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/ 25 September 2009
Protesters smashed shop windows and threw rocks at police on Thursday as police used pepper gas and batons to disperse marches against capitalism.
Former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, whose authoritative delivery of news events made him ”the most trusted man in America”, died on Friday.
Publishers are learning from music labels’ struggle to make online music profitable and combat piracy, but e-books will add value to the industry.
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/ 18 October 2008
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said on Friday he will present a case for the indictment of some rebel commanders.
A single phone call prompted United States pop star Madonna to begin charity work in Malawi, and it was while making a documentary on the African country’s one million orphans that she found a baby she decided to adopt. I Am Because We Are premiered at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday.
Pop star Madonna, folk singer Leonard Cohen, rocker John Mellencamp, British pop band The Dave Clark Five and instrumental group The Ventures will be inducted into the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame on Monday. The five artists have been chosen by 600 music industry professionals.
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/ 19 February 2008
The Spice Girls would love to perform for former South African president Nelson Mandela, but said on Monday they had not yet been formally asked to be part of his planned 90th birthday celebrations in June. The Spice Girls met Mandela in 1997 when he invited them to his Pretoria residence for a chat and photos.
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/ 19 December 2007
At least 64 journalists were killed in 2007, making it the deadliest year in more than a decade with Iraq the most dangerous place in the world to report, a United States media watchdog said on Monday. About seven in 10 of the deaths in 2007 were murders, while the rest were combat-related deaths and deaths in dangerous assignments.
Some of the world’s biggest pop stars from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Madonna and The Police played Live Earth concerts worldwide on Saturday to urge fans and governments to fight global warming. Spearheaded by environmentalist and former United States vice-president Al Gore, the concerts spanned over 22 hours, ending at Rio’s Copacabana beach and a New Jersey football stadium.
Africa should condemn human rights violations in Zimbabwe and South Africa should consider threatening action against its neighbour, South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu said on Monday. Africa seems ”so reluctant just to call a spade a spade. Human rights violations are human rights violations,” he said.