Egypt completes voting today in its first competitive presidential election. Millions of people have come out to vote. The official results are expected in the coming days. Meanwhile, there are questions about just how free and fair this election is turning out to be. The World’s Middle East Correspondent Matthew Bell reports.
Server farms – buildings house huge number of machines that support websites and internet activity – need to be kept cool. As a result, more and more high-tech companies are building data centers in the far north to take advantage of the naturally cool climate there.
No-one in China is lower on the totem pole than farmers and villagers. When they migrate to cities to work in factories, they are treated like dirt. So what happened to Mao Zedong’s communist revolution? The revolution was supposed to improve the lot of the rural poor. We visit a part of rural China where Mao once lived. Mao went there to educate himself about the conditions of the farming class. But decades later, the descendants of the people Mao interviewed aren’t much better off, at a time when other Chinese are enriching themselves.
Apollo astronaut Neil Armstrong has given an interview after decades of silence. He spoke to an Australian accountant!
Egyptians are voting in their first free presidential election, 15 months after ousting Hosni Mubarak in the Arab Spring uprising.
Toronto’s skyline is starting to look a lot like Manhattan and so are the housing prices.
Inter-caste marriage is still the exception rather than the rule in India. That’s despite a surge in modern forms of bringing people together. In fact, as The World’s Alex Gallafent reports from Chennai, in south India, the substance of what’s taking place is remarkably similar to how it’s always been.
In India, society has traditionally been stratified according to the caste system. Caste has its roots in scripture, but over the years it has expanded into many spheres of Indian life: work, education and, most recently, politics. Today, many urban Indians ignore caste, except when it comes to choosing a marriage partner. But abroad, some upper caste Indians have a nostalgic affection for a system that favored their forefathers.
It was to be an ethereal experience. An opportunity to sit on a roof top garden and watch the sunset with one of Saudi Arabia’s leading intellectuals. It sounded so romantic.
All I wanted to do was see the Red Sea. Now here I was in Jeddah, a mere 50 feet from its shoreline. It was 6 p.m. and the sun was beginning to set. All I had to do was cross the Al Kumaysh Road.
About 1,000 police officers fanned out across northern Germany in a massive raid against Hells Angels. The move was related to an investigation concerning multiple charges against the motorcycle club, including the search for a body. The German government classifies the group as an organized crime syndicate.
Ghana’s Ebo Taylor talks to Marco Werman about his latest album, Appia Kwa Bridge. Taylor is a master of the Ghanaian music style, highlife.
Egypt is by far the largest Arab country, by population and events there tend to reverberate throughout the region.
When he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs Dimitris Droutsas, was part of the Greek government that negotiated bailout terms and austerity measures. He tells host Marco Werman that attitudes toward austerity are now shifting in Europe.
A portrait of South Africa’s president, Jacob Zuma, was vandalized Tuesday at a gallery in Johannesburg.
Sandstone rocks discovered in Australia about a year ago are believed to contain fossils of the earliest living cells.
