The Indian cricket board Friday asked the International Cricket Council (ICC) to reconsider its decision of taking away the India-England World Cup match from the Eden Gardens stadium in Kolkata. “We have written a letter to the ICC to reconsider its decision. Now it is up to the ICC to decide, but we are confident [...]
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BCCI asks ICC to reconsider decision on Eden
January 28th, 2011 |
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Bioterror, Africa and security: A bug’s life
January 6th, 2011 |
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How safe are health laboratories in developing countries?
AFRICA is home to the world’s nastiest diseases, such as the Ebola and Marburg viruses, and to laboratories that study them. Could that be a tempting target for terrorists? Late last year Senator Richard Lugar and a team of Pentagon arms-control experts visited Burundi, Uganda and Kenya. What they found prompted alarm, and calls for big spending on lab security.
For example, a Kenyan research lab housing anthrax, Ebola and Marburg backs onto a slum and has low, easily scaled cement walls. African technicians have to use large samples of the dangerous viruses for their research because their equipment is antiquated. Better safety could be part of the long-standing initiative Mr Lugar and his fellow senator Sam Nunn developed in 1991 to secure and destroy former Soviet nuclear, chemical and biological stockpiles. …
HP, Clinton Collaborate on Infant HIV Testing, Treatment in Kenya
December 1st, 2010 |
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HP has joined with CHAI (the Clinton Health Access Initiative) to provide the technological backbone for testing and treating infants exposed to HIV in Kenya. – Hewlett-Packard has joined with Clinton Health Access Initiative to provide the technological backbone for testing and treating infants exposed to HIV in Kenya. Former President Bill Clinton founded CHAI in 2002 to boost integrated health systems around the world and increase care and treatment for …
Snoop Dogg To Perform At Prince William Bachelor Party
December 1st, 2010 |
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The royal wedding of Britain’s Prince William and Princess-to-Be Kate Middleton has left many people on the other side of the pond with a reason to celebrate. What better way to bid farewell to singledom than a party featuring international rap superstar Snoop Dogg! William’s kid brother Harry — who has agreed to stand beside [...]
Prince William proposed to Kate Middleton in a hut in Kenya
November 19th, 2010 |
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Prince William popped the question to Kate Middleton as they stayed in a hut in Kenya. The couple wrote in a visitors” book after their romantic trip last month to the log cabin. Kate said she had a “wonderful 24 hours” at the Kenyan hideaway. The future Queen described their one-night stay at the log [...]
I gave Kate the chance to back out of engagement, says Prince William
November 18th, 2010 |
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Prince William has revealed that he kept his engagement news under wraps to give his longtime-girlfriend Kate Middleton a chance to back out of becoming a member of the royal family. The prince popped the question to Middleton in Kenya last month (Oct10) and chose to keep the news away from the media until this [...]
Kate Middleton’s Parents “Delighted†By Royal Wedding Announcement
November 17th, 2010 |
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Thirty years after the fairy-tale nuptials with the unhappy ending, Britain will finally have another big royal wedding — and the parents of the blushing bride-to-be couldn’t be more pleased that it’s their daughter that Prince William wants to marry. After all, he’s been dating her for almost nine years! British business owners Michael and [...]
Prince William Kate Middleton NBC Special Airing Wednesday, Nov. 16
November 16th, 2010 |
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NBC is cashing in on the engagement of Britain’s Prince William with a 60-minute Dateline special set for broadcast on Wednesday. The network plans to honor the soon-to-be newlyweds with Will & Kate: A Royal Love Story, a special look at how the couple met, what drew them to each other. and what their modern-day [...]
Kate Middleton Engagement Ring Once Belonged To Princess Diana
November 16th, 2010 |
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If soon-to-be Princess of Wales Kate Middleton’s engagement sparkler looks familiar, it should: Prince William has given fiancee Kate Middleton the engagement ring that belonged to his late mother, Princess Diana. The blue sapphire and diamond ring was given to Diana by William’s father, Prince Charles, when they became engaged in Feb. 1981. The ring [...]
Prince William Kate Middleton Engaged — British Royal Wedding Summer 2011
November 16th, 2010 |
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Butter Up the English Muffins: Prince William’s getting hitched! On Tuesday, British royal Prince William, 28, confirmed that he is to set wed college sweetheart Kate Middleton — the daughter of self-made millionaires — next year. William proposed to Middleton during a vacation to Kenya last month and the happy news was announced by royal [...]
Prince William and Kate Middleton Are Enagaged!
November 16th, 2010 |
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The wait is over: Prince William and Kate Middleton, having been a couple on and off for eight years, are finally set to wed, they have announced. While no date has been revealed, it is thought the ceremony will be held in a few months and be the biggest since William’s mother, Diana, married Prince [...]
Noam Chomsky: No Evidence that Al-Qaeda Carried Out the 9/11 Attacks
November 5th, 2010 |
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Leading liberal intellectual Noam Chomsky just told Press TV:”The explicit and declared motive of the [Afghanistan] war was to compel the Taliban to turn over to the United States, the people who they accused of having been involved in World Trade C…
Virtual outsourcing: Mobile work
October 28th, 2010 |
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A way to earn money by texting
THE idea came to Nathan Eagle, a research scientist with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, when he was doing a teaching stint in rural Kenya. He realised that, as three-quarters of the 4.6 billion mobile-phone users worldwide live in developing countries, a useful piece of technology is now being placed in the hands of a large number of people who might be keen to use their devices to make some money. To help them do so, he came up with a service called txteagle which distributes small jobs via text messaging in return for small payments.
Only 18% of people in the developing world have access to the internet, but more than 50% owned a mobile-phone handset at the end of 2009 (a number which has more than doubled since 2005), according to the International Telecommunication Union. One study shows that adding ten mobile phones per 100 people in a typical developing country boosts growth in GDP per person by 0.8 percentage points. …
Schumpeter: The wiki way
September 23rd, 2010 |
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Two cyber-gurus take a second look at how the internet is changing the world
AFTER Kenya’s disputed election in 2007 Ory Okolloh, a local lawyer and blogger, kept hearing accounts of atrocities. State media were not interested. Private newspapers lacked the money and manpower to investigate properly. So Ms Okolloh set up a website that allowed anyone with a mobile phone or an internet connection to report outbreaks of violence. She posted eyewitness accounts online and even created maps that showed where the killings and beatings were taking place.
Ms Okolloh has since founded an organisation called Ushahidi, which puts her original idea into practice in various parts of the world. It has helped Palestinians to map the violence in Gaza and Haitians to track the impact of the earthquake that devastated their nation in January. It even helped Washingtonians cope with the “snowmaggedon” that brought their city to a halt this year. Ushahidi’s success embodies the principles of wikinomics. …
Leaders of the fee world
July 5th, 2010 |
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How much a country’s leader is paid compared to GDP per person
ON MONDAY July 5th Raila Odinga, Kenya’s prime minister, rejected the pay increase he was awarded by the country’s parliament last week. MPs had granted Mr Odinga a rise to nearly $430,000 a year, while giving themselves a 25% increase to $161,000. This boost would place Mr Odinga among the highest-paid political leaders in the world. More worryingly, his salary would be some 240 times greater than the country’s GDP per person (measured on a purchasing-power parity basis). Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister of Singapore, tops our list of selected leaders’ salaries. He is paid more than 40 times the city-state’s GDP per person. At the other end of the scale, Manmohan Singh, the prime minister of India, reaffirms his reputation for saintliness by taking a modest sum from Indian taxpayers.
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Uncle Sam and the Dragon
June 17th, 2010 |
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Where America and China are viewed most favourably
KENYANS, it seems, are enthralled in equal measure by America and China, a finding from the Pew Research Centre’s Global Attitudes Survey that may reflect Barack Obama’s Kenyan ancestry and excitement about Chinese investment in Kenya. But for most of the other 20 countries polled, admiration for America and for China is mutually exclusive. France, which is often thought of as a hive of anti-Americanism, has a strongly favourable view of the United States. Like many other European countries it is wary of China. China’s greatest admirers, by contrast, tend to be countries that are predominantly Muslim. Russia is the exception to this, although that may be changing. Thanks to recent diplomatic efforts, Russia views America more positively than it did last year.
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Wikileaks: Wiki Gaga
June 10th, 2010 |
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No technology can protect whistle-blowers from themselves
MUCH can be lost because of the loose talk of a 22-year-old. Wikileaks, an international publishing service for whistle-blowers, goes to extraordinary lengths to protect its sources, but it cannot control them. At the end of May the American army arrested Bradley Manning, who was said to be the source of a leaked video, shown on Wikileaks, revealing how soldiers in an Apache helicopter killed unarmed civilians in Iraq. Mr Manning, an intelligence analyst, apparently betrayed himself by boasting of his actions to a stranger in an e-mail. The case is a reminder that Wikileaks is only as robust as the humans who use it.
Julian Assange, an Australian former hacker, founded the service in 2007. It now has perhaps 800 volunteer technologists, activists and lawyers around the world. Media groups such as the Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times provide legal advice. In addition to the Iraq footage, it has published evidence of corruption in Kenya, financial improprieties in Iceland, procedures for detainees in Guantanamo Bay and a string of Sarah Palin’s e-mails. It has been so well run that Daniel Ellsberg, an ex-Pentagon analyst who leaked an internal history of the Vietnam war in 1971, assumed on first sight that it was a honeypot run by American intelligence. …
Rima Fakih Crowned Miss USA 2010 — Miss Michigan Makes History As First Arab-American Miss USA
May 17th, 2010 |
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Sure she stumbled in her evening gown, but Rima Fakih — a stunning 24-year-old brunette from Dearborn, Michigan — made history Sunday night as she beat out 50 other women to be crowned 2010 Miss USA.Rima, the daughter of Lebanese immigrants, is believed to be the first Muslim and Arab American to become Miss [...]
Top ICC prosecutor in Kenya to probe election violence
May 8th, 2010 |
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The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has arrived in Kenya to investigate the country’s post-election violence. More than 1,300 people were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced after a disputed election in 2008.
Outsourcing to Africa: The world economy calls
March 25th, 2010 |
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Will improved communications attract call centres to Africa?
THE arrival of three international fibre-optic cables in Kenya in the past six months, the most recent this week, has sparked hopes of an information-technology boom. The Kenyan government reckons that business-process outsourcing (BPO) can provide work for the country’s many unemployed graduates. As established outsourcing companies in India take on ever more complex and lucrative work, firms elsewhere spy an opportunity at the lower end of the BPO market, in prosaic jobs such as operating call centres and keying in data. Can Kenya win some of that business?
Four undersea cables will have made landfall in east Africa by the end of the year, enormously increasing the availability and reducing the cost of telecoms links with the rest of the world. Kenya also boasts a decent workforce: educated, hard-working, closer to customers in Europe and America than Asian call-centre workers, and, some say, more comprehensible too. High unemployment should help limit turnover of workers—a big headache for outsourcing firms elsewhere. One of the government’s advisers, Gilda Odera, who runs a school to train call-centre employees, says warm customer service will also give Kenya an edge: “It’s the way Kenyans deal with people, the tone, the manner.” …