One of the legendary figures in the world’s fashion Yves Saint Laurent has died at the age of 71. Born in Nigeria when it was still a French colony, he joined the Christian Dior fashion house in Paris in 1954 after winning a fashion dress design competition. Martin … looks back of the French designer’s life. Yves Saint Lauren rides the fame of the world’s fashion with meteoric. He was born in Nigeria in 1946, when it was still a French colony. And in 1954, he joined the Christian Dior Fashion House after winning a dress design competition. Within 3 years, Christian Dior had died and Yves Saint Laurent was appointed chief designer at the age of 21. He sets off the highly successful Yves Saint Laurent fashion house and dresses some of the world’s most famous women.
Voters in Porto Rico have chosen Hilary Clinton to be the Democratic Party candidate for the US presidency. The spokesman of Mr.Obama said he hopes to clinch the nomination on Tuesday. Kim Ghettos has more. It’s a symbolic victory for Hilary Clinton. She has always expected to take Porto Rico, but even a wide margin of her victory there were not done the overall lead…….with Obama. And Porto Rico doesn’t vote for the president elections. So it’s not a state that will make a difference in November. But Senator Clinton has shown no sign of giving up the fight yet. She insists that her lead in the popular vote gives her a mandate to continue the raise for the Democratic Party nomination. The Obama campaign said they hope …Senator will clinch the nomination this week, but the last due primaries has been held on Tuesday in South Dakota and Montana.
The president of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe has arrived in Rome for World Food Summit. It’s president Robert Mugabe's first visit to Europe since the opposition movement for the democratic change won a majority in parliament elections in March. Christian Fraser reports from Rome.
The leaders of 50 countries are gathering in Rome this week to attend the summit hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization, aim at security much needed aids and long-term strategies to save …food production. Zimbabwe once elected …food is there one of those African countries that depends on national handouts. Mr. Mugabe’s controversial lump reform program has warned the country to the brink of collapse. Mr. Mugabe has been banned from travelling to Europe Union since targeted sanctions were imposed on Zimbabwe in 2002. But he has money to avail the ban on several occasions in UN conferences. Mr. Mugabe is contesting a presidential election run ……later this month.
Thousands of immigrants have been seeking refuge in future police stations following a way of xenophobe attacks in South Africa have been moved by the authorities. Aid agencies have warned that one side air mark for the displays is very close to where attacks took place. But officials say they are being sent to places that have toilets and washing facilities.
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The votes are still being counted in the general elections in the former republic of Macedonia. The prime minister in … says his centre right party have won a decisive victory. The party campaign and the program of speeding up work towards the membership of NATO and European Union. The poll has been marked by outraced violence among ethnic Albanians that makes a quarter of Macedonian population.
The Los Angeles fire department says a blaze at the Universal film studios in Hollywood has now been contained but not extinguished. The Los Angeles fire department Chief Michael Freeman has more. The fire started in back locked area…on New York Street. Those are basically built in France with walls, but they are very susceptible to the raped burning. The fire moved through there. It also burned through courthouse square, and then it got into King Kong building…internal context.
Voters in Switzerland have decisively rejected proposals which make it harder for the foreigners to become naturalized citizens. The proposals that have revived the controversial practice of holding secret ballots to decide whether candidates should be grounded to citizenship, and remove the rights among peers against unfavorable outcomes. Correspondents say the voter has made a setback for the right-wing Swiss People’s Party, the largest in parliament, which banned the populist anti-immigrant campaign and supported the changes.
And at least eight football fans are reported to have suffocated during world cup qualify match in Liberia. United Nations peacekeepers have closed the Samuel K. Doe Stadium in Monrovia because of serious overcrowding hours before the match against Gambia. The exact circumstances of the death surrounding are unclear. One report said a metal bar broke under the crush of spectators, and dozens stand fell onto people below them.