Yesterday's explosion in Yemen, which resulted in a British mannot being injured, is the subject of at least 124 news reportstoday.

Yes, I know the man in question was an ambassador and his attacker probably from al-Qaeda, but the scale of the coverage reminds me of that famous (and possibly apocryphal) tale of a Scottish newspaper reporting the Titanic disaster with the headline: "Aberdeen man lost at sea".

Once again, it seems that the world only takes an interest in Yemen when the lives of foreigners are at risk. 

The Waq al-Waq blog provides a useful antidote by discussing some of the other things that were going on in Yemen yesterday.

Posted by Brian Whitaker, 27 April 2010.