Want to know: Uganda has a new windfall from huge deposits of oil found by Lake Albert. Ugandans are hoping the money earned from the oil will help boost the country's flagging economy and bring in new jobs. But some critics fear the new oil money will fuel corruption and will be used to prop up the government of President Yoweri Museveni, in power for 25 years. Museveni is running for re-election today. |
Dull but important: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, engulfed in a prostitution scandal, met with a top Vatican official to mark the annual celebration of the 1929 treaty that governs relations between Italy and the Vatican. Berlusconi has come under criticism from the Catholic church as the scandal centering on his alleged encounters with a 17-year-old Moroccan girl have been revealed. Berlusconi, 74, was recently indicted on charges he paid for sex with the girl, and then abused his influence to cover it up. Berlusconi denies the charges. Take a look at what Italians think of their leader's sexual escapades. |
Wacky: Surgeons in southern China successfully removed a rusty, 4-inch knife from the skull of a man who said it had been stuck in there for four years. Li Fuyan, 30, had been suffering from severe headaches, bad breath and breathing difficulties but never knew the cause of his discomfort, said a senior official at the Yuxi City People's Hospital in Yunnan Province. Li told doctors he had been stabbed in the lower right jaw by a robber four years ago and the blade broke off inside his head without anyone realizing it. Surgeons worked cautiously to remove the badly-corroded blade without shattering it, He said. The hospital's website also reported the successful surgery. The case, which one of the doctors described as a "miracle," has been widely covered by the Chinese media and discussed on the internet. Read about it on AP. |
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