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Blindfolded Mahmoud Asgari, 16, left, and another unidentified teenager are set to be publicly hanged, in Mashhad, Iran, on charges of raping boys in this photo taken on July 19, 2005.

Homophobia on the rise in the Muslim world

Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Daniel Steinvorth
African farmland, which is extremely fertile in some regions, is inexpensive on the impoverished continent. Many foreign investors are snapping up the land and some African leaders hope the result will be the development and modernization of their agricultural sectors.

Foreign investors snap up African farmland

Horand Knaup, Juliane von Mittelstaedt