We've compiled a list of all the journalist who have been in some way threatened, attacked or detained while reporting in Egypt. When you put it all into one list, it is a rather large number in such a short period of time. (UPDATED - send us more stories if you get them)

Another shock video campaign proven to be based on a hoax!

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"Beginning in December of last year, a series of ongoing protests in the streets of Tunisia escalated to the point where President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali - who had ruled the country for 23 years - at first declared he would not seek re-election, then fled the country on January  …

It takes a pretty sick mind to come up with the many things that Limbaugh has been spewing over the years, but this one could be his "David" moment....

Apparently, House Republicans are not reading the same briefs on the topic as we are....

Close Guantanamo: it's a no-brainer!

"This bombshell wearing just black lace, a pearl necklace and a white dog is Tammy Banovac, a retired surgeon in a wheelchair. She got down to her lingerie while going through airport security and still got a pat down. Twice.

"Reaction and updates following the release of more than 250,000 classified US diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks. Tomorrow, revelations about North Korea and the UK." "This page will update automatically every minute:"

Under orders of Nouri al- Maliki and on the eve of his trip to Tehran, yet another good will gesture to Iranian regime, was thrashed onto Camp Ashraf residents this evening. Iraqi forces attacked Ashraf residents by firing bullets, and ‎using sticks and truncheons.

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The World Bank is investigating possible violations of its policies and procedures related to the awarding of its $3.75bn loan to power utility Eskom.

In a statement to the World Bank board, Inspection Panel chairperson Reberto Lenton clarified that the investigation related to "allegations of violations of World Bank operational policies and procedures".

Minister of Justice Jeff Radebe said on Sunday government will not pass laws that are unconstitutional.

Radebe was trying to allay the fears of journalists about the proposed Protection of Information Bill.

Moses ka Moyo has lived in Hillbrow for the past 11 years - working tirelessly as a community activist trying to bring change in the lives of average people, foreign and local.

His mission, with community workers, has been to create a sense of a real life in a place where few people would have wanted to live 10 years ago.

Never before has the Zimbabwean-born Ka Moyo felt as uncertain, or so in danger of his life, as he did last week.

Shahram Amiri says he was subjected to "the harshest mental and physical torture".

An Iranian scientist who claims he was kidnapped by the CIA has said he was subjected to extreme mental and physical torture by the Americans.

Shahram Amiri, who has flown from the US to Tehran, also denied being heavily involved in Iran's nuclear programme.

"He said the attack signified "increasing desperation" on the part of the Taliban, whose "space is being restricted by security forces". "Witnesses said the dead and injured included women and children.

Diplomatic efforts to find a solution to the Iraq crisis and legal arguments ahead of the 2003 invasion are being explored by the Chilcot inquiry.

The most senior civil servant at the Foreign Office in the lead-up to the war, Lord Jay of Ewelme, is appearing.

As ambitious as the title might seem, my intention is rather simple in design: I'm going to list solutions to the problems this Country is facing.

This Sunday (13 June) has been designated "Eve Teasing Protection Day" by the education ministry in Bangladesh.

The announcement reflects increasing concern over the worrying number of girls and women who have recently committed suicide in the country to escape "Eve teasing", a euphemism for sexual harassment.

Comments made by Columbia, Mo., Police Chief Ken Burton last week have excited marijuana legalization advocates, and the chief is standing by his statement that he does not know how to enforce the city's marijuana laws.

"If we can get out of the business, I think there is a lot of police officers that would be happy to do that," Chief Burton said of using police resources in enforce marijuana laws.

A gay couple who were jailed in Malawi have been pardoned by President Bingu wa Mutharika.

Mr Mutharika, speaking as UN chief Ban Ki-moon visited Lilongwe, said he had ordered their immediate release.

A U.S. teacher has defended herself after allowing members of her class to dress up as the Ku Klux Klan for a school project.

A former police commander accused of overseeing the torture of more than 100 African American men goes on trial today in Chicago. Former Lieutenant Jon Burge is accused of lying when he denied in a civil lawsuit that he and other detectives had tortured anyone.

So, following a traffic stop, a bible thumping, anti-government, AK-47 wielding wingnut named Jerry Kane and his son manage to kill two police officers and wound two other officers without any major blowback to the Republican party, Tea Party, and/or other (media) people who indi …

One of four young men accused of tattooing derogatory words and pictures across the buttocks of a 14-year-old Concord High School student said the matter was a "joke that went way too far." Donald "DJ" Wyman, 20, said he's also talked to the victim and tried to tell him how sorr …

CNN.com published a story today on Rima Fakih, the Muslim Lebanese-American woman who was just crowned Miss USA, mentioning that some neocon bloggers (namely Debbie Schlussel) have called her a supporter of Hezbollah, which the U.S. classifies as a terrorist organization.

An African gay couple have been jailed for 14 years after a court found them guilty of unnatural practices between males and gross public indecency. The Malawian couple, who got engaged in a traditional ceremony last year, were found guilty on Tuesday in a trial viewed as a test …

On Sunday May 16th elements of the Detroit Police force were investigating a murder suspect for the cameras of the A&E; reality show 24/7. As a result of that there does exist video tape of the burning and murder of a beautiful little girl who's name was Aiyana Jones.

What do Rapid City, South Dakota and Farmington, New Mexico have in common. They just happen to be to of the latest places associated with the racist murders of American Indians that occur all across the America unnoticed, but on a regular basis.

EDIT: Since STDCarriers was spamming Newsvine, and hence removed from the site, links to that site have been removed from this article.

Yesterday I stumbled across a user account on Newsvine which had me wondering. The account is STDCarriers, and the name was immediately intriguing. So I followed the link to the website being described in the profile bio, and found STD Carriers Disease Control and Prevention Services.

The site explains itself as follows:

STD Carriers was founded as and still is the first public early warning alert system for identifying potential sources of incurable sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The International Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Carrier Registry is database driven list of people with HIV/AIDS, Genital Herpes, HPV, Genital Warts, and Hepatitis C. Our automated content management system (CMS) utilized the power of modern information technology to provide a real time information storage and distribution service that is fully operational 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

So basically, the idea is that if you are thinking of having sexual relations with an individual you can type their name into the site to see if they are listed as suffering from any of the above diseases. This immediately raises some flags for me, so I thought I'd bring a discussion here to see what other people think.

So far in the As the WebCam Turns®, we've learned that: --They never informing the parents or students of the remote surveillance program --The Lower Merion School District first denied that the program existed

Belgium became the first European country to impose a full ban on wearing a burka last night. Its parliament approved a draft law which states women can be jailed for hiding their faces in public. The bill - which must be rubber-stamped by the Belgian senate - is set to become  …

Police raided the house of an editor for Gizmodo on Friday and seized computers and other equipment. The raid was part of an investigation into the leak of a prototype iPhone that the site obtained for a blockbuster story last week. Now, a legal expert has raised questions about the legality of the warrant used in the raid.

On Friday, officers from California's Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team in San Mateo, California, appeared at the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen while he was not there and broke open the front door.

The Zimbabwe high court has approved the sale of diamonds from a field plagued by human rights abuses, as Harare moved to defy the Kimberley Process, state-run media reported on Tuesday.

The sale of 300 000 carats of diamonds from the eastern Marange fields was blocked last year by the international regulator after it found that Zimbabwe had failed to comply with human rights standards.

What was advertised as an exercise in benevolence began in 1990 when an ASU scientist approached the tribe with an idea: its members had for years suffered from an unusually elevated rate of type 2 diabetes, ravaging its ranks and leading to amputations even among some of its you …

If the man UAE police believe murdered Kerry Winter is given the death sentence, her family will bargain with his life - to finally get her body back.

This week, her family told the Saturday Star, they hoped her ex-boyfriend, 42-year-old Briton Mark Arnold, would finally reveal what he had done with her body.

Judgment will be given in Arnold's case next month. He stands accused of bludgeoning the 36-year-old South African with a baseball bat and dropping her body into the ocean.

Arizona lawmakers on Tuesday approved what foes and supporters agree is the toughest measure in the country against illegal immigrants, directing local police to determine whether people are in the country legally.

Sonnet Ehlers has developed a device to fight rape. It is worn in the vagina, has teeth that point backwards like a sharks teeth, and it clamps down like a tire boot. The perpetrator cannot remove it easily or without pain, and cannot urinate until it is removed.

"The National Democratic Party (NPD), a German neo-Nazi party, announced on its Web site Monday that it will hold a solemn vigil on January 27 in downtown Berlin to "stop the Israeli holocaust in the Gaza Strip."

The Digital Due Process coalition is pushing Congress to modernize privacy laws in the United States. The coalition -- comprised of technology companies and special interest groups, including Microsoft, Google, EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), eBay, and others -- feels that existing privacy regulations do not adequately protect data in the digital era, and could stop businesses from embracing cloud computing.

It seems like vendors can't develop a new product or offer a new service these days without tacking the word "cloud" onto it. There are major players -- like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google -- backing the move to cloud-based services, and businesses are rushing to capitalize on the operational and financial benefits offered by cloud computing. However, businesses need to consider whether existing privacy law adequately protects data in the cloud.

As violence against women in Pakistan continues to grow, every new incident is eerily reminiscent of an earlier event that was equally if not more shocking. Two reports from Punjab on Monday are a blot on society's collective conscience.