There was also mayhem following the Indian Ocean tsunami.

Those dikes have burst. People wade through law all day long.

The world s housing, oil, and stock markets have been plunged into turmoil in recent months.

Only days earlier there had been great happiness and celebrations after Hassan Rouhani was announced the winner of the of the presidential election.

Following the announcement of Nasser's death, Egypt and the Arab world were in a state of shock.

The events were preceded by a wave of anti Armenian statements and rallies that swept over Azerbaijan in February 1988.

Out of this crisis came the demonstrations all over China, collectively known as Tiananmen.

Once again, Iraqis met the deadline they set for themselves and elections were held on time, despite difficulties and dangers in much of the country.

As many might remember, it was in Tunisia, as a result of the demonstrations in Sidi Bouzid, where the revolutions and uprisings, collectively known as Arab Spring, came into being.

Eyebrows were raised and questions were asked about the lengths to which Mahathir would go to counteract the Islamist appeal.

LONDON In a prominent hadith, the Prophet Mohammed said If disorder threatens, take refuge in Yemen.

I will take you to the Cultural Revolution, when China went mad, and compare that country's performance with India under Indira Gandhi.

Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood senior member, is no longer the president of Egypt. Morsi's one year reign was cut short, after massive protests across Egypt calling for him to resign started on June 30.

Thousands in Mexico City protested against the disappearance of dozens of Ayotzinapa students from the coastal state of Guerrero on Wednesday, October 8.

The Internet has been in stitches ever since Dubai's deputy chief of police Dhahi Khalfan announced on Twitter that US President Barack Obama has Shia roots and is likely to visit Shia religious centres in Iran soon.

The world s housing, oil, and stock markets have been plunged into turmoil in recent months. Yet consumer confidence, capital expenditure, and hiring have yet to take a sharp hit.

(a) The systematic, widespread and extremely grave violations of human rights and of international humanitarian law by the Government of Iraq, resulting in an all pervasive repression and oppression sustained by broad based discrimination and widespread terror

(a) The systematic, widespread and extremely grave violations of human rights and of international humanitarian law by the Government of Iraq, resulting in all pervasive repression and oppression sustained by broad based discrimination and widespread terror

This was not the first time the proposal triggered protests demonstrations followed after Proposed Amendment number 215 00 was deemed admissible by the Chamber of Deputies constitution commission in March 2012.

To be sure, many of Iran s ruling elites came of age politically during the anti imperialist and anti colonialist agitations of the 1960 s and 1970 s, and still cling to that worldview.

Afterwards, many of my relatives, prosperous Indian merchants who had been settled in Myanmar for generations, abandoned homes and businesses in order to save their skins as chaos enveloped the city, later renamed Yangon.

The crisis in Ukraine, many of whose Soviet era industries depend on cheap Russian gas, soon spread to Europe, which consumes 80 of Russian gas exports, when Ukraine began to divert gas from the pipeline that crosses its territory.

But can the G 20 deliver on its promise? As the chaos at the climate change conference in Copenhagen last December amply demonstrated, both the number of members around the table and the differences between them even within the group of emerging countries do not bode well for the future.