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China to make Nigeria regional manufacturing hub   By Ade Ogidan, Business Editor The Guardian (Nigeria)   From China, the world’s second biggest economy, came a pledge to turn around Nigeria’s industrial landscape and make the assessed biggest market in Africa a major manufacturing hub in the continent.   The disclosure was made during a […]

Fall in India car sales signals slowdown By James Fontanella-Khan in Mumbai Financial Times India’s auto sales in October suffered their biggest fall in over a decade, the strongest indication yet that Asia’s third largest economy is heading for a brusque slowdown. Domestic sales of passenger cars were down 23.8 per cent, while production fell […]

U.S. Can’t Stand by While Racism Ravages Libya Rev. Jesse Jackson The Huffington Post Before leaving the G-20 meetings in Cannes, France, President Obama joined with French President Sarkozy to pay tribute to the two countries’ alliance and celebrate the successful intervention in Libya that ended the rule of Moammar Gadhafi. …….That’s why the U.S. […]

Is this the largest wave ever ridden? By: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com Garrett McNamara rode what members of his group implied was the largest wave ever successfully negotiated during a tow-surfing session Tuesday off the coast of Nazare, a small fishing town 70 miles north of Lisbon, Portugal. The wave face measured “around 90 feet,” according […]

The population disaster looms mostly for Africa By GWYNNE DYER – Monday, November 7, 2011 The U.N. Population Fund’s own numbers tell the story. Africa currently has one-seventh of the world’s people: just over 1 billion. During the rest of the century, the U.N. agency predicts, this single continent will add an extra 2.6 billion […]

For the Oppenheimers, diamonds are not forever   By Marius Bosch Reuters   JOHANNESBURG Nov 4, 2011 – For over 80 years, South Africa’s Oppenheimer family held sway over the global diamond trade, an era which came to an end of Friday with Anglo American’s buyout offer for De Beers. The $5.1 billion the family will […]

London 2012: Olympic and Paralympic posters unveiled BBC News A series of 12 Olympic and Paralympic posters, designed by leading UK artists including Tracey Emin and Chris Ofili, has been unveiled in London. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15593109

A Boeing 767 on a flight from Newark, New Jersey, made a dramatic emergency landing at Warsaw, Poland’s Frederic Chopin International airport Tuesday, November 1, 2011 after problems with its landing gear.

The Shenzhou VIII spacecraft joined onto the Tiangong-1 experimental module just after 1.36 am (1736 GMT Wednesday), silently coupling more than 213 miles above the Earth. BEIJING – Two Chinese spacecraft accomplished the country’s first space docking procedure early Thursday, silently coupling in space more than 343 km above Earth’s surface. The success of the […]

Brazil will overtake the UK to become the world’s sixth biggest economy this year, according to new projections By Robin Yapp, in Sao Paulo The Telegraph Oct. 31, 2011 The Latin American giant’s GDP for 2011 is expected to hit $2.44 trillion (£1.51 trillion) compared with $2.43 trillion for the UK, the latest monthly forecasts from […]