Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is quickly losing grip. According to Robert Fisk, a veteran UK Middle-East reporter, he has now entered the critical phase of making concessions. Will he be able to cling on to power? 

A Japanese journalist made a trip into the radiation zone near the power plant in Fukushima in Japan. He thereby provided us with an image of the terrible situation inside the evacuation zone.

While the whole world is focused on riots in the Middle East, violent protesters took over the streets of London last Saturday to show their discontent with cuts made by the government.

MEP Derk Jan Eppink confronts his colleagues with the hypocritical behavior of European leaders towards Muammar Khaddafi. In his (Dutch) column in NRC Handelsblad he already called the role of France in the Maghreb, 'political penis enlargement'. While his method is comical, his critique is well-founded.

It doesn't get as much media attention as Libia, but in Ivory Coast there's a lot of violence as well. Watch this shocking video about security forces killing seven women who were engaged in a peaceful demonstration.

While all eyes of the world are set on the Arab world, people in Southern Sudan are trying to build their own independent national state. Watch Al Jazeera's report on their progress. 

This is what they could only hope for in their boldest dreams. Not romanticised, just fantastic!

The Egyptian Revolution could leave behind a power vacuum that the Arab world might try to fill. The status quo is not expected to hold and the world is looking with scepticism to the future of the Egyptian state. With the fall of Mubarak, Israel could lose its security of the peace maintained with Egypt during the last 32 years. Now, the most important question is where the flood will come from.

Although China introduced its first stealth fighter last week, other information suggests that the People's Liberation Army will not surpass the US anytime soon. An alert commenter pointed out that an airforce exercise shown on Chinese television beared an remarkable ressemblance to scenes from the 1986 American movie "Top Gun". Is this Beijing's new stealth deception?

At the same time, the Russians have no intention to abandon their military ambitions, even though their economy cannot support such an expensive expedition. Conveniently, the Kremlin has surpassed itself by boosting its armed forces with nothing more than hot air.