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President Mbeki, derided in South Africa and abroad for his policy on Zimbabwe, plans to use the decision to hold a presidential run-off there to revive his battered diplomacy and push for a regional settlement to the crisis.
On Friday advisers to Mr...
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Having 18 children would be more than enough of a challenge for most women, but for U.S. mother Michelle Duggar it throws up an extra problem … she has to come up with an 18th name beginning with J so it won’t stand out among its siblings.
A cat missing for seven months in Cornwall has been spotted - by a US woman watching a webcam.
Abbi Rendell, 30, lost her tabby Jerry in October after moving to the village of Polperro, reports The Sun.
The threat of a nuclear attack on the UK in the 1950s caused concern over the supply of tea, top-secret documents which have now been released reveal.
A memorial to Boris Yeltsin was dedicated the other day in a central spot in Russia’s most illustrious cemetery, a landscape of earnest tributes to generals and composers, mathematicians and diplomats. The veil was lifted, and there it was: a slab...
Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, Tata group head, Ratan Tata and PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi are the only Indians that figure among the list of Time’s 100 most influential people for the year 2008 released on Thursday.
Tibetan spiritual leader,...
A father-of-four has been left with a criminal record for overfilling his wheelie bin by four inches.
‘A MAN of God and an enemy of the Great Satan”: That’s how Iran’s official media described Fernando Lugo - the Paraguayan ex-priest who just won his country’s presidency in a hotly contested election.
Iran’s...
The human rights organisation Amnesty International has alleged in a report issued on Tuesday that the Mozambican police are killing and torturing people with near total impunity.
According to Michelle Kagari, Deputy Director of Amnesty...
THESE days, as I watch Robert Mugabe tighten his 28-year-old stranglehold on Zimbabwe while the forces of opposition try to pry away his fingers, I can’t help thinking back to a conversation he and I once tried to have about T. S. Eliot, poetry and...
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