This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive.

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The list goes from oldest to newest news.  See you on Sunday, for our weekly Twitter Sunday!

Killed in cold blood: the British doctor who went to help in Afghanistan
She had given up a safe job in London working as a doctor for Bupa, the private health care firm, in order to help the poor and needy in the country. But Dr Woo, 36, has been named as one of ten aid workers killed by gunmen in an ambush in a remote in the north east of the country. The bodies of Dr Woo, seven other Western medics – six American and one German…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/afghanistan/7932055/Killed-in-cold-blood-the-British-doctor-who-went-to-help-in-Afghanistan.html

BP Says Cement Plug Is Solidly in Place
BP says the cement sealing the busted oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has hardened as crews prepare for the final phase of drilling a relief well. The oil giant said Sunday that pressure tests on the cement plug poured down the throat of the blown-out well show the seal is solidly in place…
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/08/08/us/AP-US-Gulf-Oil-Spill-Well.html

U.N. Back to Somalia After 17 Years
The United Nations plans to move its foreign missions and organizations back inside Somalia after an absence of more than 17 years, a senior United Nations official said Sunday. The United Nations left Somalia for Nairobi in 1993 because of security concerns and near-daily gun battles and mortar attacks in the Somali capital, Mogadishu…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/world/africa/09somalia.html

Iran set to execute 18-year-old on false charge of sodomy
An 18-year-old Iranian is facing imminent execution on charges of homosexuality, even though he has no legal representation. Ebrahim Hamidi, who is not gay, was sentenced to death for lavat, or sodomy, on the basis of “judge’s knowledge”, a legal loophole that allows for subjective judicial rulings where there is no conclusive evidence…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/08/iran-mohammad-mostafaei-rights-lawyer

Doubts Rise in Rwanda as Election Is Held
President Paul Kagame uses Twitter. He has lunched at Google. He started out as a skinny rebel fighter in the bush, marched into Rwanda’s capital in the midst of a genocide and then rose to make his country one of the developing world’s most orderly and crime-free societies. There is no question that Mr. Kagame, 52, will be re-elected as Rwandans vote on Monday…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/world/africa/09rwanda.html

Naomi Campbell said Taylor sent diamond: Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow gives evidence at The Hague. Broadcast subject to a 30 minute delay. Actress Mia Farrow has testified that model Naomi Campbell said she got a “large diamond” from men sent by ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor. Ms Farrow’s testimony directly contradicts Ms Campbell’s account that she received two or three stones and did not know who sent them…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-10908436

Afghan woman executed in public yesterday for alleged adultery
Taliban insurgents yesterday publicly flogged and executed an Afghan woman for alleged adultery, according to a report by Reuters. The 48-year-old woman was given dozens of lashes before being shot dead in a remote district held by militants in northwestern Badghis district, a senior provincial officer, Abdul Jabar, said…
http://alisonclarke.typepad.com/womens_news/2010/08/afghan-woman-executed-in-public-yesterday-for-alleged-adultery.html