A wave of anti-government protests appears to be sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. It all started with Tunisia, and quickly moved to Egypt. The leaders of both those countries were forced to step down. Organisers told Al jazeera that around 10 thousand people joined the demonstrations in Algiers, the Algerian capital, including a key opposition leader. Al Jazeera’s Bhanu Bhatnagar reports.
Continue reading …It seems at first blush like a crazy tabloid story: A 61-year-old woman gives birth in Chicago, and the baby is her own grandson. Not only is it true, it’s actually a nice tale, as the Chicago Tribune explains. Kristen Casey, believed to be the oldest woman in Illinois to…
Continue reading …The ultimate app for parents nervous about their teens’ driving has arrived: Called, iGuardian teen, the Android app logs the speed, location over time, and acceleration of the car. It will also report any use of the phone while the car is being driven, buzzes when the driver goes over…
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Saeb Erekat, the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s chief negotiator, has resigned from his post after an investigation showed his office was the source of a leak. Al Jazeera published over 1600 documents, the Palestine Papers, which documented secret negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. Erekat had earlier said that he would resign if the source of the leak was found to be in his office, the Negotiations Support Unit. Al Jazeera’s Will Jordan has more.
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Continue reading …Watch your back, Bigfoot. Animal Planet’s coming. The cable channel is sending a film crew into a national forest near Charlotte, NC, today to try to catch a glimpse, reports the Charlotte Observer . The crew is following along with local retiree Michael Greene, who swears he saw the big guy…
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Swiss, French and Italian police are working together in the search for Alessia and Livia Shepp, six-year-old twins who disappeared almost two weeks ago. In a letter to their mother, the twins’ father claimed he killed the girls before committing suicide, but police say they will continue to search for the girls until there is certainty about their fate. Al Jazeera’s Christina Marker reports.
Continue reading …The city of Cranston, Rhode Island, is wrestling with what to do about an odd problem: It’s found about 600 stop signs and seven yield signs at city intersections that aren’t supposed to exist. Most were apparently put up on the sly by housing complexes in the name of safety,…
Continue reading …The federal government is having a change of heart about what constitutes the American Dream. It long pushed the notion that people should own homes—one of the factors blamed for the housing mess—but a new proposal to dissolve Fannie and Freddie marks a pullback from that philosophy, reports…
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After a night of celebrations, citizens of Cairo turned out on Saturday morning to clean up after themselves, and their revolution. From repaving pavements broken during violent clashes to cleaning grafitti off the walls, Egyptians seem determined to start off their country’s new era on the right foot. Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland in Cairo has more.
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