Monday 20 May 2013
EGYPT'S constitutional court rejected five articles of a draft election law today and sent the text back to the country's temporary legislature for redrafting in a move that may delay a parliamentary poll due in April.
“The court has returned the draft parliamentary electoral law to the Shura Council after making five observations on five articles which it found unconstitutional," a court statement said.
Reuters
At least 20 people were killed when a mine collapsed in mineral-rich but conflict-plagued eastern Democratic Republic of Congo following heavy rains, the government said on Friday.
A South African safari firm has sacked one of its guides after a video of him charging an elephant went viral.
NIGERIAN gunmen killed 46 police officers in an ambush in the central state of Nassarawa this week, police said.
At least 20 people were killed when a mine collapsed in mineral-rich but conflict-plagued eastern Democratic Republic of Congo following heavy rains, the government said on Friday.
A South African safari firm has sacked one of its guides after a video of him charging an elephant went viral.
NIGERIAN gunmen killed 46 police officers in an ambush in the central state of Nassarawa this week, police said.
Another day, another domination for Taylor Swift: She was the red hot winner at the Billboard Music Awards.
Actor and pop singer Justin Timberlake has revealed he had no problem changing his music style for his role in his new film.
Actor Edward Furlong has been arrested on suspicion of violating a restraining order filed by his ex-girlfriend.
The first rule of book club is you don't talk about book club. Actually, it isn't. The only rule in most book clubs is that, if you haven't read the ruddy thing, then you're better off keeping your mouth shut. If only Mick Wallace had heeded this wise advice.
It was a week of drama and prestige as the summer awards season kicked off; the stars of the most creative work ever committed to celluloid scrubbed up and assembled to be garlanded with praise.
President Obama apparently has his own Hollywood-inspired aspirations. According to a nugget buried in a New York Times story on Thursday, Obama has been telling aides that he is tempted to pull a "Bulworth" – that is to make like Warren Beatty's liberal senator character in the 1998 movie of the same name by going rogue and saying exactly what is on his mind regardless of the political fallout.
IT'S going to be the Irish wedding of the year. And it's in France.
It won't, sadly, be their own wedding but the nuptials of Kiera Dignam, (daughter of their VBF, Aslan singer Christy) to her beloved beau Darren.
BONO still hasn't found the entree he's looking for. Sorry I couldn't resist that one when I heard that U2's ubermeister, along with his beautiful wife Ali, were in the Unicorn restaurant last weekend for lunch.
DON O'Neill isn't just an ordinary designer, as fans such as Oprah Winfrey, Angelina Jolie and Taylor Swift, as well as the fashion editors of Vogue and The New York Times, will confirm. Nor is he an ordinary romantic, in any sense of the word.
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