The News Review:

- CD REVIEWS YUSSU N’DUR – World Music
- A New Accent on ‘Public’ From NPR
- Funeral for SA’s shot reggae star
- Sports Round-up

CD REVIEWS YUSSU N’DUR – World Music
San Francisco Chronicle – Oct 28, 2007
It was a masterpiece in a career filled with them. His follow-up is an immediate Grammy contender in its own right. “Rokku Mi Rokka (Give and Take)” a further exploration of less-familiar music from Senegal includes a duet with Neneh Cherry “Wake Up (It’s Africa Calling)” about positive changes taking place in Africa as well as music from the northern and eastern parts of Senegal that border on Mauritania and Mali. Crackling with rhythm and joy N’Dour’s music includes a celebration of his country’s 44 years of independence; a song to honor bajjans women who preserve tradition in families; and even a song about wrestling. This is world music that truly can be heard loved and understood around the globe. YUSSU N’DURRKKU MI RKKA (GIVE AND TAKE)NNESUCH$18.

A New Accent on ‘Public’ From NPR
Washington Post – Oct 28, 2007
Martin who rose to the top in both print and TV news over the past two decades has left television to launch her own radio newsmagazine "Tell Me More" NPR’s latest effort to push beyond the classic definition of a public radio listener: highly educated white suburban. “Some of the stories we do they would have laughed me out of the room on TV” says Martin who spent a decade as a correspondent on ABC’s “Nightline” before the network dropped the show’s long-form stories in favor of a quicker pace. n "Tell Me More" if Martin wants to devote time to news from. "That’s not something we could do in television" she says. But the hour-long daily show — which started in April and airs at 2 p.

Funeral for SA’s shot reggae star
BBC News – Oct 28, 2007
Rastafarians and followers of his African Shembe Christian Church were among large crowds at a public funeral service before a private burial. The singer was shot dead on 18 ctober in Johannesburg in what police called a botched car-jacking attempt. A memorial service in Johannesburg on Wednesday was packed with mourners. Crime waveAt Sunday’s funeral local musicians and fans from across Africa sang hymns while Dube’s wife Zanele and children broke down in tears as one of his best-known songs was played over a loudspeaker the Reuters news agency reported.

Sports Round-up
Telegraph.co.uk – Oct 28, 2007
The pair carry British hopes as they aim to succeed the injured Jo Pavey as winner of the country’s biggest 10-mile road race. Their lympic ambitions have given added spice to the encounter in Portsmouth although neither is predicting they will emulate the feat of Pavey the first British winner for eight years. With Paula Radcliffe expected to attain the lympic qualifying standard in next weekend’s New York marathon effectively only two places remain on the team. Kathy Butler Hayley Haining and Tracey Morris will also be strong candidates but Yamauchi and Yelling currently look the likeliest of the contenders.