's best hope for building democracy and marginalizing the Taliban. But they face enormous challenges.
The legendary Yury Lyubimov is leaving the theater company he founded in 1964 after falling out with his actors while on tour. Russia's culture minister has publicly called for an end to the conflict, but Lyubimov has made it clear he is bowing out for good.
Poland, which has grown from a troublesome new member to one of the EU's key states, takes over the bloc's six-month rotating presidency amid high expectations.
In an initial vote, the Dutch parliament this week moved to ban the slaughter of livestock without stunning the animals first. The ban effectively targets Jewish and Muslim slaughter methods that require livestock to be fully conscious at the time of death.
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has used most of the instruments in the dictator’s toolbox to repress his people. On the evening of June 29, he employed a novel weapon: disco music.
A senior member of Saudi Arabia's royal family has warned that Riyadh could squeeze Iran's oil revenues by flooding the international market with its own produce, thus lowering the price and damaging Tehran's economy. The threat comes amid escalating tensions between the two countries over the Islamic republic's nuclear program and other regional issues. But is the Saudi threat realistic?
Orphaned children are among the ubiquitous reminders of the Pakistani military's highly publicized operation to rout militants from the country's northwestern Swat Valley in 2009.
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