International
Two American tourists and their Egyptian guide who were abducted by a Bedouin in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula last week were released unharmed today, a security official and the kidnapper said. Rev. Michel Louis, 61, and 39-year-old Lissa Alphonse, both Boston-area residents, had been kidnapped from a bus on Friday along with their guide, Haytham Ragab, […]
Gay Paree, indeed. Gay couples in France will be handed two big new rights next year: to wed and adopt kids. “In the first half of 2013, the right to marriage and adoption will be open to all couples, without discrimination,” PM Jean-Marc Ayrault told parliament today, fulfilling yet another of Francois Hollande’s campaign promises. (Seriously, […]
Hosni Mubarak’s life sentence is growing ever shorter. The former president has gone from slipping in and out of consciousness to “full coma,” according to a rep for Egypt’s Interior Ministry, and security officials say doctors have twice used a defibrillator on him. It’s unclear whether it was used because his heart stopped or to […]
A passenger plane crashed into a two-story building in Nigeria’s largest city of Lagos today, killing all the passengers on board, an aviation official said. The Lagos state government said in a statement that 153 people were on the flight going from Abuja to Lagos. The plane crashed in a densely populated neighborhood near the […]
An attorney is asking a Florida judge to allow George Zimmerman to post bond despite ongoing concerns about his safety amid a national uproar over his role in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Click Here to watch the LIVE stream.
Killing 77 innocent people apparently wasn’t enough for Anders Behring Breivik. The Norwegian far-right extremist also planned to car bomb President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony back in 2009, the Telegraph reports. Breivik admitted to police that it would have been a symbolic attack—security was too tight to reach the president—but the explosion would have […]
Good news for the ladies of Saudi Arabia: You can vote and even run for office, Saudi King Abdullah said today in an announcement that many are hailing as major progress for women’s rights. Of course, there’s a caveat: Abdullah’s announcement won’t take effect until after this Thursday’s elections, so women won’t get to take […]
A Somali radio station run by al-Shabab held an, er, interesting trivia contest for kids this weekend. Kids aged 10-17 were quizzed on Islam and al-Shabab minutiae (example: “Which war was al-Shabab warrior Sheik Timajilic killed in?”), with the lucky winner and runner-up both walking away with a prize package including money, al-Shabab books, and, of […]
Nelson Mandel’s longer-than-usual hospital visit sparked a flurry of concern and press speculation, but the former South African president left the ward today, having responded well to treatment for acute respiratory infection, the APreports. The 92-year-old will receive care at home, said the surgeon-general. “Dr. Mandela is in high spirits and has been visited by his family […]
“The fact that Jean-Paul Guerlain felt comfortable enough to use the ‘n-word’ in public, coupled with the recent United Nations report showing that racism is on the rise in France, illustrates the depth of racism not only in France but throughout Europe and around the world,” Sharpton said in a statement Oct. 23.
Trapped miners have emerged like clockwork in Chile as the world watches.
Africa’s knowledge base was the focus of the third Walter Sisulu University Research Conference held this month at the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital. Over 200 papers were presented at the three day conference. Titled “Consolidating Research, Innovation and Technology Platforms for a Knowledge-based Economy,” the meeting attracted delegates from as far as Japan and West […]
