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.
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.
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.
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.
VIDEO: Egypt’s new post Mubarak media
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: 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.
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.
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.
Opinion: The power to end hunger
I will never forget holding my newborn baby in my arms watching a television report on the 1987 famine in Ethiopia — hearing the haunting cries of babies whose hunger could not be met by their anguished mothers.
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.