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Hundreds of people protested in Karannah, a northern district of the Kingdom of Bahrain, on Monday in preparation for what has been dubbed the 'dignity protest' due to take place on February 14th.

Men, women and children have marched through the streets carrying flags and banners in protest against the regime.

With regards to the upcoming strike, activists have explained that:

"The forthcoming dignity strike on February 14th is a strike for one day only, and is an introduction to the steps to be taken in the path of civil disobedience which will be painful to the...

Update: Initial reports say that a security guard has been killed after a suicide bomber entered the US embassy in Ankara, Turkey, and then blew himself up.

Several people have been hurt after an explosion in front of the US embassy in the Turkish capital Ankara, reports say.

Several ambulances and firefighter trucks have been dispatched at the scene.

Photographs posted online show some of the damage caused.

According to initial reports, the police suspect that the assault was a suicide bomb attack. (NewsPoint)

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's trip to Berlin has been met with protesters condemning police brutality in his country.

Demonstrators gathered in front of the Chancellery to protest against Morsi, and urge their own leader, Chancellor Angela Merkel, not to export arms to Egypt.

The protest is especially notable given the latest eruption of unrest, and harsh crackdowns by the police, over the weekend and continuing into this week. On Wednesday morning alone two people were killed in Tahrir Square, downtown Cairo.

Severe clashes between protesters and police broke...

Many Caribbean coral reefs have either stopped growing or are on the threshold of starting to erode, new evidence has revealed.

Coral reefs build their structures by both producing and accumulating calcium carbonate, and this is essential for the maintenance and continued vertical growth capacity of reefs. An international research team has discovered that the amount of new carbonate being added by Caribbean coral reefs is now significantly below rates measured over recent geological timescales, and in some habitats is as much as 70% lower.

Coral reefs form some of the...