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The crisis in Yemen is at the top of the agenda at a meeting of Arab leaders in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh.

Dödliga attacker, uteblivna valobservatörer och teknikstrul. Valet i Nigeria har kantats av problem - även för sittande presidenten Goodluck Jonathan.

Hästen Helge som varit försvunnen sedan nyårsafton har hittats död. Han hittades drunknad i sjön Limmaren, berättar hans ägare Matilda Gustafsson för Norrtelje tidning.

Fredrik Skavlans intervju med SD-ledaren Jimmie Åkesson har väckt massiv kritik i Norge.

Det finns ett växande missnöje med decemberöverenskommelsen inom Moderaterna, skriver Svenska Dagbladet. I skånska Kävlinge har Moderaterna lämnat in en motion som de hoppas att Skånedistriktet skickar till partistämman. De vill att decemberöverenskommelsen avbryts.

rtoz writes: A group of scientists in California have successfully created eye drops that temporarily enable night vision. They use mixture of insulin and a chemical known as Chlorin e6 (Ce6) to enable the user to view objects clearly in darkness up to 50 meters away. Ce6 is found in some deep-sea fish and often used to treat night blindness. The solution starts to work within an hour of being applied to the user's eyes, and lasts for several hours afterward. The test subject's eyesight returned to normal the next day. The organization Science for the Masses has released a paper detailing the experiment on their website.

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Technical problems have plagued a new system for reading voting cards with biometric card-reading machines.

En fransk kvinna rapporteras ha avlidit av sina skador efter attacken mot Bardomuseet i Tunis i förra veckan. Dådet har nu skördat minst 22 människors liv, de flesta utländska turister.

En person skadades under en eldshow i Helsingborg på lördagskvällen.

Hallie Siegel writes: Not a week goes by where some aspect of drone regulation fails to make the news. But for any regulated industry where technology is advancing faster than new rules can be agreed upon, it will undoubtedly cause a few headaches. This week closes with a very positive announcement from European stakeholders on the future of drones. During a two-day conference in Riga, the European aviation community found broad agreement on the main principles to guide a regulatory framework to allow drone operations throughout Europe from 2016 onward.