Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- South African leader Jacob Zuma was in neighboring Zimbabwe this week to rescue the seemingly crumbling power-sharing government of President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.

The South African president's visit Friday to the capital, Harare, follows escalating tensions between the two leaders, with Tsvangirai this week taking Mugabe to court for making unilateral decisions in the 21-month-old government.

After a more than six-hour meeting with Mugabe and Tsvangirai, who have not been on speaking terms for close to a month, Zuma said he had managed to break the impasse between the two.

"We have met and we have had successful consultations on a number of issues," Zuma told journalists. "They were small issues. There had been a breakdown of communication with the leaders of the government which have been resolved, and meetings will resume."

Zuma joked and smiled with journalists, but that was not the case with Mugabe and Tsvangirai, who remained tense throughout the short press briefing. They refused to talk to journalists as they separately left the meetings.

"No comment. No comment. Talk to the mediator, President Zuma," Tsvangirai told journalists about how his meeting with Zuma and Mugabe went. Mugabe just waved to reporters before he jumped into his car.

Zuma -- who was appointed by regional leaders to monitor Zimbabwe's fragile coalition government and mediate -- said he would brief his counterparts in the 15-member Southern African Development Community (SADC) about the tension in Zimbabwe.

The friction between Zimbabwe's leaders worsened this week when Tsvangirai went to court to reverse unilateral appointments Mugabe made of senior government officials such as attorney general and several diplomats. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was in Zimbabwe this week?
2. Who is he?
3. What got worse over the past few days?
4. Between who?
5. What did Tsvangirai say about the meeting?
6. Is that all?
7. What else did he say?
8. Who's that?
9. Who was at the meeting?
10. Have the other two been talking lately?
11. How long have they not talked?
12. Did Zuma help that situation?
13. How?
14. How long was their meeting?
15. Did it go well?
16. Did they fix any problems?
17. Large problems?
18. What's something they worked through?
19. What was Zuma's mood after the meeting?
20. How many members does the SADC have?
Answer: 1. Jacob Zuma
2. South African leader.
3. The friction.
4. Zimbabwe's leaders.
5. No comment.
6. .No.
7. Talk to the mediator.
8. President Zuma.
9. Zuma, Mugabe and Tsvangira.
10. No.
11. Close to a month,
12. Yes.
13. He broke the impasse between them.
14. More than six hours.
15. Yes.
16. Yes.
17. No.
18. A breakdown of communication with the leaders.
19. Zuma joked and smiled.
20. Fifteen.

My name is Sandra. Let me tell you the story of the best meal I ever had.

I was sitting on the school bench outside Springfield Elementary School, waiting to pick up my granddaughter. She is a real cutie, and I am very proud of her grades. To pass the time, I played my triangle. In my youth, I was a triangle player in a large New York band, the Black Triangles. We all wore full black costumes every time we played.

"What lovely triangle music! You make me think of a friend I had once upon a time."

A strange lady, about my age, was standing next to me, talking! She was holding a trumpet. It turns out the strange lady was my old friend and Black Triangle trumpet player Matilda. We hadn't seen each other since New York. Matilda told me she wanted to keep in touch, but couldn't remember what I looked like! We found out that all we remembered were the black costumes we always wore! It turns out; Matilda was also there to pick someone up from school.

"Well, Sandra, why don't you join me and my grandson for lunch? There is a lovely Thai place right down the road.'

We went there with my granddaughter and her grandson, and had a delicious meal. Our grandchildren got married 15 years later. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is the narrator's name?
2. What is her story about?
3. Where was she sitting?
4. On what?
5. Why?
6. What is she proud of?
7. What did she do to pass the time?
8. What did she do in her youth?
9. Where?
Answer: 1. Sandra.
2. The best meal she ever had.
3. Outside Springfield Elementary School.
4. The school bench.
5. She was waiting to pick up her granddaughter.
6. Her grades.
7. Played her triangle.
8. She was a triangle player in a band.
9. New York.

The French colonial empire constituted the overseas colonies, protectorates and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward. A distinction is generally made between the "first colonial empire", that existed until 1814, by which time most of it had been lost, and the "second colonial empire", which began with the conquest of Algiers in 1830. The second empire came to an end after the loss of bitter wars in Vietnam (1955) and Algeria (1962), and peaceful decolonization elsewhere after 1960.

Competing with Spain, Portugal, the United Provinces, and later England, France began to establish colonies in North America, the Caribbean, and India in the 17th century. A series of wars with Great Britain and other European major powers during the 18th century and early 19th century resulted in France losing nearly all of its conquests. France rebuilt a new empire mostly after 1850, concentrating chiefly in Africa, as well as Indochina and the South Pacific. Republicans, at first hostile to empire, only became supportive when Germany started to build her own colonial empire. As it developed, the new empire took on roles of trade with France, especially supplying raw materials and purchasing manufactured items, as well as lending prestige to the motherland and spreading French civilization and language, and the Catholic religion. It also provided manpower in the World Wars. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. When did France first have a colony in India?
2. Was there a lot of competition with other countries?
3. Can you name one?
4. And another?
5. Did England eventually become competition, too?
6. What happened to France after going to battle with Great Britain and other countries?
7. What did France mainly rebuild itself?
8. Where did it do this, primarily?
9. Anywhere else?
10. Where?
11. Who started out against the empire but became a supporter later?
12. What did Germany do that brought about this change of stance?
13. Did that newly developed empire begin to exchange goods with France?
14. Can you name the main thing?
15. And what did the empire start buying?
16. Ejsy
17. What's something that started to spread?
18. What religion did they help spread?
19. When did the first colonial empire cease to be?
20. And what was it called after that?
Answer:
1. the 17th century.
2. yes
3. Spain
4. Portugal
5. yes
6. it lost nearly all of its conquests.
7. a new empire
8. Africa
9. yes
10. Indochina and the South Pacific.
11. Republicans
12. started to build a colonial empire.
13. yes
14. raw materials
15. manufactured items
16. unknown
17. French civilization and language
18. Catholic
19. 1814
20. the "second colonial empire"