In the midst of this turmoil, the Twitter hashtag #civ2010 has been providing an essential source of information in the country. However, many Twitter users have raised their voices to complain that the hashtag is fast becoming a virtual means for supporters of both camps to confront each other.

As hundreds of thousands of Egyptians in Cairo's Tahrir Square celebrated the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak on 11 February, some held up mobile phones to snap photos of the crowd, others sent Twitter messages to their friends and a few wielded signs proclaiming, "Thank you, Facebook."

The Israeli parliament’s Immigration, Absorption and Public Diplomacy Committee held a hearing last week to determine whether an American Jewish organisation that favors a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conundrum could call itself “pro-Israel.”

India could bring in legislation to jail anyone who insults Mahatma Gandhi while state governments are moving to ban a biography that reviewers said showed the "Father of the Nation" was bisexual.

A group of South Korean women who have protested outside the Japanese embassy every week for 20 years halted their protests for only the second time ever to show support for those affected by the March 11 tsunami in Japan.

Teams from India and Pakistan face each other Wednesday in the semifinal Cricket World Cup match. Social historian Mukul Kesavan talks to Steve Inskeep about whether the game is the right time to conduct diplomacy between the two arch-rivals.

Comi-Con is where the weirdly insane go to meet the insanely weird a few years or so before they become internet millionaires and billionaires selling smartphone applications to help people more easily avoid talking to each other. Which is just what the Middle East needs.

Inspired by the successful use of social media to fuel popular protests in Egypt and elsewhere, the intifada fan page had amassed more than 300,000 "likes" from users for its proposed May 15 uprising before disappearing Tuesday.