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A Pakistani mother has been arrested on suspicion of burning her 16-year-old daughter alive for marrying without family consent in the latest so-called "honour killing" to shock the country . Perveen Bibi, tied her daughter, Zeenat, to a bed, doused her with fuel and then set fire to her in Lahore, police said. 

Mona Walter, an ex-Muslim Somali activist, says the late boxing champion Muhammad Ali converted to a religion that enslaved hundreds of millions of Africans.

Many westerners are overjoyed with the fact that gasoline and energy costs have been relatively low over the past few months. As a result, consumers are seeing their wallets grow fatter and their utility bills shrink. However, this is not only a new development in the western world but even parts of Africa as well.

This wasn't the kind of emergency Joleen McDonald had in mind when she taught her 6-year-old son, Robbie, to dial 911. When Robbie took a ride with his dad and saw him drive past a red light, he did what he thought was the right thing to do: He called the cops.

Following an avian flu epizootic, the Mvog-Betsi poultry Complex, one of the main players in the poultry industry in Cameroon, just lost approximately 24,000 birds, equivalent to 75% of its livestock, the Cameroonian Minister of Livestock, Dr Taïga announced. The remainder of the flock was killed and all carcasses were buried, this member of the government highlighted.

The Gombe State Police Command on Monday confirmed the killing of a lecturer, Malam Sulaiman Umar and a Cameroonian, Malam Zainab Mahmuda at Kashere junction on the Gombe-Kumo Road in Nigeria. This is contained in a statement issued by the command spokesman, DSP Ahmed Usman.

Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos became the first defender to score in two UEFA Champions League finals on Saturday night, and, in doing so, he equalled a record held by Samuel Eto'o and Lionel Messi.