A dire warning from the World Bank: Millions are being driven into extreme poverty as food prices soar. Counting the Cost speaks to the World Bank’s managing director, while Iraq takes the unusual step of combatting its food crisis by cancelling an order for US fighter jets. And Nokia teams up with Microsoft – it is either a technology dream team or an attempt to survive. We look at the changing face of the technology sector.
Continue reading …Bahrain protesters reclaimed their symbolic Pearl Square today, after the nation’s leaders ordered the military to withdraw in a key concession that came just a day after a brutal crackdown that injured at least 50 and drew a sharp condemnation from President Obama . Members of the opposition chanted, “We are…
Continue reading …More bad news for Oprah Winfrey’s scandal-plagued school in South Africa: A dead infant was discovered in a bag belonging to a student brought to the hospital for excessive bleeding, reports E! The 17-year-old girl remains in the hospital, and officials believe she gave birth at Winfrey’s Leadership Academy for…
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Riot police in Algeria have broken up a crowd at the second pro-democracy rally in a week. Security forces stepped in after clashes broke out between pro- and anti-government supporters. Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan has the latest.
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On this episode of Listening Post: The massive leak of documents from the Middle East peace process and the media fallout from that story. Plus, the David and Goliath tale of corporate America versus documentary filmmakers.
Continue reading …If you often wake up in the middle of the night and can’t fall back asleep right away, you probably call it “insomnia”—but it might actually be more natural than sleeping for eight hours straight. “The dominant pattern of sleep, arguably since time immemorial, was biphasic,” a sleep historian…
Continue reading …Somali pirates yesterday hijacked a yacht with four Americans aboard, in likely retaliation for the 33-year prison sentence this week of a pirate in the hijacking of the US vessel Maersk Alabama. The yacht Quest belongs to missionaries Jean and Scott Adam, who have been sailing around the world since…
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In the run up to the Oscars, Sir David is joined by Mexican film director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. His latest film, ‘Biutiful’, has been nominated for two Academy Awards. And finally, has multiculturalism failed in Europe? Sir David talks to Danish MEP Morten Messerschmidt and Mehdi Hasan, a senior editor at New Statesman magazine.
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