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/ 11 January 2006
Cup holders that chill drinks, interior lights that turn into flashlights and sound systems that hook up to iPods are just some of the new perks car makers are unveiling at this year’s Detroit auto show. Americans are spending more and more time on the road and many treat their vehicles like a second home.
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/ 11 January 2006
China’s foreign minister began a six-nation African tour on Wednesday, which analysts say will focus on boosting energy ties and forging stronger global political alliances to counterbalance United States dominance. Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing will visit Cape Verde, Senegal, Mali, Liberia, Nigeria and Libya during the trip, set to end on January 19.
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/ 11 January 2006
Among the many mysteries in the world of British crime writer Agatha Christie is how she came to be the biggest-selling fiction author of all time. Thirty years after her death on January 12 1976, British linguistics experts reckon they have solved part of the puzzle as to how she came to sell an estimated two billion books worldwide.
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/ 11 January 2006
Dressed in a white plastic suit and armed with a large sack, Hassan Aytac entered the compound and made straight for the chicken coop. From inside there came a lot of squawking. He opened the door. There was an explosion of feathers as around eight chickens charged out into the snow-covered courtyard and ran for their lives.
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/ 11 January 2006
Michael Jackson is facing new charges of child molestation following allegations from a 20-year-old that the singer assaulted him, forced him to have plastic surgery and stole his musical ideas. The civil lawsuit was filed in a southern California court last July but resubmitted in October.
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/ 11 January 2006
From Jaws and Close Encounters to War of the Worlds, Steven Spielberg movies have rarely had trouble connecting with audiences in the United Kingdom. But the man who put a capital B into the contemporary blockbuster, whose films have grossed billions and whose name is usually the stamp of glorious cinematic success, has been humbled.
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/ 11 January 2006
The White House warned Iran on Tuesday that it risked a ”serious escalation” in its nuclear stand-off with the United Nations and the West after Tehran broke the seals on equipment at its uranium enrichment facility. Iran’s decision to break the seals risked triggering international sanctions, the White House’s press secretary, Scott McClellan, said.
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/ 11 January 2006
Defeated in the field by a bloody military crackdown, Nigeria’s home-grown Islamic insurgency has dispersed amid the dusty back streets of the country’s teeming northern cities and is plotting its comeback. Small numbers of militants await the moment to re-launch their campaign for a Muslim revolution in Africa’s most populous state.
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/ 11 January 2006
Move over, Barbie; veiled is beautiful. The physical ideal of Muslim girls increasingly includes the hijab, as evidenced by toy shops’ best-selling doll "Fulla" and the string of showbiz stars opting to cover up. The dark-eyed and olive-skinned Fulla has replaced her American rival’s skimpy skirts with more modest "outdoor fashion".
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/ 11 January 2006
Four weeks after the Iraqi parliamentary elections, it remains unclear whether a government of national unity will be formed. There is still no official result, even though representatives of the bigger parties are already negotiating over the composition of the new government.