Web Pries Lid of Iranian Censorship

Thanks to my good friend Bill Amos in Vancouver for pointing out this fascinating article in the New York Times on the the role the web is playing in the current protests in Iran.

Shortly after Neda Agha-Soltan bled her life out on the Tehran pavement, the man whose 40-second video of her death has ricocheted around the world made a somber calculation in what has become the cat-and-mouse game of evading Iran’s censors. Read the full story here.

Igloolik: 69 North, 81 West

If you look at a map of Canada, trace your finger north — way north — up past James Bay and into Nunavut, you'll see a small island just off the northwest coast of Baffin island near the entrance to the Northwest Passage.

That's where you'll find Igloolik, an Inuit community of about 2,000 people. Read about by clicking on this link: Igloolik: 69 North, 81 West

Mogadishu carnage devastates lives

By Mohamed Olad Hassan
BBC News, Mogadishu

Cradling her baby brother in stick-thin arms, eight-year-old Halima Mayow says little about the incident which wiped out their family in Mogadishu. But, at a camp on the outskirts of the Somali capital, the only word she does utter - "Mortar! Mortar!" - sums up the tragedy which has spawned two more orphans in this war-torn country.
Read the full BBC story here!