However I didn't understand what was really happening behind the scenes in the university the very one that I left in 2007 to enter the world of unemployment, like thousands of young Mauritanians. But today I finally understood what's going on.

A total of 61,000 documents, in Arabic, are already online, creating a rich fodder of information on the secret correspondence behind the scenes in the Saudi corridors of power.

Admittedly, there is still a fierce debate over the right way to assist poor countries, and this will play out behind the scenes at the G 8 summit.

In one video, Shingo Usami, an actor and Australian permanent resident based in Sydney, Australia, provides an amusing behind the scenes account of his TV debut role as a samurai ninja.

But when you come back to the real world and beyond the charm of the theatre and the pretty stage and actors, and open the door that leads backstage, people turn into flesh and blood and everything screams death.

Offstage at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Hanoi, Clinton challenged Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi over Beijing s claim that its ownership of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea was now a core interest.

In a zippy demo at TED U, AnnMarie Thomas shows how two different kinds of homemade play dough can be used to demonstrate electrical properties by lighting up LEDs, spinning motors, and turning little kids into circuit designers.