Thousands of foreign students are thought to be in Yemen, learning Arabic or studying Islam, but authorities can't keep track of them, especially when they choose to disappear, experts say. Concerns surfaced a few weeks ago when it was disclosed that the Nigerian arrested for allegedly attempting to bring down a US airliner on Christmas Day had gone underground ...

Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first countries to win preliminary approval for Internet addresses written entirely in their native scripts. Since their creation in the 1980s, Internet domain names have been limited to the 26 characters in the Latin alphabet ...

"Watch more television" may become the order of the day in Morocco's Berber households after the first TV channel in their ancient but marginalised tongue, Amazigh, was launched after a decades-long struggle. Tamazight, the name of the station, broadcasts in the lingua franca of North Africa's indigenous residents, the Berbers, before the 7th-century Arab conquest of the region ...