A five-nation consortium-united states china,japan,canada and _ embarked on the ambitious project of constructing the thirty-meter telescope and world's most advanced ground based observatory.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed the GCC power-transfer deal in which a presidential election was held, resulting in his successor Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi formally replacing him as the president of Yemen on 27 February 2012
The Kofi Annan peace plan for Syria is considered the most serious international attempt to resolve the Syrian conflict in the Middle East diplomatically, The peace plan enforces a cease-fire to take place across Syria on
