The ten year wait for the next Guns N` Roses album is about to end. The album, called Chinese Democracy, will be released on March 6, said lead singer Axl Rose

After trying to put Myanmar on UN Security Council`s agenda, internal and external destructive elements are plotting to incite unrest in the country, local newspapers reported. "Hence, the State, the People and the the military will crush them with patriotism and Union Spirit."

Even as the Russian Federation moves toward greater and greater authoritarianism, the country?s economy seems on an upward track. The country?s Prime Minister, Mikhail Fradkov, signed this past Monday a draft federal budget for fiscal 2007 which predicts an economic growth level of at least six percent.

Where is American democracy headed? Are we seeing a shift of monumental proportions, where the accepted status quo, the status quo that helped America become the superpower that it is, is thrown out in favor of the sort of the centralized executive power the Founding Fathers feared creating, and indeed fought against?

Many online users dismiss the need to write a blog by saying that they simple do not have the time for it. Well, for Alaa Abdel-Fattah who is a prisoner in Egypt time is all he has.

News reports indicate that the NLD won elections in 1990, but it has never been allowed to takeover the government. It`s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has remained under house arrest. She has spent 10 of the last 17 years as a prisoner.

According to Gaddafi, "There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet." Relations between the U.S. and Libya have softened since Tripoli decided to give up nuclear weapons in 2003 and admit responsibility for the 1988 bombing of a plane over Lockerbie, Scotland.

The story of the 18-month process that unfolded after administrator Paul Bremer left Baghdad was one of steadfast fidelity to the script, as well as a costly period of U.S. inattention and endless frustrations with squabbling Iraqi leaders, according to a wide array of Bush advisers, Iraqi politicians and others involved in the effort.

In a surprise move, Egypt, which accounts for more than half the Arab world`s population and is the second-largest recipient of U.S. aid, derailed the Forum for the Future by demanding language that would have given Arab governments significant control over which pro-democracy groups would receive aid from a new fund.

A Mubarak win is undisputed from the results of elections on Wednesday, but the election created a rare space for dissent in a country not known for its democratic ideals.

If history tells us anything, democracy is a process. Case in point, the first ever elections held in Afghanistan last year which got off to a bumpy start with allegations of corruption and vote tampering. Afghan officials have committed to resolve these matters, but no resolutions have been reached yet.

Even as enthusiastic Afghans went to the polls, 15 presidential candidates, charging fraud, called for a suspended election.