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/ 5 September 2007
Madonna has not used her celebrity status to speed up the adoption of a little boy from a Southern African country, her spokesperson said on Tuesday. Madonna’s effort to add Malawian toddler David Banda to her family again came under the spotlight on Monday, when the Malawian official scheduled to go to London to assess the adoption was removed from the case.
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/ 5 September 2007
Former South African president Nelson Mandela, in Paris on a private visit, met French President Nicolas Sarkozy for dinner at the Élysée Palace on Tuesday, Sarkozy’s spokesperson said. Sarkozy presented Mandela with a book of photographs from an early campaign of civil disobedience in 1952.
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/ 5 September 2007
The Banking Association of South Africa is trying to have money it accidentally paid to a lobby group led by South African Communist Party head Blade Nzimande returned. The managing director of the Banking Association of South Africa, Cas Coovadia, confirmed that the industry body had accidentally paid its quarterly fees of R360Â 000 in June last year to the Financial Sector Campaign Coalition.
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/ 5 September 2007
"Powered by a 2,3-litre diesel multi-jet engine with an output of 88kW and 320Nm, the 13m Fiat Ducato wasn’t the quickest taxi I’ve ever been in. But with the help of a smooth six-speed manual gearbox, increased body rigidity and Macpherson suspension up front, it ranked among the most comfortable."
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/ 5 September 2007
"I know this might sound corny, but the sound of the Aston Martin Vantage Roadster’s V8 engine gave me indescribable pleasure. Yes, I’ve driven V8s, V10s and even a V12-engined vehicle before, but none has ever sounded as viciously sweet as this," writes Sukasha Singh.
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/ 5 September 2007
Tariq Ramadan has an abundance of labels. And for the most part, he is reluctant to dismiss any of them outright. Because to the Swiss professor and self-styled Islamic reformer, they somehow always fit. In an interview with Khadija Bradlow, Ramadan stresses the need for Muslims to engage with broader society.
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/ 5 September 2007
Finance is not gender neutral because women who stay at home to raise children are not valued in monetary terms and few have their own savings. Research shows that women have far less money at retirement yet, on average, outlive men by seven years, writes Maya Fisher-French.
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/ 5 September 2007
Personal-finance guru Suze Orman argues that many women have a dysfunctional relationship with money. In her latest book, <i>Women & Money</i>, she raises the social taboo behind which society hides — with jokes about spendthrift wives — and looks at exactly why women avoid dealing with finances.
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/ 5 September 2007
Despite an improvement in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) overall security situation; despite the formation of a transitional government from the main warring factions; and despite last year’s first multiparty elections since independence in 1960, peace and stability remain elusive, writes Hany Besada.
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/ 5 September 2007
Frustrated avant-garde architects from an architecturally conservative early 20th-century Europe used Asmara, the Eritrean capital, to experiment with radical new designs. They left a legacy valued by Eritreans and by experts worldwide, but lesser known outside this little-visited country.