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/ 18 November 2005
Walking home with her two classmates after a morning’s lessons, Mirjana looks dumbfounded when asked if she has any Muslim friends. Ask a silly question, her expression says. The 16-year-old Bosnian Croat girl has grown up in a country at peace.
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/ 18 November 2005
Anti-American protesters and riot police fought pitched battles in the streets of the southern South Korean port city of Busan on Friday as thousands of people rallied against the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in the city. Violence erupted as police barricaded roads and trained water cannons on activists.
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/ 18 November 2005
Dressed in a dark blue smock, Alexander Dorofeyev stoops over his lathe, honing limewood into tiny, perfectly formed dolls. Here, ancient craft skills are used to turn out the ultimate Russian souvenir — the matryoshka doll, famous for opening up when its two halves are twisted apart, to reveal another slightly smaller doll inside.
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/ 18 November 2005
The temporary disappointment of South Africa’s unsuccessful bid to host the 2011 Rugby World Cup has not changed the challenges facing South African rugby, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday in his weekly newsletter on the African National Congress website.
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/ 18 November 2005
Contemporary music, from pop songs to film and show tunes, is now almost as likely to be chosen for a funeral in Britain as traditional religious pieces are, according to a study released on Thursday. One of the country’s largest funeral providers found more than 40% of ceremonies involved modern music.
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/ 18 November 2005
Moving beyond the monopoly of sight and touch in the computer world, a Japanese company is offering a service to download aromatic scents at a click of a button. A customer who wants to be surrounded by a new fragrance has a choice of six scented oils ready to mix in a blender, which is hooked up to the computer like a mouse.
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/ 18 November 2005
Teachers spend less than half the working week actually teaching, with administrative tasks taking up more than half their time. And more than three-quarters of teachers say their workload has increased ”a lot” since 2000, with 90% ascribing this increase to the demands of the new curriculum.
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/ 18 November 2005
The Democratic Alliance has changed its selection procedures for local government candidates in Cape Town after discrepancies in membership lists were discovered in a number of branches in the city. Branches send delegates to an electoral college in accordance with membership size. But a recent federal audit of the party’s structures found variations paid for by other members to boost numbers.
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/ 18 November 2005
Authorities are investigating reports that at least 17 people were killed when inmates broke out of a military prison in eastern Ethiopia, a police official said on Thursday. About 30 prisoners were believed to have tried to escape from a prison in Kebre Dehar town.
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/ 18 November 2005
United States internet search giant Google saw its stock price surge to new highs on Thursday after launching an online service that challenges classified-advertising sites such as eBay and Craigslist. Google Base is an online service enabling people to advertise freely anything from apartment rentals to used sporting goods.