A British primary school teacher arrested in Sudan faces up to 40 lashes for blasphemy after letting her class of 7-year-olds name a teddy bear Muhammad. Gillian Gibbons, a 54-year-old mother of two from Liverpool, was arrested at her lodgings at Khartoum's Unity High School yesterday, accused of insulting the Prophet of Islam.

I am probably not alone in thinking that the only thing we should be sending the good people of Sudan (or at least their clerics) are precision guided munitions. The place is a dump & is seems likely to remain so. Its not just that they don't have clean running water ... they don't even have a sense of humour about anything