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Copenhagen climate summit: Africa can and must be part of the solution to climate change

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:41:11 GMT

Bob Geldof in Northern Ethiopia, the area hit by the 1984 famine. Photo: EDDIE MULHOLLAND Ethiopia, along with much of Africa, has been affected by climate change.
Source: The Telegraph

Leading the Effort on Climate Change

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:18:43 GMT

The Copenhagen climate change talks start today. We are all hoping that the world's leaders will come to a global, fair and binding agreement on how to address the major climate issue facing the world.
Source: Advertising Age

Downloads beats Live Aid in new poll covering the music events of the last 30 years

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:59:55 GMT

A new poll from Music Choice, has found the launch of music downloads to be the most important music event of the last 30 years beating charity gig Live Aid and the death of Michael Jackson earlier this year. Live Aid, billed as the 'global jukebox,'
Source: Macworld UK

'Barbaric' family courts behind 'state sponsored kidnap' - Bob Geldof

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:56:52 GMT

The singer and anti-poverty campaigner described the current child custody laws as “barbaric and abusive” and dismissed the system as a “disgraceful mess”.
Source: The Telegraph

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Band Aid: The 25th anniversary

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:12:33 GMT

TODAY is the 25th anniversary of what has just been voted the most important event in music history the release of Band Aids Do They Know Its Christmas?
Source: Daily Star

Geldof for president! Bob and his first lady sing for a supper

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:40:06 GMT

If Bob Geldof has dreams of one day becoming President of Ireland he and his French actress girlfriend Jeanne Marine are going the right way about it. On Monday night in London the couple came over all Sarkozy and Carla Bruni.
Source: Irish Independent

LIZ JONES: Cynicism – it’s the default setting of saggy old backsides like Jeremy Paxman

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:03:10 GMT

Whenever I see a well-meaning celebrity teetering to peer precariously into the dustbins of humanity, my knee-jerk reaction is to condemn them.
Source: Daily Mail - UK

Quoted in 'Also In Global Health News: Ethiopia Food Aid; Maternal Mortality In Mozambique'

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:18:19 GMT

said in Medical News Today:

Bob Geldof [recently] went back to Africa to see how millions of lives have been transformed

Quoted in 'Bob Geldof: 'Who says aid doesn't work?''

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:03:50 GMT

Bob Geldof said in The Independent:

Climate change is not a future threat ... Here it is a present reality. And it is hitting the poorest first, and will impact on them worst.

Photo from Reuters Pictures

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:29:59 GMT

Singer Bob Geldof (C), former U.N. Secretary General and President of the Global Humanitarian Forum Kofi Annan (R) and David Jones, Global CEO of Euro RSCG Worldwide Havas Worldwide, pose for the media during the launch of the climate change campaign "T...

Photo from Reuters Pictures

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:24:59 GMT

Singer Bob Geldof (L) and former U.N. General Secretary and President of the Global Humanitarian Forum Kofi Annan pose for the media for the launch of the climate change campaign "TCK, TCK, TCK, Time for Climate Justice" at the Cannes Lions 2009 Intern...

David Gilmour & Bob Geldof - 16 Comfortably numb

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:13:46 GMT