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/ 22 January 2008
Saffron-robed Buddhist monks, Nepali Sherpas and grey-bearded mountaineers paid homage on Tuesday to Sir Edmund Hillary, the man who conquered Everest, as thousands gathered in New Zealand to watch his state funeral. ”His loss to us is bigger and heavier than Mount Everest,” Ang Rita Sherpa told the service in a small church in Auckland.
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/ 22 January 2008
Jerry Mweemba, an 82-year-old farmer, stoically chews on his pipe as he surveys the line of grass-thatched huts waist-high in brown rainwater in Zambia’s impoverished Mazabuka region. ”Initially, we thought it was the usual rains until we realised that water was entering into our homes,” says Mweemba from under the shade of a large acacia tree.
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/ 22 January 2008
Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama engaged in a bitter crossfire on Monday as their United States presidential campaign took an ugly personal turn on the Martin Luther King holiday. Obama’s complaints about former President Bill Clinton’s attacks on him on behalf of his wife’s campaign boiled over at a rancorous debate.
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/ 22 January 2008
An operational plan to deal with congestion at many road intersections resulting from power cuts has been devised, Johannesburg metro police said on Monday. ”The plan involves deploying officers at the off-ramps along the freeways,” said spokesperson Superintendent Wayne Minnaar.
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/ 22 January 2008
Kenya opposition leader Raila Odinga vowed on Monday to step up his challenge against President Mwai Kibaki as political unrest re-opened ethnic conflicts across the country. The tribes that voted for Kibaki in the December 27 election disputed by Odinga were being increasingly targeted by rival groups with long-running grievances.
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/ 22 January 2008
Stocks plummeted across the world on Monday amid fears of a global recession, with markets in Europe suffering their biggest one-day losses since the September 11 attacks on the United States. Dealers said a major new plan by President George Bush to prevent a United States recession was not enough to offset the stream of bad news from banks.
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/ 22 January 2008
Local knowledge of the eating habits of faraway cultures, and their adaptability, reflects suburban South Africa’s inadequate knowledge of its own indigenous eating culture, writes Matthew Krouse.
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/ 22 January 2008
Peter Singer helped to create the animal rights movement and now he wants to change the way we eat. He tells Patrick Barkham why McDonald’s, GM crops and food miles are not all bad.
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/ 22 January 2008
There’s a coffee to suit every time of day, writes Kevin Gould and none of it’s instant.
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/ 22 January 2008
As someone who works from home, I’ve lost two days of productivity over the past week. Like many small businesses, that means a serious drop in income. My stress levels are soaring because when the cuts come I do not know if they will be for a couple of hours or the whole day, writes Maya Fisher-French.