by Sean Reilly | Dec 5, 2007
A unique recording of a traditional Shona lament and a Western Christmas carol is entering the race for this year’s Christmas Number One. The single – Makandifira/Silent Night – features a 30-strong Zimbabwean children’s choir, all of them...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 4, 2007
A report published today (Tuesday) has revealed that 26 top UK universities have received contracts for at least £725 million over six years in sponsorship by arms companies and public military bodies. The new report, Study War No More, looks at each university...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 4, 2007
Quakers are gearing up to celebrate the 60th anniversary of their award of the Nobel Peace Prize. On 10 December 2007 it will be sixty years since Quakers were awarded the Prize for their relief work helping displaced people and those facing poverty in Europe in the...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 4, 2007
To loud cheers at Tate Liverpool gallery, 48-year-old artist Mark Wallinger last night won the 2007 Turner Prize, the world’s premier art award, and dedicated his win to campaigner Brian Haw, whose anti-Iraq war protest shaped his work ‘State...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 4, 2007
The Methodist Church in Britain has pronounced A Word in Time, the online Bible study for daily life, launched at the beginning of September 2007, “hugely successful”, and is extending the programme to reach a wider audience. Thousands of visitors have...
