Jacob Powell

The world’s newest pro­fes­sion­al sport comes from an un­like­ly source: video games.

It’s not just Bit­coin any­more: Thou­sands are flock­ing on­line to ‘mine’ and trade dozens of al­ter­na­tive cur­ren­cies.

Oil, eth­nic con­flict and po­lit­i­cal in­trigue are dri­ving the lat­est round of bru­tal­i­ty in the world’s newest coun­try.

Al Jazeera as­sess­es world­wide progress in boost­ing ac­cess to im­proved san­i­ta­tion.

Al Jazeera tracks the war rhetoric of US pres­i­dents over the past three decades.

Al Jazeera ex­am­ines the sit­u­a­tion in Mali fol­low­ing vot­ing in the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion.

Will Mali’s elec­tion help solve a mori­bund econ­o­my and pre­vent fu­ture con­flicts?

Iran’s state can­di­dates use the so­cial me­dia space that is in­creas­ing­ly cracked down upon by the gov­ern­ment.