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Interfaith leaders and community gather to support mosque. Protest the second in response to Texas shootings outside ‘Draw Muhammad’ contest Anti-Islam protesters carrying American flags face off with supporters of an Islamic Community Center during a demonstration in Phoenix, Arizona on Friday. Photograph: Dave Cruz/AFP/Getty Images Texas shooting: the group behind the Muhammad cartoon contest. Some of the hundreds of protesters arriving at a Phoenix mosque on Friday evening to demonstrate their first amendment protections carried firearms, American flags and shouted expletives.

Suleiman Hashimu walked 750km (460 miles) and wore out six pairs of shoes over 18 days in order to see the inauguration of Nigeria's new president. His trek caught the public imagination and when he completed his trek, he actually got an invitation to meet Muhammadu Buhari before he was sworn in on Friday.

The figures come despite efforts by the German government to help parents with childcare A study says Germany's birth rate has slumped to the lowest in the world, prompting fears labour market shortages will damage the economy.

. Kiev (AFP) - Germany's foreign minister warned Friday that the situation in Ukraine's separatist east was turning "very fragile" and required all sides to refocus their efforts on salvaging a three-month truce.

The new Surface 3 is a great surprise. Unlike most high profile devices these days, Microsoft MSFT -1.2% got the smaller, lighter and cheaper version of its excellent Surface Pro 3 out of the door without a single leak. But given the two machines look virtually identical, what exactly are the differences between them? Let’s break it down:

The Windows 10 product family – image credit Microsoft The too-good-to-be-called-Windows-9 platform represents a make or break moment for Microsoft MSFT -1.2% and as a result it packs in some of the most exciting and controversial features we’ve seen from Windows in a decade. What’s more we know now when you can get it…

USS Shiloh  (KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/GettyImages) The drumbeat of war on distant horizons is reverberating through Southeast Asia with increasingly strong declarations of U.S. determination to stop the Chinese from expanding their writ over the South China Sea, notably islands claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei.

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge (image: Ewan Spence) Taking a look back at seven days of news across the Android world, this week’s Android Circuit highlights a number of stories including the reveal of Android M, Google Now on Tap, Project Brillo and ‘The Internet of Things’, Google Photos spins out of Plus, Android loses market share to Apple, Samsung’s new camera control, The Sony Xperia Z3+, and how the Galaxy S6 beats the iPhone 6.

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Witnesses say hundreds of Islamist gunmen tried to advance on north-eastern city, but security sources say situation is under control Nigeria’s new president Muhammadu Buhari (centre) greets the audience during his swearing-in. Photograph: Bennett Raglin/Getty Images Nigeria’s military has repelled a Boko Haram attack on Maiduguri, a day after the country’s new president vowed to strengthen the defences of the key north-eastern city that was the birthplace of the militant group.

Alba at Honest HQ in Santa Monica, Calif. Photo: Jamel Toppin for Forbes. For Alba’s husband, Cash Warren, it was a lesson in climbing a steep learning curve. “I didn’t know much about all the chemicals that were in our consumer products, so she educated me on this epidemic,” he says. “It felt massive, so I was a little reserved at first. She jumped into it headfirst.”

Jessica Alba, movie star turned mogul. Photo: Jamel Toppin for Forbes. It’s Kombucha Thursday at the Santa Monica headquarters of The Honest Company, which means that groups of young, stylish workers gather at communal tables in a converted toy factory to slurp fashionable fermented tea.

Buenos Aires-based photographer Federico Winer creates perspective-altering compositions from Google Earth satellite images. This view of Silicon Valley indicates Zip code areas of Chinese investment in red. Five days before closing a planned $12 million funding round in June 2013, Thiru Arunachalam and Bala Krishnan, founders of remote control app maker Peel, received an unexpected phone call. TransLink Capital, one of Peel’s soon-to-be investors, asked them to consider taking an additional $1 million from a Chinese company called Alibaba , a name they barely knew.

A Nigerian minister, Segun Aganga, PDP chieftain, Tony Anenih and the Governor of Benue state, Gabriel Suswam today departed Nigeria on a British Airways flight out of the Abuja’s Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport apparently to avoid getting caught.

  A trailblazing activist has stripped naked at the airport in Charlotte, North Carolina in a seemingly spontaneous and definitely hilarious protest against the notion of an ”overbooked” flight.

B enedict Cumberbatch has been dealt a reprieve by friend and fellow actor David Oyelowo. Cumberbatch felt the scorn of the national press (for possibly the first time) over the past few days after he’d used the outdated term “coloured” on a US chat show.

ADVE Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has announced the appointment of key officials of his government. In a statement on Friday, Ambode named Mr. Tunji Bello as Secretary to the State Government and Mr. Samuel Ojo as the Chief of Staff.

Chiwetel Ejiofor [“T]he vorpal blade went snicker-snack. He left it dead, and with its head he went galumphing back.” With our shoot over and the video interview about to begin, the Hunger crew have asked Chiwetel Ejiofor to say something – anything – for a soundcheck.

David Oyelowo B+ Nightingale Director: Elliott Lester Runtime: 82 minutes Rating: TV-MA Cast : David Oyelowo Social isolation feeds on itself, creating a relentless cycle that is remarkably difficult to break once it has begun. The fewer human connections a person makes, the less worthy he feels of making them, and his relationship to the outside world slowly deteriorates.

Improbable's founders Herman Narula and Rob Whitehead outside the converted barn where they started their company. (Photo: Jillian Edelstein for Forbes) Every Friday just after lunch, the videogame developers at Bossa Studios in London’s East End take a break from all the coding to try out their own work. This spring they were putting the finishing touches on Worlds Adrift, a so-called massively multiplayer online role-playing game in which thousands of people floated across a virtual sky on ships, attacking one another.

Spoilers through Season 5 of ‘Game of Thrones’ follow. We come to tonight’s episode of  Game of Thrones —”The Gift”—on the heels of last week’s horrifying rape scene, only to find that some time has passed, and Sansa is in perhaps even more dire straits than we realized. She is locked in her room when Reek brings her food. Bruises cover her arms. She begs the man who was once Theon to help her, makes him promise to light a candle in the tower so that someone will come to save her.

You might call it Generation Entrepreneur.  At 16.2%, Britain’s youth unemployment rate remains stubbornly high, despite consistent falls in joblessness across the working population as a whole, but a select group of young businessmen and businesswomen have not been phased by such difficulties. New figures show that some 26,400 people under the age of 21 are now listed as directors of UK limited companies.

        Remember earlier this week when the New York Times and the Washington Post -- going on information provided by unnamed U.S. officials -- told us that the Islamic State used the cover of a sandstorm to avoid coalition airstrikes while taking Ramadi?

Twenty years ago, the Houston Rockets star hoped that cheaper basketball shoes could stop troubling incidents of violence Hakeem Olajuwon goes down as one of the greatest Rockets players of all time. Photograph: Steve Lipofsky/Corbis T he nation doesn’t remember Jawaad Jabbar of Columbus, Ohio, but it may remember how he was killed. Jabbar left as one of the empty-handed customers at a Dayton, Ohio shopping mall on 20 December 2014 after lining up for the release of limited edition Air Jordan sneakers.

David Oyelowo SANTA MONICA, Calif. — When he decided to become an actor, David Oyelowo enlisted two co-conspirators. The man who played Martin Luther King in "Selma," and costarred in "The Help," "The Butler" and TV's "MI-5," sneaked into drama school with the help of his teacher. "I had a great teacher who just said, 'I wouldn't say this to everyone because it's a precarious profession, but I really think you can make a living doing this.' So she helped me secretly apply to drama school because my Nigerian parents at that time were not partial to the idea of going into anything to do with the arts," he says in his genteel English accent.

We spoke to Chiwetel Ejiofor, the star of 12 Years a Slave , at the launch of a $1 million prize designed to promote the creation of more responsible businesses which help - rather than hinder - society. He told us how far he thinks his performances can go to effect change in society, which qualities make a great film director, and how clothes help him to slip into a new role. The projects you've been involved in have usually had a story with an element of a core social problem, or an element of strife and a character's attempt to overcome that strife. Do you feel like that's a thing you actively look for when you're looking for a project, or in a director?

As fuel shortages force residents to queue for petrol once again, environmental activist Godwin Uyi Ojo has urgent questions for the new government. President-elect Muhammadu Buhari will have questions to answer. Photograph: Yang Yang/Xinhua Press/Corbis Godwin Uyi Ojo in Nigeria Nigeria is one of the biggest oil producers in the world, but a national fuel shortage means that Nigerians are once again being forced to join long queues for petrol. As the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, and the incoming government prepares to govern Nigeria’s troubled political terrain, the litmus test of good governance will be how they manage the oil and gas sector. Here are my questions for Buhari:

• Nigeria and Liverpool forward won in worldwide public vote • Oshoala: ‘It’s a very good thing for me and also motivation for the World Cup’ Asisat Oshoala, centre, became the first African player in the WSL when she signed for Liverpool Ladies in January. Photograph: Jon Super for the Guardian Asisat Oshoala has won the BBC women’s footballer of the year award. The award, in its inaugural year, was voted for by BBC World Service listeners.

It was a surprise to many that a cardiologist in America could come so low as to suggest that the solution to whatever issues he has with the activities of some Igbo people in Lagos was a call for xenophobic attack. History, however, showed that well educated people like Rwandan Jean Kambanda advocated and subtly and openly promoted the carnage that ordinary people later carried out. by Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo   “We must never let the wreckage of our barbaric past keep us from envisioning a peaceful future when law and democratic freedom will rule the earth.”- Gregory H. Stanton. Sometime in the 90s, Bola Ige wrote a controversial but landmark essay called, "The Road To Kigali." He lat...

Unicef concerned that children increasingly perceived as potential threats, after 27 suicide attacks this year A soldier at the scene of a suspected Boko Haram bomb attack in Abuja in 2014. Photograph: Olamikan Gbemiga/AP An increase in suicide bombings by girls and women used by Boko Haram means children are in danger of being seen as potential threats in north-east Nigeria, the UN children’s agency has said. There were 27 reported suicide attacks in the first five months of this year, compared with 26 in the whole of last year, Unicef said.

Here’s a catchup guide to what the rest of us have viewed over the past 25 years On camera … Pope Francis, who watches no television. Photograph: Ettore Ferrari/EPA If there’s a universal truth about people who don’t own a television, it’s that they’ll eventually tell you that they don’t own a television. Even Pope Francis is in on it. He’s just told an Argentinian newspaper that he hasn’t watched a single television programme since 1990 .

Hearing in the N150 billion libel suit filed against DAAR Communications by a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, has been fixed for May 27. Raymond Dokpesi, the Chairman of the broadcast outfit, is one of the witnesses to testify at the resumed hearing of the suit.

It was the remarkable story of how China's richest man lost $15bn in a single hour. Or so we thought. Turns out, Li Hejun didn't have quite the bad day everyone thought he did. On 20 May, the chairman of solar panel firm Hanergy, whose astonishing rise in fortunes over the past few months has confounded experts, lost $15bn when shares in the company fell 47 per cent.

Kano, Nigeria (CNN) Boko Haram militants hacked 10 people to death in a Friday raid on a village in northeast Nigeria's Adamawa state, a local government administrator said Monday. Dozens of Boko Haram insurgents stormed Pambula-Kwamda village in Madagali district, which the military recently declared free of the militant group, and killed 10 residents, Madagali local government Chairman Maina Ularamu said.

3. There’s A Fundamental Flaw In The Way We Think About Education Despite the fact that we believe we have made progress, our current system looks an awful lot like the totalitarian one Plato proposed. Why shouldn’t it? It worked well for centuries. The problem is that today, our digital technologies have connected and networked us in such a way that the separatist agenda that marked Plato’s description of education is no longer maintainable.

One part of the current education reform agenda argues that the internet has made the world bigger. Or, more accurately, the boundaries of our everyday experiences have expanded. Therefore, because we are more connected than ever before, the story goes, we need to think about education as the practice of cross-cultural tolerance and global awareness. Folks argue that humans have never before had to deal with so much difference.

Director of Defence Information, Chris OlukoladeThe Nigerian military has said it found wads of foreign currency on a top Boko Haram leader killed during an operation in Mafa, Borno State. The military did not release the identity of the militant.

J Dalton Staggs, of Covington, Ky, holds a sign during a protest by the group Bloodstained Men, near Fountain Square, Monday, May 18, 2015, in Cincinnati. It took over 70 years of determined, dogged and dedicated effort to gain the right for women to vote in the United States. Seventy years. The women and men who initially campaigned for universal suffrage didn’t live to see the passage of the 19th amendment.

He Zuoxiu, a leading Chinese scientist, says the country is not investing enough in safety controls after lifting of post-Fukushima disaster reactor ban. Construction works at the Changjiang nuclear power plant in Hainan province, China. Three Chinese provinces have chosen locations for new plants as part of the country’s nuclear expansion plans. Photograph: AP China’s plans for a rapid expansion of nuclear power plants are “insane” because the country is not investing enough in safety controls, a leading Chinese scientist has warned.