Lawyers said former President Hosni Mubarak’s life sentence as an accessory in the killing of unarmed protesters was vulnerable to appeal, and charges of corruption were dismissed.
Exquisite sensitivities surround every detail in the creation of the National September 11 Memorial Museum, which is being built on land that many revere as hallowed ground.
The president has singled out Congress for rebuke while citing the impact of global woes on the economy. But in doing so he projects a message of powerlessness no leader likes to convey.
The Thai government tried to subdue the weekend visit of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, curtailing her activities amid a fragile relationship with the Myanmar government.
For nearly two weeks now, Italians have been charting the extent of earthquake damage to historic buildings in the Emilia-Romagna region on a disaster map that continues to grow.