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A move set to redefine the digital pay-TV space in emerging markets, including across Africa
LONDON, United-Kingdom, January 14, 2013/ -- In a move set to redefine digital migration in India and the digital pay-TV space in the other...
SkyVision Acquires Afinis – African VSAT operator – from Monaco Telecom
HERTFORDSHIRE, United-Kingdom, August 6, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ – SkyVision Global Networks Ltd. ), the leading global provider of IP connectivity over satellite and...
Royal Wedding article from Al Jazeera’s wedding correspondent
In his Confessions St Augustine describes how, when studying in Rome, he was persuaded by friends to go to the Colloseum to watch the...
British Police will quiz former Libyan Minister
The defected Libyan foreign minister, Moussa Koussa will be visited by British police in the next few days for questioning over what he knows...
The architecture of maternal death
The architectural design of two newly built public maternity hospitals in Malawi, which has one of the world’s highest rates of women dying in...
Pro-Gaddafi Africans protest as Coalition forces gain momentum
As world leaders met Tuesday in London to discuss the Libyan situation, hundreds of members of a group called Pan Africanists from Uganda and...
Ethiopia and U.K. forge closer economic ties
Ethiopia and United Kingdom are soon to sign a Double Taxation Agreement (DTA) that aims to give further impetus to growing trade and investment...
The Grass is Always Greener
Most mornings I pass by the American Embassy on my way to the gym. There is always a long queue of people waiting...
Libya: Light at the end of tunnel for freedom fighters
Muammar Gaddafi’s government has warned the international community that any attack on Libya would threaten air and sea traffic in the Mediterranean after it...
2012 Olympics tickets available for sale
Tickets for the London 2012 Olympics have gone on sale, 500 days ahead of the event.
Some 6.6 million tickets are available from the London...
Ethiopia, Nigeria, DRC to get increased aid from UK
Ethiopia, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo will receive more direct development aid from the United Kingdom as the aid to other countries...
Libya’s Gaddafi ‘Ordered Lockerbie Bombing’
Libyan dictator, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, did order the Lockerbie bombing of the Pan Am 103 Flight that killed 270 people in Scotland, United Kingdom,...
Egypt: Gamel Mubarak goes into hiding
The son of ousted Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, is desperately seeking a hiding place for himself and his family in the United Kingdom.
According to...
Picasso painting fetches $40 million
A portrait of the muse who transformed painter Pablo Picasso's life has sold for £25.2m ($40.7m) at Sotheby's auction house in London.
La Lecture went...
John Paintsil, the king of own goals
It's operation open net at Fulham! Out of four bitter own goals registered since the beginning of the season, three have emanated from the...
Oil spill caused BP $3.7 billion annual loss
BP PLC announced Tuesday it is resuming dividends for the first time since the Gulf of Mexico well disaster, as the oil company reported...
WikiLeaks founder returns to court
The 39-year-old Australian is wanted in Sweden but denies sexual offences against two women.
District Judge Nicholas Evans will oversee a case management hearing at...
The United States, Britain and China – Sudan, a nation divided
The seventh in our series of articles about Sudan’s pending referenda focuses on the United States, the United Kingdom and China and the remarkable...
Tayo Fatunla: Lessons in Black History
Political cartoonists have long been able to hide the truth in plain sight with their comedic work, tempering bitter reality with their deceptively lighthearted...
WikiLeaks founder awaits bail appeal
The founder of whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, Julian Assange, will know by Thursday if he will be freed on bail.
Mr Assange remains in Wandsworth Prison...
WikiLeaks founder intends to keep leaking
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has said he is determined to continue releasing secret documents, despite being held on remand in a British jail. Mr...
Kele Okereke — The Beauty of the Writing, the Strength of the Performance
British rock singer Kele Okereke, on hiatus from the alternative rock band Bloc Party, hit the road for his first Solo European tour. After...
Minister Ed Vaizey commends CTO’s work while emphasizing the role of broadband in enhancing business opportunities
LONDON, December 7, 2010 –The UK Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Hon Ed Vaizey has stressed the importance of broadband and ICT...
Kate Middleton: An unlikely class warrior
Whilst the candor and the maturity of those two young people describing their intention to spend the rest of their lives together was surprisingly...
Royal Pavilion Ice Rink
“I feel as if I have witnessed something miraculous,” says 75 year-old Ross Sinclair as he gazes on the ice shimmering against the fairytale...
Marshal-Plan for Africa after “colonial rape”?
Africa deserves a version of the Marshall Plan, reconstruction and assistance, similar to that given to postwar Europe, after the years of "colonial rape"...
Ghanaian designer Ozwald Boateng twists the tradition of Armani
Somerset House in England’s capital played host to the just ended bi-annual London Fashion Week, an opportunity for top designers from every corner of...
Al Qaeda in Yemen
On Wednesday the Washington Post reported that CIA sources now believe that Yemen-based group, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), now represents a...
UK gets ready to send thousands of Zimbabweans back home
Zimbabwean nationals who were denied asylum in the United Kingdom face renewed deportation threats after a United Kingdom Border Agency fact-finding team visited Harare...
Why we can’t be charitable to Blair
Whilst Tony Blair may have decided to get charitable with his money, it seems that the British public remain less than charitable in their...