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In the Picture: Egypt’s presidential elections
Supporters of Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi at an election rally. John Moore/Getty Images On Wednesday and Thursday, Egyptians will go to the polls to vote in the first democratic...
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In the Picture: Greek elections June 17
A family beg on a street on in Athens, June 13, 2012. Oli Scarff/Getty Images On Sunday, Greeks will go to the polls for the second time in two months. The inconclusive election of May 6, in which no...
View ArticleIn the Picture: The Assad circle of power
The deaths of three of President al-Assad's most senior security officials in a bomb attack on Wednesday could prove a turning point in the Syrian crisis. The World blog looks at Bashar's inner circle...
View ArticleIn the Picture: the EU’s October summit
The EU summit that begins on Thursday has enjoyed less fanfare - and less frenzied speculation over its potential outcomes - than many others. But don't be fooled: it still matters. Here's why....
View ArticleIn the Picture: Israel’s Iron Dome
In wartime, everyone wants a hero. The one that has emerged from Israel in recent days is no individual soldier, but a technology: the so-called 'Iron Dome'. Continue reading »
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Syria’s uranium stash?
As if concerns over whether Syria’s chemical weapons might fall into the wrong hands amid the increasingly violent civil war weren’t enough to worry about, behind the scenes nuclear experts are now...
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In the Picture: censorship in China
Demonstrators outside the offices of Southern Weekend in Guangzhou on January 8 (AFP/Getty) Any government that is intent on controlling public debate has traditionally had a number of tools at its...
View ArticleIn the Picture: the life and death of Aaron Swartz
A suicide is always a tragedy, but that of 26-year-old Aaron Swartz on Friday has reverberated with particular force across the internet. That's partly because of the enormous sense of waste - he was a...
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In the Picture: Israel’s 2013 election
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits an east Jerusalem settlement in October 2012. (Moshe Milner/GPO via Getty Images) Israelis go to the polls today in an election widely expected to...
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In the Picture: Obama, Brennan and the drone issue
A police officer asks protesters to move to the sidewalk during a demonstration in front of a Raytheon company building in Florida in August 2012 (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) The CIA’s drone programme may...
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In the picture: a short history of nationalisations
Cristina Fernández holds a sample of the first petroleum extraction in Argentina as she makes the YPF announcement (Getty) On Monday Cristina Fernández, Argentina’s president, announced the...
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In the Picture: François Hollande, president-in-waiting?
CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP/Getty Images If the latest polls are to be believed, Nicolas Sarkozy will be a one-term wonder. A president who has broken with convention throughout his career will likely do so...
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In the Picture: Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor in 1990 (Getty) Update: Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president, was found guilty of aiding and abetting 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone, the...
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In the Picture: Roots of the Spanish crisis
Luisa Pinales, who could no longer make mortgage payments after her business closed in 2007, sweeps her apartment in Madrid on March 5, 2012. She was evicted on April 27. The graffiti reads "Stop...
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In the picture: Chen Guangcheng
Chen Guangcheng in a wheelchair pushed by a nurse at the Chaoyang hospital in Beijing (Getty) The blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng had been under home arrest for 19 months until last week, when he...
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In the Picture: Greece and the eurozone crisis
The eurozone crisis is back with a vengeance. In a Bloomberg poll published on Thursday, 57% of 1,253 Bloomberg subscribers said they believed at least one country would abandon the euro by year-end....
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In the Picture: Greek exit?
REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach Today we’re looking at Greece. Yup, again. But over the last week, the possibility that the Mediterranean country of 11 million people might actually leave the eurozone – a...
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