In Southern Africa, the term Coloureds (also known as Bruinmense or Kleurlinge) is an ethnic label for people of mixed ethnic origin who possess ancestry from Europe, Asia, and various Khoisan and Bantu ethnic groups of southern Africa. Not all Coloured people share the same ethnic background.
On this day in 2007, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the United Nationâs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to increase public knowledge about man-made climate change.
To many, including one licensed massage therapist in Oregon, Nobel Prize winner Al Gore was Mr. Smiley Global Warming Concern - a pure-of-heart environmental hero. Now the globe-trotting, do-gooding Gore is catching a lot of heat - with none of it related to global warming. Gore is dealing with some inconvenient truths - and a few ugly rumors - since the end of his marriage was followed by suggestions of sexual scandal. The high-profile activist typically profiled in magazines like The New Yorker was suddenly splashed across the front page of The National Enquirer.