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/ 10 November 2006
Ur dumped, Kevin Federline — and you are now part of a growing club of spurned lovers who have been ditched by SMS. A video of Britney Spears’ soon-to-be ex-husband apparently getting a SMS informing him that the pop princess had filed for divorce became the most viewed item on YouTube on Thursday, with more than one million hits.
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/ 10 November 2006
Losing weight, cutting down on saturated fats, eating more fibre and exercising can make a difference when it comes to diabetes. Finnish researchers have shown that lifestyle changes not only reduce the odds of high-risk people developing Type 2 diabetes but can also postpone the onset of the illness.
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/ 10 November 2006
Searching the worldwide web with engines such as Google may also help doctors to diagnose perplexing medical conditions, Australian researchers said on Friday.
”Our study suggests that in difficult cases, it is often useful to google for a diagnosis,” said Hangwi Tang, of the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane.
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/ 10 November 2006
Tshwane municipal manager Blake Mosley-Lefatola has resigned, media reports said on Friday. Mosley-Lefatola has handed his letter of resignation to Tshwane mayor Gwen Ramokgopa who had not yet responded. Mosley-Lefatola said: ”We had a good working relationship. There were differences in dealing with issues.”
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/ 10 November 2006
The Israeli artillery fire that claimed 18 civilian lives in Beit Hanoun this week is the worst single attack in Gaza for six years. Whether it will prompt an end to Hamas’s moratorium on suicide bombings hangs in the balance, but the attack — said by Israeli officials to be an error — has clearly put Israel on the moral defensive.
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/ 10 November 2006
The World Bank has highlighted infrastructure investment, improving the investment climate, harnessing skills for innovation and building institutional capacity as critical areas demanding action in sub-Saharan Africa. The World Bank says success on these four fronts will help the region and Africa as a whole make up for missing two decades of global growth.
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/ 10 November 2006
Thousands of Palestinians crowded the streets of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza on Thursday, some firing guns into the air, as they buried 18 members of a single family who died in an Israeli artillery strike. As ambulances brought the dead from hospital morgues into the town, one distraught man carried in the air the body of a small child wrapped in white cloth.
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/ 10 November 2006
Monday morning, and the world shines anew. Grown men skip down the street, pensioners raise their walking sticks in solidarity, babies gurgle contentedly, unseasonal birds tweet the Internationale. ”Lovely day!” says the man selling tickets at the Tube station. I don’t think I’ve seen him smile before.
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/ 10 November 2006
On the podium is a map of the world, a map of Venezuela and a desk piled with charts, reports, books and pens: essential navigational tools for a tour through the mind of Hugo Chávez. The Venezuelan president is three weeks away from an election and has assembled Cabinet ministers, aides and journalists at the presidential palace, Miraflores, for a rhetorical journey.
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/ 10 November 2006
Two years ago Jake White’s Springboks arrived in Dublin as the holders of the Tri-Nations Trophy. They were in the second week of the so-called ”Grand Slam Tour” having narrowly beaten Wales at the Millennium stadium a week previously. The result may have favoured the Boks more had White not believed the stadium clock that read two minutes to go.