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Anger in siria about crackdown About 20,000 people chanting freedom slogans march at funerals in Daraa for protesters killed by security forces.

Pro-Saleh forces clash with Yemen army units

Presidential guards loyal to Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni president, have clashed with army units who have backed opposition groups and protesters demanding Saleh's resignation.
The clashes took place in the town of Mukalla, in the eastern Hadramout province, on Thursday.
A colonel was wounded, but it was not clear whether he was on the side of the elite Republican guard, which is loyal to Saleh, or the regular army, a local government source told the Reuters news agency.
General Ali Mohsen, commander of the country's northwestern zone and widely seen as the country's second-most powerful figure, said earlier this week that he was supporting pro-democracy protesters who have been demonstrating for weeks, calling for Saleh to leave office after three decades in power.

Pakistan: A revolution against whom?

Pakistan is a country often described as being the brink – of what, precisely, is up for speculation. There are fears economic, social and political crises, separately and simultaneously, will cause the country to implode into an ungovernable, anarchical mess: a failing, if not failed, state.
Indeed, there are those who argue that this has already happened.
On the one hand, it is difficult to argue with the point that the country is facing simultaneous challenges on several fronts.
With inflation on basic household items at 18.88 per cent (according to government figures) and unemployment at an estimated 15 per cent (according to the CIA’s World Factbook), households in Pakistan are feeling the economic pinch.


greek bank

Greece's National Bank on Wednesday reported a smaller-than-expected drop in 2010 profit, helped by Turkish unit Finansbank, and said it still believes in the merits of its bid for Alpha Bank.

geek president
President of the Republic Karalos Papoulias called for the unity of Hellenism to overcome today's challenges and for Greece to succeed in overcoming the economic crisis, in a message to Greeks abroad issued on Tuesday for Friday's March 25 national holiday.

athen's musium
Athens' Acropolis Museum  is among the six finalists competing for the 2011 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. The award ceremony will take place on June 20 at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona, Spain.



ice dad kills daughter

a man has been sentenced to 18 years behind bars in Sweden after stabbing his daughter 53 times in a so-called honour killing. Subhi Othman was sentence by Nykoping District Court on Monday after admitting to the grave crime in November last year.

 

volcano

a tourism centre with artefacts, exhibits, films and photographs from last year’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano is set to open on the fist anniversary of the eruption.
The centre will be situated next to Highway 1 in the shadow of Eyjafjallajokull at a place called Thorvaldseyri and is set to open on 14th April.
“It was decided at New Year’s to start this project. We want to show people how the eruption unfolded, how we lived with it and how it has been here since it ended. It is sort of our duty really; this was a world event,” says Olafur Eggertsson, the farmer at Thorvaldseyri, who is running the project with his family.

kite surfing

A hardy couple are preparing themselves to brave temperatures of -30°C when they kite surf across the Greenland ice cap later this year. Robert and Heidi Clover, who live in Devon, southwest England, will tackle the 1,400km slog in a bid to raise GBP 50,000 for charity.
“It is crazy. It is usually hardcore adventurers that attempt this kind of thing. We are really not the two people that should be doing this – I’m a housewife and Robert works in a bank,” Mrs Clover told Metro. “Before we started training the only run I had been on was the school run,” she added.