The list of candidates for the post of Director-General was closed at midnight on Friday, 9 March 2012, at which time the following nine candidatures had been received: Mr Gilles de Robien, Mr Angelino Garzón, Mr Ad Melkert, Mr Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Mr Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, Mr Assane Diop, Ms Mona Sahlin, Mr Guy Ryder and Mr Charles Dan. Continue reading →
The list of candidates for the post of Director-General was closed at midnight on Friday, 9 March 2012, at which time the following nine candidatures had been received: Mr Gilles de Robien, Mr Angelino Garzón, Mr Ad Melkert, Mr Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Mr Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, Mr Assane Diop, Ms Mona Sahlin, Mr Guy Ryder and Mr Charles Dan. Continue reading →
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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Recent rapes blamed on African migrants have ignited a political and emotional backlash against their ballooning numbers, with Israelis and their leaders stridently - and in an alarming new development, violently - calling for their expulsion. Israel, bound by an international refugees treaty it ardently promoted, doesn't seem to have that option, and the gap between rhetoric and reality threatens to send simmering social antagonisms boiling over into open conflict. It has raised questions, relevant all over the developed world, about how much is owed to the impoverished migrants who manage to sneak in. Over the past seven years, as many as 60,000 African migrants, most from Sudan and Eritrea, have slipped across Israel's border with Egypt, exploiting the lack of a ... Continue reading →
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) -- A memorable melody. Distinctive stage presence. Some horse-trading of votes. Those are secrets to success in the annual Eurovision Song Contest, a televised pan-European extravaganza viewed by some 125 million people worldwide that is now entering its 57th year. The winner is picked by juries and television viewers across the continent. Semifinals this week have whittled down the entries to 26. A smorgasbord of revealing outfits and onstage preening is expected at Saturday's final, but gray-haired acts from the U.K and Russia are stealing most of the attention. Here's a look at favorites and wacky wonders: ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Engelbert Humperdinck of the U.K. had turned 20 and was already a seasoned pop performer by the time the first Eurovision Song Contest ... Continue reading →
LONDON (AP) — European researchers are planning to use new techniques to analyze DNA that could help crack the mystery of whether Bigfoot exists.In a project announced this week, Oxford University and Lausanne Museum of Zoology scientists appealed to museums, scientists and Yeti aficionados to share hair samples thought to be from the mythical ape-like creature.New genetic tests will be done on just a few strands of hair and should be completed within weeks. Even if the sample is judged to come from an unknown species, scientists should be able to tell how closely it is related to other species, including apes or humans.Bryan Sykes of Oxford University said the group had already received many offers of samples to test, including blood, hair, and items ... Continue reading →
