After surgery, Pakistani girl shot by Taliban announces foundation

Labor Party members in Norway have formally nominated Malala for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Meanwhile, the federal government in Pakistan spends 7 times more on the military than on schooling.

True, it is difficult to systematically track the demographics of a stampede, but what most of those rushing to escape birdshot and tear gas canisters have in common is that they are male, urban, young, and unemployed; they have very little to lose, and even less confidence in a political class that does not represent them.

Researchers say these cultural forces that keep women out of science are strong in the United States, Britain and Canada but far less pervasive in Russia, Asia and the Middle East, which have a much higher proportion of women in science and engineering.

In Jordan, for example, girls score more than 8 percent better in science than boys do.

And President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has become the first Iranian President to visit Cairo since the revolution in Iran from more than 30 years.

Don’t you find some Lebanese reactions to things in this country overly odd?

What I can’t fathom is how some people can be more than convinced that the best way to stand up for the Lebanese army is to block the road for everyone else and create a new mess for the army to clean up.