Bahraini uprising: An 11-year-old child is released after weeks in detention, but still faces being put on trial for "joining an illegal gathering". (Al Jazeera)
Researchers uncover direct links between the Flame and Stuxnet cyber-attacks on Iran, saying the attackers worked together on both at early stages of each threat's development. (BBC)
Twenty three people are killed in an attack on two villages in northern Nigeria. (BBC)
Arts and culture
The size of the Nobel Prize is being reduced by 20% in order to avoid an undermining of its capital in a long-term perspective. (Nobel Foundation)(BBC)
After six years, Google reaches a deal with a publishing group that opposed its scanning and publishing of books online. (BBC)
Dangote Cement opens a new line of production at its Obajana facility in the Kogi State, making the plant the largest in Sub-Sahara Africa and one of the largest in the world. (AFP)
Al-Shabaab offers a reward of 10 camels for information about the whereabouts of Barack Obama and chickens for information on Hillary Clinton in response to the U.S. announcement of rewards of $3-7 million for various militant commanders. (BBC)
The U.S. threatens to impose sanctions on individual Somalis oppose peace plan. (BBC)
The U.S. withdraws a team of negotiators from Pakistan, with The Pentagon announcing: "The decision was reached to bring the team home for a short period of time". (BBC)
The U.S. grants permission to seven countries on three continents to continue importing oil from Iran in contravention of the declared U.S. policy of isolating Iran. (BBC)
NHSFife apologises to Brown after finding it was "highly likely" one of its staff members leaked details of his son's cystic fibrosis to The Sun, which ran a story about his medical condition. (BBC)
