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...understand just how great, listen to the pair's fifth album, Welcome to Mali, out March 24. Following up on their 2005 breakthrough, Dimanche à Bamako, which was produced by France-raised Spaniard Manu Chao and topped critics' lists worldwide, Amadou and Mariam recruited another international rock star, Brit Damon Albarn, for a cameo. What Albarn brings is an opener, "Sabali," so light and giddy that no translation is required to get that Mariam is whisper-singing about love. The swirling keyboards and gradually rising dance beat are pure '80s pop, sweeter than cheap champagne--but with soul...
Read about last year's face-transplant breakthrough...
...banks are not the only places where people are showing their discontent. "Everyone out!" read signs on the dozen or so tents in Independence Square, the site of the Orange Revolution protests in 2004 that signaled a democratic breakthrough in Ukraine. Disillusionment with the leaders that revolution brought to power, President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, runs high. Yushchenko's approval ratings have plunged to below 5% on the back of his failure to make good on his promises to bring an end to government corruption and send "bandits to jail...
...Defense lawyer Karinna Moskalenko sees some judicial improvements in the new trial. "The fact that the hearing will be public signals a major breakthrough," she said. "Also it is good that the trial will be in Moscow, we have wanted to move Khodorkovsky here for a long time...
...quality Indonesian item per year, that is already a great start," says Alun Alun's Pincky Sudarman, who scours the country for interesting products and returns with items old and new. Alongside the traditionally made batik, for example, is a great selection of batik made using a breakthrough technique that allows for the printing of completely different patterns on each side. (See 10 things to do in Singapore...