Egypt's Interior Minister, Mohammed Ibrahim, has said that the country's security services have managed to foil an attempted suicide bombing on a western embassy.

Tunis - The ex-president of Tunisia, Zine Ben Ali was given a five-year jail term in absentia and also fined 3.5 million euros for corruption. Ben Ali has already been given two life sentences.

Singapore - The Float at Marina Bay, Singapore, also known as Marina Bay Floating Platform, is the world’s largest floating football stadium.

Tunis - According to the Femen leader in Paris Inna Shevchenko, the family of the Tunisian woman Amina, 19, delivered her to a psychiatric hospital after she posted topless photos of herself to the Femen Web page she created for the group in Tunisia.

The new designated Prime Minister of Tunisia Ali Larayedh he announced he has presented the new cabinet for the up and coming coalition government in the country.

Tunis - On Tuesday February 19th Prime Minister of Tunisia, Hamadi Jebali resigned, after his plan to form an interim government of technocrats was rejected by his own Islamist Ennahda Party.

Tunis - Tunisian Prime Minister, Hamadi Jebali, announced he would dissolve his Islamist-led government to form a new government of non-partisan members and technocrats. The move follows the assassination of a prominent opposition member Chokri Belaid.

French Interior Minister Manuel Valls announced yesterday that, as part of the French government’s fight against radical Islam and “global jihadism,” several radical Moslem clerics were likely to be deported from France over the coming days.

Kairouan - Tunisian man Dhaou Fatnassi, 20, bet a friend for money that he could eat 30 raw eggs — and died after consuming 28 eggs.

According to an airline spokesperson, a British Airways flight from Gatwick to Tunis was diverted to Lyon, France after two drunk middle-aged women turned rowdy and disruptive in the middle of the flight

Tunis - Rachid Ghannouchi, leader of the ruling Islamist Ennahda party in Tunisia, called for the imposition of flogging as a punishment for those convicted of slander.

Gammarth - Some of the worldly goods of ousted Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali are on auction to raise money for the state coffers. Super-cars, solid gold statues and extravagant jewelry owned by Leila Trabelsi are under the hammer.

Sperm counts in men are dropping all around the world. Studies are showing that the reduced sperm counts could be forming within the mother's womb at a critical stage of development. This will determine the males' fertility status when they are older.

Tunis - A second prisoner in Tunisia, who had been on a hunger strike, died from complications of his hunger strike in an intensive care unit. Mohammed Bakhti was a prominent member of the conservative Islamic Salafi movement.

French authorities yesterday expelled radical Tunisian imam Mohamed Hammami after accusing him of advocating “violent jihad”, violence against women and anti-semitism.

Pro-secular Turkish demonstrators took to the streets of Ankara to protest against what they consider an increasingly authoritarian and Islamist government. Turkish police greeted the banned rally participants with tear gas and water cannons.

If one was to describe today’s Iran as being schizophrenic, they might be onto something. On one hand, huge billboards and murals proudly proclaim its status as an Islamic Republic.

A young Tunisian woman who was raped by two policemen has been accused of "immoral behaviour" by her rapists, provoking outrage across the country.

Tunis - Two people are dead after thousands of protesters battled with Tunisian security forces outside the U.S. Embassy in Tunis.

Tunisian Salafists have attacked the last working bar in the town of Sidi Bouzid, birthplace of the Arab Spring. Islamists committed to a ban on alcohol, smashed bottles of liquor.