- French workers kidnapped in Niger
Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for kidnapping five French nationals near a uranium mine deep in the desert of the African nation of Niger, according to an audio message broadcast.The group said in a message broadcast on Arabic... アルカイダは、ウラン鉱山ニジェールのアフリカの国の砂漠の深い五フランス国籍の近くに誘拐の責任を主張しているアラビア語のメッセージ放送によるとオーディオメッセージbroadcast.Theグループによると...
- AuFeminin Looks to Expand Its Reach
Having conquered the French market, a Web site that offers advice for women from women, wants to open sites in Brazil, China, India, Russia and the Arabic world. フランス市場は、女性から女性のためのアドバイスを提供するWebサイト、征服持つブラジル、中国、インド、ロシア、アラビア語の世界でサイトを開くしようとしています
- Science Weekly podcast: The Beagle Project; Hubble at 20; and Arabic science
Nell Boase is Lady Science this week ...All the way from Maine, Dr Karen James joins us in the studio to tell us about The Beagle Project, which aims to recreate the ship in which Charles Darwin sailed on his world-changing voyage of discovery. Karen is also a huge space fan and will watch the penultimate shuttle launch as part of Nasa's tweetup. She also tells us about getting a call on her mobile phone from the space station. Best ever revellation on the podcast: Karen tells us the dialling code for space. Guardian science correspondent Ian Sample is in the studio to ask Karen about her thoughts on the future of Nasa. As the Hubble space telescope reaches the age of 20, we take a closer look at what it has achieved. Giles Sparrow runs us through some of its greatest hits in his book Hubble: Window on the Universe. We have prepared a beautiful audio slideshow to go with this interview. Despite Arabic science helping shape the scientific method, theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili discusses what's holding it back today. His new book is called Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science. Prof Al-Khalili is also chairing a special lecture at London's Royal Albert Hall this week with Stephen Hawking. Subscribe for free via iTunes to ensure every episode gets delivered. (Here is the non-iTunes URL feed).Meet our crack team of science bloggers:The Lay Scientist by Martin RobbinsLife and Physics by Jon ButterworthPunctuated Equilibrium by GrrlScientistPolitical Science by Evan Harris Follow the podcast on our Science Weekly Twitter feed and receive updates on all breaking science news stories from Guardian Science. Email scienceweeklypodcast@gmail.com. Guardian Science is now on Facebook. You can also join our Science Weekly Facebook group. Listen back through our archive ネルボースは今週...すべての方法がメインからの女性科学は、博士がして、Karen Jamesさんは、チャールズダーウィンは、彼の世界を変える旅に出航した船を再現することを目的とビーグルプロジェクトについて教えて、スタジオで私たちを結合する発見
- We are not a world service | Peter Preston
The BBC and the Foreign Office are locked in talks over the future of the World Service. Some savings should be simpleLong ago and far away, I found myself cast as Lord Haw-Haw. Ian Smith had staged his UDI in Rhodesia. The government of the day had given the BBC World Service a dollop of cash to start emergency broadcasting in the country. And there I was, week after week, paid a pittance to jeer at the Smith regime's imbecilities. Ho-ho-ho-haw-haw! Which was (and still is) one of the things about Bush House that doesn't quite make sense.On the one hand, it's an independent and enviably serious voice of Britain in 32 different languages, costing £272m a year – money straight from the Foreign Office as a grant in aid. On the other hand, it can only provide what HMG will pay for. Sly stuff to give Smith's opponents added hope? Certainly, Mr Wilson. A television channel in Arabic to put the Middle East to rights? Certainly, Mr Blair. And now, as the crunch comes, the old game's afoot again.Of course the FCO wants to carve back its grant (by somewhere between 25% and 40% on the Osborne scale). In Whitehall terms, the Foreign Office has tiny resources. There isn't, frankly, too much to cut: so the World Service and British Council have to take their lumps. That's the price of depending on taxpayers for your daily bread. What the minister gives, the minister can take away.How do you fight the axe? We've been here before. Some blameless little service – say Burma's hour of sustenance a day – is said to be in danger after 70 glorious years of truth-telling. Instant reaction: totally predictable. Could there be a crasser candidate for cutting? Its audience (at 8.4 million) is rising, not falling, its role in bringing light to dark places manifest. Is this what coalition carnage BBCや外務省は、ワールドサービスの将来をめぐる協議でロックされています
- Webclip shows Israeli soldier dancing aound prisoner
A grainy video of a male Israeli soldier bellydancing around a bound and blindfolded female prisoner which went viral overnight, on Tuesday provoked a furious response from the Palestinians.The clip, which came to light after it was screened on Israel's private Channel 10 television late on Monday, shows a soldier gyrating to rhythmic drumbeat of an Arabic track as the woman, who is wearing a headscarf, huddles against a wall, her hands bound in front of her and her eyes bound with a white cloth. 火曜日に一晩ウイルス行ったバインドされ、目隠しの女性囚人の周りの男性、イスラエル兵士bellydancingの粗いビデオは、それが終盤にイスラエルのプライベートチャンネル10のテレビで上映された後に明るみに出たPalestinians.Theクリップからの猛烈な反応を引き起こした月曜日は、スカーフを身に着けている女性は、アラビア語トラックのリズミカルなドラムと旋回兵士が、壁にhuddles示し、彼女の手は白い布にバインドされた彼女と彼女の目の前にバインドされている
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