Côte d’Ivoire’s stars backed coach Sven-Goran Eriksson as the squad continued rush introductions to each other ahead of the Soccer World Cup.
Roman Polanski will find out this week whether he will be granted an unlikely release from prison pending his possible extradition to the US.
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/ 13 January 2006
Swiss Professor Henri Rieben, one of the original architects of what is now the European Union who was once described by former EU chief Jacques Delors as the ”guardian of the European flame”, has died, his former assistant said on Friday. He was 84. Rieben died on January 11 of cancer in his hometown just north of Lausanne.
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/ 14 November 2005
Graham Payn, a South African-born singer and actor who was a post-war fixture in London’s West End, has died, agents for the estate of Payn’s long-time companion, Noël Coward, said on Monday. He was 87. Payn, a product of the white-tie-and-tails school of song and dance, made his breakthrough in Coward’s 1945 Sigh No More.
Photographer Horst Tappe, whose portraits of literary and artistic luminaries included Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Vladimir Nabokov and Alfred Hitchcock, has died, a friend of the artist said on Monday. He was 67. Tappe died on August 21 in Vevey, Switzerland, after a long battle with cancer.
Human rights activists on Friday pressed members of the United Nations Human Rights Commission to back a resolution condemning widespread abuses in Nepal.
If the 53-nation body fails to do so, it risks discrediting itself further as a group committed to stopping human rights abuses, said Loubna Freih, spokesperson for the New York-based Human Rights Watch.
Governments should pass laws on the responsible use of sun beds and ban their use by people under the age of 18, the United Nations health agency said on Thursday. The increased popularity of artificial tanning machines is a key reason for the rapid increase in skin cancer, the World Health Organisation said.