Via The New York Times: “The United Nations announced on Monday that Somalia’s famine had spread to a sixth area within the country, with officials warning that 750,000 people could die in the next few months unless aid efforts were scaled up.”
Photo by Dai Kurokawa/European Pressphoto Agency: Fatuma Hassan Yarow, a 12-year-old Somali girl, laid on a grass mat in her shelter at Ifo camp in Dadaab town, northeastern Kenya, on Monday.
Yemen’s Sanaa airport closed amidst chaotic violence
The scene in Yemen: The depressing, daily drumbeat of violence, upheaval and power struggle continues, and in this case, things are looking like they could get a lot worse before any better. The airport in Sanaa has closed, amidst some of the most sustained, violent clashing in Yemen since the initial protests against the Saleh government. source
Who owes money to the International Monetary Fund? The Guardian offers this map, an explanation of how IMF loans work, and a spreadsheet with all the numbers.
New Android app allows users to track, upload reports of bribes from around the world. (h/t Wall Street Journal)
Interesting interactive Google map allows you to search for newspapers around the world based on location and language.
A new study in The American Journal of Public Health, expected to be published Thursday online, estimates that nearly two million women have been raped in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with women victimized at a rate of nearly one every minute.
In case you missed it, watch last night’s FRONTLINE, Kill/Capture: Inside the military’s extraordinary secret campaign to take out thousands of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters.
Police spray Ugandan opposition party leaders with coloured water during demonstrations in the capital Kampala, May 10, 2011. President Yoweri Museveni has vowed to crush the protests and blamed rising food and fuel costs on drought and global increases in oil prices. (James Akena)
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We arrived at the pool located at Building 164 and stripped down to our UDT swim shorts. An instructor said, “You are going to love this. Drown-proofing is one of my favorites. Sink or swim, sweet peas.”
I tied my feet together, and my swim partner tied my hands behind my back.
“When I give the command, the bound men will hop into the deep end of the pool,” Instructor Stoneclam said. “You must bob up and down 20 times, float for five minutes, swim to the shallow end of the pool, turn around without touching the bottom, swim back to the deep end, do a forward and backward somersault underwater, and retrieve a face mask from the bottom of the pool with your teeth.”
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