Short profiles of artists who are innovating within their fields: Lim Geong creates electronic soundscapes, A Moving Sound presents performance art that draws from several Asian and aboriginal sources, and Kou Chou Ching are engaging Taiwanese youth in social issues and politics through their conscious rap. For...

(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: February 8, 2010) Victor Yanukovich has declared victory in Ukraine's presidential election, but his opponent Yulia Tymoshenko has refused to concede the race. Animal welfare legislation in China could mean the end of a Chinese delicacy -- dog meat. In the United States, the...

(Western Sahara) We're thrilled to have a video from one of the great singers of world music. Mariem Hassan has a voice that would make Aretha Franklin sit up and take notice. She's been rightly called "The Voice of the Sahara," and as a representative of her people she...

Top Stories : Anti-Ba'ath protests held in Baghdad- Iran informs IAEA about decision to start 20% enrichment- Jordan's King warns of fading opportunity for peace.

(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: February 5, 2010) Deadly bomb blasts struck the Pakistani city of Karachi and the Iraqi city of Karbala. U.S. pilots claimed they were uncomfortable with orders from German NATO commanders to drop bombs in Afghanistan, which resulted in civilian deaths in the September 4,...

(Mosaic Intelligence Report: February 5, 2010) Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak warns of "apartheid" if Israel does not achieve peace with the Palestinians. Is the "two-state solution" dead? And would Israelis & Palestinians agree to binational coexistence? Read more on the Huffington Post Poll on Daily...

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(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: February 4, 2010) Pakistanis have reacted in anger after Pakistani scientist Aafia Siddiqui was convicted in a U.S. court of attempting to murder her interrogators in Afghanistan. NATO and Afghan troops are gearing up for a joint offensive against Taliban targets in Afghanistan. Sri...

Guantanamo whistleblower Stephen Abraham defends the White House's proposal to move Gitmo detainees to the Thomson Correctional Facility in rural northwestern Illinois and calls for a public demolition of the Guantanamo Bay detainment facility. "It's not something we should do subtly," he says. Arguing that Guantanamo Bay is a symbol...