The shockwaves from Greece’s failure to form a coalition government have continued to reverberate around world markets.
New Zealand batsman Brendan McCullum scored a half-century as the Kolkata Knight Riders beat Delhi Daredevils by six wickets to top the IPL.
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/ 3 November 2009
The fourth annual IslamicFinance Business Awards were held on October 30.
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/ 3 November 2009
Simon Mann, who was sentenced to 34 years in prison in Equatorial Guinea in 2008 for plotting a coup, has been granted a presidential pardon.
President Robert Mugabe and his chief rival will attend an emergency summit of Southern African leaders to present their conflicting views of the crisis paralysing the country in the wake of hotly contested elections, spokespersons for the men said on Thursday. The opposition has said it will not take part in an election run-off.
An airliner carrying 175 people crashed and burst into flames on Tuesday in São Paulo after landing at Brazil’s busiest airport in driving rain. The state governor said all aboard were likely dead. The São Paulo fire department said at least 200 people, including some on the ground, were dead at the scene. There was no immediate news of survivors.
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/ 25 December 2006
James Brown, the legendary singer known as the "Godfather of Soul", died in Atlanta early on December 25, his agent said. He was 73. Brown was seen as a crucial figure in the evolution of gospel and R&B into soul and funk. His music also spanned genres such as rock, jazz, reggae and hip-hop.
Freshening up during a long flight to the United Kingdom and the United States won’t be easy now that toothpaste, hair gel and other toiletries have been banned from travellers’ small, single piece of hand luggage. But the new baggage-restriction laws also pose other concerns for the future of travel.
A huge fire engulfed the cargo section of Istanbul’s international Atatürk airport on Wednesday. Black smoke billowed high into the air, television footage showed. The fire caused panic at the airport, and authorities were trying to evacuate hundreds of people from nearby terminals.
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/ 20 December 2005
John Spencer, who plays vice-presidential candidate Leo McGarry on NBC television’s <i>The West Wing</i>, died of a heart attack on Friday, his publicist said. Spencer’s work on the show earned him an Emmy Award for supporting actor in a drama series in 2002, as well as a Golden Globe nomination.
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/ 9 December 2004
Zimbabwe’s government is subverting the country’s legal system in order to stay in power, according to an international group of lawyers who recently visited the Southern African state. In a report, Stephen Irwin, chairperson of the Bar of England and Wales, says the group found that judges and the courts have been "profoundly compromised".
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/ 10 October 2003
Ethiopia this week handed over to Kenya more than three dozen elephant tusks seized 18 months ago from smugglers in a border town — one of the largest hauls of illegal ivory in recent years, Kenyan wildlife officials said. It is suspected that the 37 tusks were cut from 50 elephants killed in northern Kenya last year.
The Jordanian information minister has called the attack on his embassy a ‘cowardly terrorist attack.’ A massive car bomb exploded outside the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad on Thursday morning, killing between seven and 12 people.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was expected to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York, despite a travel ban imposed by the White House that forbids him to enter the US