All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Officials from the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) are at work in the Atlantic Ocean archipelago of Cape Verde to help local authorities battle the country's first reported epidemic of dengue fever.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Child Mortality In Kenya Still High, Survey Shows "The most current data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics under the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) launched on Wednesday shows mortality among children under five years stands at 7.4 percent, while that of infants is at 5.2 percent," Business Daily reports.
Personal Hurricane Center (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Mountains disrupt inflow and moisture content available to reach a tropical cyclone. That is why Tropical Depression Ida looks the way it does. Mountain and land versus hurricane – I’ll take odds on the land Personal Hurricane Center - Current and Archived Information on Atlantic and East Pacific tropical cyclones and hurricanes Ida near hurricane strength off Nicaragua Couldn’t Resist...
Rosie Scribble (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
For so many people, myself included, 3th May 2007, the day when three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared from the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz, will be imprinted in our minds forever. It was the day I held my own blond haired, blue-eyed three-year-old daughter a little tighter, and I suppose I have continued to do ever since. It was the day the world started searching for Madeleine McCann. It is heartbreaking...
Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
UAE tops the list of nations who own highest number of phones per head. Every UAE resident has nearly 3 cell phones. Turkey is midway at 62 where is Pakistan lags behind Iraq at 121. Whereas shining India comes 159th, 2nd last from bottom, only nation below India is micronesia. Per capita cell phone ownership by country Rank Country Mobiles per 1000 people ===============================================...
France24 (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Cape Verde's 68-year-old songstress Cesaria Evora, endlessly adored by a public that discovered her late in life, has released a new album and next week makes a long-awaited return to the stage after a spell of bad health. The "bare-foot diva" famously known for singing without shoes opens a tour with a kickoff in Paris on Monday and Tuesday, followed by shows in Switzerland, Luxembourg...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Cape Verde's 68-year-old songstress Cesaria Evora, endlessly adored by a public that discovered her late in life, has released a new album and next week makes a long-awaited return to the stage after a spell of bad health.
Relief Web (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Date: 04 Nov 2009 Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks
France24 (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Businesses, schools and government offices will shut in Cape Verde Friday for a day of mobilisation to try to curb a dengue epidemic which has killed four people since Sunday, authorities announced Wednesday. The World Health Organisation said last week that this is the first dengue epidemic ever recorded in the Cape Verde islands off the coast of West Africa. The Cape Verdean authorities said that...
Pick Up the Phone and Bring Madeleine Home (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Kate and Gerry McCann were grilled yesterday for the first time about allegations they could have been involved in their daughter's disappearance. Portuguese police had previously named the couple as "arguidos", or formal suspects, in the case in September 2007. But the McCanns, both 41, have always strenuously insisted they are innocent, and their suspect status was lifted when the authorities...
Pick Up the Phone and Bring Madeleine Home (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Abu Dhabi // UAE police yesterday joined the worldwide search for the British girl Madeleine McCann, who vanished from her family’s apartment during a holiday in Portugal more than two years ago. Abu Dhabi Police backed a new campaign, launched by Britain’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Ceop) Centre, designed to raise awareness of the case. Ceop has released a video showing...
Pick Up the Phone and Bring Madeleine Home (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The twins both know the person who took Madeleine has done something very bad.. they just want her back home Madeleine McCann’s four-year-old twin siblings are now slowly grasping the horror of her abduction, their parents revealed yesterday. Sean and Amelie were just two when their big sister was snatched but Kate and Gerry have since gradually explained the grim truth to them. It is poignantly...
The Offside (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Something to read while you watch St Pauli’s Deniz Naki rile up the Hansa Rostock fans. It all ended with water cannons… Did you renew your Ebbsfleet United subscription? (Pitch Invasion) Maicon’s agent not a True Blue(Dirty Tackle) Who do you trust: Bloggers or lubricant salespeople? (France Offside) Cape Verde vs Portugal. Well, who would you rather play [...]
Pick Up the Phone and Bring Madeleine Home (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
For most of us, the events in Portugal’s Praia da Luz three summers ago are now a blur – a distant unhappy memory of lighting candles, prayers and appeals for a little girl snatched from a holiday apartment. But then something happens to remind us of Madeleine McCann and once again we catch our breath and try to imagine the misery her parents, Gerry and Kate, experience every day as another...
Personal Hurricane Center (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The National Hurricane Center is giving a tropical low in the southwestern Caribbean a medium chance of development in the next 48 hours. The wave is pretty organized but lacks deep convection which will prevent it from developing rapidly. In addition, oceanic heat potential in the region is extremely low so any development will not [...] Thoughts on the Caribbean tropical wave, Invest 97L Personal...
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