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Jonathan Butler: South Africa’s music powerhouse

When singer-songwriter and guitarist Jonathan Butler took the stage at Southern California’s Long Beach Jazz Festival, the smooth, sunny music poured out as if he could no longer contain it.

Election deadlock broken in Australia

Two independent lawmakers from rural Australia broke a parliamentary deadlock on Tuesday, siding with Prime Minister Julia Gillard to return the Labor Party to power.

Organizers are planning Serbia’s first gay pride march in nearly a decade next month — after the one last year was canceled amid threats of violence by extremists.


The influx of foreign aid after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake significantly increased survivors’ trust in the West, according to new research that also suggests hard-line Islamist charities did li…