The Malian president announced plans to hold elections by July as French-led troops battled Islamists in the last major northern town under militant control.

For 30 years Peggy Bartels was a secretary in Washington DC. Then she got a phone call asking her to take over from her uncle as king of a Ghanaian village, ruling over 7,000 people.

The renewed bloodshed and defiant protests in Egypt prompts a provocative question: Could Egypt really collapse?

John Sutter says a new nonprofit is developing a technology to enable activists to communicate even if governments try to shut them down

Ben Wedeman reports on why young people in Egypt are rebelling against the powers that be.