Pro-Russian separatists are holding elections in eastern Ukraine. The regions of Donetsk and Luhansk are voting on severing ties with Ukraine. Russia has said it will recognise the result but the contest […]

Voters in Brazil have re-elected President Dilma Rousseff with 51.45% of the ballots cast.

Lebanon, the sex tourism capital of the Middle East. Ladies of the night board a bus bound for a string of super nightclubs. They are heading towards red light district, north of […]

War blocks the MH17 probe from reaching the crash site. The wreckage should have been collected and re-assembled. Until it is, evidence can only be gleaned from images, recorders and eye-witness testimony. […]

On The Stream: Prospects and plans for Korean reunification.

Thanks to high commodity prices and relatively business friendly policies, Bolivia is enjoying the highest economic growth in its history and it’s a prosperity that’s spreading across the social divide. Al Jazeera’s […]

North Korea has celebrated the 69th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party, but for the first time in three years Kim Jong Un missed the festivities. The authoritarian leader, who’s […]

CNN’s Brian Todd reports on the strange absence of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un from public appearances.

Shoppers queued for up to two hours at a Moscow department store selling tee-shirts emblazoned with images of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who turned 62 on Tuesday.