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/ 24 September 2003
Meeting the UN’s goal of distributing anti-retroviral drugs to three million people living with Aids by the end of 2005 will cost more than five billion dollars, said United Nations health officials on Wednesday. That amount is more than the total spent worldwide on fighting Aids in 2003, they said.
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/ 23 September 2003
Without a strong United Nations, globalisation will result in developed countries dominating poorer ones, President Thabo Mbeki. In a speech prepared for delivery at the UN General Assembly, Mbeki said without a popularly accepted UN, the powerful would set the agenda for all residents of the global village.
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/ 20 September 2003
Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, is celebrating his 10th year as America’s richest man after once again topping the rich list compiled by Forbes magazine. The 47-year-old chairperson and co-founder of the computer software group is worth -billion.
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/ 19 September 2003
The surviving members of The Beatles are releasing a remixed version of their classic 1970 album Let It Be that strips away many of the elaborate string arrangements and recreates the way the band originally recorded the music. The re-release, called Let It Be … Naked, will hit stores in November.
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/ 16 September 2003
A 12-year-old girl in New York, a professor at Yale University and an elderly man in Texas who rarely uses his computer have been included in the first wave of civil actions against people accused of illegally sharing songs on the Internet.
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/ 11 September 2003
Nationwide ceremonies are to be staged in the United States for Thursday’s second anniversary of the September 11 attacks while President George Bush warned that Osama bin Laden was plotting new strikes against the world superpower.
Sept 11: Asia calls for cooperation
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/ 5 September 2003
The Bush administration suffered a humiliating diplomatic climbdown over Iraq this week as it presented a draft resolution to the United Nations, asking for military and financial help to rescue it from the ballooning human, financial and political costs of the occupation.
The lights went out across New York, Michigan, Ohio and eastern Canada yesterday in the worst power failure North America has suffered in decades.
The head of companies that allegedly smuggled Chilean sea bass and rock lobsters from South Africa to the United States for at least 15 years pleaded innocent on Wednesday to smuggling charges.
Harvard Law School is seeking funding for a stalled project that aims, for the first time, to make more than one million pages of documents from the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals available on the internet.
George Plimpton, the author, actor and literary patron whose countless famous friends have included Ernest Hemingway, Robert Kennedy and Warren Beatty, has agreed to write his memoirs.
The American media has been too slow to attack stories such as intelligence failures over Iraq, says new editor of the New York Times. The newspaper has recently been rocked by scandals, apologies, leaks, rumours and revelations.
The number of worldwide ”hotspots” for high-speed wireless internet or Wi-Fi is expected to grow to at least 160 000 in 2007 from 28 000 this year, a market research firm said on Thursday.
Oprah Winfrey’s book club recommendations still count for more than salacious presidential details when it comes to sales, writes Gary Younge from New York.
Leon Uris, whose best-selling novel Exodus offered the world a heroic tale of the founding of Israel and an image of Jews as muscular, sunburned avengers, has died at 78.
Offering a simpler and cheaper path to divorce, an ever-growing array of dotcoms, computer-savvy lawyers and state court officials are encouraging unhappily married Americans to arrange their breakups online.
New York is not such a wonderful town these days, with the ”city that never sleeps” suffering night sweats over a crippling budget deficit, terrorist fears and a general collapse in public morale.
Former US president Bill Clinton said he hopes to use his foundation to treat at least 700 000 Aids patients in Africa and the Caribbean — and possibly many more during the next five years.
In a week when they lost domestic diva Martha Stewart to the Feds, the editor of The New York Times, Howell Raines, to a scandal, and Senator Hillary Clinton to the talk-show circuit, New Yorkers are no strangers to distinguishing between perception and reality.
Finding embarrassing secrets in the past of reality television stars is about as tough as finding Botox in Hollywood. That doesn’t stop The Smoking Gun from looking, or Web surfers from lapping it up.
Thirty years ago, virtually none of Thailand’s hill tribes’ women were snared in the country’s thriving sex trade. Now they are flooding the brothels and sex-karaoke bars.
Scientists have unearthed three 160 000-year-old human skulls in Ethiopia that are the oldest known and best-preserved fossils of modern humans’ immediate predecessors.
A new computer virus that offers hackers full control of infected PCs, giving them access to critical information such as passwords and credit-card numbers, was spreading on the internet on Thursday.
The CIA and the United States State Department were under increased pressure to justify their assessments of Iraq’s weapons programme this week as a team of former CIA analysts began examining an intelligence report used as a basis for going to war.
The United States is preparing to install a US chairman on a planned management team for the Iraqi oil industry, providing further ammunition to critics who have questioned the Bush administration’s agenda in the Middle East.
A computer virus that traversed the globe last week struck again in a slightly mutated form over the weekend and continued to spread aggressively through e-mail systems worldwide on Monday.
Worldwide piracy of business software products like Microsoft Office declined slightly in 2002 because of better education and more aggressive tactics in stopping Internet piracy, software industry officials say.
Bankrupt internet song-swapping service Napster, skewered by the courts for encouraging piracy, may be on the verge of a comeback through a marriage with Pressplay, The New York Times reported on Monday.
Bankrupt Enron Corp. raised nearly -million to pay creditors during an art auction that sold prized possessions such as Claes Oldenburg’s pop sculpture Soft Light Switches, which fetched 000.
The basic cause of hair growth has been identified by scientists in the United States. The research showed that a subtle interaction between two signalling molecules causes hair follicles to sprout.
A former employee of Gold Fields Ltd., South Africa’s second largest gold producer, filed a lawsuit in a US court claiming the company enslaved black workers and exposed them to dangerous mine conditions and toxic substances.
Union leaders at American Airlines are furious after learning of lucrative executive pay deals that were being struck as workers agreed to ,8-billion in pay cuts and concessions.