Protests Around the World

Striking a defiant note, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned that his country would sink into chaos if he stepped down immediately.

Protesters are planning a global sit-in to protest the detention of the internationally renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who has been taken into custody by Chinese officials.

Syrian President Bashar Assad released hundreds of political prisoners in an attempt to appease demonstrators furious about a murderous government crackdown on dissent.

With eviction looming, Occupy Wall Street protesters have begun a preemptive cleanup of Zuccotti Park in the hopes that the city might relent and let them stay.

Israeli officials accused Damascus of fomenting a violent incursion at the Syrian/Israeli border, where protesters burst through the border fence into Israel and were met with gunfire.

Waves of protesters clashed with police and set fires across France as anger intensified against government plans to raise the age for retirement benefits.

The Spanish youth are protesting a high unemployment rate and austerity measures taken to end Spain's debt crisis which they feel ignore their plight.

Protesters take the streets in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, after the first presidential election in a decade. Both candidates for president declared victory.

The furious student protesters rained sticks and rocks on riot police, vandalized government buildings and attacked a car carrying Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla.

News that the bill to curb collective bargaining rights had passed led to bedlam at the Wisconsin Capitol, the building stormed by angry opponents of the measure.