Al-Shabaab has taken over much of Mogadishu and southern Somalia, and is on a U.S.government list of international terrorist groups.
VOA: standard.2009.06.26
Thailand's tourism industry has taken a hit as thousands of anti-government protesters have taken to the streets over the past few weeks to try to force fresh elections.
VOA: standard.2010.03.27
The new images -- taken over several years -- reveal the channels which were carved out by flooding over an estimated 500 million year period -- a time when Mars was thought to be cold and arid.
The restored Georgian chapel - taken over by the local council in 2003 - was being occupied by members of the Glamorgan Home Guard, a living history group, to recreate wartime Pembrokeshire.