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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.
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/ 11 January 2006
The African leg of the World Social Forum kicks off next week in the Malian capital, Bamako, with a host of issues on the agenda: war and militarism, global trade and debt, to name just a few. The conference website where these topics are listed makes no direct mention of Aids, however, or the need for good governance in African states.
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/ 11 January 2006
The fizzy drink of choice at PepsiCo on December 12 was more likely to have been champagne than cola. By the end of trading on Wall Street that day, the company’s market capitalisation reached ,4billion. For the first time in the history of the two companies, PepsiCo was valued more highly than its old arch-enemy.
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/ 11 January 2006
Sari-clad women carry sparkling metal pots of water on their heads through winding alleys leading to their homes. It’s a scene from eternal India, oft romanticised as a daily part of a wholesome country life. But these mothers and children live not in isolated villages. They eke out a living in an overcrowded slum in the shadow of the World Trade Centre.
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/ 10 January 2006
Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s family ”gravy plane” holiday in Abu Dhabi would have cost the taxpayer at least R700 000, Democratic Alliance MP Gareth Morgan said on Tuesday. He was reacting to a report that she and her family flew to the United Arab Emirates for a five-day holiday at the end of December on the SA Air Force Falcon 900 jet reserved for VIPs.
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/ 10 January 2006
The Democratic Alliance paid its own city manager a R196 000 bonus just three years ago, Cape Town mayor Nomanidia Mfeketo said on Tuesday. She was replying to Democratic Alliance mayoral candidate Helen Zille, who revealed earlier in the day that four of the city’s current top managers earned bonuses last year that pushed their before-tax earnings to over a million rand each.
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/ 10 January 2006
Three people died and four were injured in a rockfall at AngloGold Ashanti’s TauTona mine near Carletonville on Tuesday, the company said in a statement. The fall was caused by a seismic event with a magnitude of 2,4, which occurred about 3km below the surface at 11.37am.
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/ 10 January 2006
Doctors bringing Ariel Sharon out of a medically induced coma declared on Tuesday that the Israeli premier’s life was no longer in danger and that there were increased signs of activity in his brain. The 77-year-old Sharon remains in the intensive care unit at Jerusalem’s Hadassah hospital after suffering a massive brain haemorrhage six days ago.