Quoted: A young Zimbabwean professional, living and working in Harare, recounts her challenges trying to lead a normal life.

Finally ordinary people are paying close attention China selfish role in Sudan and even more, the African continent!

Quoted: US filmmaker Steven Spielberg withdraws as an artistic adviser at the Olympics over China's role in Darfur.

so unnerved!

Quoted: Tens of thousands of Kikuyus, the tribe of Kenya’s president, have fled because of ethnic violence.

Quoted: Think of Dogster as Facebook for canines. There, my dogs (along with 346,639 other four-legged members, as of last week) had their own profile pages ...

Quoted: Bishop Luiz Flavio Cappio has been staging his protest for nine days.

It is the second time he has launched a hunger strike over the plan to divert the Sao Francisco river.

The government believes the irrigation scheme could benefit millions of people but critics say it will cause irreversible environmental damage.

good job by Moveon and the 65,000 facebookers who signed the petition!

quoted: Facebook users protested Beacon as a flagrant violation of privacy. The program enables Facebook to track their purchases and other actions at dozens of Web sites and then broadcast the data within its social network as items on other users'"news feeds."

"We've made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we've made even more with how we've handled them," Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook's blog. "We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it."

Empowering to users block Beacon entirely "is big step in the right direction, and we hope it begins an industrywide trend that puts the basic rights of Internet users ahead of the wish lists of corporate advertisers," said Adam Green, a spokesman for MoveOn.org.

MoveOn, an advocacy group, organized a petition against Beacon that more than 65,000 Facebook users signed.

Quoted: Richard McColl goes in search of the places that have inspired Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Another of his major novels, Love in the Time of Cholera, has now been made into a film which has just opened in the US. Richard McColl travelled around Colombia in search of the places that have inspired Garcia Marquez:

<<<SAD>>> and very painful!!! The pain she has to live with now is much worse problem than before. I can't even imagine what her husband is feeling trying to save her and witnessing all this!

Quoted: The horrifying sight which traumatised shoppers and office workers in the centre of Luxembourg City in Belgium last week has now been labeled as a protest against racism. The Belgian woman of Congolese origin who set herself alight in the middle of Place d’Armes told witnesses that she was doing it to protest against racism, moments before she carried out the desperate act which has left her in hospital fighting for her life. Maggy Delvaux-Mufu, a mother of three in her forties, alerted several national newspapers late on Tuesday morning last week that she would be burning herself alive on place des Martyrs at 12.45 am, before setting out accompanied by her husband to walk through the centre of town to her macabre rendezvous.