by Abdi Guled

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP)—Journalist Mohamed Bashir Hashi’s voice broke with emotion as he read a death threat sent to his mobile phone: “If God wills it, you will be the next apostate to be killed.”

LIVING IN FEAR—Anchors at the Shabelle radio station broadcast a news bulletin in Mogadishu, Somalia Jan. 30. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

After gunmen killed Somali journalist Hassan Osman Abdi on Saturday, colleagues and friends said they were too scared to attend his funeral that day, since militants in Somalia have targeted such gatherings in the past. Abdi, a 29-year-old director of a radio station, was a father of three.

NEW YORK (AP)—The killing of Osama bin Laden during a raid by Navy SEALs on his hideout in Pakistan was the top news story of 2011, followed by Japan’s earthquake/tsunami/meltdown disaster, according to The Associated Press’ annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors.

SEPT. 11 MASTERMIND—This April 1998 file photo shows exiled Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden is seen in Afghanistan. Bin Laden's died May 2, during a raid by U.S. Navy SEALs in Pakistan. (AP Photo/File)

by Meera Selva

LONDON (AP)—A young Black man lay dying in a south London bus stop. His friend called frantically for help while a gang of White teenagers who had stabbed him ran off. Two members of that gang were sentenced Jan. 4 for the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence, but three more remain at large.

18-YEAR-OLD MURDER VICTIM—Undated family handout photo of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence. (AP Photo/Family Handout/PA )

Judge Colman Treacy sentenced Gary Dobson to at least 15 years and 2 months in jail, and David Norris to at least 14 years and 3 months for the murder of the teenager, and urged police to continue looking for new leads in the case.

By Bjoern H. Amland

OSLO, Norway (AP)— Three women who fought injustice, dictatorship and sexual violence in Liberia and Yemen accepted the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Dec. 10, calling on repressed women worldwide to rise up against male supremacy.

“My sisters, my daughters, my friends—find your voice,” Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said after collecting her Nobel diploma and medal at a ceremony in Oslo.

UNITED IN SISTERHOOD—Nobel Peace Prize winners Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, left; Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee, center; and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, right, take the stage at City Hall in in Oslo, Norway, Dec. 10. (AP Photo/John McConnico)

Sirleaf, Africa’s first democratically elected female president, shared the award with women’s rights campaigner Leymah Gbowee, also from Liberia, and Tawakkul Karman, a female icon of the protest movement in Yemen.