Hugo Chávez suffers from 'new complications' after surgery
Vice president Nicolas Maduro tells Venezuelan people the president's health is delicate following cancer operation
Hugo Chávez has suffered "new complications" following his cancer surgery in Cuba, his vice president said, describing the Venezuelan leader's condition as delicate.
Vice president Nicolas Maduro delivered a solemn televised address from Havana, saying he had spoken with Chávez and that the president sent greetings to his homeland. Maduro did not give details about the complications, which he said came amid a respiratory infection.
"Several minutes ago we were with president Chávez. We greeted each other and he himself referred to these complications," Maduro said, reading from a prepared statement. Maduro was seated alongside Chávez's eldest daughter, Rosa, and son-in-law Jorge Arreaza, as well as attorney-general Cilia Flores.
AFRICA
CAR President Bozize set to share power with rebels
Central African Republic President Francois Bozize has agreed to talk with Seleka rebel leaders about forming a national unity government. This could end fighting which has left the government with its back to the wall.
Following a meeting with President Bozize in the capital Bangui on Sunday, the chief of the African Union (AU), Thomas Boni Yayi said that the way for a new government had been paved.
The President had agreed not to run for office again in 2016, but would be "ready to go to Libreville this very day if his peers ask him to" for talks with rebels, "which should lead to a national unity government," the AU chairman said.
India is still waiting for the $50 tablet
December 31, 2012 - 3:41PM
Pamposh Raina, Ian Austen, Heather Timmons
NEW DELHI — The idea was, and still is, captivating: In 2011, the Indian government and two Indian-born tech entrepreneurs unveiled a $50 tablet computer, to be built in India with Google's free Android software. The government would buy the computers by the millions and give them to its schoolchildren.
Enthusiasts saw the plan as a way to bring modern touch-screen computing to some of the world's poorest people while seeding a technology manufacturing industry in India. Legions of customers placed advance orders for a commercial version of the tablet, thrilled at the prospect of owning tangible proof that India was a leader in "frugal innovation."
Even the secretary-general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, lavished praise on the audacious project, called Aakash, the Hindi word for sky.
31 December 2012 Last updated at 00:21 GMT
Is Belgium still the capital of chocolate?
Belgium invented the praline in 1912 and soon became known for making the best chocolates in the world. But 100 years on, the supremacy of local chocolatiers is under threat from international competition.
The smell of warm, melted cocoa is wafting around the kitchen as Ryan Stevenson meticulously pipes a rich, buttery filling into dozens of delicate chocolate shells.
Tall and slim with a ginger beard, the 36-year-old grew up in Toowoomba, Australia.
Since moving to Brussels in 2005, he has twice won the title of Belgian Chocolate Master. In 2009, he took the Best Praline prize as a finalist in the World Chocolate Masters competition.
"I am not actually a chocolatier by trade, I trained as a pastry chef," he says, with a grin.
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