Seven countries are reportedly going to dump the US Dollars or shall I say in a more subtle manner to shift away from the most favored currency because of its continuing downward spiral. The US Dollars is losing more and more its popularity to currency investors and it is believed that countries like Saudi Arabia, South Korea, China, Venezuel

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A British school teacher has been arrested in Sudan for allowing her pupils to pick a name for a teddy bear. The six and seven year olds choose "Mohammad".

I had to post this story cause it's seriously disgusting and so utterly ridiculous.

Gillian Gibbons, 54, was arrested after parents complained about the teddy's name.

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It started with a teddy bear. A new British teacher at a school in the Sudan thought it would be fun for her class to name a teddy bear and journal about its adventures through out the year. Its not a new teaching method and its one that has helped kids get in to creative writing and thinking for ages now. This one turned out a little differe

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The continuing fiasco regarding 54 year old Gillian Gibbons, a UK teacher from Liverpool, jailed for 15 days in Sudan for insulting Islam by allowing her class to name a teddy bear Muhammad, is still heading the media in the UK with a meeting with two British Muslim peers, Labour's Lord Ahmed and Conservative Baroness Warsi, at a secret loc

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Did you see the Sudan demo over jailed British teacher Gillian Gibbons? A bunch of morons people gathered to demonstrate against the “mild sentence” Gibbons received and some even publicly called for her to “be shot”. She was later on moved for her own safety. I’m assuming that 99,9% of those “demonstrators” were called “Mohammad”.

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The actor traveled last year to China and Egypt seeking to persuade Sudan’s allies to use their leverage with Khartoum to solve the 4 1/2 -year-long crisis. He said he had learned that “there are two ways of getting things done,” and with his new U.N. role, he would try “being a little more diplomatic

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George Clooney has put pressure on an Olympic sponsor to speak out over China's foreign policy in Sudan.

The Hollywood movie star promotes Omega Watches — one of the worldwide Olympic partners for the Beijing games.

"I have talked with Omega (about China) for over a year and will continue to talk to Omega," George Cloo

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A plane traveling from Amman, Jordan has crashed at the Khartoum airport in Sudan. The video does not look good but there are reports of survivors. Kudos to the airline crew for what their effort at saving people from what looks to be a major crash.

Air travel safety is something we often overlook but crashes like this pro

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A nasty air crash at Khartoum, Sudan of a Sudan airways plane highlights the risks of flying in the devloping world. Though the risks aren't what you think they are. When checking out an airline there are couple of things you should consider and its not the number of seat back entertainment channels (though Emirates 600 is h

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