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Ethiopia to Host First African Digital Libraries And Archives Conference
Ethiopia will host from 1 to 3 July 2009 the first African Digital Libraries, Archives international conference, to be organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and South Africa’s University of Witwatersrand. The organizers...
Ukrainian Lawmaker Proposes to Name Village After Michael Jackson
Local media has reported that a lawmaker in eastern Ukraine has put forward a proposal to re-name a village after Michael Jackson, the late ‘King of Pop.’ According to the Zaporozhye Region’s Reporter newspaper, one of the factions in...
Chinese Volunteer Delegation Arrive in Liberia
An 11-member Chinese volunteer delegation has arrived in Liberia to perform voluntary services around the country at designated government agencies. The young men and women are expected to render their voluntary services to the ministries of Foreign Affairs,...
Africa Finance Corporation And the African Export-Import Bank Seal $100m New Aircraft Deal for Arik Air Ltd
The Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) in partnership with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has sealed a $100-million deal for the acquisition of new aircraft by a Nigerian airline, Arik Air Ltd.
Radical Al-Shabab Islamist Movement in Kismayo, Somalia Threaten to Attack Kenya And Ethiopia
The radical Al-Shabab Islamist movement in Kismayo, a key port town in southern Somalia, have threatened to attack two neighboring states, Kenya and Ethiopia, saying they will take the battle field from Somalia. Talking to local media, Al-Shabab’s deputy...
NASA to Hold Test to Verify Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Tank Repairs
NASA will conduct a tanking test at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, July 1, to ensure repairs to space shuttle Endeavour’s external fuel tank were successful.
Worth the Pound?
What price royalty? Back in the days of Beyond the Fringe, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore took a light-hearted approach to this question in the “Royal Box” sketch. This is the one in which Moore goes to the same theater every night and pays...
Corvallis High School in Corvallis, Ore. Named “America’s Most Eco-Friendly School”
Corvallis High School in Corvallis, Ore. has been named “America’s Most Eco-Friendly School” in Walmart’s “Earth Day Every Day School Challenge.”
