High-ranking Hezbollah official Sheikh Nabil Qaouk says that the resistance party has never fought and will never fight in Syria, and that its job is to protect Lebanon.

A Cairo criminal court on Sunday sentenced ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's former chief of staff to seven years in jail on corruption charges, a judicial source told AFP.

Hundreds of pro-democracy activists marched through central Hong Kong on Sunday to mark the 23rd anniversary of the crushing of the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing.

Tens of thousands of Moroccans took to the streets of Casablanca on Sunday in the largest opposition protest since an Islamist-led government took office in January.