Haitian President Michel Martelly (pictured) has tapped Garry Conille for the post of prime minister. Conille, a physician and aid to former US president Bill Clinton, also worked at the UN Development Programme in Niger.
On today’s show, we ask why there seems to be such a close connection between power and sex. Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been known for years as a womaniser and believed to have had multiple conquests. And it's not just a French idiosyncrasy: earlier this week the wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger left him after the former governor of California revealed he'd had a child out of wedlock 10 years ago...
On today’s show, we ask why there seems to be such a close connection between power and sex. Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been known for years as a womaniser and believed to have had multiple conquests. And it's not just a French idiosyncrasy: earlier this week the wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger left him after the former governor of California revealed he'd had a child out of wedlock 10 years ago...
After being accused of attempting to rape a New York City hotel maid, the reputation of IMF chief and French presidential hopeful Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been shattered. He joins a long list of politicians who have met a similar fate.
INTERNATIONAL PAPERS, 22.10.2010: In today's press review, we look at coverage in the International Herald Tribune of the bid to arrest Europe's most wanted war criminal Ratko Mladic. Also in the Independent, a new book reveals that Bill Clinton mislaid the infamous nuclear codes he was meant to keep on his person...for months! Finally, a crocodile that caused a plane crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The war against drug cartels moves onto the Mexican web. The blogosphere is unhappy with Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. And Bill Clinton invites web users to interview him via YouTube
The bad blood continues between Colombia and Venezuela, with Chavez severing ties with his neighbour. We also take you to Brazil with a special report from Sao Paolo's favelas, where an organization has made it its mission to take over unoccupied property. And, we go to the US for a rather special wedding. Former President Bill Clinton led his daughter Chelsea down the aisle in a ceremony that spared no expense.
Bill and Hillary Clinton's only daughter Chelsea married her long-time boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky in Astor Courts in upstate New York on Saturday, in what has been dubbed America's royal wedding.
Former US President Bill Clinton said at an international AIDS conference in Vienna that too much money aimed at combating AIDS is misspent and that funding should go directly to local organisations and national health projects.
