[caption id="attachment_55235336" align="alignnone" width="620"] President Barack Obama, center, casts his 2012 vote during early voting at the…

He won—but he won ugly. The same US president who first captured the White House in poetry and governed in competent—if lackluster—prose has been…

[caption id="attachment_55235300" align="alignnone" width="620"] US Army soldiers operating under the NATO-sponsored International Security…

[caption id="attachment_55235140" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egypt's new Coptic Christian Pope Tawadros II [/caption]On 29 November, clerics from…

[caption id="attachment_55235090" align="alignnone" width="620"] Local children and British band Jaffa, 1930s (credit: SOAS)[/caption]The exhibition …

[caption id="attachment_55235078" align="alignnone" width="594"] Barack Obama and Mitt Romney shake hands after the final presidential debate.[…

[caption id="attachment_55235061" align="alignnone" width="620"] Rebels from the Free Syrian Army take a break from combat[/caption]Journalist…

[caption id="attachment_55235014" align="alignnone" width="620"] "Oil Candies" by Maha Malluh at the Selma Feriani Gallery[/caption]Tucked away in…

[caption id="attachment_55234938" align="alignnone" width="614"] Turkish actress Neslihan Atagül in a scene from “Araf/ Somewhere in Between.” …

[caption id="attachment_55234924" align="alignnone" width="620"] Saddam Hussein on trial in 2006[/caption]It has been almost six years since the…