Posted by Deborah Anne Dilley to Global Voices Online While Day One of the Global Voices Summit focused on Advocacy, today focused more upon Global Voices proper, with information presented on the other GV projects of Rising Voices and Lingua. The day began with an introduction by Georgia Poppelwell (GV Managing Director) and Solana Larsen […]
Paramount Pictures crossed billion-dollar Mark Last Weekend
Paramount Pictures said on Monday it had topped $1 billion in sales at U.S. and Canadian box offices, boosted by hit films "Iron Man" and the latest "Indiana Jones" saga, and become the first studio to pass that benchmark this year. This marks back-to-back years of firsts for Paramount Pictures and five consecutive weeks of […]
Liquid Assets: Bloggers on World Water Day
by Georgia Popplewell It’s known as the universal solvent, Adam’s Ale, government juice, council pop, H2O, dihydrogen monoxide, hydrogen hydroxide, has a ton of different names in Arabic and yesterday (March 22) the world was called upon to pay it special attention. World Water Day 2008 marked the start of the fourth year of the […]
Malawi Reduced Under-five Mortality by 29% By 2007
United Nations Children’s Funds (UNICEF) said Malawi reduced its under-five mortality by 29 per cent by 2007 because it has put a number of things on a right course. UNICEF country representative for Malawi Ms. Aida Girma said she believes that if Malawi’s current progress is sustained and intensified, ‘Malawi is set to achieve the […]
The 10 Rarest Animals in the World
1. The Pinta Island tortoise – Without argument, this turtle is one of the few species of Giant Galapagos tortoises and the rarest animal in the world since there is only one left alive. Lonesome George is the sole surviving member of the Pinta Island race, the giant tortoise being a symbol for the fragility […]
Know the score – score an own goal
As anyone who is interested in soccer knows, own goals are a fact of life. Accidental own goals at any rate. Looking at the many examples on Youtube shows you how misdirected clearances, wayward back passes, and wicked deflections end up nestling in the player’s own net. But players who deliberately score own goals are […]
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