Skip to main content

Ahmed Mohammed, the 'Clock Boy' meets Pres. Obama

Ahmed Mohamed, who came to be known as the “Clock Boy" after he was arrested at his high school in September when a teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb, met President Obama on Monday night October 19th during the White House's "Astronomy Night" celebration. Obama had extended an invitation to the 14-year-old in September. See more photos after the cut...

Ahmed posed for pictures with NASA astronaut Alvin Drew shortly before Obama addressed some American science students who were at the white house for Astronomy Night, a night honoring science, space exploration and youthful endeavors.

 Photo credit: Getty Images/Reuters

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Little girl suffers severe burns after transformer explodes at Lagos bus-stop

12 year old Adetayo Adefarasin, a student of Government Junior College, Epe, suffered severe burns to her face, chest, arm and legs after a faulty transformer exploded along Broad street, Lagos as she was trying to board a bus while returning from church on September 20th.

ISIS executes man by running him over with armoured tank

My goodness! Everyday these terrorists look for more barbaric ways to kill people. But why not run, why stand there and wait for an armoured tank to crush you? The worst they will do is shoot you dead if you keep running...and is that not better than this? The photos are horrific. Continue...

Father cradles, kisses his dead 3yr old killed in Israeli airstrike

A Palestinian father cradled, kissed and cried as he said goodbye to his 3 year old daughter, Rahaf who was killed alongside her pregnant 30-year-old mum, Noor Hassan in an Israeli air strike near Gaza City, on Sunday, October 11, when their house collapsed. The Israeli army said that its planes were targeting two Hamas weapons-manufacturing sites in the area and not civilians. The mother and child were buried today. See more photos after the cut