Huge fire forces Nairobi airport shutdown |
'Massive' fire has gutted parts of airport in the Kenyan capital, forcing all flights to be suspended, officials say.
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A large fire at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International airport has forced one of East Africa's largest transport hubs to shut down, officials say.
"Apart from emergency landings, all flights into and out of JKIA have been cancelled, [the] airport has been shut down," said Mutea Iringo, a senior official at Kenya's interior and national coordination ministry, after the fire broke out on Wednesday morning.
The fire at east Africa's busiest airport started at around 5:00am local time (02:00 GMT) in the immigration section of the departure lounge and spread to the international arrivals area, a Kenya Civil Aviation Authority official said on condition of anonymity.
'This is our land': Protests at plan to remove Bedouins from ancestral villages
The so-called 'Prawer plan' is being fought in and outside Israel
Stun grenades, tear gas, flying rocks and a dispute over land – the scene might be familiar, but the players are less so. Used to running battles with Palestinians over territory, Israel is now facing opposition from another group of people who do not want to leave their homes: the Bedouin.
In northern Israel, a plan to remove tens of thousands of Bedouins from their ancestral villages and resettle them in specially designed towns is meeting resistance. Israel’s Bedouin do not want to move. And that is increasingly becoming a problem, not only for the Bedouin themselves, but also for the Israeli government, which is behind the unpopular plan.
EGYPT
Egypt dismisses US senators' call for releases
Two top US senators visiting Egypt have urged the release of detained Muslim Brotherhood members. Egypt’s interim president described their comments as "unacceptable" as foreign mediation efforts begin to be questioned.
A mediation visit by the two Republican senators appeared to have fallen short of its desired aim on Tuesday, with state newspaper al-Ahram indicating that Cairo was beginning to tire of outside involvement.
During their visit, the senators - John McCain and Lindsey Graham - called for the release of detained members of the Muslim Brotherhood and the beginning of a national dialogue to bring Egypt to democratic rule.
Down and Out: Homeless Tour Gives Glimpse of Berlin's Underbelly
Most visitors to Berlin want to get the know the city's hippest haunts, but a new tour offers insights into the lives of its homeless people. The program aims to bring people at the margins back into contact with the center of society.
Berlin's Zoologische Garten Station, better known here as Bahnhof Zoo, has long been a haunt of homeless people and junkies. Locals are used to the sight of them slumped amid the garbage strewn around the patch of grass outside the station. Visitors to the German capital tend to keep their distance, making sure they steer clear of skid row and stay on the right side of the tracks.
BRICS: Myth of the eternal economic boom?
Many investors saw the BRICS as the next big economic project that would never fall to the same boom and bust cycles that are at the heart of Western economic models.
Last week, The Economist in their article “The Great Deceleration” discussed the slowdown in the BRICS [Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa] economies in recent months. The assumption was that countries such as China, India, Russia, and Brazil were to grow indefinitely as a reflection of a new world economy, showing their clout during the 2008 great recession by saving the US and Europe from complete economic collapse. The BRICS were taken as economic champions as their economic models kept the world economy puttering along. The impressive level of growth and rapid influence the BRICS would have in the world economy was something that was predicted to occur within 15-20 years, but with the downward spiraling of the US and Europe after 2008, it was logical for many investors to see the end of the West’s domination of all things money.
7 August 2013 Last updated at 00:20 GMT
'Calligraffiti': The graffiti artist inspired by medieval scribes
Dutch graffiti artist Niels Meulman, also known as Shoe, has been commissioned to paint six pieces inspired by the Lindisfarne Gospels as part of an exhibition celebrating the return of the medieval book to north-east England.
But what does graffiti art have to do with a 1,300-year-old copy of the gospels?
On a wet afternoon in Durham a flash of gold illuminates the grey. A 13-metre tall banner painted in shimmering colours is lying on the floor of a vacant shopping centre unit. It is here Niels Meulman has a temporary studio.
The impressive piece, ready to be installed at Newcastle upon Tyne's Castle Keep, is a modern tribute to the incipit of St John's Gospel in principio erat Verbum - "in the beginning was the Word."
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