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/ 17 September 2005
World leaders ended a three-day United Nations summit on Friday by endorsing a watered-down document on UN reform that fell short of their robust calls for increased efforts to combat terrorism and poverty. The summit had brought together more than 170 leaders in New York.
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/ 10 December 2004
For those not keen on the fa-la-la-la school of Christmas music, a slew of albums this holiday season offers every conceivable take on Yuletide themes, from rap to reggae and Christ Child’s Lullaby to Santa Was a Black Man. For the record companies, the Christmas market offers a short sales window with the possibility of a long-term payoff.
The world’s top five music companies, in a deal announced on Tuesday, agreed to pay -million in unclaimed royalties to thousands of artists, including stars such as David Bowie and Dolly Parton. The companies included Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, Universal Music, EMI Music Publishing and BMG Songs.
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/ 22 February 2004
Mel Gibson’s The Passion of Christ is only the latest in a very long line of celluloid portrayals of Jesus that have, in their turn, aroused controversy, delight, outrage and ridicule. About 47 actors — among them Max Von Sydow and Willem Dafoe — have taken a crack at the title role, with wildy varying degrees of success.
Harvard Law School is seeking funding for a stalled project that aims, for the first time, to make more than one million pages of documents from the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals available on the internet.
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