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/ 25 January 2006
Stars and famous brands are continuing to battle cyber-squatters, with the number of complaints filed in 2005 jumping by a fifth, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo) said on Wednesday. Wipo said its arbitration centre received 1Â 456 cyber-squatting cases last year, or 20% more than in 2004.
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/ 25 January 2006
It may have come as a surprise to many: an ageing theologian known for his conservative stance on sex exploring a highly controversial subject for the Roman Catholic Church — love. And yet, Pope Benedict XVI’s first encyclical letter offers an enlightened insight into how Christianity views this noblest of emotions.
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/ 25 January 2006
Although relatively high growth rates in the past five years have confirmed that African economies are recovering, threats still remain, a United Nations report has found. ”In all, several major threats to African recovery remain,” according to the World Economic Situation and Prospects report released on Wednesday.
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/ 25 January 2006
Wish you could get Mozart on the phone? No problem — and you won’t even have to part with a coin to compose the call. Fifty bright red "Calling Mozart" booths went up around Vienna on Wednesday, two days before Austria celebrates the 250th anniversary of his birth.
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/ 25 January 2006
French police who spent two years trying to identify a woman who was murdered by a blow to the head were relieved to discover the reason their efforts were failing: the woman died half a millennium ago. The skeleton of a woman in her 30s was found during an exceptionally low tide in 2003 near the seaside Brittany town of Plouezoc’h.
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/ 25 January 2006
Japanese police are investigating a 57-year-old fortune teller who has effectively started a harem and is living with 10 women, media reports said on Wednesday. The man has repeatedly married and divorced the women, all in their 20s or 30s, but they all live together in a house in Tokyo along with at least one child, the reports said.
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/ 25 January 2006
The jobs of tomorrow are here today — there’s just going to be a need for many more of them, officials at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting predicted on Wednesday. United States Labour Secretary Elaine Chao said the US has forecast a demand for millions of nurses and health-care workers.
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/ 25 January 2006
The negligible rise in the country’s employment rate is "a cause for great concern", Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana said on Wednesday. Reacting to the labour-force survey data released by Statistics South Africa on Tuesday, he said the fact that 658Â 000 jobs were created during the year ended September 2005 is encouraging.
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/ 25 January 2006
An Israeli rescue team pulled three more bodies from a collapsed building in Nairobi, Kenya, early on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 17, as an officer said tests indicated anyone still trapped under the rubble is either dead or unconscious. Radar, acoustic tests and specially trained dogs indicated there is no sound or movement beneath the ruined building.
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/ 25 January 2006
The worsening humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe is making children more vulnerable to abuse, according to child rights NGOs.