Printed media still offers the opportunity to read on a whim, writes Peter Preston.

Gwynne Dyer looks back at 2011's global events, from the Arab Spring to the euro crisis and climate change.

Sectarian warfare on the rise with fears of an anti-Shia crusade

Kiwi journalist Glen Johnson is in Egypt and has been talking to locals about what will motivate them to vote in their first free elections for decades.

The party of Myanmar's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has decided to contest upcoming by-elections.