Author: |Posted: 11:26 am on 08/07/09
Category: World News Blog
By the time you are reading this I hope to be supping on mozzarella di bufala in a medieval Italian hilltop town full of churches stuffed with paintings by Renaissance masters.
The reality will probably be that I shall be going through umpteen security scanners along with some 3000 other journalists queuing for the G8 summit in the earthquake zone of L’Aquila, and helping our cameraman in my own puny way to lug camera and editing gear past Italian police in the summer heat.
Author: |Posted: 5:22 pm on 14/05/09
Category: World News Blog
The story of the unwanted visitor to the world’s only Nobel laureate-political prisoner makes truly bizarre reading.
It’s so weird, in fact, that it could really only happen in a country whose political manoeuvrings are stage-managed by a military junta.
Burma’s “ministry of truth” appears to have fooled only the generals into thinking that everything’s normal. read more
