The global gag rule, which every Republican administration has enacted since Reagan, bans international organizations that receive US aid money from providing abortions or suggesting abortions as an option to pregnant women.
Anwar al-Awlaki posted a video on radical web sites today calling for the killing of Americans. He said no special religious permission is required to kill them. The Christian science monitor correspondent Laura Kasinof reports from Sana'a.
After 29 years, the government — faced with an election and growing unrest — extends the order.
Pollution and congestion lead to Egypt's version of gated communities, with names like Hyde Park and Beverly Hills.
Fake news in the style of The Onion and the Daily Show with Jon Stewart risks upsetting the Cairo hierarchy.
Aid groups have decried a government air strike that reportedly killed more than 80 civilians in a conflict that may pose a direct threat to the U.S.