EU voices alarm over Azerbaijan arrests

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Friday expressed concern about the decision of Bosnian Serbs to call a referendum on the central justice system they consider biased.

From political uprisings to billion-dollar acquisitions, social media packed a bigger punch in 2012 than ever before.

MillatFacebook, a Pakistani Muslim social network built to oppose the “blasphemer” Facebook, is begging its users for funds to pay its server bills and may close down, according to The Express Tribune.

MillatFacebook, a Pakistani Muslim social network built to oppose the "blasphemer" Facebook, is begging its users for funds to pay its server bills and may close down, according to The Express Tribune.

Pro-democracy activists in Syria called for fresh protests on Saturday after the alleged torture and killing of a 13-year-old boy by security forces in the flashpoint region of Daraa.The body of Hamza al-Khatib was returned to his family on Wednesday, following his disappearance after a demonstration on April 29, activists said on their Facebook site, Syrian Revolution 2011."We will go out from every home, from every district to express our anger" over the killing, they wrote on the page which carries a picture of the boy.

Azerbaijan on Friday arrested over 40 people for trying to stage pro-democracy protests in Baku, thwarting the first attempt by activists in the tightly-controlled state to latch on to the Arab revolts.Footage posted on the Internet showed the young people being firmly led away by the uniformed and plain clothes police into waiting vans as the authorities succeeded in breaking up the small rallies before they properly began."In total 43 citizens were detained during the day on March 11," the interior ministry said in a statement on the protests.

A bunch of liberal advocacy groups — including MoveOn.org, CREDO, Presente.org.

Calls are mounting for Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence to end her liquid-only diet, now in its 35th day, with NDP leader Thomas Mulcair joining a prominent Quebec Grand Chief and the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in calling for Ms. Spence to end her fast.