Somalia insurgents capture town on outskirts of capital
By Hamsa Omar and Jason McLure | Bloomberg Insurgents in Somalia captured a town on the outskirts of the capital,… (more)
Elias Kifle
Page 226Ethiopian native is inspirational on cross country team
By Justin Lafferty | SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE SPRING VALLEY, CALIFORNIA – A lottery usually leads people to riches. For Monte… (more)
The ‘Barack Whisperer’
By Howard Kurtz | Washington Post When a CBS correspondent reported last month that Barack Obama’s campaign had a malodorous… (more)
Zimbabwe’s $28 quadrillion is worth U.S. $1
Zimbabwe’s economy has all but collapsed, leaving it’s currency worth far less than the paper it’s printed on. The hyperinflation… (more)
Ethiopia experiences world’s largest volcanic lava flow
Image: Terri O’Sullivan Metre-wide cracks in the ground suddenly split open, as red-hot rock and ash are thrown violently into… (more)
Rights group urges support for international war crimes court
By MIKE CORDER THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The world’s first permanent war crimes court needs more support as it… (more)