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...sudden roaring blast of the burners shatters the morning peace, as our pilot John forces the balloon higher. By now, a brilliant sun has burned off the early morning chill. We sail over Cessnock, an old mining town laid out like a chessboard, as a 75-carriage coal train snakes through the countryside. Another blast and we lift to 300 m. From that height we can see a 40-km stretch of the valley?a lush strip running east to west. To the north flows the mighty Hunter River and on the southwestern horizon rises the magnificent Brokenback Range. Tawny...
NIGERIA Fire and Fury in Lagos Mystery and anger surround explosions at a military barracks and arms depot in Lagos, in which more than 1,000 people were killed. Nearly 500 others - mostly children - are unaccounted for. The blasts, in the residential district of Ikeja, lasted for hours, propelling shells and burning debris for miles around and sending thousands fleeing for their lives. In the stampede, hundreds of terrified people drowned in two canals. As the army and both houses of Nigeria?s legislature began inquiries into the disaster, anger rose over the government?s past failure to move...
...group and broke away from Harkat-ul-Mujahideen to found the even more fanatical Jaish-e-Muhammad. His new group was the first to favor suicide attacks in India. It has been responsible for grenade and car-bomb assaults on civilian targets, and took responsibility for a devastating bomb blast at the state legislature in Indian-administered Kashmir last October...
...fashion in Amer-indies. Start with a teasingly obscure title; gaze fascinatedly at people in more trouble than they know; give lots of screen space and time to yearning stares; and, about 40 min. into the anomie, kill off a soulful son with a surprise gun blast. That's the recipe for In the Bedroom, which won a slew of critics' awards, and for Monster's Ball, a pained drama that is better than it sounds...
...possible from Jagger until you heard it. He sings his way through the messy story of a divorce: “People ask have you seen her/I say not for a while/I’m going to see my girlfriend way down in Argentina/We going to have a blast for a while.” Jagger’s last high-profile conquest may have been Brazilian, but it’s hard not to admire the emotional honesty of the man: It may be the closest you’ll get to feeling sorry for a rock star...