Pope Francis has been inaugurated at the Vatican. The 266th leader of the Roman Catholic Church toured St Peter's Square and met some of the faithful. Italian media outlets say up to a million people were in the crowd. ...

Following the end of the war in 2009, Sri Lanka has been using cricket to unite the nation. Al Jazeera's Rahul Pathak talks to Sri Lankan bowler Murali Muralitharan in Colombo about projects aimed at healing war wounds.

The FLN football team helped the Algerian movement for independence.

Eric Cantona presents the next part of Al Jazeera's Football Rebels series.

The popularity of rugby is growing in Sri Lanka. With rugby sevens becoming a part of the 2016 Olympic Games, there's many exciting opportunities for the improving nation. Al Jazeera's Rahul Pathak reports from Colombo...

A group of women overcomes Turkish-Kurdish divisions through theatre.

Ten years after the start of the War in Iraq, relive the key moments from Al Jazeera's exclusive coverage.

Watch archived footage from the conflict, including US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld denouncing on-the-ground ...

What lessons can countries like the United States learn from the prosperity of the South?

Undercover footage shot by Global Witness, a non-governmental organisation working against environmental exploitation, appears to link a leading Malaysian politician to corrupt land deals worth at least $500m.

Abdul Mahm...

Iraq has marked the 10th anniversary of the US led invasion of Iraq with continued turmoil.

Iraqis have experienced sectarian violence and political disputes since the removal of Saddam Hussain. They long for peace and sec...

Human Rights groups say one person is killed every minute because of armed violence, through conflict and crime, but no globally agreed standards exist to regulate the international trade in arms, a trade in dangerous and ...

It has been 23 years since the public has seen originals of the artwork by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Degas among others at Boston's Gardner Museum. They are, in fact, part of the most valuable property theft in the United S...

The opposition Syrian National Coalition has elected its new provisional Prime Minister.

Ghassan Hitto will now have the task of forming a cabinet to oversee opposition-held areas of Syria.

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President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi has warned Yemenis against the use of force to express their political views, as he opened a national dialogue to pave the way for the drafting of a new constitution and the staging of electi...

Joshua Landis, director of Middle Eastern Studies at the Univesity of Oklahoma, tells Al Jazeera that the Syrian strike on Lebanese territory is part of a larger spillover of the Syrian war into neighbouring countries.

He...

A key witness into allegations of torture by British soldiers in Iraq has been accused of exaggerating his evidence. The father of Hamid al-Sweady, who was killed in May 2004, says that his son was murdered. The British a...

Some of the loudest protests against the proposal of a one-time levy on savings account holders in Cyprus to help ease the country's debt burden have come from Russia. That's because Russian citizens have around $26 billio...

The New York City police practice of stopping, questioning and frisking people on the street is about to face its biggest legal challenge. A civil rights group is taking police to court over claims that the so-called stop...

One of Africa's most wanted warlords has surrendered. Rwandan-born Bosco Ntaganda led a faction of the M23 rebels in DR Congo, and has been on the run for a year. He walked into the US embassy in Rwanda's capital, Kigali...

What have #Iraq #youth achieved in the last decade and how are they shaping the country's future?

The eurozone has told Cyprus to drop part of a hugely controversial levy on consumer savings that would generate an expected 5.8 billion euro ($7.51 billion), according to a statement released after a meeting between Cypri...

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Al-Shabab have claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb attack which killed eight people in one of Mogadishu's busiest streets. Monday's attack, around lunchtime and near the National Theatre, targeted Khalif Ahmed Il...

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Cypriots are holding their breath for a make or break bailout decision amid warnings of a slide into bankruptcy or crash out of the euro.

Cyprus has postponed a vote on a planned one-off tax on depositors' savings accoun...

The former Moro National Liberation Front leader discusses the crisis in Sabah and peace in the southern Philippines.

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city, has gone from a booming industrial hub to a ghost town with empty factories now a common site. The country is rich in resources such as diamonds and platinum, but factory owners sa...

Hundreds of experts from around the world are gathering in the Cambodian capital to discuss health problems linked to the use of firewood for cooking. Millions of poor people everywhere do it. But research shows they risk...

It is a decision made to obtain financial aid and to prevent the island nation of Cyprus from going bankrupt. Just three weeks into the job, and Nicos Anastasiades, the Cypriot president, is tackling the nation's debt cri...

Two years after Yemen's anti-government movement ended more than three decades of autocratic rule, hopes that Yemen would be governed by a new generation are fading away. It was largely the youth that led the revolution an...

Al Jazeera speaks with Michael Vatikiotis, from the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, about Australia's significant move to engage Myanmar's military to establish a process of reform.

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South Korea's rapid economic boom has left much of the country looking like a concrete jungle. Now architects are pushing a new development style, which aims to preserve the old while introducing new concepts. Al Jazeera...

It's a case that has shocked much of the US - and now, two high school sports stars have been found guilty of raping a drunk teenage girl at a party in a small town in Ohio.

They've been sentenced to at least 12 months in...

Diplomats from around the world are to gather at the United Nations for talks on an international arms trade treaty, in an effort to stop the sale of illegal conventional arms. Similar talks held last July failed, mainly d...

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades has addressed his country in an attempt to explain why he accepted the controversial bailout plan which includes taxing people's savings.

He promised to amend some of the provisions to...

Two factions of the Congolese rebel group M23 have been fighting each other in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Hundreds of fighters from one group are now on the run, after the split resulted in battles betwe...

Voters in the Peruvian capital, Lima, are casting ballots on the future of their controversial mayor, Susana Villaran. The referendum could also have an impact on the next presidential race in 2016. Al Jazeera's Gerald T...

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