Time magazine has named The Protester as its Person of the Year. The US-based magazine said in 2011, the protesters didn't just voice their complaints, they changed the world. Farhana Haider reports.
The protesters beat more traditional individual contenders who included the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei and the American Admiral William McRaven, the commander of the US team that killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. The magazine said it's recognising protesters because they are re-defining people power around the world. It cited dissent across the Middle East that has spread to Europe and the United States. The magazine's latest issue, which comes out on Friday, has an Arab woman protester on its cover.
An appeal court in London has ordered the British government to free a Pakistani man who's been held without charge for more than eight years. The man, Yunus Rahmatullah, was captured by British troops in Iraq in 2004, but they handed him over to the Americans, who transferred him to Afghanistan and have been holding him there ever since. Human rights lawyers hailed the court order as a historic victory although it's not binding on the United States.
The world footballing body Fifa is considering plans to offer low-cost tickets to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil in exchange for guns handed in as part of an amnesty. The Brazilian justice minister said it was keen to use what he called the power and universal draw of football to highlight its disarmament campaign.