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Obama warns Syria on chemical weapons
WASHINGTON, April 27 (AFP) – US President Barack Obama has warned Syria that using chemical weapons would be a “game changer,” as he faces rising pressure at home and abroad to intervene in the country’s bloody civil war. But speaking Friday, a day after US officials said they suspected the use of the deadly agent sarin [...]
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Gwyneth Paltrow named People’s magazine’s most beautiful woman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow on Wednesday was named the world’s most beautiful woman for 2013 by People magazine, knocking pop singer Beyonce out of the top spot. The 40-year-old mother of two credits a five-day-a-week exercise regimen for keeping her in shape as she grows older. “It makes me look younger and [...]
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Bosses arrested over Bangladesh building disaster
SAVAR, Bangladesh, April 27 (AFP) – Police arrested two textile bosses over a Bangladeshi factory disaster as the death toll climbed to 332 and distraught relatives lashed out at rescuers trying to detect signs of life. Around 40 people were pulled alive overnight from the ruins of the eight-storey Rana Plaza compound which caved in on [...]
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Girls and the marvels of the Mercedes ML 350
Terrified carjacking victim reveals the light-hearted jokes of Boston bombers A 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur has spoken about his life-threatening meeting with the Boston bombers after they carjacked his Mercedes last Thursday evening. The incident occurred at almost 11p.m. when the man, who has asked to only be identified by his American nickname Danny, had just pulled [...]
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India PM says dispute with China can be solved
NEW DELHI, April 27 (AFP) – India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he believes a border dispute over an alleged incursion by Chinese soldiers can be resolved, the Press Trust of India reported. “It is a localised problem, we do believe it can be solved,” Singh was quoted as saying by the news agency after Chinese [...]
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‘100 Per Cent Men’
From Apple Inc to ‘every person to ever land on the moon’, blog reveals countless all-male organizations that still exist Every composer in New York City Ballet’s American Music Festival, every director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, every Apple Inc executive, and every person to land on the moon. These are just some of the [...]
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‘This is like blowing up the Taj Mahal’
Fierce fighting reduces archaeological treasure in Aleppo’s Unesco-listed Old City, the iconic 11th-century minaret at Syria’s Umayyad mosque, to rubble By Leon Watson The 11th-century minaret of a famed mosque that towered over Aleppo’s old quarter was destroyed yesterday as fighting raged in the ancient Syrian city. President Bashar Assad’s government and the rebels trying to [...]
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Obama threatens daughters with”family tattoo”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If they were thinking about getting tattoos, the Obama daughters may want to reconsider. Speaking on NBC’s “Today” show in a segment originally filmed before the Boston Marathon bombings, President Barack Obama revealed the strategy he and First Lady Michelle Obama have been using to keep their daughters away from tattoos. “What we’ve [...]
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Pakistani playwright wins Pulitzer Prize
NEW YORK (Reuters)- Pakistani-American Ayad Akhtar’s play “Disgraced” has won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play centers on the themes of racism, Islamophobia, sexism and apostasy, according to a report. The Pulitzer jury described “Disgraced” as “a moving play that depicts a successful corporate lawyer painfully forced to consider why he has for so long [...]
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New bird flu strain one of the ‘most lethal viruses ever’
Scientists have described the new bird flu that has killed 22 people in China as one of the most deadly influenza strains as it spreads to Taiwan. The H7N9 flu has infected 108 people in China since it was first detected in March, according to the Geneva-based WHO. Some 6,000 Chinese tourists visit Taiwan every day, [...]
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Space junk needs to be removed from Earth’s orbit: ESA
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Space junk such as debris from rockets must be removed from the Earth’s orbit to avoid crashes that could cost satellite operators millions of euros and knock out mobile and GPS networks, the European Space Agency said. At the current density of debris, there will be an in-orbit collision about every five years, [...]
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The collapsing Middle East: Arab spring in unbearable winter
By Nawaf Obaid BOSTON – The so-called Arab Spring generated a wave of hope among those fighting or advocating for democratisation of the Arab world’s authoritarian regimes. Now, following leadership changes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, and with a brutal civil war raging in Syria and increasingly fraught conditions in Bahrain, Sudan, Jordan, and [...]
