Gawker.com is really not healthy for people’s souls. Nonetheless those with low self-esteem and a little bit more literacy than people who admit to liking BET will keep loving the site for its bitchiness. Even better it seems is when readers get a chance to have a gawk inside Gawker itself. Case-in-point is today’s story [...]

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HAVANA — Virtually every square foot of this capital city is owned by the socialist state, which would seem sure to put a damper on the buying and selling of property… But the people of Havana, it turns out, are as obsessed with real estate as, say, [...]

At least 100 predominantly Sunni militiamen of the CLC, also known as Awakening Council members, have been killed within the past month. Left, a member of the CLC warmed himself over a morning fire in southern Arab Jabour, a rural, overwhelmingly Sunni area less than 10 miles southeast of Baghdad on the Tigris River.
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A man jumped on a burned-out vehicle after he and other supporters of Kenya’s opposition leader, Raila Odinga, set barricades on fire on a road in the Kibera slum of Nairobi.
SOURCE : The New York Times – Violent Clashes in Kenya (Slideshow)

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A movie poster in the city. Peshawar’s booming business in illicit Western and Indian DVDs has been another target of the militants. Many of the city’s myriad retail outlets have closed after being bombed, or threatened with violence.
SOURCE : The New York Times – Peshawar Under Siege (Slideshow)