Angola, Portugal sign accord on higher education ... - Investors Business Daily
LUANDA, Mar 20, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Angolan and Portuguese governments have signed a cooperation agreement for the development of higher education and promotion of scientific research, the official news agency Angop reported on Saturday ...
ANGOLA: Road clearance helps post-conflict recovery - Reliefweb.int
Clearing roads of landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) is crucial to helping improve the standard of living in Moxico, the province in Angola most heavily contaminated by remnants of conflict.MAG Angola's Road Operations Unit is currently working ...
Angola inmate guilty in slaying at prison - Houma Courier
A West Feliciana Parish jury has found an Angola inmate guilty ... one-year-old Andre Leday is currently serving a 40-year sentence for manslaughter and now faces an automatic life sentence in the death of 34-year-old Michael Bradford.
In war devastated Angola, cheetahs are back - San Francisco Chronicle
Scientists saw cheetahs in southern Angola for the first time in three decades since the now-ended civil war devastated the animal's habitat, a conservation group said Wednesday. After a three day survey in the arid Iona district of Angola bordering ...
Xinhua world economic news summary at 0530 GMT, March ... - Investors Business Daily
Angola-Housing Prices) MUMBAI -- India's most luxurious tourist train started its maiden journey from an eastern city on Saturday evening. The train , which is called "Maharajas Express," launched at Kolkata station at 10:10 p.m. by Indian Railway ...
Cheetahs return to Angola's south - France 24
I was in southern Angola to make a survey, looking for signs of cheetahs, and we were just ecstatic to find cheetahs there," said Laurie Marker, from the Cheetah Conservation Fund in neighbouring Namibia. "I actually saw two wild cheetahs, which is ...
FMC awarded Angola contract by Total - Norway Post
FMC Technologies, Inc. has announced that it has signed an agreement with Total Exploration and Production Angola for the manufacture and supply of subsea production equipment. The award is valued at around US$65 million. The equipment will support ...
Oil price drops 2 percent as dollar firms - Reuters
UK consultancy Oil Movements said on Thursday it expected seaborne oil exports from OPEC, excluding Angola and Ecuador, would rise by 70,000 bpd in the four weeks to April 3. Oil prices earlier in March rose above $83 a barrel, near the top of their ...
Cheetahs return to Angola's south - PhysOrg
A Cheetah looks back while on display at the animal orphanage in Nairobi's National Park in October 2008. Wild cheetahs have returned to southern Angola for the first time in decades, having disappeared during decades of civil war, a researcher said ...
South Africa Faces a Daunting Task, but Angola’s Got ... - VANITYFAIR
The Angolan national flag and a flag depicting the image of José Eduardo dos Santos, the president of Angola, at the finals of the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations in Luanda, Angola, January 31, 2010. Egypt defeated Ghana in the final, 1-0. It’s been ...
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Bombs still greet Marines in Afghan town
 Explosions rumble through Marjah daily — an ominous sign that Taliban insurgents have not given up despite losing control of the town to U.S. and Afghan forces about two weeks ago.
Spain says video shows firefighters on holiday
A Spanish firefighting force says a video released by French officials investigating an alleged ETA shooting does not show the suspected gunmen, but rather a group of Catalan firefighters on holiday.
Snowmobiler killed in Canada avalanche
Rescue crews end their search in British Columbia's mountainous backcountry after accounting for everyone in an area where an avalanche cascaded down a mountain, killing one snowmobiler.
Nepal leader who helped end king's rule dies at 86
Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepal's former prime minister who led mass protests that ended the king's authoritarian rule and helped deliver a peace deal to end 10 years of communist revolt, died Saturday. He was 86.
Afghan women confront deadly task: Childbirth
Volcano erupts in southern Iceland
Iceland's civil protection agency says a volcano has erupted in the southern part of country.
U.N. chief: Israel must stop settlements
 Visiting U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon says that Israeli settlement building anywhere on occupied land is illegal, while a Palestinian teenager is killed in clashes with Israeli troops elsewhere in the West Bank.
Married at 9, divorced at 10: Girl's memoir
In a harrowing memoir she has yet to read herself, Nujood Ali tells how at age 9 she was forced to marry a man three times her age, raped and beaten, then made Yemeni history by getting a divorce.
Thai protesters' caravan wends through capital
A crimson tide of protesters snaked its way through the Thai capital Saturday, with thousands of cars, trucks and motorbikes tangling up traffic as demonstrators sought to drum up support for ousting a government they call illegitimate.
Sandstorm turns Beijing sky orange
 China's capital woke up to orange-tinted skies Saturday as the strongest sandstorm so far this year hit the country’s north, making breathing the air “very bad for health.”
Thousands rally in Russia against Putin
 Thousands rally across Russia to denounce government economic policy and demand more freedom in a new challenge to the Kremlin reflecting increasing disillusionment.
Mexico drug war's toll on Americans grows
 The number of U.S. citizens killed in Mexico has more than doubled to 79 in 2009 from 35 in 2007, according to the U.S. State Department.
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