<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : Africa : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : Africa : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Africa deny part in Plot.]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/53981/1/</link><description><![CDATA[South Africa has rejected &quot;with contempt&quot; claims by jailed British mercenary Simon Mann that it backed his plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea.<br/><br/>Background <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3916465.stm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazing Picture of Europe and Africa from Space]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36156/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The picture is of Europe and Africa when the sun is setting -- half of the picture is in night.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study shows lice were carried from Africa]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/49716/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Head lice taken from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru support the idea that the little creatures accompanied humans on their first migration out of Africa, 100,000 years ago, researchers reported on Wednesday.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Africa - Pictures Taken From Sky]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34412/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Whenever Africa is mentioned, most people think of roaming animals and jeep safaris. Whilst Africa has much more to offer than animals, the beauty that nature has bestowed on this continent cannot be overlooked.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Africa is creating a new ocean]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/16075/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The creation of new oceans and seas is usually a slow geological process. In the case of the Afar Triangle near the Horn of Africa a new ocean is forming more rapidly than geologists expected and will, in time, split Africa apart.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient Ruins of Southern Africa]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/70047/1/</link><description><![CDATA[There is an overwhelming consensus by scholars, academics and even mystics that southern Africa is the cradle of humankind and that this is where the first humans walked the Earth before migrating to the distant corners of our planet.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[SeaBees at work in Africa]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25910/1/</link><description><![CDATA[It's personal, my son made the Horn of Africa military site and I am so proud he is doing great things over there!]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nuclear Facility in South Africa attacked]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/41369/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Nuclear Facility in South Africa attacked. Four armed men broke into the control room of the Pelindaba Nuclear Research Center, shooting &quot;a senior emergency officer&quot; in the process. The government nuclear agency Necsa insisted the paper not run this story.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Penguin turns up in South Africa]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17002/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Animal rehabilitation officials are trying to find a home for a king penguin that turned up in Cape St. Francis, South Africa.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazing photos from Africa]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17897/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Really beautiful shots, showing the beautiful side of Africa.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early maps show development of Africa]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/8881/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A collection of rare maps of Africa, dating from 1530 to 1915, has been made available for free on the internet by Northwestern University in the US.<br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/collections/mapsofafrica/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Link to Uni map collection</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Africans to Bono: 'For God's sake please stop!']]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/26123/1/</link><description><![CDATA[That's Africa, and it's in desperate need of our help. Luckily, a few enlightened megastars from America and Europe have come to save it.Curiously, not all the natives are grateful.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Environmental setting of human migrations in the circum-Pacific region]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/38000/1/</link><description><![CDATA[It appears humans from Africa travelled all around the Indian and Pacific Oceans, driven by environmental pressures.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditional Python Hunting in Africa]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/8825/1/</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;...Then, they tie leather straps on their hands, and armed with a small fire, they crawl in the python lair.<br/>A few meters into the &quot;tunnel&quot; they find the python sitting on his eggs, and usually the snake starts...&quot;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tippi of Africa]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40473/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Great pics two french wildlife photographers have taken of their daughter and various animals over the years.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desert country battles to break culture of fat women]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16841/1/</link><description><![CDATA[In an earlier article (January 2004, link provided 4 months ago: <div style='display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3429903.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3429903.stm</a></div>  this issue was also mentioned.<br/><br/>Here's an update, illustrating how values (and opinions of &quot;beauty&quot;) can vary across the world.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day the aliens landed]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/59586/1/</link><description><![CDATA[American film maker Randall Nickerson is currently visiting southern Africa to make a documentary that follows up an incident that happened at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, in 1994, when 62 children aged between eight and 12 reported seeing a UFO and &#8220;strange beings&#8221; during their morning break.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Not To Adopt a Child From Africa]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/56207/1/</link><description><![CDATA[What I find more interesting than anything is that real celebreties (although, in this case not major celebrities) are increasingly taking part in creating original web content.  Me thinks that writer strike was good for something.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obesity a growing problem in.... Africa?!?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/6663/1/</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;We have gone from undernutrition to overnutrition without ever having passed healthy nutrition,&quot; says a retired South African medical director.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fossils of New Meat-Eating Dinos Found]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/50721/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Fossil hunters say they have discovered bones of two massive meat-eating dinosaurs in Africa. In the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno and co-author Stephen Brusatte named one Kryptops palaios, or &quot;old hidden face,&quot; because of a horny covering over its face.]]></description></item></channel></rss>