27 April 2012
A number of Royal family members on Thursday visited the tomb of Her Majesty Queen Zein Al Sharaf who passed away on April 26,1994.

27 April 2012
Jordan moved one step closer to a “smart” power grid on Thursday with the launch of a series of studies to prepare for the biggest upgrade of the Kingdom’s electricity infrastructure in over 30

03 April 2012
Jordan and Italy on Monday reiterated their calls for an end to the bloodshed in Syria and the violence committed against civilians there.

03 April 2012
A recent report showed that online transactions in Jordan account for only about 3 per cent of overall e-commerce in the region,

24 February 2012
Experts on Thursday called for effective short- and medium-term strategies to create jobs for young people in the Kingdom, where two-thirds of working-age youths are jobless.

24 February 2012
Prime Minister Awn Khasawneh’s Twitter account, @JordanPremier, had over 1,000 followers Thursday, three days after his first tweet.

27 April 2012
A Royal Decree was issued on Thursday extending the 16th Parliament’s second ordinary session, which was set to end Thursday, until June 25.

27 April 2012
His Majesty King Abdullah on Thursday stressed that there is no room for any delays in the reform process, highlighting the urgent need to complete the laws regulating political life in the Kingdom.

03 April 2012
One dozen activists face up to 10 years in prison for their participation in a Saturday protest that called for “regime change”, as demonstrations demanding their release continued Monday.

03 April 2012
The animal that authorities killed in the capital’s northern suburb of Shafa Badran on Saturday was a dog, not a hyena, an ecological expert said on Monday.

3 April 2012
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and his wife Clio on Monday visited the Amman Citadel (Jabal Al Qalaa) and were briefed on the history of the site.
Perched atop a hill overlooking the older parts of the capital

3 April 2012
If the Senate does not approve giving parliamentarians lifetime pensions, several deputies are threatening to effectively paralyse the Lower House by boycotting sessions and preventing them from proceeding due to lack of quorum.

27 April 2012
An explosion ripped through a building in Syria’s central city of Hama on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people and wounding dozens more, the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, in a bloody violation of a shaky cease-fire in the country.

27 April 2012
Israel’s military chief said he does not believe Iran will decide to build an atomic bomb and called its leaders “very rational” - comments that clashed with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assessment.

03 April 2012
Iraq’s autonomous northern Kurdish region will not resume oil exports until an agreement has been reached with Baghdad on payments for oil companies working in the area, Kurdish Energy Minister Ashti Hawrami said on Monday.

03 April 2012
Syria told international envoy Kofi Annan that its military will withdraw troops and heavy weapons from populated areas by April 10, in what could be a first step toward ending the bloody yearlong conflict, UN diplomats said Monday.

24 February 2012
Syrian forces have shot dead unarmed women and children, shelled residential areas and tortured wounded protesters in hospital under orders from the “highest level” of army and government officials, the United Nations said on Thursday.

24 February 2012
A series of explosions and shootings killed 44 people and injured more than 200 in Baghdad and elsewhere Thursday morning, Iraqi police said.

27 April 2012
Two bomb blasts targeted the offices of Nigerian newspaper This Day on Thursday, in the capital Abuja and the northern city of Kaduna, killing at least three people, officials and witnesses said.

27 April 2012
The family of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, killed almost a year ago by American special forces in a military town in northwest Pakistan, left Pakistan for Saudi Arabia early on Friday morning, the family lawyer told Reuters.

03 April 2012
Hungarian President Pal Schmitt resigned Monday because of a plagiarism scandal regarding a doctoral dissertation he had written 20 years ago.

03 April 2012
A gunman opened fire at a private Christian college in Oakland on Monday, killing at least seven people and wounding three others before a suspect, reportedly a former student, was taken into custody, authorities said.

24 February 2012
International powers called Thursday for urgent action on Somalia, warning that the world will “pay the price” for failing to help the country tackle political unrest, militants and pirates.

24 February 2012
As the death toll grows in Syria, so do the desperate pleas for help.
"What is the world waiting for?" asked one Syrian woman this week while holed up in a makeshift bomb shelter with her sick son.