Surfing Trooper Is Riding a Geeky Wave Around the World
Wired By Max Castera Image: SurfingTrooper, http://surfingtrooper.tumblr.com As a native of South West France, surfing — the original, water-based kind, not the kind you’re doing right now — has been one of my favorite hobbies for quite some time. My move to the...
Sarkozy's Moroccan New Year
New York Post French President Nicolas Sarkozy won't be spending New Year's Eve in France. He won't even be in Europe. The stealthy head of state was spotted "jetting out last night to Morocco to spend New Year’s with wife Carla Bruni and King Mohammed VI at the new...
Morocco's new cabinet held up over key jobs
* New cabinet uncertain a month after polls * Justice and foreign affairs are main points of disagreement By Souhail Karam RABAT, Dec 30 (Reuters) - A bid by the moderate Islamist party PJD to finalise the line-up of a power-sharing cabinet in Morocco has been held...
The hottest party: Britain warmer than Morocco as country set to enjoy record New Year's Eve temperatures
Mail Online By LEE MORAN Britain will enjoy near-record New Year's Eve temperatures tonight - with parts of the country warmer than Iraq, Morocco and Spain - capping the second-warmest year ever recorded. Forecasters said today will be as warm as average peak...
Scientists Hunt for Meteor Crash Clues in 200-Million-Year-Old Murder Mystery
By Aaron L. Gronstal, Astrobiology Magazine Space.com | SPACE.com - 4 hrs ago Mass extinctions are a relatively common theme in the history and evolution of life on Earth, and the most famous one is the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. A plethora of...
CCR: Delahaye leads Schlesser after 1st stage of Africa Eco race
MotorSport.com Robb Pritchard, CCR Correspondent Stage 1, 29th December Nador – Tarda (Morocco) Liaison: 239.40 km – SS: 276, 90 km – Liaison: 106 km The world is full of necessary evils, things we have to do, places you have to go through to get where you are going,...
Bamako target the Polisario to avoid a confrontation with Alger
Written by Khalid Ibrahim Khaled Mali, who is facing in its own territory, the terrorist groups Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), controlled by Algerian jihadists, attacks the Polisario. Given the balance of power, Bamako, instead of coming into direct confrontation...
Arab spring News of the day : Dec 30, 2011
Same old narratives challenge Arab Spring gains The Daily Star The Arab Spring was defined by the street.Now, as the dust begins to settle on a momentous year, observers are starting to question the spontaneity of the uprisings, exemplified so beautifully by the...
Source: Al Qaeda leader sends veteran jihadists to establish presence in Libya
By Nic Robertson and Paul Cruickshank (CNN) - Al Qaeda's leadership has sent experienced jihadists to Libya in an effort to build a fighting force there, according to a Libyan source briefed by Western counter-terrorism officials.The jihadists include one veteran...
U.S. Aid To All Moroccan Regions, Vote Of Confidence Of Congress: Former U.S. Official
Washington - The U.S. economic and development aid intended for all regions of Morocco is a vote of confidence of the United States’ Congress vis-à-vis the Kingdom’s efforts to settle the Sahara issue, said Roger Noriega, former Assistant Secretary of State US. The...