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The South African High Court has banned an ANC liberation song that has lyrics like, "shoot the boer" as inciting murder. The ANC are incensed and are saying this is trying to erase history.

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It's been the biggest bloodbath inside Europe since World War II.

Today for the 1995 massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica expressing sympathy to the victims and admitting that Serbia did not enough to prevent the killings.

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Donors are today to raise more money for Haiti's reconstruction. The Haitian government is asking for nearly $4 bn. But with millions already donated, why should the world give more?

The amount is just a third of what's needed to get the country onto it's feet and past experiences have shown that aid has done very little to fix Haiti's problems.

that aid is doing its job in Haiti. "First, more is getting done than you think," he says. "And second, more needs to be done than you can imagine."

With schools reopening, food and water reaching the people - what's wrong with giving more?

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If there is one aspect of yesterday's Moscow attacks that few have failed to mention, it's the fact that the attackers were female. For many Russians, their fear of the female suicide bomber has been revived. calls it a 'lurid obsession.'

This morning's takes a closer look at the Black Widows suspected of being behind the bombs and adds that what happened yesterday is nothing new.
'...unlike in the Palestinian territories and Sri Lanka, where terrorists began deploying women as living bombs after security services made it all but impossible for male attackers to get to their targets, the North Caucasus rebels have used women from the start of their suicide strategy in 2001, which suggests that they placed their bets on women from the very beginning.'

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Ricky Martin, the pop star from Puerto Rico, has finally ended years of speculation about his sexuality; he is 'proud to say' he is a . He also says that he always hid his sexuality because advisers told him it .

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Nearly in two suicide bomb attacks on the Moscow underground during the morning rush hour.

It was just before 8am when the first explosion went off at Lubyanka, a central station. Police say 14 people inside a train and 11 on the platform were killed. The second attack came about half an hour later at the Park Kultury station, where 12 people were killed. The explosion struck the back of a train as people were boarding.

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The of a cover up of abuse in Wisconsin, claiming it is an attack on the Pope.

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I've had better times than last night. Nuala and I both spotted that something wasn't right with the old blog and our Twitter account. We're still trying to get to the bottom of it, but the long and short of it is that our Twitter account was hacked and deleted. Which it's fair to say I'm having a sense of humour failure about. . To the 1000s of you who were following us on Twitter, I'm afraid we're going to have start over. So please sign up to follow us so we can get the ball rolling again.

So after two and a half happy years with Wordpress we've come back into the ´óÏó´«Ã½ fold. We hope you like our new blog, and if there are things you think we should add please let us know. You will need to sign in to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ blog network here, but it's dead simple and will allow us to moderate your comments much faster. But apart from a new look, and a slightly different system, it's the same old WHYS blog you've got to know over the past few years. Jump in...

It's clock change time again which means that from Monday we'll broadcast from 1800-1900GMT to all of the world bar Africa, and 1900-2000GMT to those of you in Africa. But the way that WHYS comes together you'll still hear and have the chance to speak to people from all over the world in both hours.

We are currently experiencing problems with our old Wordpress blog. We did not publish the post at the top of the blog and are unable to access our Twitter account. We are working to remedy this as soon as possible.

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An Islamic court inhas banned a human rights group from using Facebook and Twitter, to discuss the country's first amputation for theft.
"We condemn the ruling and reject it. We think it is a violation of our freedom of expression," says Shehu Sani the Civil Rights Congress president.

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"All I want is the same chance to enjoy my prom night like any other student. But my school would rather hurt all the students than treat everyone fairly". I know a lot of you have seen the story about Constance McMillen.

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India's appetite for skin whitening creams is huge and growing. According to anby Shantanu Guha Ray, sales are outstripping both Coca Cola and tea. Products with names like 'Fair and Lovely' and 'White Perfect' are selling by the million, and men are increasingly getting involved.

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We talked about this last week, and since then the Pope to Catholics in Ireland. Last time we discussed if the Pope's position was tenable. Has this letter changed your view of how he's responding to the multiple allegations? Post on this blog or .

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I'm not presenting the show today as we're starting work on bringing our blog back onto the ´óÏó´«Ã½ system. So if you're a regular on our , please let me know if there are features that we should add or get rid of. I've also included a picture of our guest on Friday's show (Luis Moreno Ocampo).