Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of the hilarious TV satire <i>South Park</i>, now bring cinema audiences a satirical look at the United States’s role as "world policeman". They spoke to Tom E Rona in Hollywood.
An International Cricket Council XI will play an Asian XI in Melbourne on Jan. 10, with organisers hoping the sport’s biggest stars will help raise millions of dollars for the relief fund for the tsunamis that have devastated parts of Asia.
Supermodel Kate Moss — whose career was severely dented after news reports claimed she was a regular user of cocaine — is in Cape Town, media reports said on Friday. But the slinky model didn’t appear to be the world’s happiest catwalk queen as she verbally attacked photograhers who approached her for a picture at a hotel in the city on Wednesday.
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Survivors of the tsunami in the battered Indonesian province of Aceh expressed frustration with the slowness of aid efforts as emergency workers struggled with a logistical nightmare.
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Zimbabwe’s controversial information minister Jonathan Moyo has resigned from government after being dropped from the ruling Zanu-PF’s party’s central committee and politburo, reports the Financial Gazette.
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Did you write a letter to Santa Claus? In an open letter to Santa Mike van Graan writes all about the infamous, sacked National Atrs Council, warning the bringer of gifts to hide his sack and to keep his sleigh secure.
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South African Andrew Brown gave his little daughter Frankie "zero chance of survival" after a 10-metre wave crashed over his family on a tiny Thai island. Now the family is savouring a miraculous New Year gift of life.
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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Thursday said it had started distributing food to Somali survivors of the deadly tsunami wave that struck the country’s Indian Ocean coast at the weekend, as the death toll climbed to 132.
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The Ugandan government and the rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army have pledged a truce, raising hopes of an end to one of Africa’s most vicious conflicts. Negotiators are expected to sign a ceasefire which is to pave the way for talks to end an 18-year insurgency that has cost thousands of lives and devastated the north of the country.