A tiny French village in Brittany — the self proclaimed capital of twin-dom — has played host to an international gathering of thousands of identical twins, triplets and quadruplets. The 11th annual edition of ”Two and More” in Pleucadeuc on Sunday attracted dynamic duos from as far afield as China, Japan and Benin in Africa.
Darfur burst into the news as a land of Arab-on-African violence, but a singer from the troubled region of Sudan says the two communities are as inextricably intertwined as the music they share, a distinctive blend of Arab tunes and African rhythms.
SA Tourism CEO Cheryl Carolus will not renew her three-year contract when it expires at the end of October 2004, the tourism marketing body said on Tuesday. Carolus was previously the African National Congress secretary general and the South African High Commissioner to the Court of St James, a post she assumed in March 1998.
The United Nations has suspended mediation talks with a rebel group in the central African state of Burundi after it claimed responsibility for the massacre of 159 civilians in a refugee camp, the UN said on Monday. The FLN, the rebel force of Burundi’s Hutu ethnic group, claimed responsibility for last Friday’s slaughter in a camp at Gatumba in Burundi containing mainly Congolese Tutsis, a rival ethnic group.
President George Bush will face a home-video barrage four weeks before the election: Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore’s assault on Bush’s handling of the September 11 attacks, debuts on DVD and videotape on October 5. The announcement on Tuesday confirmed Moore’s initial intention to have the film out shortly before election day.
Michael Jackson on Tuesday came face to face with the prosecutor who has pursued him on child molestation charges for more than 10 years. The singer made a rare courtroom appearance to watch a pre-trial hearing in Santa Maria, California, during which district attorney Tom Sneddon was in the witness stand.
The United Nations is to intervene to avoid international confusion over the names of countries, cities, hills and rivers which have been changing so frequently that postal services, search and rescue workers, tourists and public transport companies are struggling to cope.
More than 160 Tutsi Congolese refugees massacred at a border camp were buried on Monday, as the African Union said it was sending a team to Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate the deaths. Nigeria’s president, Olusegun Obasanjo, chairperson of the 53-member AU, on Monday denounced the attack, which took place on Friday, by extremist Hutus.
UN suspends talks with Burundi rebels
After reading all about Triumph’s gargantuan Rocket III we’ve finally had a chance to ride the monster. it’s just as big and <i>badass</i> as the overseas media have led us to believe. The Rocket III is beautifully built and remarkably easy to live with for such an extreme machine. In this case, nothing succeeds like excess.
"Starting off with some interesting reading: to get a good overview of the frightening future that is opening up before all of us, do your mind a favour and take the time to read <i>The Ghost of Orwell is upon Us</i>. Or if you don’t want to face up to reality, you could always go watch a short film clip of a cute little dog with sleeping sickness." Ian Fraser has more where this came from this week.