When Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng sought refuge at the US embassy in Beijing in early May, he asked to make a telephone call to a friend at New York University.
Al Jazeera's Kristen Saloomey spoke to the man who answered the call, Jerome Cohen, of NYU's US-Asia Law Institute.
An Al Jazeera investigation has prompted authorities in Sierra Leone to take action against illegal fishing.
There was a big jump in the number of South Korean trawlers fishing in the country's exclusion zone last year.
But as Juliana Ruhfus reports, the government is now making illegal fishing more difficult.
For years the Muslim Brotherhood was officially banned by Egypt's government, but following the 2011 revolution, the fall of Hosni Mubarak and the country's first free parliamentary elections, the Brotherhood - with its political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party - has emerged as Egypt's most powerful political force.
Brazil, like many of the other BRICS countries, is starting to suffer an economic downturn.
China is buying fewer Brazilian goods, but economists say a drop in exports is not the only reason for the downturn.
As Gabriel Elizondo reports,some of the issues are internal.
Later on Wednesday the International Olympic Committee will choose the official candidates in the race to host the 2020 Games.
Five cities are hoping to make the shortlist: Tokyo, Madrid, Istanbul, Doha and Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.
Al Jazeera's Sohail Rahman assesses Baku's chances.
Eugene Polley is not exactly a household name, but his 1955 invention lives in homes across the world.
The creator of the first wireless remote control for television, died of natural causes on Sunday at the age of 96 in Chicago, Illinois, the same city he was born in.
Gerald Tan reports on the death of man who called his invention a "TV miracle".
European leaders are preparing for a meeting in Brussels to discuss the region's massive debt crisis.
It will be the first EU summit for the new French President Francois Hollande.
And his new direction for France is already at odds with other member states.
Al Jazeera's Barnaby Phillips reports.
A Pakistani doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden has been jailed for 33 years for treason, television channels and a local
government official said.
Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tyab reports from Islamabad.
The relationship between the United States and Pakistan has been strained to breaking point and that breakdown was clearly on view at the Nato summit in Chicago. Can the former allies find a common ground after US drone attacks on soldiers sever old ties.Anand Naidoo, discusses with guests Hassan Abbas; Ahmed Rashid; and Brian Katulis.
The People & Power team meets several volunteers who were placed to work in a school and an orphanage in Cambodia. In sharing their experience they talk of the impact volunteering and how orphanage tourism is doing more harm than good to children there.
Psychologists believe keeping children with their extended family or in foster families is the best alternative to having them in orphanages. People & Power shows this through the story of Leap, a 14 year-old Cambodian girl who went missing after the orphanage she was in was closed down. She was later reunited with her aunt and uncle and now lives with them through financial sponsorship.
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