2006 has kept the news headlines coming thick and fast – from 13 car bombs in Iraq on the 1st Jan; through food shortages in Central Africa, to a summer of destruction in Southern Lebanon.
Photos
FIFA World Cup 2006 – The Fans
by Lee Ridley •
As football loving nations across the globe turn their eyes towards the FIFA World Cup 2006, being held in Germany, PBs would like you share with you some pictures of the fans in full regalia:
Africa
Uganda – Children On The Frontline
by Lee Ridley •
Paul was just six-years old when the rebels came for him in February 2002.
Books
Review – The Bradt Travelguide To Uganda
by Lee Ridley •
Guidebooks for the world’s dark places? – Lee Ridley reviews the Bradt Travelguide to Uganda.
Logs
News Desk – Aggressive Exorcists in Iran
by Lee Ridley •
Iraq – Alcohol sales at Baghdad International Airport have been banned by Iraq’s transportation minister Salam Maliki, a Shiite Muslim, who says the facility is a holy and revered piece of Iraq. The airport duty-free shop so far has refused to comply, and Maliki is threatening to destroy its $800,000 supply of alcoholic beverages. Anyone…
Logs
The Daily Planet
by Lee Ridley •
Thailand Unregistered mobile phones will stop working in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued southernmost provinces by mid-November, in an effort to curb bomb attacks triggered by cell phones. Since May only users of pre-paid mobile services have been required to register with authorities, but Thai communications authorities have expanded that programme to include all cell phones. The plan…