 | Vanguard - By Abdulwahab Abdulah LAGOS - The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, has expressed solidarity with President Goodluck Jonathan and the Federal Government in the effort to stamp out the menace of Boko Haram and other vices in the ... |
 | Indian Express - Around 2000 Syrian troops backed by tanks launched an assault to retake Damascus suburbs from rebels on Sunday, activists said, a day after the Arab League suspended its monitoring mission in Syria because of worsening violence. |
 | China Daily - KHARTOUM - Sudan's ruling National Congress Party (NCP) on Sunday condemned the attack launched by Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) on a site of a Chinese company in South Kordofan, official SUNA news agency reported. |
 | Reuters - By Chikako Mogi | TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares inched lower and the euro eased from its highest in more than six weeks Monday, as markets cautiously tuned in to a likely debt swap deal for Greece that is crucial to avoiding a messy default and eyed ... |
 | Times LIVE - The revolution is being tweeted. But it's not the revolution you're thinking about. Though Twitter played a prominent role in last year's Arab Spring uprisings - but not quite as prominent as it was made out to be by a keenly observing outside world ... |
 | Irish Examiner - By Brian Womack and Douglas MacMillan It's one of the most eagerly awaited stock flotations in recent years and will value Facebook at about $100 billion (€77bn). |
 | Mmegi Online - Former president, Festus Mogae reflects on his life, as a young Motswana, through his education to his period as a civil servant, and to that infamous episode in his Presidency when on a windy afternoon an old friend knocked on his door looking for ... |
 | Mmegi Online - Botswana Police's public relations officer (PRO) Christopher Mbulawa said police have not decided what action to take against two University of Botswana student leaders who were arrested and detained on Wednesday because investigations are still ... |
 | Sacramento Bee - By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI and SADIBOU MARONE AP Writers DAKAR, Senegal -- Senegal's highest court ruled just after midnight on Monday that the West African country's aging leader was eligible to run for a third term in next month's election, rejecting the ... |
 | Nigerian Tribune - President Goodluck Jonathan has appealed for patience and support of the people of Edo State and the South-South for the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment (SURE) programme of his administration. |
 | Vanguard - By Johnbosco Agbakwuru CALABAR—ACTING Governor of Cross River State, Mr. Larry Odey, weekend, directed all aides to former Governor Liyel Imoke to remain at their duty posts, pending when a new governor was elected in the state. |
 | Times LIVE - Her death, which was announced by Mandela's grandson Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela, comes hours after Madiba left Mthatha yesterday for his Johannesburg home while his house at Qunu village is being renovated. |
 | Bernama - ADDIS ABABA, Jan 30 (Bernama) -- The toppling of governments in north Africa "have proved that repression is a dead end", declared the United Nations Secretary General, Ban ki-Moon, as he addressed the opening session of the African Union (AU) heads of ... |
 | Economic Times - PARIS: The French government is set to revise down its estimate for 2012 economic growth in an upcoming revision to its budget bill, a government source said on Sunday. |
 | Voice of America (blog) - Italian officials say it may take until the end of the year before the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia can be removed. The officials said Sunday they cannot start to move the damaged vessel until all the fuel has been removed - a process that ... |
 | Irish Times - TÁNAISTE AND Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore has expressed concern over the possibility of Israeli settlement expansion between Jerusalem and the large West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim. |
 | Houston Chronicle - A protester holds a bloodied pamphlet after clashes erupted outside the Egyptian state TV building in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. |
 | BBC News - The dispute between Iran and the Western economies has escalated after Tehran warned it will stop oil sales to "some countries". |
 | BusinessWeek - By Chris Bourke and Michael Heath Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- New Zealand central bank Governor Alan Bollard will quit in September, ending a decade-long tenure that saw the nation's worst recession since the 1970s and earthquakes that led him to cut ... |
 | Globes - "The Eilat Railway will be a passenger railway with a travel time of two hours," said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his opening remarks at today's cabinet meeting. |
 | Ninemsn - More intense heat waves due to global warming could diminish wheat crop yields around the world through premature ageing, according to a study published in Nature Climate Change. |
 | Myjoyonline.com - Research conducted by Kenyan-based Portland Communications and Tweetminster indicate 11.5 million tweets originated from Africa in the last three months of 2011. |
 | Myjoyonline.com - The African Union has conferred on two African Scientists the Kwame Nkrumah Scientific Awards for their tremendous contribution to science on the continent. |
 | Herald Scotland - LEONARD Cohen has always been too old to be a rock star. His first album, Songs Of Leonard Cohen, appeared in 1967 when he was already 33, too old to die young as so many of those whose paths he crossed did. |
 | CultureMap Houston - There are moments in one's life where you just look back and think “Am I really here, experiencing this?” Those moments were plentiful over the holiday season while safaring in Botswana with my mom and sister. |
 | RFI - By Paul Myers Routed 6- 1 in their second Group D game against Guinea, Botswana are out of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations. But the team, nicknamed the Zebras, say they plan to tear a stripe off Mali before they go. |
 | AFP - NGOUNI, Gabon - Ghana skipper John Mensah said on Sunday he is recovering well from a muscle problem he suffered in an Africa Cup of Nations group game against Botswana. |
 | The Age - In an epic six-hour match, Novak Djokovic defeats Rafael Nadal to defend his Australian Open title. 30/01/12 Up next... Australian Open Day 14: Djokovic v Nadal Sorry. |
 | Times of India - LONDON: Arsene Wenger hopes Arsenal's epic fightback against Aston Villa in the FA Cup fourth round will act as a spark for his team's bid to qualify for the Champions League. |
 | The Zimbabwe Standard - BY OUR STAFF NINE people in every 1 000 in Harare are at risk of developing colon or liver cancer from eating contaminated fish harvested from Lake Chivero and other water bodies around Harare, local scientific studies have indicated. |
 | Montreal Gazette - A sleepy snake came to a rather untimely end after having its head half chewed off by a fearless toddler in an Arab town in northern Israel, the child's family told AFP on Friday. |