Nelson Mandela discharged from South African hospital
1 September 2013 Last updated at 09:06 GMT
The BBC
Nelson Mandela has left hospital and has gone to his Johannesburg home, where he is continuing to receive intensive care, the South African presidency says on its website.
The announcement came a day after officials denied reports that the 95-year-old had already been discharged.
The statement says Mr Mandela condition remains critical and at time unstable.
South Africa’s first democratically elected president has been in hospital since June with a lung infection.
China accuses state assets chief
Jiang Jiemin the latest high-ranking official to be investigated under banner of President Xi Jinping’s corruption purge
Reuters in Beijing
theguardian.com, Sunday 1 September 2013 07.34 BSTChina is investigating the head of its state assets regulator, a former top energy executive, for “serious discipline violations”, the government said on Sunday in what appears to be a deepening crackdown on corruption.
A brief government announcement said Jiang Jiemin was “suspected of serious discipline violations”, shorthand the government generally uses to describe graft.
The investigation was being carried out by the ruling Communist party’s anti-graft watchdog, the statement said. No other details were given.
Water hazard: How the UN plans to provide clean drinking water for everyone in Rwanda
As the world’s leaders prepare for the 68th UN General Assembly later this month, Martin Hickman reports from Rwanda on the effects of a series of development goals set by the organisation in 2000 – and discovers that much still needs to be done to ensure clean water and sanitation for all
MARTIN HICKMAN SUNDAY 01 SEPTEMBER 2013
A winding path sweeps down past the banana trees to the swamp. Yves, aged 13, follows the path, fills a plastic jerry can, and carries the liquid cargo home on his head, despite knowing it will make him and his family ill. Fortunately the shallow pools do not attract crocodiles, but the water must be collected before the hippos gather at dusk.
Yves and his parents live in a cement-covered mud-brick hut in Bugesera District, southern Rwanda, where they grow beans, cassava and sweet potatoes, and keep pigs, cows and goats. They fetch muddy water from the swamp up to four times a day for drinking, cleaning and watering the livestock.
Femen founders flee Ukraine ‘fearing for their lives’
UKRAINE
Three founders of the feminist protest group Femen have fled Ukraine, saying they feared for their safety. Earlier this week, Ukrainian police said they found weapons at Femen’s Kyiv offices.
Alexandra Shevchenko, Anna Hutsol and Yana Zhdanova “have fled Ukraine fearing for their lives and for their liberty,” according to a statement published on Femen’s website on Saturday.
The Femen statement said the trio decided to leave Ukraine after police called them in for questioning on Friday. Femen also said its founding memebers would “continue their activities in Europe,” without saying where they had gone.
Brazilian YouTube satire emerges as force in nation’s political debate
September 1, 2013 – 11:03AM
Simon Romero
As Brazil’s largest cities were being rocked by huge anti-government protests, the president, visibly exasperated, summoned top legislators to an emergency meeting and put forward a last-gasp concession to ease the fury on the streets.
“Things have gotten to a level where we must act, so I think we just have to slow the embezzlement down,” she told a conference table of men in suits as cameras rolled.
Dumbfounded, the men explained that purloining less from public coffers – even a little less – was simply not possible given the important constituencies to please, like banks and construction giants building stadiums for the 2014 World Cup. One congressman responded that once the government actually started building schools, hospitals and roads with public money, it would be forced to continue indefinitely.
Preserved for millennia, Egypt’s artifacts fall prey to Egypt’s protests
More than 1,000 Egyptian artifacts have been stolen from the Mallawi museum, which was ransacked the same day police violently dispersed Islamist sit-ins in Cairo.
By Kristen Chick, Correspondent
The center of this town still bears the signs of the angry mob that ransacked it two weeks ago. A burned-out car sits in front of the torched local council building. Sandbags are piled next to the entrance of an officers’ club next door. Rocks and and a makeshift barricade of paving stones litter a street. Black heaps of wire and ash mark the place tires were burned.
Next to the council building is the Mallawi museum, built to resemble an ancient Egyptian temple and now in ruin.
Windows are broken and several rooms are burned out. In the high-ceilinged main rooms, where artifacts of the 18th dynasty of ancient Egypt from as early as the 1350s BC used to sit in neat display cases, piles of shattered glass now litter the floor. The broken cases stand askew or toppled over, their contents gone except for a few broken shards of ancient pottery. Handwritten display cards explaining the exhibits lie scattered throughout the rubble.
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