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This hotel has an unlikely ‘storey’ — as all its 30 floors were built in just 15 days. Not a single worker was injured in construction of the Ark Hotel in the inland city of Changsha, China. Despite being built so quickly, the 183,000 square foot monster can withstand a magnitude 9 earthquake, according to construction firm Broad Group. The ...

Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela’s life story is to be turned into a six-part television mini-series co-created by his grandson, the producers behind the multinational project said Monday. Entitled “Madiba”, Mandela’s clan name, the series “will take a broad view of the inner passions and outside forces that guided him,” they said in a statement. With a budget of $30 million ...

At least 30 protesters have been injured and 2 killed on Monday in the fuel subsidy protest in Kano as there were sporadic gunshots by policemen, said a Red Cross official. The protest across Nigeria by Country’s labour unions and civil society groups, which earlier today appeared largely peaceful have turned bloody. The paralyzing street protests across cities of the ...

A once reluctant United States is reaching out to the Muslim Brotherhood in a nod to Egypt’s new political reality, but concerns linger about the group’s attitude toward minorities, women and the peace treaty with Israel. In the wake of president Hosni Mubarak’s ouster last February, the Freedom and Justice Party, the Brotherhood’s political arm, has claimed the lead in ...