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Over 300,000 people packed into Ghana’s Independence Square in Accra on Saturday 3 September 2005 for the marathon 15 hour Africa Standing Tall Against Poverty Concert featuring Africa’s leading musicians,...
When Unrest Stirs, Bloggers Are Already in Place.
In Consent of the Networked, internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that the purpose of technology is to serve humanity, not the other way around. It’s time to wake up and act before the reversal becomes permanent.
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President Hosni Mubarak won Egypt's first contested presidential race, according to a preliminary count Thursday. An expected result in spite of all the election's irregularity reports as blogged by Ritzy.
Pestiside picks up on the life and passions of Hungary's very own Elvis, László Komár, who is currently engaged in a legal battle with the ghost-writer of his autobiography.
PolBlog is running a competition to spot locations in Warsaw from photographs with an unusual angle.
Scraps of Moscow has recently re-located to the United States from Russia, and reports strange withdrawal symptoms, like not wanting to speak English loudly in front of the cops.
The Mongol Messenger reports that Mongolian youngsters head back to school as the government inaugurates its new 11-year curriculum, amid a requirement that the national anthem will be heard across the land at the start of the academic year.
Registan writes about continuing tensions between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan over allegations that Kyrgyz militants were involved in the Andijon uprising in May 2005.
George Connard writes about a stunning photo project in Rwanda in which 35mm disposable cameras were given to children. The result is called “Through the Eyes of Children”.
I guess it has to do with humanizing a figure we prefer to see as super-natural. The almost funny thing...
people of maldives..you have to stop this civil war. its sad to see it in this state of affairs....
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I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...