A radio station run by Somalia's al-Shabab Islamist group has awarded weapons to children who won a Koran-reciting and general knowledge contest.
Nigerian police raided a so-called baby factory in the south-eastern city of Aba, rescuing 32 pregnant teenage girls who were allegedly being held captive in order to have their babies bought, the AFP reports. Authorities claim the raided home in Aba was used to lock up the teen …
Two years ago, when President Barack Obama spoke to the Muslim world in Cairo, he devoted 12 paragraphs totaling more than 1,000 words to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Osama Bin Laden's death may come to be seen as a precedent for "targeted killings" by states in the future, a report written for MPs has suggested. More Seeds :: JCAtom
Gandhi was so fu(k!ng Christian, he was Hindu... By the way, if you want to skip some of the other funny stuff & go right to the part where he breaks it down for those who go to Church as a social event (a place to see & be seen)...it's at 2mins 35secs.
In the Kenyan village where she lives, the president's 88-year-old step-grandmother, Sarah Obama, shrugged off death threats against her from an al Qaeda affiliate in East Africa called al Shabaab. "My life has not been affected in any way," Sarah Obama told ABC News.
An Abbottabad resident recounts witnessing US raid on Osama bin Laden's mansion in the Pakistani city. More Seeds :: JCAtom
Thousands of anti-government protesters are standing their ground in the capital of Yemen, despite a deal that would see the president step down. Protesters occupying a permanent camp in Sanaa say they don't trust President Ali Abdullah Saleh to keep his promise to leave office.
President Barack Obama said the conflict has become a "stalemate on the ground militarily." Qaddafi is "getting squeezed" in many ways, Obama said in an interview with the Associated Press. "I think over the long term, Qaddafi will go and we will be successful."
Two Bahraini Shia activists who were detained after weeks of anti-government protests have died in police custody. The interior ministry said Ali Issa Saqer, 31, had died when guards tried to restrain him for "causing chaos".