A video of an impassioned haka performed by a group of young New Zealand tots has been broadcast around the world. Media organisations across the globe have labelled the performance as the “cutest haka dance ever”
Kiwi tots’ haka a hit in US and UK
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Friday funny: The best animal adverts
Here’s a great bunch of reasons to never skip the ad breaks. Today’s Friday Funny video is a collection of some of the best adverts you’ll ever see, featuring our friends from the animal kingdom.
Hip-hop’s Down Beat
When the political activist Al Sharpton pivoted from his war against bigmouth radio man Don Imus to a war on bad-mouth gangsta rap, the instinct among older music fans was to roll their eyes and yawn. Ten years ago, another activist, C.
Music: The Un-Retirement of Jay-Z
Like running backs and child actors, rappers usually do their best work in the first year or two of their careers. The inevitable decline is brought on not by bum knees or embarrassing arrests–in rap there’s no such thing–but by something far more mundane: words
In Yemen, a High-Stakes Power Game as Saleh Is in Limbo
For the first time in 13 days, a lull has descended upon the fierce fighting between armed tribesmen and forces loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The consistent shelling and gunfire in the capital city of Sana’a have been replaced by a tense quiet, with most residents still choosing to stay in their homes or flee to ancestral villages.
Thailand’s Political Crisis Becomes a Global One
With a demure smile and a garland of jasmine, Thailand has always welcomed the world.
American defector Charles Jenkins
In 1965, U.S. Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins deserted his post in South Korea and fled to the communist Northa move he now calls “the stupidest thing I have ever done.” He spent nearly four decades inside the Hermit Kingdom, as a lingering mystery of the cold war.
Essay: The Brain: Time Travel in the Brain
What are you doing when you aren’t doing anything at all?
Lockerbie bombing probe continues, prosecutors tell victims’ families
Scottish prosecutors are conducting a further review of the evidence related to the Lockerbie bombing, prosecutors have told families of victims from the United Kingdom.
At least 21 people died in Ugandan riots, police say
At least 21 people were killed and more than 80 others injured during three days of rioting here last week, a police spokeswoman said Monday. Police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba said 663 people had been arrested and 86 people had been injured