The Indian Supreme Court has issued a tourism ban in more than 40 government-run tiger reserves, in an attempt to strengthen protection of the endangered wild beast. The interim ban ordered by the nation's apex court is the first of its kind, which prevents any commercial activities in the "core zones" of the Project Tiger Forest.
On Tuesday, Ghana's president John Atta Mills died shortly after reports of throat cancer. The 68-year-old died in a military hospital in the nation's capital, Accra.
On Tuesday, Egypt's newly elected president, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, appointed Hisham Qandil as the country's prime minister. The water resource minister has been asked to form a cabinet as the new Prime Minister.
On Tuesday, a Philadelphia court convicted and Msgr. William J. Lynn for covering up a number child-sex abuses committed by priests under his supervision for 12 years. Msgr. Lynn was sentenced to three to six years in prison becoming the first Roman Catholic official in the country to be charged and convicted.
