9 September 2013 Last updated at 08:50 GMT
Further areas gripped by Hindu-Muslim riots that have left 28 dead in Muzaffarnagar and many more missing, say police
In recent years, a spate of findings have shown that HIV can essentially be eradicated in some patients. Now scientists are scrambling to finally find a cure that could drastically change the lives of millions of people worldwide.
Every three months, Thomas travels to Hamburg from the nearby small town where he lives. Blood samples are taken and 15 minutes later he heads home again. "Some healthy people would be happy to have test results like mine," he says. His physician, Dr. Fenske, is also satisfied: "His smoking is definitely a bigger health risk for him than the virus."
For the International Olympic Committee, it came down to a matter of Tokyo's "safe hands."
Syria's Assad says US has no proof of chemical weapons use
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has told a US broadcaster there is "no evidence" that his government has used chemical weapons.
In the interview with PBS, to be aired on Monday, he also suggested his allies would retaliate if the West attacked.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has been lobbying hard for military action against Mr Assad during talks with EU and Arab foreign ministers in Europe.
Congress is due to debate whether to authorise intervention in Syria.
Lawmakers will return from their summer recess on Monday to start discussing President Barack Obama's resolution to launch a "limited, narrow" strike.
Indian sectarian clashes spread
Further areas gripped by Hindu-Muslim riots that have left 28 dead in Muzaffarnagar and many more missing, say police
Sectarian violence is spreading across northern India, despite an army-enforced curfew put in place after deadly weekend clashes between Hindus and Muslims.
Gunfire and street battles that erupted on Saturday in villages around Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh state have killed at least 28 people and left many more missing, police said. Soldiers in the region have been given orders to shoot rioters on sight, state government official Kamal Saxena said.
By Monday morning, police had arrested 90 people after violence spread to the neighbouring districts of Shamli and Meerut overnight.
Fear is foundation of brave new Grozny
Few openly criticise local leader Ramzan Kadyrov but many harbour hopes of revenge for the 1990s Chechen conflict
Daniel McLaughlin
In the view from the 32nd-floor restaurant of the glitzy Hotel Grozny City, many Russians must see a kind of victory. Victory over the Chechen separatists who defeated Moscow’s troops in a 1994 to 1996 war, whose bombings, hijackings and murders terrorised Russia for a decade, and whose successors still regularly attack police and government targets in other parts of the north Caucasus.
Russia’s military returned to Chechnya in 1999 and reclaimed the republic after launching a pitiless missile and artillery bombardment that made Grozny, in the words of the UN, “the most destroyed city on Earth”. The wars in Chechnya killed some 200,000 civilians and turned Grozny into a wasteland that drew comparison with Stalingrad, Dresden and Hiroshima.
The West did nothing to stop the onslaught in Chechnya or to rein in Russian president Vladimir Putin, who took power in 2000. Now all the rubble has been removed, skyscrapers soar from repaved streets, fountains dance around one of Europe’s largest mosques and a 400m tower is about to be built.
AIDS Turning Point: 'A Cure Is Possible'
In recent years, a spate of findings have shown that HIV can essentially be eradicated in some patients. Now scientists are scrambling to finally find a cure that could drastically change the lives of millions of people worldwide.
HIV specialist Stefan Fenske's medical clinic, located in Hamburg's university district, isn't a moribund place. The rooms are filled with light, the walls are decorated with modern art and you can hear laughter. Werner Thomas (not his real name) is in a good mood as he sits in the consultation room discussing his illness. The 63-year-old refers to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that nestled into his body over 23 years ago as a "subletter," not an enemy or a deadly threat.
Art boom feeds revival of ancient rites
An art investment boom is under way in Nigeria as local and foreign collectors flock to buy traditional work.
The haunting stone sculptures have stretched bodies with enlarged heads, mask-like faces and elongated chests—the kind of sharp, geometric qualities that inspired the works of Pablo Picasso and the Cubist movement in the 1920s.
Displayed at a Lagos gallery alongside colourful paintings of domestic scenes, they represent a revival of ancient art forms in Nigeria, rooted in traditional spirituality, that Christian missionaries tried to banish a century ago.
That revival coincides with a turn by the country's super rich elite and small but growing middle class towards art as a store of wealth.
An art investment boom is under way across emerging markets, but it has been seen as largely centred on China, India and Gulf Arab countries. The planet's poorest continent is still widely viewed in art circles more as a source of fine art for auctions in the developed world rather than a market in itself.
2020 Olympics: Why did Tokyo win Summer Games?
2020 Olympics voters chose Tokyo because 'in a fragile world' they 'decided in favor of tradition and stability.' Tokyo is the safe choice, and what's more, it showed passion to win the 2020 Olympics.
For the International Olympic Committee, it came down to a matter of Tokyo's "safe hands."
The choice for the 2020 Summer Olympics came down to Istanbul, Madrid, and Tokyo, and among that trio, the situation at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant turned out to be the least of the IOC's concerns.
Istanbul is the city beset by recent civil disorder, with critics accusing the Turkish prime minister of autocratic tendencies. It also sits just north of the brutal civil war in Syria.
Madrid is the capital of a nation that could become the next Greece – a country that spent itself into financial crisis, partly by overspending on its own Olympics. This, as protesters in Brazil take to the streets to protest government spending for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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