The curtain is about to rise on South Africa's first publicly-funded theatre since the end of apartheid.
It's been built in the township of Soweto, where many residents played an important part in bringing an end to racial segregation.
Al Jazeera Tania Page reports.
At least 400,000 people are affected by increasingly common land disputes in Cambodia.
Now the government has decided to crack down on protests against land grabs by arresting anyone who is caught organising a protest.
Already more than a dozen people have been charged.
Al Jazeera's Stephanie Scawen reports from the capital, Phnom Penh.
Yemen has long suffered from political turmoil, violence and unrest but now major aid groups are warning that thousands could die in a catastrophic food crisis. Is enough being done to help troubled Yemen? James Bays discusses with guests: Penny Lawerence, Abdel Aziz Abu Hamad Aluwaisheg & Ameen Al-Hemyari.
In just a few hours time, polls open again in Egypt for a second day of voting in the country's first free presidential elections.
Fifty million Egyptians are eligible to cast their ballots and so many turned out on the first day polling hours were extended.
Al Jazeera's Mike Hanna reports from Cairo.
In its annual report Amnesty says the Security Council should have taken stronger action on the crisis in Syria.
Amnesty is recommending reform at the Security Council so a veto won't be able to stop action in cases of gross human rights violations.
Al Jazeera's Dominic Kane reports.
A British stuntman has leapt out of a helicopter and into the history books - becoming the first man to jump from 700m high without a parachute.
After waiting for the perfect weather conditions, Gary Connery performed his feat at Henley on Thames near London.
Al Jazeera's Charlie Angela has the details.
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".
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