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MCs for Life tonight

A night of MC culture, rap and spoken word from around the world, featuring the Philadelphia slam poet Ursula Rucker, conscious hip- hop from the Roots’s Black Thought (right), Ty’s progressive and funky UK rap, South Africa’s leading lyricist, Ben Sharpa, Virus Syndicate and No Lay’s fiery home-grown grime. Custard Factory, Birmingham

Circus tonight

Yousef’s carnival of house music, with Sander Kleinenberg celebrating his installation as a resident at Pacha, Ibiza with an audiovisual tech-house set, and Mark Knight showcasing the epic electro-house of his Toolroom Records. Barfly, Liverpool

Shindig tonight

New York’s Sandy Rivera, aka Kings of Tomorrow, plays deep, soulful house. Digital, Newcastle upon Tyne

Pirates of the Ancoats tonight

The Big Brother winner Kate Lawler is now a credible DJ, playing tech-house and techno. Plus, Funkagenda plays glitchy minimal house and Mistress de Funk spins warped electronic music. Sankeys, Manchester

Koolwaters tonight

For Koolwaters’ eighth birthday, Groove Armada’s Andy Cato whips up a storm of Ibiza classics and future anthems, while Marc Vedo mixes prog-house and trance. Club Tall Trees, Yarm

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KANO, Nigeria (AFP) — Officials in northern Nigeria’s most populuous state have said they are worried by a sharp rise in the number of cases of the paralysing disease poliomyelitis.

“In the last six months we have recorded 90 polio cases which is a radical shift from the same period in 2007 when we had zero cases,” Kano health commissioner Aisha Isyaku Kiru told a gathering of health officials and donor agencies late Friday.

She linked the increase to a decline in polio immunisation as parents have become increasingly reluctant to take their children for routine immunisation.

“Events in the past few months in the journey towards polio eradication have been disheartening,” Kano state governor Ibrahim Shekarau told the same gathering.

Kano has been the epicentre of the transmission of the crippling polio virus to other parts of the world since 2003 when the authorities suspended polio immunization for …

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PITTSBURGH — In all of the sunshine fun and seaspray of summer, the small celebration being conducted along the eastern spine of Pittsburgh on Sunday (June 29) will attract scant attention. Highway rededications are small, fleeting events. There will be speeches that soon will be forgotten, and commemorative coins, and a military jet fly-over. Then there will be a bicycle race.

But in some ways, what is to happen on the street where this column is being typed has a larger meaning, one worth pondering as an election approaches and as the number of World War I veterans still alive dwindles to its final honored dozen scattered across the globe. The rededication of the Boulevard of the Allies is a moment to ponder a war long forgotten, but one whose impact remains with us, shaping our lives, our perspectives and, though it began almost a century ago, our future.

This …

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