Wednesday

July 22, 2015

Armed conflicts and attacks

A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people in northern Afghanistan. (CNN)

Two explosions in the Nigerian city of Gombe killed at least 29 people. (Reuters)

Arts and Culture

The University of Oxford has radiocarbon dated fragments, of what apparently is the world's oldest Quran, to between 568 A.D. and 645 A.D. The animal skin parchment was found hidden inside the pages of another book in England's University of Birmingham library. (Daily Mail) (Deutsche Welle)