Bashar and Asma al-Assad, Syria¿s one-time golden couple, beguiled the West, then betrayed their own people. In the aftermath of the Houla massacre, Channel 4 News's Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jona

More than 100 people including 13 children, die after Syrian forces attack the town of Houla in Homs province on Friday, according to Syrian anti-government activists.

Partial results indicate Islamist candidate Mohammed Mursi will be pitted against Mubarak-era Ahmed Shafiq in the second round of the Egyptian presidential election.

The UN Security Council is "tired, out of step and increasingly unfit for purpose", human rights charity Amnesty International concludes in its annual report.

Egyptians take to the polls today to vote for the first democratically elected president in 60 years. But after being so involved in the revolution, is there a role for women in Egypt's future?

Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller takes up the story of the anti-government protest movement in Bahrain, a week after being arrested and deported.

Channel 4 News foreign correspondent, Jonathan Miller, gives a personal account of his and colleagues' recent arrest, detention and deportation from Bahrain.