Crouched on haunches on the edge of a crumbling pavement, a group of Chinese construction workers are eating noodles from tin bowls, wearing floppy straw hats under their green safety helmets to protect them from the aggressive midday sun.

In Egypt, where protestors continued to demonstrate Tuesday for the eighth day in a row, the use of torture by law enforcement officials over the past two decades has contributed to the growing unrest, rights groups say. In a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), the international advocacy group claims the practice is endemic and often practiced with impunity.

To allow least developed countries (LDCs) to protect nascent industries, they are not required to cut tariffs for industrial goods and fisheries in the Doha Development Round. However, tariffs cuts will affect them if they are members of customs unions where some of their neighbours are larger developing countries without LDC status.

Khalid Ibrahim Al-Laisi has been a soldier in the Egyptian army for 20 years. Tody, far from shooting protesters, he says the time has come 'to revolt against oppression.'

Hours after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak vowed to stay in place until September's elections, the Barack Obama administration sent its strongest signal yet that the aging autocrat and one-time staunch U.S. ally must relinquish his hold on power sooner rather than later.

In Egypt, where protestors continued to demonstrate Tuesday for the eighth day in a row, the use of torture by law enforcement officials over the past two decades has contributed to the growing unrest, rights groups say.

Although Central American migrants continue to face all kinds of abuses and even death on their way north through Mexico to the U.S. border, experts and activists have begun to see a slight change in approach to the issue.

Jeanne Kirkpatrick, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, once made the highly-debatable distinction between 'friendly' right-wing 'authoritarian' regimes (which were mostly U.S. and Western allies) and 'unfriendly' left-wing 'totalitarian' dictatorships (which the U.S. abhorred).

Working with grassroots organisations is the only viable way to genuinely help people, according Yifat Susskind, the newly appointed Executive Director of the New York-based women’s organisation MADRE.

Organisers called it Egypt’s 'million man march'. Whether they achieved that targeted head count is unclear, but their message was unequivocal.