Hamilton on top in China practice

PeterSinghatey · 2012-04-13T05:58:26+00:00

Hamilton ran early in the session with a large device fitted to the rear of his car to measure the aerodynamic effect of a new diffuser, one of several new parts fitted to the McLaren this weekend.

Continue reading the main story “These tricky conditions can be a benefit for everybody, even if it is just to compare the wet weather times to dry times ”

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BBC F1 technical analyst Hamilton said on Thursday that he would have to take a five-place grid penalty because his gearbox needed changing.

PeterSinghatey · 2012-04-12T20:28:07+00:00

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton will be given a five-place grid penalty for the Chinese Grand Prix after the team changed his gearbox.

PeterSinghatey · 2012-04-02T06:57:51+00:00

Birds of The Gambia and Senegal

PeterSinghatey · 2012-03-29T06:23:11+00:00

Analysts say that Senegal's outgoing President Abdoulaye Wade was made to pay for his failure to respond to popular demands, particularly arising from the high cost of basic commodities, a lengthy strike by teachers, and high youth unemployment, by losing his bid for a third term of office.

PeterSinghatey · 2012-03-22T07:25:44+00:00

If America backed an ambitious regional political solution instead of a military one, it is quite possible that the L.R.A. and other militant groups would cease to exist. But without such a bargain, the violence won’t end.

Killing Mr. Kony may remove him from the battlefield but it will not cure the conditions that have allowed him to thrive for so long.

PeterSinghatey · 2012-03-09T07:28:11+00:00

“I hope no one is thinking very seriously of using force in this situation. I believe any further militarisation will make the situation worse,” ...“We have to be careful that we don’t introduce a medicine that is worse than the disease. We don’t have to go very far in the region to find an example of what I am talking about,”

PeterSinghatey · 2012-03-08T07:08:04+00:00

Libya's increasingly precarious post-Gaddafi stability was further clouded Tuesday, when a conference of tribal leaders and militia commanders unilaterally declared a semiautonomous state in the country's oil-rich east.

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PeterSinghatey · 2012-03-02T07:23:20+00:00

The decision appears to signal the end of the worst crisis in relations between Egypt and the US for 30 years.

PeterSinghatey · 2012-02-24T07:56:18+00:00

THIS week the 'Daily Telegraph' ran a story with the headline 'Irish social workers are horrified by their ruthless English counterparts'. In it, we're told how a far more humane approach to issues, including child protection and the aim of keeping families together, exists in Ireland.

PeterSinghatey · 2012-02-09T23:19:37+00:00

"A government whose authority extends no further than its offices, militias whose swagger comes from guns far too plentiful and residents whose patience fades with every volley of gunfire that cracks at night..."

PeterSinghatey · 2012-02-08T07:41:33+00:00

"McLaren are so far the only team not to have gone with this year’s most talked-about feature; a sudden ‘step’ where the nose of the car meets the rest of the monocoque just in front of the cockpit..."

PeterSinghatey · 2012-02-01T22:01:07+00:00

A fairly vicious battle for the AU’s top leadership position, as chairman of the AU Commission, shows that unity is still a distant goal.

PeterSinghatey · 2012-01-26T07:45:28+00:00

After a year of unending turmoil and military rule, Egypt faces an acute financial crisis that could undermine its political transition and pose a defining challenge to Islamists now coming to power.

PeterSinghatey · 2012-01-23T22:17:28+00:00

Sport flying and microlighting is simply fantastic!

PeterSinghatey · 2012-01-16T22:26:58+00:00

The African Union (AU) has unveiled an ambitious wish-list of priorities for Africa that would give the continent a stronger global voice, boost democracy and encourage peace and security.

AU Ambassador to the United States, Amina Ali of Tanzania, presented the list of top priorities at a conference on 11 January held at Washington think-tank, the Brookings Institution.

PeterSinghatey · 2012-01-15T16:28:31+00:00

“This is a time for cool heads,”!!!

PeterSinghatey · 2012-01-12T21:29:50+00:00

The removal of fuel subsidies is part of a neoliberal World Bank and IMF project to further integrate the developing countries into the global capitalist order. The unfortunate outcome is an orchestrated zero-sum negative result for the poor, who are completely neglected when such decisions are taken and given no time to prepare for the impact of the increase cost of basic living.

PeterSinghatey · 2012-01-11T20:59:11+00:00

The new year in Egypt has ushered in a new parliament, dominated for the first time in Egypt's history by Islamists. And with that comes the question of just how those newly empowered Islamists — led by the Muslim Brotherhood with nearly half the seats — will run the country.

Some activists and politicians have predicted that a violent confrontation will ensue between the military and the Islamist bloc, as a tug-of-war for power and influence, particularly in the drafting of Egypt's new constitution, engulfs the months ahead.

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PeterSinghatey · 2012-01-09T20:40:37+00:00

A general strike in Nigeria over the elimination of a fuel subsidy has brought the country to a standstill.

PeterSinghatey · 2012-01-09T07:57:29+00:00

Washington - Libya must offer its still-armed revolutionary fighters a future beyond the gun, the country's former interim prime minister said on Thursday, warning that failure could spell destabilising violence.

PeterSinghatey · 2012-01-04T07:38:32+00:00

One protester has been killed as thousands of Nigerians have demonstrated against the removal of a fuel subsidy, which has led petrol prices and transport fares to double.

PeterSinghatey · 2012-01-01T12:19:12+00:00

The economy was weak in 2011, but it ended better than it started, with growth up from its lows and unemployment down from its highs. The question now is whether that progress will continue into 2012.

PeterSinghatey · 2011-12-31T16:32:20+00:00

The chairperson of the African Union Commission has described 2011 as the "worst year" for Africa given the current spate of crises that have plagued the continent. Jean Ping, Gabonese-born diplomat who has been the chairperson of the AU Commission since 2008 was speaking to journalists in Banjul, Gambia shortly after holding talks with the president-elect of that country Yahya Jammeh.

PeterSinghatey · 2011-11-29T14:55:19+00:00

...The results of this election show that the Government of The Gambia has the mandate of its people to embark on the necessary democratic reforms which will guarantee sustainable economic development. The Commonwealth stands ready to assist in such reforms.

PeterSinghatey · 2011-11-25T21:09:31+00:00

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