TR EMERITUS

Recipe for a revolution: Start with 80 million people, almost 30% of them illiterate Pack them into narrow corridors of arable land along the Nile and the Suez more densely than in Bangladesh or the Netherlands Double the population of 15-to-24 year-olds during the 30-year reign of a brutal dictator Turn growing numbers of... 

Ali Abdullah Saleh Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Wednesday he will not be seeking re-election nor hand over power to his son once his current term ends in 2013, CNN reported. "No extension, no inheritance,” he told parliament. Saleh had called an emergency parliamentary meeting, ahead of a “day of rage”... 

Stones fly through the air as supporters of President Hosni Mubarak, foreground , fight with anti-Mubarak protesters, rear, standing on army tanks in Cairo. CAIRO — Barely 12 hours after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he would step down at the end of his term, a club-wielding mob chanting his name overwhelmed pro-democracy...