“It’s been announced in Moscow that President Mikhail Gorbachev has become ill,” said the radio on the hotel reception desk. I immediately realised this was some sort of Soviet-speak for saying the Soviet leader was either already dead or was being removed – in a coup. I bemoaned my fate — marooned in another country. […]
United Nations judges have sentenced Ratko Mladic, known as the “Butcher of Bosnia”, to life in prison for genocide and other war crimes. As this is in a final judgment, there can be no further appeal. Mladic, now 78, sat without a mask in the war crime tribunal’s dock behind a sheet of glass. He […]
A sign on the desert road south of Baghdad, curiously in English not Arabic, pointed to what it described as an “Engineering Factory”. It was the only hint that there was something unusual to be found just off the beaten track. Until days before, this “Engineering factory” had been nothing less than Saddam Hussein’s project […]
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It was October 6 1981 and I was having a very pleasant off-duty day in Egypt. My superior BBC colleague was in charge.
Alan Kogosowski has brought the magic of Frederic Chopin back from beyond the grave. The Australian pianist completed a unique version of the Austrian composer’s long-delayed and ultimately unfinished Third Piano Concerto in A major, Opus 46. He has now done its final revision. Correspondent.world accompanied Kogosowshi to Paris where he drew new inspiration by visiting […]
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By Paul Martin in Cape Town. Returning to South Africa with a visa that banned me from doing any reporting I was secretly filming a story on how and where Mandela grew up.
By Paul Martin. Cape Town