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One of Africa’s top musicians, singer Youssou N’dour, who hopes to become president of Senegal, does a lot more with his time than singing.
He is also a big businessman. He owns a newspaper, a radio station and a television channel in his home country.
In addition, he has run healthcare and poverty alleviation initiatives.
While he is running for president, he’s put his music career on hold.
There’s still a lot of fuel in the tanks of the cruise ship that sank in the Mediterranean Sea, off Italy.
If it leaks into the water it will cause terrible damage to some of the most splendid sea life and to the beautiful, clear seawater.
Environmentalists are furious at the way the ship sank.
It went down while sailing far too close to the coast of an island, called Giglio.
Adventurers from different countries have been at the South Pole to remember the first two explorers who reached the bottom of the world.
They were Robert Scott, from Britain, and Roald Amundsen, from Norway. The modern explorers, and scientists based in Antarctica, all had a cricket game in the freezing cold, sliding all over the ice.
A team made up of British adventurers won!
Madagascar has had lots of trouble in its government over the years. One of Madagascar’s recent rulers was not allowed back into the country three years ago when the army helped another take over.
He had been visiting South Africa at the time and has had to live here ever since.
This weekend he decided to go home.
While the plane taking him back to Madagascar was in the air, it was refused permission to land and returned to South Africa.
On Tuesday this week it will be Chinese New Year and the beginning of the Year of the Dragon.
The Government of China expects it to be quite a tough year.
The country has been developing very fast and becoming very wealthy. People who know a lot about business believe that in this New Year, China’s development and wealth will not happen quite as fast as has been happening in recent years.
A gold rush in California, the beginning of the Boy Scouts movement, a guerrilla advance on Uganda's capital and the birth of singer Neil Diamond all happened on January 24 in different years.