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Next Time You’re in Rome
Want a backstage pass to the gladiator games? Then join a behind-the-scenes tour of Rome’s Colosseum, taking in the underground chambers where the ancient city’s famous warriors prepared themselves for battle.
On the Backs of Blacks
Fresh from Ellis Island, Stavros gets a job shining shoes at Grand Central Terminal.
Ivory Coast Unrest: Ouattara, Gbagbo Struggle for Control
Heavy gun battles raged around the last bastions of Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo as the United Nations warned both sides to rein in their soldiers; the countdown to Gbagbo’s exit began. The boom of large weapons rang across the city as forces loyal to President-elect Alassane Ouattara targeted the two official presidential residences and the state broadcaster.
Rights groups question Nigerian hard-line Islamic leader’s death
Human rights groups in Nigeria are questioning how a fundamentalist Islamist sect leader died.