If you mess up in Turkey, a common way to laugh it off is to invoke Cin Ali, the squiggly stick figure in a cap whose benign adventures in picture books helped a generation of Turks learn to read. Berenstain Bears 'have helped so many children ...

TUNIS, Tunisia -- The prosecution of a military tribunal demanded the death penalty for Tunisia's former dictator over his role in the deaths of protesters during the popular uprising that overthrew him a year ago. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is ...

MANILA, Philippines—Property giant Ayala Land Inc. (ALI) is making a bigger bet on the Philippine consumer by diversifying into the retail business, in partnership with the Tantoco family, which owns upscale retailer Rustan’s Group. While ALI has been ...

After suffering years of ridicule since Sacha Baron Cohen decided to make it the home of his creation Ali G, Staines has officially changed its name in an attempt to distance itself from the joke, to the more upmarket Staines-upon-Thames.

Tunis - The lawyer of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali on Thursday denied that the deposed Tunisian leader had given orders to fire on protesters during last year's revolution and condemned a Tunisian prosecutor's calls for the death penalty. A Tunisian military ...

MANILA, Philippines - Property giant Ayala Land Inc. (ALI) has bagged a deal to develop the 60-hectare property in Valenzuela City that used to house the country’s biggest fully-integrated plastic manufacturing complex. In a disclosure to the Philippine ...

Is it possible for a united Yemen to move towards a new future or will the forces that are advocating a division of the country win in the end? Ali Salim el Beidh, the leader of the separatist movement in South Yemen, is the man now considered ...

The Lohan siblings are just not getting it done. Lindsay's problems have been exhaustively documented. Now her little sis Ali, who signed a contract with Next Model management last year, is looking skinnier than ever, with experts estimating she weighs ...

CAIRO — More than 100 Egyptians held since a mass arrest over two weeks ago began an open-ended hunger strike Sunday to protest their continued detention and the possibility they will face military prosecution, activists said. Hundreds of ...

STAINES-UPON-THAMES, England, May 21 (UPI) -- The city of Staines, England, changed its name to Staines-upon-Thames, in part to distance itself from the jokes of Sacha Baron Cohen's "Ali G" character. Colin Davis, a member of the Spelthorne ...