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Sports Illustrated under fire for ‘racist’ photoshoot
By Snejana Farberov Sports Illustrated sparked a racial controversy this week over its latest swimsuit edition featuring bikini-clad models posing with African and Chinese natives dressed in traditional garb. The overall theme of this year’s issue, which is currently on sale, was the seven continents, with the models doing photo-shoots in countries like Spain, Chile and [...]
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A meteor hit and an asteroid near-miss on same day
BOSTON, Feb 16 (Reuters) – An asteroid half the size of a football field passed closer to Earth than any other known object of its size on Friday, the same day an unrelated and much smaller space rock blazed over central Russia, creating shock waves that shattered windows and injured 1,200 people. Asteroid 2012 DA14, [...]
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Maldivian watchdog accuses India of ‘interfer
MALE, Feb 16 (AFP) -Maldivian judges accused India’s top envoy of meddling in domestic politics by sheltering ex-president Mohamed Nasheed who faces charges that could rule him out of contesting elections. Nasheed has remained at the Indian embassy since Wednesday after taking refuge there to avoid being arrested after he failed to appear in court last [...]
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Blogger’s death rekindles anti-Islamist protests in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Feb 16 (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Bangladeshi protesters, angered by the killing of one of their leaders, poured back onto the streets of the capital today to demand the death penalty for those found guilty of war crimes in the 1971 independence conflict. The demonstrators, who denounce a life sentence handed down [...]
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EU approves testing plan to halt horsemeat scandal
BRUSSELS, Feb 16 (AFP)-The European Union has agreed the immediate launch of tests for horse DNA in meat products, seeking to reassure nervous consumers that their food is safe and to end the horsemeat scandal spreading across Europe. The test programme will also look for the presence of phenylbutazone, an anti-inflammatory treatment for horses which [...]
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Facebook says it was a target of sophisticated hacking
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 16 (Reuters) – Facebook Inc said on Friday it had been the target of an unidentified hacker group, but it found no evidence that user data was compromised. “Last month, Facebook security discovered that our systems had been targeted in a sophisticated attack,” the company said in a blog post posted on [...]
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In uncharted retirement, Pope to live on at heart of Vatican
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Benedict may be retreating into a life of prayer but the first retired pontiff since the Middle Ages will, physically at least, remain at the very heart of the Vatican. The convent of Mater Ecclesiae – Mother of the Church – is being renovated and following Benedict’s shock resignation will offer [...]
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A penguin nursery, secretly filmed with cameras inside fake birds
By Damien Gayle Spy cameras disguised as penguins were used to capture these incredible pictures of the flightless birds’ private lives. Documentary film-makers hid their cameras inside 50 animatronic replicas of the marine birds to get closer to them than has ever been possible before. The were captured for a forthcoming documentary charting a year in the [...]
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Chubby Checker in a twist over phone app
By Sean O’Hare It was a risque but light-hearted app that claimed to let ladies know what they can expect from a new man based on the size of his feet. But though it promised ‘no need for disappointment or surprise’, someone’s been left thoroughly unamused by the ‘Chubby Checker’ – the singer whose name it [...]
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Palestinian inmate sneaks sperm to wife
NABLUS, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – A baby boy was born by Caesarian section on Monday, the product of a successful smuggling attempt by a Palestinian prisoner who managed to sneak out a sperm sample to his wife. Baby Muhannad was born in a Nablus hospital to Dallal Ziben, a 32-year-old mother-of-two from a village in the [...]
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Meet “India’s blogging princess”
By Vivek Prakash MUMBAI (Reuters) – Where I live is not the India of most people’s imaginations or memories, and it’s hardly the India I once knew as a kid. My Mumbai has easygoing cafes, organic markets, swish malls, expensive restaurants serving great food and wine, fabulous nightclubs and raucous house parties. The idea that this [...]
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Luggage belonging to fashion designer washes up more than a month after his plane vanished
Police on the tiny island of Bonaire said Thursday that two pieces of luggage from a missing plane that was carrying the CEO of Italian fashion house Missoni has washed up on a local beach. In Curacao, Bonaire police spokesman Hans Baltus confirmed that two bags found earlier this week on a rocky beach were from [...]
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France suspends acne drug Diane 35 after four deaths
PARIS (AFP) – France has suspended sales of an acne drug that has been used as a birth control pill and linked to the deaths of four women. It is the latest health scare to erupt in France, coming after controversies involving later-generation contraceptive pills, breast implants and a pill used as a dietary aid that [...]
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Alcohol is ‘responsible for 4% of cancer deaths’
Alcohol is responsible for four per cent of all cancer deaths with the significant risk to drinkers ‘hiding in plain sight’, according to experts. A study warned that the preventable risk factor is under-emphasised by doctors and therefore poorly understood by the public. The study found that the form of the disease most commonly linked with alcohol [...]
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Iraq at the brink: A decade after the
By Ramzy Baroud Soon after the joint US-British bombing campaign ‘Operation Desert Fox’ devastated parts of Iraq in Dec 1998, I was complaining to a friend in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. I was disappointed with the fact that our busy schedule in Iraq – mostly visiting hospitals packed with injured or [...]
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Keeping calm on North Korea
By Gareth Evans CANBERRA – North Korea’s latest nuclear test is bad news, both for Northeast Asia and for a world that needs to reduce its reliance on nuclear weapons. But international overreaction – with responses that raise rather than lower the temperature, and push the region closer to a nuclear arms race – would [...]
