A New Angle On The Roswell Incident And Why Russians Like Conspiracy Theories

Could the Roswell UFO really have been a Soviet spy plane?

Translating disaster and disastrous translations

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In the latest World in Words podcast, our top five language stories of the past month: translating Iceland’s economic collapse, document by document; magnificently bad translations in Shanghai and at the Eurovision Song Contest; a language for communication with extraterrestrials; Arizona moves against accented schoolteachers; and Costa Rica’s new president Laura Chinchilla is one of millions of people who are named after animals.
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Japan’s first lady

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Miyuki Hatoyama, the wife of Japan’s new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, is something of a Renaissance woman: designer, former actress, cookbook author, television personality – and perhaps most controversially a self-professed space traveler who claims to have visited Venus with aliens. Akiko Fujita has the story from Tokyo. Download MP3

• BBC profile of Miyuki Hatoyama

Alien refugees in South Africa

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The new sci-fi movie called District 9 tells the tale of an alien species looking for refuge on earth. Their craft ends up above the city of Johannesburg in South Africa. The humans force the aliens to live in a slum (pictured), called District 9. For today’s quiz, we want to know the name of the real-life slum just outside of Johannesburg where the movie was filmed. Geoffrey York, Africa bureau chief of Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper has the answer for you. >>>Click here for a District 9 trailer.