麻豆社 World Service - Newshour

28/08/2010

Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.

The US economy falters again; the wheat genome mapped out; and what is character amnesia?

How many civilians died in the Iraq war? Also, Kenya's new constitution is signed into law

South Africans on strike; privatising electricity in Nigeria; the English in New York

HIV-positive singer sentenced; warnings Taliban will attack aid workers in Pakistan.

Migrant link to mass grave in Mexico, and why a French doctor refused the Legion D'honneur

An Afghan policeman shot; teaching kids about terrorism; a presidential heir for Egypt?

A deadly attack by Islamist insurgents in Somalia, & was a Catholic priest an IRA bomber?

Rebels in Somalia have killed more than thirty people including members of parliament.

Trapped miners in Chile; hostage drama in the Philippines, and the Autotune debate.