Hamid Karzai’s inauguration for a second term as president of Afghanistan has come with unusually high security in the capital Kabul, and renewed pleas to step up the fight against corruption, from former US President Bill Clinton and other world leaders. Regular flights in and out of the city have been cancelled, citizens urged to take a holiday and stay home, and heavier than usual patrols are out on the streets to ward off a possible Taliban attack.
Pakistan attack kills 15
Over the border in Peshawar, Pakistan, a suicide bomber killed 15 people and injured scores at a court building not far from the Pearl Continental Hotel where nine people died in June. Al Jazeera links the latest blast to a new military push: “The military launched its offensive nearly three weeks ago, pitting about 30,000 Pakistani troops against an estimated 10 to 12,000 Taliban fighters in South Waziristan.”
Links to other sites: Aljazeera,
Title: Bern’s new bear pit: grand opening!
Location: Bern BaerenPark
Link out: Click here
Description: Bern’s beloved bear pit is now a beautiful new part and the official inauguration will turn the adjoining area into a fairground for the day, to welcome the bear couple who are moving in
Start Time: 9:00
Date: 25 Oct 2009
End Time: 18:00
The inauguration of Barack Obama as US President today is expected to pull in millions of television viewers worldwide. Here are sources for some of the basic information about the next US president and his inauguration that you might want handy if you’re part of the TV audience:
Moving Day! Movers pack up Bushes, unpack Obamas in six hours, from America.gov
Huffington Post, Obama’s own page
The national sense of change, National Public Radio
Transition holds clues to Obama governance, New York Times
Videos of inaugural speeches from past US presidents, Chicago Sun Times
Cern coctrol room as LHC first beam goes round, 10 September 2008
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Music by Philip Glass to images by National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting in an audiovisual concert called “Origins,” a molecular gastronomy buffet by the man often considered its inventor, chef Ettore Bocchia, dignitaries from the 60 countries that have contributed to the development of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) and a party for staff: the French-Swiss border that is straddled by Cern will be a buzz of activity Tuesday 21 October, with the official inaugurations of the LHC.
