YouTube banned in Pakistan.
Pakistan has blocked access to the popular YouTube website because of content deemed offensive to Islam. Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad which outraged many is featured in Youtube. The website would remain blocked till further orders. Other countries that have temporarily blocked access to YouTube include Turkey and Thailand. Thailand lifted the band later after the video which insulting King had been removed from the site.
Birth of world’s newest state : Kosova
Kosova has become world’s newest state as it declared independence from Serbia today. The independence of Kosova was opposed by Serbia as invalid and illegal. Russia has blocked Kosova’s approval at the UN Security Council. Thousands of people gathered in Kosovo’s capital Pristina to celebrate the independence.
(Photo Source:www.un.org)
