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/ 23 November 2005
Skinned and dissected, muscles, tendons and organs in full view, 22 bodies provided by a Chinese university have become one of the most controversial exhibitions seen in New York in recent years. The bodies have been placed in normal poses inside glass cases for people to gaze upon since Saturday.
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/ 23 November 2005
Malaria could encourage mother-to-child transmission of HIV, according to research on the Science and Development Network website.
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/ 23 November 2005
The International Press Freedom Awards for 2005 went to a Chinese editor still imprisoned in his homeland, a Brazilian reporter who could not travel to New York because he is pinned down by lawsuits, an Uzbek journalist in exile, and a Zimbabwean media lawyer. The laureates honoured by the Committee to Protect Journalists have endured beatings, threats and prison as a consequence of their work.
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/ 23 November 2005
Nestlé, the world’s biggest food and drink company, on Tuesday ordered the recall of liquid baby milk in four European countries after the discovery that some of its products had been contaminated by a chemical used in the packaging. The products are not sold in the United Kingdom, the company said. But recalls had begun in Italy, Spain, France and Portugal.
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/ 23 November 2005
A Nigerian state governor was back in trousers and at his desk on Tuesday after dressing up as a woman and skipping bail in Britain on charges of laundering £1,8-million. Diepreye Alamieyeseigha returned to his home village a folk hero after apparently escaping Europe in a dress and on a forged passport.
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/ 23 November 2005
Toyota’s Yaris super mini, which has done so well everywhere it’s been marketed, has never been available in this country, so news of the impending arrival here of the latest model — just two months after it was first shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show — stirred up loads of local interest. The perky little commuter slots in between the Tazz and the Corolla.
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/ 23 November 2005
While movie-goers around the world await the thunderous arrival of the new <i>King Kong</i> re-make in cinemas next month, the giant ape is already rampaging towards department stores and Christmas trees in the form of a computer game.
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/ 23 November 2005
As Pastor Thandi Sithole walked into the bereaved family’s shack, at the back of the main house in Mapetla, Soweto, she was hit by the smell of poverty. "It’s difficult to explain it, but poverty has a smell," Sithole said. "The mother of the deceased sat huddled in a corner next to a rickety chair. A few weeks ago, she buried her four-month-old granddaughter. Now the mother was dead.
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/ 23 November 2005
A millennium has passed, but the massacre is still chilling: a king and queen of ancient Cancuen, more than 30 nobles and pregnant women, are overwhelmed by their attackers and murdered with spears and axes. Deep in Guatemala’s Peten rainforest, the ruins of the sprawling palace in the old royal city have revealed skeletons and the last-minute panic that overtook Cancuen before it was overcome by marauders.
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/ 23 November 2005
The name of a company allegedly responsible for the unlawful felling of indigenous trees in Randburg recently, so as to give better sight to billboards located on the busy Hans Strijdom thoroughfare, has been confirmed to eMedia by Johannesburg City Parks and industry body Out of Home Media SA.