Arash Javanbakht, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Wayne State University, provides the following analysis.

Democrats hoped to begin the challenge to the GOP-controlled House and State legislatures during the US primaries today, with key seats in California, New Jersey, Montana and New Mexico being of specific interest.

The training exercise simulated attacks from ships and missiles, as the Israeli military prepares for a confrontation along Lebanons coast.

The Palestinians celebrated the cancellation and thanked the Argentinian players for "refusing to be used to serve a non-sporting goal.”

King Abdullah has attempted to calm the situation by appointing a PM sympathetic to working Jordanians, but it has done little to calm the anger over the new income tax law.

The Iranian Armys statement criticizes both the "criminal Zionist regime" and the Arab leaders who are complicit in their silence.

According to an Israeli official, the leaders of Germany, France and the UK agreed in private talks that Iran should be removed from all of Syria.

The move is seen as hindering the formation of an already unstable Iraqi government, but the Prime Minister hopes it will restore public confidence in the government.