Pope Benedict XVI has made an emphatic appeal to Africans to rid the continent of corruption once and for all.
The 81-year-old was speaking during a televised address in Angola during a week-long tour of African countries.
The Pope said that with integrity, magnanimity and compassion Africans could transform their continent.
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has launched a similar attack, accusing many African presidents of running anti-democratic regimes.
The Pope arrived in the Angolan capital Luanda on Friday from Cameroon, on the second leg of his African tour.
The BBC’s Louise Redvers, in Luanda, said thousands of people gathered at the city’s airport to greet him, some waiting from the early hours.
Among the crowds many women in traditional Catholic uniforms of brightly coloured headscarves and sarongs.
The crowd began to cheer as the papal plane flew overhead but broke into a frenzy as his motorcade drove into the city, with some people breaking free at the sides of the roads to run alongside his car, our correspondent says.
The Pope said in his address that the people in Angola knew “the time of hope has arrived” for Africa and that every “decent, hopeful human behaviour” would make a difference to God and in history.
My beloved friends, with an upright, magnanimous heart that is also compassionate, you can transform this continent, freeing the people from the whip of greed, violence, disorder and guiding it through the path of those principles that are indispensible to any modern democracy,” he said.
Those principles, he said, included respect, transparent governance, freedom of the press, health care and adequate schooling as well as the promotion of human rights.
The 81-year-old pontiff said Africans needed “a firm determination to change hearts and finally put a stop, once and for all, to corruption”.
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Blog: Next stage of quay work approved
The next phase of work to be done at Alderney’s Commercial Quay has been given the go-ahead.
Guernsey States’ Treasury and Resources department has approved a proposal to release just under £275,000 to cover the cost of the second phase of works.
The multi-million pound scheme is being carried out in various phases to repair corrosion at the quay and to build a bigger deck area and a longer berth.
The quay handles all visiting trawlers, ferries, ships, tankers and boats.
The corrosion repair scheme is expected to extend the quay’s life by at least 60 years.
A decision to spend thousands of pounds on a survey for Alderney’s Commercial Quay project has been defended by the States Policy and Finance Committee.
The corrosion repair scheme to extend the quay’s life by at least 60 years was due to cost £9.5m but is now set to come in almost 10% over budget.
An extra £68,000 has been set aside for previously undiscovered damage.
Richard Willmott, Policy and Finance Committee chairman, said that money was not being wasted on the scheme.
“We may end up having to spend more than we first thought but the quay is taking shape just as it would have done previously,” he said.
“We haven’t wasted any money – we are not having to undo anything or spend more on ripping stuff up.
“It’s a bit of a shame that we have had this hiccup at the end which will probably in the short term colour people’s judgement about the quay but in the long term it will all be forgotten and all people will see is a lovely quay.”
The quay handles all cargo ships, oil tankers, passenger vessels, fishing boats and yachts coming to the island.
As well as repairing corrosion, the project will see a bigger deck area and a longer berth for fuel and cargo vessels.
Blog: Senator’s home search ‘was legal’
The attorney general has said a search of a senator’s home, which was carried out without a warrant, was legal.
William Bailhache told the States he was confident police followed the law when they searched Stuart Syvret’s home after his arrest earlier this month.
Mr Syvret was arrested in connection with allegations of breaching data protection laws. He was released later pending further inquiries.
Mr Bailhache said the search was legal under the provisions of Article 29.
He told members the law enabled police to search premises following an arrest for which they had probable cause.
“Under Article 3.1 of the Police Force Law, where a police officer with reasonable cause suspects that any person has committed, is committing or is about to commit an offence, the police officer may arrest that person,” he said.
The attorney general, who said he knew about the search in advance, was responding to a question by Deputy Trevor Pitman.
Ideal allies’
Ancient Rome is the first historical city to be added to Google Earth. Google’s blog said the model contains more than 6,700 buildings, with more than 250 place marks linking to key sites in a variety of languages.
“Whether you are a student taking your first ancient history class, a historian who spends your life researching ancient civilisations, or just a history buff, access to this 3D model in Google Earth will help everyone learn more about ancient Rome,” said Bruce Polderman, Google Earth 3D production manager.
Within ancient Rome there are some 200 buildings scholars know a lot about – classified as Class 1 -which Google says have been rendered as faithfully as possible.
The 3D models are based on a physical model of the city called the Plastico di Roma Antica.
The model was created by archaeologists and model-makers between 1933 to 1974 and housed in a special gallery in Rome’s Museum of Roman Civilisation.
The new map was unveiled at an event in the Italian capital, and the modern day Mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, praised the project.
“It’s an incredible opportunity to share the stunning greatness of ancient Rome, a perfect example of how the new technologies can be ideal allies of our history, archaeology and cultural identity,” Mr Alemanno said.
More than 400 million people have downloaded Google Earth since it was launched in June 2005.
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Blog：.Six casts in Friends
What’s make Phoebe so unique? It’s her offbeat, eternally optimistic nature.
Despite all adversity in her life, she sill displays a pleasant upbeat personality. Meanwhile, she is the strange combination with both wisp and tough. That’s another reason why I like Phoebe: she can fight; she can stand up to anybody once she is confronted. From an out-of-key folk singer to a masseuse, she takes a runaway lifestyle and never fails to cheer me up with her witty remarks.
Background: Complicated as complicate could be. Her stepmother committed suicide; her stepfather went to jail, her twin sister, who she dislikes most, starred in blue movie under her name. She was Monica’s ex-roommate but moved to her grandmother’s old apartment because Monica was a neat freak.
Hobby: 1) sings very unique lyrics like” Smelly cat”. Terry, a coffee bar’s owner, once gave such a comment on her song: ” it’s not that your friend sings bad… it’s that she sings so bad that she makes me want to gouge my ears out and reach in and swirl my fingers inside my brain.”
2) Cleanse people’s auras. Phoebe believes she can talk to the dead person, and she divined her death date to be October 15, 2032
The crazy things Phoebe has done: Too many to write them all down. Including: give birth to triplets for her half-brother, keep rat as pet, once live in a box, using the Chelsea Reporter to keep her warm and survive!
Romance: Phoebe’s love adventure dates back when she was 14. After her mother’s suicide, she got involved with a guy who washed car windows, and he also killed himself. She dates a lot after that, but no one is particular until her eventual husband Mike shows up.
Blog：Another Long Day
What a stressful and hectic week it is! Workshop and new year dinner arrangement turned out to be a mission impossible. It’s so hard to find a place where both the customers and the authority are satisfied within such a limited budget. The schedule must be modified a thousand times! It will be held tomorrow and hope nothing would go wrong.
I ran into yao a couple of days ago in shuttle bus. She was my best friends back to the college. Years didn’t change her too much. Still single and independent. What a small world! we have been working in the same neighourhood for more than a year, but it is the first time we ran into each other. I got some news about another friend from her. Li is the mother of a boy and a girl in US now. It’s werid to think her as a mother. I still have this image of her as a sharp college student, who like to travel alone around the world. It’s so strange to think her so “grown up” with a husband and two children. I emailed Li last night but it was failed to deliver. How are things going? There is so many things to catch on! we used to be so close, but now we just drift apart and move on with our own life. People went out and in our life. Some of them we might never meet again, but they would leave a longtime of memory behind.
Blog： Polish link solves girl’s murde
The police hunt for the killer of 12-year-old Katerina Koneva ended up with the arrest of a serial rapist on the run from Poland.
Detectives working on the case in west London appeared to have plenty of leads but it still proved to be the most frustrating of cases.
The bright schoolgirl, a refugee from Macedonia looking for a better life in Britain, was found strangled at her home.
Her attacker had been spotted by her father, Trajce, escaping from the family’s flat through a back garden. He immediately gave chase.
At least seven eyewitnesses saw the man running away and a security video showed Katerina’s father desperately trying to catch his daughter’s killer.
But despite an extensive inquiry and three separate appeals for information on BBC’s Crimewatch programme, the trail went cold
The breakthrough only came last year after an illegal Polish immigrant was found guilty at the Old Bailey of raping a foreign student and sentenced to nine years.
The court heard how Andrzej Kunowski, a 45-year-old tailor living in Acton, west London, approached the Korean student outside a Tube station as she waited for a friend and offered to find her a bedsit.
Instead he took her to his flat and attacked her and when she tried to resist he started to choke her and then tied her up.
She only escaped by promising to phone Kunowski the next day.
Crucially, a DNA sample taken from Kunowski at the time proved identical to a hair discovered in packaging containing a cardigan belonging to Katerina Koneva.
Kunowski had also left his fingerprints on the window and window ledge as he escaped from the family flat where Katerina lived.
Forensic analysis showed they were “fresh” and made within the previous 72 hours.
Blog： Protests
Not surprisingly, this is a view also held by senior officials in both Hong Kong and Beijing.
Donald Tsang, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s newly reappointed – and Beijing-backed – chief executive certainly says so.
On the Hong Kong government’s website he declares: “Hong Kong people are running Hong Kong with the high degree of autonomy that was promised.”
And Beijing is even more emphatic on that point.
When Britain and China signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984, laying out handover terms, Beijing promised that Hong Kong’s society and economy would remain unchanged.
Blog： Hong Kong’s new activists march on
Within the past year, she has chained herself to a railing, directed angry sit-ins and sat through all-night candlelit vigils.
She is part of a new generation of protesters and marchers appearing in Hong Kong.
While people living here do not have much of a vote, they have certainly found a voice and are challenging the government at every opportunity.
This was not always the case.
“Hong Kong people had a burden from Chinese culture. We found it very difficult to express ourselves,” said Ho.
“But I feel a change now. People are more confident about speaking out and we are more willing to fight for our place
