3 is a crowd

Protests shake Rio hours before opening Olympics gala

About 3,000 people occupied the busy avenue running along Copacabana beach, while a smaller crowd including radical leftists faced off with mounted police near the Maracana stadium where the opening was to be staged.

Kano residents celebrate Sanusi's sack as Emir (Video)

A tweet that accompanied the video reads: "I remember when SLS was appointed as Emir, there were protests all over Kano for 3days, but today, this is the crowd celebrating his dethronement and subsequent appointment of the new Emir of Kano Alhaji
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