Al Jazeera - Middle East

• Scores of 'al-Qaeda fighters' killed in Yemen
• Syria agrees to Annan's peace plan deadline
• Iraq demands extradition of 'fugitive' VP
• Palestinian on hunger strike deported to Gaza
• Brotherhood to run for Egypt's presidency
• Profile: Egypt's Khairat al-Shater
• Concerns as UAE shuts down rights groups
• Obama inches closer to new Iran oil sanctions
• Protester dies as Palestinians mark Land Day
• Maradona clashes with Al Shabab fans

Gulf News

• RAK Hospital opens daycare centre
• Two earthquakes hit central and southern Philippines
• Dubai teacher completes 24-hour bike ride to raise funds for Nairobi slum
• New Sharjah parking lots for heavy trucks
• Gulf Medical University honours leading UAE gynaecologists
• Philippines' former leader Arroyo's birthday wish: Unity
• Angry Bahrain lawmakers call for dismissal of culture minister
• Ajman Police rescue driver trapped in car wreck
• Dubai International Peace Convention to meet next week
• Doctor arrested in Ras Al Khaimah for allegedly selling controlled drugs to teens

Haaretz

• Syria army kills two in attacks near border with Turkey
• Illegal exodus: Israel authorities seize remains of ancient Egypt coffin
• There's art outside of Tel Aviv, you just have to look
• Israeli minister: State should encourage settler takeover of Hebron home
• Jerusalem Mayor aims to establish new settlement in East Jerusalem
• Passover shows for kids discriminate against Arabs, says rights group
• Israeli greens opposing wind-power plan
• Health Minister sets out to regulate growing 'telemedicine' trend in Israel
• Israel decides not to charge official over state funding of West Bank outpost Migron
• Social affairs minister slams NGOs for turning Passover food handouts into photo op

East Africa Forum

• Land grabbing in Ethiopia – foreign investors and famine
• Amid government denials, Eritreans flee harsh drought
• Amnesty Int’l Says Delegation Expelled From Ethiopia
• Untitled
• Nations Fall Short in Helping 12.4M Africans in Drought-Caused Famine
• Uganda invites reclusive Eritrea leader for visit
• International court could curb Somali piracy
• Indian investors eyeing Ethiopian agriculture
• Ethiopia Detains to Two Prominent Opposition Politicians
• Athletics-Jeilan grabs gold as Bekele limps out

Radio Free Asia

• Beijing’s Reaction To Coup Rumours Only Added Fuel To The Fire
• Media Freedom Groups Call On Vietnam To Release Jailed Bloggers
• Top China Censor Appointed Dean Of Journalism School
• Censorship Glitch Lets Chinese Netizens Flood President Obamas Google+ Page
• China Suddenly Deletes Details On The Web About Donation To Prestigious British University
• China’s Censorship Policy Risks Inciting Discontent And Social Unrest
• Satelite Phones No Longer Safe From Interception
• Useful Site For Checking If China’s Great Firewall Is Blocking A Website
• Chinese Netizens Find Humour In Facebook’s Proposed Return To China
• Heavy Censorship By Chinese Authorities As Sichuan Violence Continues

Daily Star (Lebanon)

• An Israeli initiative worth watching
• 24 detained in crackdown on illegal construction
• At least 10 Iranian exiles killed in clashes with Iraqi forces
• Sidon residents dump garbage on streets
• Syria face-off grows deadlier
• Safa set to face Ahed in Lebanese Cup final
• Mideast tumult could drive Gulf sukuk issuers to Malaysia
• Beirut Order of Engineers braces for close race
• A comic journey
• New guidelines aim to help NGOs deal with domestic violence cases

Mail & Guardian (S. Africa)

• Angola celebrates 10 years of peace
• Tsvangirai: Respect the Constitution, Mr President
• Invisible Children to release Kony 2012 sequel
• Senegal's Sall: The protege who toppled his mentor
• Eleven dead in Nigeria after troops clash with Islamists
• South Sudan accuses Khartoum of fresh attacks
• Christian gathering targeted in Kenyan blast
• Mali rebels attack Timbuktu
• Rebels advance in Mali as deadline looms for coup leaders
• One killed in Mombasa explosions

AllAfrica

• Nigeria: Nine Killed, 20 Injured in Taraba Clash
• Nigeria: N5 Billion Money Laundering - Court Dismisses Charges Against Akingbola
• Nigeria: House Committee Threatens British Airways Over High Fares
• Nigeria: Mandela's Wife Canvasses Financial Support for Women in Agriculture
• Nigeria: Our Judicial System a Failure, Says Mark
• Angola: War Veterans in Protest March Over Pensions
• Nigeria: Govt Lobbies Foreign Missions for Okonjo Iweala
• Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Plays Down Talk of Early Election By Mugabe
• Sudan: UN Urges Khartoum, Juba to End Border Clashes
• Liberia: Government Finding a Way to End FGM

Daily Nation (Kenya)

• Zimbabwe PM rejects Mugabe's renewed pressure on polls
• Ex-transport minister arrested in Zambia graft crackdown
• South Africa cave holds earliest sign of fire-use: study
• Al-Qaeda unlikely to profit from Mali rebellion: experts
• Raila: Kenya to intervene on Sudan hostilities
• Swaziland warns against insults to king on Twitter
• IMF advises Malawi to loosen grip on currency
• Stop weddings, says Zimbabwe in fraud check
• Mali rebels capture Timbuktu, key town as new ruler under pressure
• Mugabe in Singapore on a private visit

The East African (Kenya)

• How ICT can boost food security
• Scaling up fight against resistant TB
• Kenya to approve draft policy on space science next month
• Africa is the new engine of growth with clients who demand more
• Tanzanian school denied visas for exchange visit to the UK
• Uganda gets $1.4 m to remove non-tarriff barriers
• Rwanda given more time to import sugar
• Tebutt ransom sparks off war of words
• France to extradite suspect to Rwanda
• US sees armed guards as deterrents to EA piracy

The Standard (Kenya)

• New motor boss reports to work as Kirgotty stays put
• Ruto's visit to Ocampo draws mixed reactions
• Kiunjuri faults procurement procedures at Water ministry
• More Rift Valley MPs to meet Ocampo
• Victims to participate in ICC proceedings, say judges
• Ocampo ready to present two Kenyan cases
• ICC: Ruto, Ocampo set agenda for meetings
• Officers move to stem looting at odd armoury
• Nine people killed in road accident
• Chaos as Knut top guns sent home

Sudan Vision

• What Does Gadhafi's Fall Mean for Oil Prices?
• Obstacles Libya's New Leaders must Overcome
• Japan PM to Resign, Successor Race Wide Open
• The Looming Extinction of Earth's Plants and Animals
• Nadal Says Djokovic Deserves Top Billing Right Now
• Couples Tells Woods He's on Presidents Cup Team
• Flanagan Death Ruled Suicide by Medical Examiner
• Spanish Soccer Strike Ends, Deal Reached
• Strong Swiss Franc Punches Holes in Cheese Exports
• Authorities Urge Filipinos to Stop Hoarding Coins

WorldNews

• Indian Home Secretary welcomes US decision to announce reward on Hafiz Saeed
• Yemeni forces 'kill 38 Qaeda suspects'
• U.S. judge grants class action status to Tata wage suit
• Kremlin Ready For Battle With Borodino Squatters
• Israeli PM seeks delay of Hebron settler eviction
• UNESCO: Mali fighting could damage Timbuktu
• Snow in Scotland just days after heat wave
• German minority keeps Easter egg tradition alive
• US offers $10m reward for Mumbai terror suspect
• Pakistan considers India as 'threat' but US differs: Leon Panetta

News24

• I can only blame myself: Els
• SA promoters want SBW in SA
• Paper boosts SA SKA site
• Sanral: E-tags won't be compulsory
• Gauteng to cap funeral costs
• Liquor thief beaten to death
• Hlela 'changed procurement rules'
• Woodcock back for Blues
• Nengomasha: Assume nothing
• Lottery pays out R2bn to beneficiaries

Times of India

• Kingfisher staff withdraws threatened agitation
• Jagir Kaur gets LCD TV, dish antenna in jail; probe ordered
• Adarsh scam: CBI detains 2 bureaucrats
• India welcomes US reward on LeT chief
• Kolkata auto drivers' protest leads to chaos
• Relax wine, toys' import norms: US to India
• Sasikalaa returns to Jaya’s Poes Garden residence
• Bihar's Lakhisarai killing a story of love, sex aur dhokha?
• Milk on the boil, prices set to soar again
• Is Lord's property safe in Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams' hands?

Business Mirror (Philippines)

• The ‘Aquaponics Soldiers’ of Camp Aguinaldo
• ‘The Hunger Games’: A winning story of sacrifice and survival
• Repulsion in Attraction, Chaos in Order
• SMB completes P20-B fixed-rate bond offer
• PHL clinches top Earth Hour spot for 4th-straight year
• New York tops London as city with most global clout–survey
• Suu Kyi’s party declares landslide as Myanmar begins ‘new era’
• Injured Lin hopeful he’ll be back as a Knick
• Air strike vs NPA rebs misses targets
• Social TV is all about sharing

Khaleej Times (UAE)

• Yemeni airstrikes kill 43 al-Qaida militants
• Qatar urged to hand over fugitive Iraqi VP
• Israel orders settlers to vacate West Bank building
• Over 1,000 illegal expats arrested
• Aviation sector to take on challenges
• Red Cross sends emergency diesel to Gaza
• Russia urges Assad to start troop pullout
• Palestinian family loses court fight for landmark site
• Russian destroyer heads for Syria port
• Iran vows to stick to nuclear 'path'

Al Arabiya

• "Dirty Dancing" star Patrick Swayze dies
• Somali Qaeda group vows to avenge US raid
• Iraqi shoe-thrower freed, greeted as hero
• Iraq, Syria bid to ease tensions in Turkey talks
• Lebanon opens talks to name new PM
• US-Israel talks end with no sign of a deal
• Top Somali Qaeda member killed in US air strike
• Saudi students in US do Ramadan American style
• Israeli PM refuses to freeze settlement building
• Fatah backs Egypt election delay proposal

EurasiaNet

• Turkmenistan: Peace Corps Suffers New Setback, But Still Operating
• Will the E. Med's Contested Gas Finds Lead to Conflict or Cooperation?
• Kazakhstan: Zhanaozen Still Traumatized Three Months After Violence
• Turkey: High Pesticide Use Raising Concern
• Azerbaijan: Mossad Not to Participate in Eurovision (In Case You Were Wondering)
• Is Uzbekistan Stepping Up Tajikistan Blockade?
• India Set To Be Bigger Player In Afghanistan NATO Transport?
• Azerbaijan: Baku Disputes Story on Azerbaijani-Israeli Military Collaboration against Iran
• Report: Georgia Unearths the World’s Oldest Honey
• Turkey: Preserving Kurdish Culture Through the Power of Music

The Moscow Times

• Officer Tosses 2 Girls Out 8th-Floor Window
• Barsukov Handed 14 Years for Fraud
• Medvedev Promises to Bring Democracy to Regions
• 3 State Corporations To Lose Status in �10
• IMF Warns on Russia�s Ruble Course
• Putin Named World's 3rd Most Powerful Person
• Inter, Sberbank Join MSCI Index
• TeliaSonera, Alfa to Merge Some Assets
• Economic Downturn Slows in 3rd Quarter
• Medvedev to Address APEC Summit

SiloBreaker

• Kentucky tops Kansas to win eighth NCAA basketball title (story, photos, videos)
• National News: Motorists battling through snow
• Scepticism as Syria ‘agrees to deadline on troops’
• Pakistan jails bin laden’s three widows for illegal immigration
• Flying car debut
• Democracy campaigner hopes for new era in Burma following election victory
• Video: Romney's son to 'Mad Men': Lay off my late grandfather
• Discovery suggests humans started using fire a million years ago
• Butterfield Disappointed by FTC Decision on Medco/Express Scripts Inc. Merger
• Gunman in Oakland college rampage tells students: 'Get in line and I'm going to kill you all'

Kommersant (Russia)

• Ad Market to Dip in 2009
• Alcohol Supervisor to Be Set Into Motion on New Year Eve
• Gazprom Builds Big Gas Reservoir
• Russia Terminated Armament Projects with Ukraine
• Georgian Opposition from New York
• Ruble’s Future May Be Clear Soon
• Switzerland to Represent Russia in Georgia
• Politics Are a Guarantee // The price of the question
• Secret Equipment Exploded at Baikonur Cosmodrome
• Export Surplus Up to $182.8bn in Jan-Oct

Dawn (Pakistan)

• United leave it late to extend lead over City
• Blake Lambert, Miranda Shelton big winners at country awards
• Overwhelming interest in 1940 census chokes website
• ‘Titanic’ director says ocean “alien world”
• De Gea praised by Ferguson as United extend lead
• Art is “world’s greatest currency”, says Hirst
• CJ displeased with authorities over Karachi and Balochistan
• Revitalised Torres ready to lead Chelsea through
• Asian markets mostly up on US data
• Real’s rampant strikers threaten to bury APOEL

JPost (Israel)

• #USelections2012: GOP foes and SCOTUS woes
• Defense Ministry reiterates order to evacuate Hebron home
• IAA seizes stolen Egyptian sarcophagi in Old City
• NGOs hit back at Kahlon's attack on food aid
• Suspicion in Iran grows over Turkey's regional role
• Algeria: Ripe for rebellion, but wary, too
• Top 5: 'Must do' Easter experiences
• Follow Passover tips to avoid weight gain, injury
• Bringing instant air monitoring to crisis situation
• Heirloom Haggada conjures childhood memories for survivor

Xinhua (China)

• Senior British official rules out military intervention in Syria
• Abbas says ready to present Palestinian visions on status issues
• Egyptian new PM completes cabinet line-up
• Obama presses Congress to OK payroll tax cut extension
• Sarkozy, Merkel agree on new EU treaty to stem debt crisis
• Poll suggests Gingrich benefits from Cain exit
• Occupy D.C. protesters arrested
• Italian cabinet approves emergency reform plan
• Pakistan wants solid outcome of Bonn Conference: FM spokesman
• Failing EU summit to exacerbate debt crisis: Rehn

AfricaNews

• Senegal’s new president sworn-in
• Zimbabwe's 90% literacy rate disputed
• Malawi: Human rights activist weeps for press freedom
• AU endorses Nigerian for World Bank presidency
• Malawi’s president bows to pressure from populace
• Zimbabwe: Stress test deadline looming for banks
• Cameroon: African grey parrot butcher arrested
• Africa has potential to push global growth - report
• Ecowas suspends Mali after coup
• Senegal’s election, lesson to African leaders - AU

Asia Times Online

• Seoul food vote leaves a sour taste
• Philippines under fire in Hong Kong
• Taiwan's economy falters
• THE ROVING EYE : Sweet crude of mine
• China squeeze drives boom in 'black' banks
• Kim Jong-il: Tactical genius
• Less jaw-jaw, more war-war
• From Arab hero to zero
• ASIA HAND : Man with the plan in Myanmar
• Tar sands protesters find example in Dr King

News24 on Africa

• I can only blame myself: Els
• SA promoters want SBW in SA
• Paper boosts SA SKA site
• Sanral: E-tags won't be compulsory
• Gauteng to cap funeral costs
• Liquor thief beaten to death
• Hlela 'changed procurement rules'
• Woodcock back for Blues
• Nengomasha: Assume nothing
• Lottery pays out R2bn to beneficiaries

Angola Press

• Defence minister expected in Bissau
• Benguela railway company rehabilitation increases trade
• Gospel festival closes 'Março Mulher' activities
• Country attends orchestras international festival
• Ombudsman returns home from Tanzania
• Vernacular language teaching contributes to country's development
• Angola at 3rd international orchestras festival
• Investigation shows more fish on sea
• Investigation shows more fish on sea
• Media vice minister inaugurates television programme in Sao Tome

One World

• Egypt: Mubarak Faces Historic Challenge
• MDGs: Make the Most of the Next Five Years
• 'Urgent' Access to Somalia Drought Communities Needed
• Food Crisis Warnings Fall on Stony Ground
• In Tunisia, People Power Succeeds Without Western Backing
• Vietnam: Communists Gag the Web
• Families of Missing Women Protest Police Inaction in Juarez
• Latest Food Crisis Brewing for Months
• Suicides Rise Across India
• Egypt Church Bombing Fuels Sectarian Rift

WorldPress (Headlines)

• London Conference on Somalia
• Kony 2012
• Water and Sanitation in Africa
• Women in the World Summit
• Clean Water Scarcity in Canada
• Putin Faces Russian Public Protests
• Pakistan's Women Get a Helping Hand From Maryam Bibi
• Islam in Turkey
• Turkey's Ilisu Dam Threatens Ancient Town
• Iran vs. the United States

WorldPress (Breaking News)

• When Europe Develops, and Israel Destroys
• More money needed for fire-fighting choppers in Moscow-City district
• Rioters Attack British Embassy In Buenos Aires
• The real lessons for Britain from Bradford West
• Raidside assistance
• BBC reporter surprises viewers with Irish jig
• Local currency transactions needed among BRICS

The News (Pakistan)

• 20 emails of Mansoor Ijaz, RAW chief''s interview submitted to Memo Commission
• Malik, Shahi Syed agree to even-handed operation in Karachi
• Briefs....
• Pakistan paid heavy price for global power politics: PM
• Antony meets Gen VK Singh, directs army to streamline acquisition process
• An officer with a conscience resigns and speaks out the bitter, whole truth
• US announces $10m bounty on Hafiz Saeed
• Five soldiers, eight militants killed in cross-border attack
• Hungarian president quits over plagiarised PhD
• NAB wants Liaqat Jatoi, Raja Pervez, Shaukat Tareen on ECL

Press TV (Iran)

• ‘EU firewall, proposal for further debt’
• Fugitive Iraqi VP meets Qatari ruler
• Majlis to mull impeaching labor minister
• UK police racial abuse scandal deepens
• Israel vows new settlement in al-Quds
• Ecuador to boycott Americas summit
• Spain unemployment hits record high
• UK embassy in Argentina attacked
• ‘UK’s stance on Malvinas, ridiculous’
• ‘Iran can establish regional security’

Economic Times (India)

• Assocham urges RBI to cut CRR by 75 bps
• Govt may clear FDI cap in broadcasting services
• Cyberattacks: How China steals US secrets
• UK online ads grow at fastest rate in five years
• Australia court finds Google hosted misleading ads
• JP Morgan's Hannam resigns after market abuse fine
• Web privacy rules turn poachers into gamekeepers
• Oil below $105 amid mixed global economic signs
• Gold's safe-haven appeal trims on US recovery hopes?
• Asian stocks rise on US factory data, Europe flat

The Zimbabwean

• Ranting and raving will not make elections happen
• Harare graves untended
• Rusike confident
• Copac chief denies snubbing disabled
• Manyeruke back with a bang
• Another Year of Drought in Buhera South
• Mugabe flies to Singapore for a private visit
• Tsvangirai plays down talk of early election by Mugabe
• Mnangagwa and Moyo fall out over Chiwenga
• Weddings suspended to curb ‘fraud’

The Jakarta Globe

• Indonesian Government to Ban Subsidized Fuel for Official Vehicles
• Indonesian Government Dismisses Five Regional Heads Facing Graft Sentences
• Airborne Bird Flu Virus Studies OK to Publish: US Biosecurity Panel
• Officials Critical of Deputy Justice Minister Over Alleged Prison Guard Slap
• Fauzi Gives Police Grant for Boats, Bikes
• Corruption Suspect Challenges Fuel Increase in Court
• President, PKS Play ‘Waiting Game’
• Teen Girl Jailed in Bali After Selling Other Girls for Sex
• Indonesian Maids Continue to Fall to Deaths in Singapore
• Burma, North Korea Set to Dominate Asean Summit

Phnom Pen Post (Cambodia)

• South China Sea surfaces
• Relocation deals unfair, say families
• Railway evictees seek ADB aid
• Police detain two over gunfire at restaurants
• Hu gone with Boeung Kak petition hopes
• Sun bear smuggler arrested in Kampot
• Schools shut for ASEAN
• Duch: Nuon Chea ordered S-21 slaughter
• ASEAN praises Myanmar vote
• B40 rocket explodes, killing two

Daily Monitor (Uganda)

• Kabaka restates case for federo
• For killing his opponent, Mayuge LCV boss to hang
• Copenhagen: Case for a fair climate deal
• Smallholder farming in Africa: climate casualty or pioneer?
• Kyabazinga poll for Jan
• Okhuti on mark as Bunna go top
• Nagginda addresses Buganda Conference
• Ugandans can now live up to 51 years - report
• Parents want Anti-gay Bill enacted
• British Airways strike blocked

Business Daily Africa

• A plateful of concerns for Ojode
• Capital markets regulator must learn to play by rules
• Time to invest in young techpreneurs
• Ringera heads team to hear submissions on CMC deals
• Forster named as top beneficiary of Jersey accounts
• World Bank backs Kenya web innovators with Sh4bn
• Collapsed firm opens talks with bourse for comeback, goes shopping for partner
• KenGen bond investors to get Sh1.56 billion
• Forex reserves climb to 9-month high
• Court extends order to freeze assets of ex-Dry Associates employee

Africa Business Source

• Nairobi, Mombasa Luxury Real Estate are Fastest Growing in the World
• Tullow Oil plc
• Kenya Discovers Oil
• A Different Drummer: Correlation (Or Lack Thereof) Between African Stock Markets
• David Karangu Ivory Chevrolet
• Obama’s Top Africa Man to Lead US Energy Companies on Trade Mission to Africa
• Mastercard Moves East
• Africa’s Francophone Countries Launch Mobile Applications Hackathon
• Judith Aidoo – Private Investor and Media and Entertainment Entrepreneur
• East Africa Com Conference Will Bring Together 650 Telecom Leaders from Across East Africa

Bernama (Malaysia)

• General : Malaysian Vehicles Trapped In Hat Yai To Be Brought Back Home
• General : Malaysian Youths Increasingly Aware Of Palestinian Issue
• General : KPA1B Can Boost Cooperative Sector's Contribution To GDP
• General : 6,298 Employers Involved In Sarawak Manpower Survey
• Business : MAS Drops Regional Airline Plan
• General : No Dewan Rakyat Sitting On April 11 And 12
• General : Current Drug Smuggling Trends Feature Locals - Customs Director-General
• General : 63,000 Poor Households Participate In 1Azam Programme
• General : Demonstration Against PTPTN Will Disturb Peace In KL - Raja Nong Chik
• General : Najib Conveys Condolences To Thai PM

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Ma'an News Agency

• Kuwaiti artist 'more determined' after exhibition ban
• Palestinian students in Nicaragua discover new asteroid
• Shin Bet: 13 detained over shooting attack
• Sirens sound across Israel due to system glitch
• Syrian UN envoy confirms acceptance of April 10 deadline
• ICRC chief on way to Syria for talks on aid, detainees
• France warns activists against West Bank trip
• Report: Bomb in Istanbul injures 2
• Pakistan jails bin Laden's family for illegal stay
• Egyptian Copts abandon constitution talks

World Bulletin

• Egypt forms new cabinet
• Kazakh leader proposes early presidential election
• Egypt Brotherhood aims broad group for army talks
• Egypt banks closed Tues, no date set for reopen: CBank
• Turkey to help evacuation of foreigners in Egypt
• Deadly clashes in Bangladesh airport protest
• Egypt protesters call "million march", Mubarak turns to army
• Moody's downgrades Egypt debt
• ElBaradei urges US to stop backing for Mubarak
• Non-committal China urges return to order in Egypt

Independent Online (South Africa)

• Brotherhood gambles on Egypt presidency
• Islamists seize Timbuktu
• Cops quit Egypt’s constitution panel
• Neighbours launch sanctions against Mali
• Rival militias exchange fire in Libya
• Zambia’s former telecoms minister arrested
• Sudan, S Sudan in crisis talks
• Swazi king demands cows from poor subjects
• Senegal's Sall sworn in as president
• Mob torches police station in Nigeria

Straits Times (Singapore)

• Thailand says no talks with southern insurgents
• Pit bulls in Philippine dog fights to be put down
• Philippines to divert flights over N. Korea rocket
• Cambodia targets development gaps as Asean chair
• Malaysia panel calls for electoral overhaul
• Vietnam finds mass grave of Communist soldiers
• Nearly 100 drug addicts escape in Vietnam
• Gunmen in police uniforms abduct Philippine mayor
• Myanmar, North Korea set to dominate Asean summit
• Cambodian girl dies from bird flu: WHO

The Jakarta Post

• Preachers, clerics must master foreign languages: Foke
• No Premium at filling stations in plush neighborhood: Minister
• ‘Slap’ crosses line: Deputy speaker
• Deputy minister denies ‘slap incident’
• Govt to set up film board to boost production
• Witnesses quizzed over brutal murder
• ‘Bomb’ near Yogyakarta mayor’s office
• Singer Maher Zain keeps his ‘religious tunes’
• Depok bans minimarkets from operating 24/7
• Former communications and information minister passes away

Newstime Africa

• Macky Sall has been sworn-in as the new President of Senegal
• Danish government zigzagging over Western Sahara
• President Ernest Bai Koroma commissions solar power training college in Sierra Leone
• Sierra Leone’s opposition presidential candidate Julius Maada Bio is a thief and must be arrested and tried for embezzling state funds
• The regulation of the media in Sierra Leone – An important step towards national development
• ECOWAS gives Mali coup plotters three days to step down or face diplomatic and economic sanctions
• Malawi caught up in political party funding maze
• New breed of leaders respond to Africa’s call for attitudinal change
• Mauritius worried about the impact of Diabetes
• Mauritius set to tackle environmental issues with strong policy in 2012

The Media Line (ME)

• A Kinder, Gentler Hamas?
• Seal Sheds Light on Temple's Day-to-Day Activities
• MERRY CHRISTMAS!
• Bethlehem Burgeons with Christmas Visitors
• Egyptian Salafists Seek to Amend, Not Rescind, Egypt-Israel Treaty
• Gaza in Shock After Rare Double Homicide
• Christians in Israel: Thriving, Beleaguered at the Same Time
• New York Campus Signals Israeli University's Global Ambitions

Tuoitre News (Vietnam)

• 96 inmates escape rehab center in northern city
• As currency floats, Myanmar's banks rise again
• Robot competition kicks off in central city
• World famous violist Sara Chang returns to VN
• Guitar club meets in the streets
• Mexico presses for quick entry in Trans-Pacific talks
• Indebted seafood company lays off employees indefinitely
• Passengers get greater choices to fly between Vietnam and America
• Joint effort to rid the country of UXO
• Storm kills 3, injures 5 in southern provinces

Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)