After decades of political repression and state censorship there were great hopes that Egyptians would, at last, have freedom of expression and access to a free press.
VIDEO: Egypt’s new post Mubarak media
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ATTRITION: Why 21st Century Warfare Is Different
US Republican Michele Bachmann has won a key non-binding Iowa poll of hopefuls for the 2012 presidential nomination.
AFGHANISTAN: Getting Rich Doing God’s Work
Rebel fighters in Libya say they have pushed into the town of Tawargha, east of the city of Misrata, after an assault designed to end the almost daily rocket attacks hitting the western city.
VIDEO: S Korean ‘blind archer’ in olympic bid
With less than a year to go until the London 2012 Olympic Games, the BBC’s Lucy Williamson is revisiting a medal hopeful to see what progress he has made since she last met him.
STRATEGIC WEAPONS: And Then There Were Three
Politicians in Norway have taken the unusual step of uniting ahead of next month’s local elections, as a a sign of solidarity after last month’s fatal attacks in Oslo and on the island of Utoeya.
2 charged with murder during UK riots
Two men will appear in court Sunday in the hit-and-run deaths of three men during the riots that roiled Britain last week.
Kidnapping suspect, girl feared dead
The bodies of a man and a girl were found inside a vehicle belonging to a suspect in an Amber Alert case, authorities said.
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VIDEO: Children abandoned during famine
As the famine in East Africa worsens, the international charity Save the Children has revealed a four fold increase in the number of children arriving at the Dadaab refugee camp in the last month alone.
VIDEO: Ireland’s closeness to Vatican tested
Ireland’s traditional closeness to the catholic church was challenged recently, when the Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny himself a practicing Catholic lambasted the Church hierarchy over its secrecy in withholding information about clerical child sex abuse.
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Afghan governor’s home attacked
At least five gunmen — strapped with explosives-laden vests — stormed a provincial governor’s compound in central eastern Afghanistan Sunday, officials said.