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Gaglani said he feels a special connection to Africa, as he was born in Namibia, although he is of Indian descent. He said he hopes to go to Africa within the next two or three years to help train African scientists to use the assay to fight malaria...
TIME's Gilbert Cruz spoke with Louisiana's Bobby Jindal as he prepared to become the youngest governor in the country. The Republican will also be the first person of South Asian descent to lead a U.S. state. Excerpts from the interview...
...Axis of Evil arrived in Lebanon last week. No, not in the form of some Iran-backed coup d' état, but as a stand-up comedy team made up of three Americans of Middle Eastern descent. (They couldn't find a funny North Korean.) On the last leg of a regional tour playing to sold-out venues in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, they arrived at the Casino Du Liban outside of Beirut with a certain sense of relief. Lebanon was the only country that allowed them to perform their routine with expletives undeleted - no small challenge...
...often that you see a product made in Afghanistan. The country is the world's biggest opium producer, but that's not an export government officials shout about. Yet before its descent into chaos in the late 1970s, Afghanistan was famous for its pomegranates, grapes, apricots and other fruit. Since then, as war cut the old trade routes and Afghanistan became isolated, traditional markets have been lost. So what were these pomegranates doing in my local fruit shop? And if they were available in Delhi, why aren't they in North America or Europe, where pomegranate popularity has boomed thanks...
...very likely come to know what Stevenson was driving at. Under the headline calamity brown, a Nov. 26 cover story in the political journal New Statesman, previously regarded in Westminster as Brown's cheerleader, marked the Prime Minister's astonishing plunge from grace. Pollsters have tracked that vertiginous descent. In opinion polls, Labour led the opposition Conservatives by some eight percentage points in September; two recent surveys show David Cameron's revitalized party ahead by 11 points, the most substantial lead it has enjoyed over Labour since Margaret Thatcher was in power. Brown's government has been buffeted...