Scenes From a Baptism
Priest baptize the faithful in a river outside Lubumbashi, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo May 12, 2012. Many christens sects such as this one in the Congo refuse blood transfusions creating problems for malaria treatment.
Malaria is already the single biggest killer in Congo, with nearly 200,000 people dying annually, and now the trend is worsening. At one clinic in Katanga province alone, nearly 25,000 people were treated for malaria last year – more than triple the number in 2009.
Geoffrey York’s story: Congo’s malaria surge stumps scientists
Ridding the rails in Frankfurt between flights.
Picture Perfect
Election day/night with Wildrose and final day in Calgary with Redford.
Two Days on The Campaign Trail
Danielle Smith’s Wildrose Party is poised for a sweeping majority in Monday’s Alberta election, the latest poll says.
The poll, conducted by Forum Research Inc., shows Wildrose maintaining a wide lead over the Progressive Conservatives, with 41 per cent of voters backing the party compared to the PC’s 32 per cent. It’s a wider gap than what was found by another major poll earlier this week.
Lunch is served. Waiting for Wildrose leader Smith.
One woman’s struggle to save B.C.’s wild salmon
Alexandra Morton sits at her kitchen table and tries to ignore the e-mails pouring in to the laptop open in front of her. She is looking out the picture window at Rough Bay, which is tranquil this morning, reflecting a vivid blue sky and the snow-capped mountains of northern Vancouver Island.
“That’s where I want to be,” she says wistfully, as if the sea, which washes ashore 10 metres from her tiny cabin on Malcolm Island, is somehow unreachable because of the life she has chosen.
Read the rest of Mark Hume’s story in the Globe and Mail
High and dry in Calgary.
Homeward bound.
Vaisakhi Parade Photos By John Lehmann/Globe and Mail
Sikhs at the Ross Street Temple at the start of Vaisakhi parade pray as the Guru Granth Sahib (Sikhs holy book) is loaded onto a float in Vancouver April 14, 2012. Every April, millions of Sikhs world-wide celebrate Khalsa Day, a day that marks both the New Year and the anniversary of one of Sikhism’s most important events, the establishment of Khalsa in 1699 with the first Amrit ceremony.
