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Abbas heads home to hero’s welcome after UN vote on Palestine
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories, Dec 1 (AFP) -Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is due home from New York to a hero’s welcome today, after the United Nations voted to recognise Palestine as a non-member state. The main official event will be a celebratory rally and a speech by Abbas at his Ramallah headquarters, starting at midday. He landed [...]
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My Mummy the maneater
The housekeeper at the grand Mayfair mansion was at her wit’s ends, as she complained when the lady of the house finally bustled in from shopping. Five gentlemen admirers were waiting on her. ’Mr Gray is in the drawing room, Mr Sandford is in the library, Mr Phillips is in the boudoir, Senor Portago in the [...]
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Global clothes firms say Bangladesh must ensure fire
DHAKA, Dec 1 (Reuters) – International garment firms have demanded fast action to ensure the safety of Bangladeshi textile workers, a week after a plant fire killed more than 100 people, a senior industry official in the country said yesterday. Mohammad Shafiul Islam, President of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), said a [...]
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A modern-day Gandhi
“I am Gandhi!” he says firmly. “His soul resides inside me,” he announces, smiling unwaveringly. I stare blankly at the man who is wearing a dhoti wrapped around his waist, thick black oval glasses and carrying a cane just like Mahatma Gandhi. Two weeks ago, I called this man asking to meet him and he [...]
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Mayor says London can be a Bollywood star
MUMBAI, Nov 29 (AFP) – London Mayor Boris Johnson on Thursday called for more big-budget Bollywood movies to be shot in the British capital as he met Indian film executives during a tour of Mumbai to drum up investment. “Film-making is massively important to both our cities and we need to build on the momentum [...]
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Scientists discover gene to ‘switch on’ immune system
A newly discovered gene could hold the key to treating and potentially controlling chronic infections such as HIV, hepatitis and tuberculosis. The gene, called Arih2, is essential for embryo survival. Now scientists have found it controls the function of the immune system – making critical decisions about whether to switch on the immune response to an [...]
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Australia’s ‘Disgusting’ Cigarette Packs
A law forcing tobacco firms to sell cigarettes in plain packets came into effect in Australia yesterday in an effort to strip any glamour from smoking and prevent young people from taking up the habit. The new law, the first of its kind anywhere the world, came into force despite a vigorous legal challenge by big [...]
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NASA warns Mayan apocalypse stories pose threat to frightened children and suicidal teenagers
Administration is issuing grave warnings that 2012 Mayan apocalypse rumors pose a real-life threat to frightened children and depressive teenagers. David Morrison, an astrobiologist at NASA Ames Research Center, said on Wednesday that he receives a large number of emails and letters from worried citizens, most often from young people. Some say they can’t eat, or [...]
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Japan school trains wannabe “Santa-sans”
TOKYO (Reuters) – Magic tricks and straight answers are all part of being Santa in Japan – at least according to Tokyo’s Santa Claus Academy, which trains St. Nicks in a country with little Christian tradition and a Christmas that’s far more retail than religion. On a recent weekend, 88 Santa wannabes packed the school [...]
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The Pope has not cancelled Christmas
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – And so it came to pass that in the eighth year of Pope Benedict’s reign, some tabloid and social media decreed that he had cancelled Christmas. The day after Benedict’s latest book “The Infancy Narratives – Jesus of Nazareth” – was published on November 20, Vatican officials found some headlines they were [...]
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Indian government moves to quell Facebook and Twitter gag
As outrage over the draconian section 66A of the IT Act mounts – with even the Supreme Court jumping into the fray – the government on Thursday made a move to quell some of the discontent. New guidelines allow only officers of rank deputy commissioner of police or higher to register cases under section 66A [...]
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Sri Lanka ready to face any challenge in support of Palestine: Sajith
Let me first express my sincere gratitude to the organizers of this unique gathering for bestowing me this opportunity to express my observations on the greatest tragedy of our times: deprivation of a nation state for the Palestinian people. Let me right at the very outset expound the maxim that guides my political thinking, aspirations [...]
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ‘named sexiest man alive’
Editors at China’s top Communist Party newspaper have been left red faced after declaring North Korean leader Kim Jong Un the ‘Sexiest Man Alive’. The People’s Daily ran a series of striking photos of their neigbouring country’ s young leader to accompany news of the award – a hoax gong handed out by US satirical website [...]
