It may be icy here this morning, but over in Saudi Arabia they’ve been having full blown, proper snow.

Saudi voters have elected 20 women for local government seats, according to early results, a day after women voted and ran in elections for the first time in the country’s history.

Up to 20 Saudi women have won seats on local municipal councils a day after women voted and ran in elections for the first time in the country’s history, according to initial results released to the Associated Press last night.

Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born Islamic militant cleric who became a prominent figure in al-Qaida’s most active branch, has been killed in the mountains of Yemen.

A suicide car bomber struck a convoy of Yemeni Shiites on their way to a religious ceremony today killing 17.