Mohamed Morsy started the week as Egypt's president and ends it in custody after the military flexed its power-broker muscle.

In just 12 years leading up to 2010, Vietnam cut the country's malnutrition rate in half by investing in small scale farming.

The African Union announced Friday that it has suspended Egypt.

Becky Anderson interviews Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei about what needs to happen next in Egypt.

He is the new leader of the most populous Arab nation. But Egypt's interim president Adly Mansour is, in many respects, a mystery man.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been receiving kidney dialysis and is responding to stimuli, a source with direct knowledge of the situation said Friday.

South African archbishop Desmond Tutu has a few choice words for the feuding family of Nelson Mandela: overcome your differences and stop tainting the anti-apartheid icon's name.

The widow of a Tunisian opposition leader reluctantly becomes a political celebrity as she fights against political Islamists and for justice.