Next Week in GLOBAL IDEAS: a solar energy dossier

Tapping the sun's energy in Cape Verde

By 2020, Cape Verde aims to draw 50 percent of electricity from the plentiful supply of wind and sun on its islands. It's the only West African country to introduce renewable energy legislation.

Next week on Global Ideas: Renewables on the Cape Verde Islands

'Enough!' movement aims to bring change to Ethiopia

The opposition in Ethiopia is calling for Arab World-style protests.

Duisburg voters decide Love Parade mayor's fate

Voters in the German city of Duisburg will decide the political fate of their controversial mayor on Sunday. Residents who blame Adolf Sauerland for 21 deaths at the Love Parade music festival in 2010 forced the vote.

Pop star Whitney Houston dies, aged 48

Pop singer Whitney Houston, once one of the best known-female vocalists in the world, has died at the age of 48. The cause of her death has not yet been announced.

Film Festival kicks off with Marie Antoinette drama

Berlin's Film Festival opened with a period drama set at the dawn of the French Revolution.