…ulation about his health mounted when he missed an African Union summit in Addis Ababa last month. Meles Zenawi took power as the leader of rebels that ousted communist leader Mengistu Haile Mariam in 1991. He had dominated Ethiopian public life since the 1990s, as president and then prime minister. He was austere and hardworking, with a discipline forged from years spent in the guerrilla movement…
Ethnic clashes in Moyale area, southern Ethiopia, are reported to have left at least 18 people dead and 12 others injured. More than 20,000 people have crossed into Kenya to escape the fighting, the Kenyan Red Cross says. People were continuing to cross the border although Ethiopian government forces had intervened to stop the fighting. The clashes, in the Moyale area, are thought to have been sp…
…Zenawi’s life and achievements. Thousands of people, including dozens of foreign leaders and dignitaries, attended Sunday’s funeral. The ex-prime minister died last month in Brussels after 21 years in power. The cause of the 57-year-old’s death has not been announced. Meles Zenawi was praised for bringing development to Ethiopia, which has long been associated with hunger and fam…
…Ethiopian government accusations that it sponsored the gunmen involved. Afar is regarded as a haunt of both Ethiopian and Eritrean rebels. Ethiopia and Eritrea have been bitter adversaries since their 1998-2000 border war. Two other tourists were seriously hurt and a third is said to have escaped the attack unharmed, said Ethiopian Television (ETV). It said the two injured tourists had been taken…
…n years ago, each with its own method of moving around. The other creature was the famous “Lucy” animal (Australopithecus afarensis), whose remains were first identified in the Afar in the 1970’s. Lucy’s body was built for walking. Her big toe was aligned with the other four digits of the foot, and she had a human-like arch that allowed for very efficient locomotion. The owner of…
…r, has been sworn in after the death of long-time leader Meles Zenawi in August Hailemariam Desalegn had been deputy prime minister and foreign minister. Meles Zenawi died last month in Brussels after 21 years in power. …
…wi’s last public appearance was at the G20 talks in Mexico last month. Meles Zenawi took power as the leader of a rebel movement which ousted the communist government of Mengistu Haile Mariam in 1991. He has won several elections since then, but his political opponents have accused him of using repression to retain power. …
…mo Marconi more than a 100 years ago, who opened the world’s first telegraph in the same city. GPS (global positioning system) uses signals coming from satellites spinning around the Earth, some 20,000 km (12,427 miles) away. By the time these signals reach the surface of our planet, they are extremely weak and unable to be picked up by receivers, for instance, inside buildings. They may als…
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…ead researcher Luca Pagani of the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute added: “The genetic evidence is in support of the legend of the Queen of Sheba.” More than 200 individuals from 10 Ethiopian and two neighboring African populations were analyzed in the largest genetic investigation of its kind on Ethiopian populations. About a million genetic letters in e…
Thousands of Ethiopians are attending the state funeral in Addis Ababa of country’s long-serving Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who died last month. Meles Zenawi’s flag-draped coffin was carried in a procession from his palace to the city’s Meskel Square, where a solemn religious ceremony began. Dozens of foreign leaders and dignitaries, including at least 20 African presidents, w…
…silicon. The result was a series of neatly aligned nanotube devices, already wired up within the pattern, at a density of a billion per square centimetre. “That’s one nanotube every 150 or 200 (billionths of a metre) or so,” explained Dr. James Hannon. “That’s not good enough to make a microprocessor yet – it’s a factor of 10 away. “But it’s a…
…ged. But today’s announcement that the Duchess of Cambridge is expecting the couple’s first child – third in line to the throne – has come after the deal was agreed. In October 2011, David Cameron announced that the 16 Commonwealth countries where the Queen is head of state had agreed to give female royals the same rights of succession as their brothers. “Put simply, if the…
…le has not commented on the plan. Current iPhones, and all previous models, have used a 30-pin connector for power and to plug in accessories. However, reports claim the next iPhone will use a smaller 19-pin version, rendering all current accessories useless. Leaked pictures claiming to be the new handset also show a smaller, rounder connector. Some reports claim the new connector will allow a sma…
Winston Churchill will feature on the new design of the £5 banknote which will enter circulation in 2016, the Bank of England has announced. The wartime British PM’s image is planned to feature on the reverse of the new £5 note, together with one of his most celebrated quotations. Sir Winston Churchill was chosen owing to his place as “a hero of the entire free world”, said Bank…
…because they allow her “to transform my interests in physics, chemistry, and biology into solutions for current health problems.” She won the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2011 Grand Award and the ISEF 2010 Grand Award (both for medicine and health science), and a trip to attend the Taiwan International Science Fair awarded by the National Taiwan Science Education Cent…
donors wanted proof of a humanitarian catastrophe before acting to prevent one,” the report says. “Sophisticated early warning systems first forecast a likely emergency as early as August 2010, but the full-scale response was not launched until July 2011.” Two leading British aid organizations say that thousands of needless deaths occurred from famine in East Africa last year b…
Sinead O’Connor has revealed how she was handed Class A drugs after taking her new drug-counselor husband Barry Herridge on a marijuana hunt on their wedding night. Sinead O’Connor says her fourth marriage was in trouble from the start and the wild search on the mean streets of Las Vegas led to their eventual split 16 days later. The 45-year-old Irish singer insists she still loves Barry He…
…o calls for the judge to be released – and, as matters grew increasingly heated, there were demands for the United Nations to be brought in to resolve the dispute. Mohamed Nasheed was elected in 2008, in the first multi-party poll. Since then, correspondents say, the country has been gripped by constitutional gridlock – because parties opposed to the president dominate parliament. Moha…
Former US President Bill Clinton made an insensitive racial remark about Barack Obama while his wife battled him for the Democratic nomination vote, it was claimed today. Bill Clinton, whose wife Hillary battled Barack Obama in the 2008 primary campaign, is said to have remarked of the current president: “A few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags.” He allegedly made the insensit…
The European Parliament has rejected the 27 EU governments’ position on next year’s EU budget, triggering hard bargaining to reach a deal. In a vote in Strasbourg the MEPs backed the European Commission’s call for a 6.8% budget rise for 2013. A MEPs’ report deplored a decision by the Council – the 27 governments – to cut that figure to 2.79%. The MEPs also adop…
…y other people to install malware for them.” The operators of ZeroAccess were making so much money that they were paying high prices for each infection. Current rates ran at about $100 for every 1,000 infections, said Derek Manky. As well as mining bitcoins, PCs enrolled in ZeroAccess were also being used to poison search results – to cause users to unwittingly click on booby-trapped w…
y of Colorado who used economic data and unemployment figures from each state to predict a Republican win come November. Political science professors Kenneth Bickers and Michael Berry’s study predicts 218 electoral votes for Barack Obama and 320 for Mitt Romney with the Republican candidate winning every seat currently considered to be on the fence. The prediction model uses economic data from all…
…of the natural world. With water demand rising, forests and fish stocks declining, and lack of action on climate change, life on Earth may be at risk to an irreversible change The last, published in 2007, warned that factors such as rising demand for freshwater were affecting human wellbeing. For the current edition, researchers assessed progress in 90 important environmental issues. They conclu…
…on’t know if there are dead people in the wreckage,” JP Schiavi said. Survivors told the TeleNoticias channel that many people had been injured in a jumble of metal and glass. In September 2011 eleven people died when another commuter train in Buenos Aires hit a bus crossing the tracks and then hit a second train coming into a station. …
Real Housewives of Miami: Adriana de Moura marries Frederic Marq wearing a grey wedding dressAdriana De Moura was rumored to have already wed her fiancé Frederic Marq five years ago, but The Real Housewives of Miami's star walked down the aisle with the interior…
Beyoncé posts defensive note amid pregnancy rumorsBeyoncé was obviously frustrated with the pregnancy rumors as she posted a sharply worded note to Instagram appearing to address the gossip head-on. The defensive…
Rihanna sues Topshop for $5 million over using pictures of her on T-shirts without her permissionRihanna says she will sue Topshop after claiming they sold T-shirts with her face on it without asking permission. Rihanna's team is said to have told the British high…
Photo: George Michael airlifted to hospital following car crash on M1 motorwayGeorge Michael was involved in a crash in his Range Rover during rush hour on the M1 motorway near St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK, on Thursday. George Michael, 49, was…
Christoph Waltz: Man points gun at him and threatens to blow up studio with hand grenade during Cannes TV interviewChristoph Waltz was left shaken last night after a man pointed a hand-gun at him during a live French news programme TV show and threatened to blow up a studio with a hand…
Mariah Carey's American Idol finale performance branded worst lip-sync of all timeMariah Carey's performance on last night's American Idol finale was so good it had some wondering whether she hadn't lip-synched the entire thing. However, Mariah Carey, 43,…
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