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/ 10 November 2006
Saif al-Islam, a prominent son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi who made a rare public criticism of the country’s political system in August, is leaving to work overseas. Islam, in his early 30s, will work in an international economic institution, a source said.
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/ 10 November 2006
Dancing and singing eunuchs are knocking on doors in the Indian city of Patna in a bid to embarrass shopkeepers into paying their taxes. The new shock strategy, in which sari-clad and heavily made up eunuchs accompany officials on their rounds of crowded shopping areas in a country notorious for tax evasion and non-payment, has been declared a success.
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/ 10 November 2006
Eight Nigerian hostages escaped and five others were released from an oil facility where they had been held since armed men raided the Italian-run pumping station earlier this week. Forty-eight Nigerian employees of Agip had been held in the south of the country since armed protesters overran and shut down Agip’s Tebidaba oil pumping station on Monday.
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/ 10 November 2006
The United Nations is failing the poorest and most vulnerable because its funding projects are undermined by too many agencies duplicating each other’s work, a high-level panel warned on Thursday. Adnan Amin, executive director for the report, said: ”The United Nations is punching well below its weight.”
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/ 10 November 2006
PlayStation 3 fans were preparing for a sleepless night ahead of Saturday’s launch of Sony’s new console but the hype has been tempered by fears of an over-reliance on recycled hits. ”Content-wise, the PS3 doesn’t look that impressive,” said Hiroshi Kamide, a game analyst at KBC Securities.
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/ 10 November 2006
Searching the worldwide web with engines such as Google may also help doctors to diagnose perplexing medical conditions, Australian researchers said on Friday.
”Our study suggests that in difficult cases, it is often useful to google for a diagnosis,” said Hangwi Tang, of the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane.
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/ 10 November 2006
The cost of bringing up children is rising even faster than house prices, with education going up over a quarter in the past year, according to a survey on Friday. The cost of kids has soared 28% in the past four years and 9% in the last year alone — outstripping an 8% rise in United Kingdom property prices.
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/ 10 November 2006
Ur dumped, Kevin Federline — and you are now part of a growing club of spurned lovers who have been ditched by SMS. A video of Britney Spears’ soon-to-be ex-husband apparently getting a SMS informing him that the pop princess had filed for divorce became the most viewed item on YouTube on Thursday, with more than one million hits.
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/ 10 November 2006
Losing weight, cutting down on saturated fats, eating more fibre and exercising can make a difference when it comes to diabetes. Finnish researchers have shown that lifestyle changes not only reduce the odds of high-risk people developing Type 2 diabetes but can also postpone the onset of the illness.
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/ 10 November 2006
Tshwane municipal manager Blake Mosley-Lefatola has resigned, media reports said on Friday. Mosley-Lefatola has handed his letter of resignation to Tshwane mayor Gwen Ramokgopa who had not yet responded. Mosley-Lefatola said: ”We had a good working relationship. There were differences in dealing with issues.”