J David Goodman

• Kony video offers big lessons for charities

  For some in the nonprofit world, the reaction to the success of an advocacy video about the African warlord Joseph Kony can be summed up in a word: envy.

• How the Joseph Kony video went viral

  Since three young filmmakers first traveled to Uganda in 2003, they have been determined to use film and activism to help stop the rebel leader Joseph Kony's brutal tactics and the use of children as soldiers. But it was not until this week that their nonprofit organization, Invisible Children, helped make Mr. Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resista...

• Online, Joseph Kony soars to topic no. 1

  Jason Russell said he never knew he was driving into a war zone. At 24, he had just graduated from the University of Southern California after studying film, he said, and was out looking for a story to tell.

• Private messaging network is said to link London rioters

  The authorities in London arrested scores of people late Sunday night and early Monday morning in hopes of heading off further violence after this weekend's street riots, as evidence emerged suggesting that the unrest had been organized, at least in part, over private online messaging networks.

• Norway: 84 killed in youth camp shooting, 7 die in blast

  Norway attacks: The Norwegian police on Saturday charged a 32-year-old man, whom they identified as a Christian fundamentalist with right-wing connections, over the bombing of a government center here and a shooting attack on a nearby island that together left at least 91 people dead.

• 7 killed in explosion near PM's office in Oslo

  A loud explosion has shattered windows at the government headquarters in Oslo which includes the prime minister's office, injuring several people. Norwegian news agency NTB says the prime minister is safe.

• Blast in Moroccan cafe kills at least 14

  An explosion tore through a busy cafe frequented by foreigners in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh on Thursday, killing at least 14 people and wounding more than a dozen others, Moroccan officials said.The blast, which occurred around lunchtime in the central Djemaa el Fna Square, appeared to be a deliberate attack on a popular destination in the tou...

• Yemen: Snipers open fire on protesters, kill 46

  A massive demonstration against Yemen's government turned into a killing field Friday as snipers methodically fired down on protesters from rooftops and police made a wall of fire with tires and gasoline, blocking a key escape route.At least 46 people died, including some children, in an attack that marked a new level of brutality in President Ali ...

• Battlelines harden across the Mideast as rulers dig in

  Security forces and government supporters employed an escalating panoply of violent force - from tear gas and batons to shotguns and grenades - in pitched street battles with anti-government protesters in Libya, Bahrain  and Yemen  on Friday.The clashes followed a week of deepening unrest as protesters, emboldened by the toppling of forme...

• Egypt's military rulers dissolve parliament

  The Egyptian military, complying with most of the principal demands of the opposition, said Sunday that it had dissolved the country's parliament, suspended its constitution and called for elections in six months, according to a statement by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces read on state television. It also said it would honor all of Egypt's...