

Once upon a time, there was a man who called himself Abdel Wassim El Whani, who claimed to be a Qatari billionaire. Whani rose to the height of Internet fame after he was filmed handing out piles of cash and fancy cars in the streets of Paris. However, no one, not even the Qatari authorities in France, seem to know who he really is. Read more…



Between 8,000 and 10,000 people protested in the streets of Tunis Saturday to denounce extremism and violence. But apparently that number wasn’t big enough for some. On its front page, the daily newspaper Le Maghreb published a photograph photoshopped to add more protesters to the crowd. Read more...



The anonymous founder of a Google map tracking violent incidents linked to forced evictions across China generally refuses to talk to foreign media. He fears that his project, dubbed the “Blood real-estate Map”, will spark anti-Chinese sentiment abroad. Read more…