Sources: Reuters
Members of the Force India team due to be involved in the race are involved in a firebomb scare. 2012-04-19
In eastern Saudi Arabia near the Persian Gulf, police open fire on protesters as public unrest intensifies. 2011-10-5
2011 Egyptian revolution: 3 ministers from the regime of Hosni Mubarak, ousted from power by a popular revolution, are acquitted in court of the misuse of public money. 2011-07-5
2011 Libyan civil war: Libyan officials say NATO airstrikes on Tripoli kill 15 civilians, including children; this is the second claimed collateral damage incident in two days, with NATO blaming a "weapons failure" for the first attack. 2011-06-20
Women protesters are targeted as thousands of protesters take to the streets in cities across the country for a "Friday of Free Women" protest, in solidarity with those killed or imprisoned in the eight-week uprising. 2011-05-15
Hundreds of students gather outside the United Nations building in Tehran, Iran, to protest against government suppression of students in Bahrain. 2011-04-26
Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, authorises a review of emergency laws and an inquiry into the deaths of protesters. 2011-03-31
Pro-Syrian government demonstrators surround the Al-Jazeera offices in Damascus and threaten to burn it to the ground. 2011-03-25
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi claims that Nicolas Sarkozy received funding from Libya ahead of the 2007 French presidential election. 2011-03-17
Hundreds of people stage a rare protest in the Syrian capital Damascus calling for greater freedoms and the release of political prisoners. 2011-03-15