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US immigration crackdown tears families apart
15/06/2007
MARIA DE LA LUZ Bocanegra Velasquez, 33, was leaving for work when the United States immigration agents surrounded her...
Tourist spacecraft by 2012
15/06/2007
GETTING a closer look at the stars may soon stop being the privilege of a few select billionaires, with the space arm...
Southern Afghan women brave threats to study
15/06/2007
YESTERDAY she received ten threatening phone calls. From ten different numbers. "Some say, 'Where are you going?...
Space, the funeral frontier
15/06/2007
PIONEERING and poetic — or borderline macabre, according to your view — burials in space seem set for a...
Besson promotes last film before retirement
15/06/2007
FRENCH film-maker, writer and producer Luc Besson is in Japan to promote his latest film Arthur and the Minimoys. He...
Singer Armatrading finally No 1
15/06/2007
IT HAS taken more than three decades but singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading has finally made it to No 1 at age 56,...
Rough-riding on Brunei beach
15/06/2007
THERE are no sand dunes in this part of the world to conquer on a Sand-X, but there is definitely fun to be had on a...
Rough-riding on Brunei beach
15/06/2007
THERE are no sand dunes in this part of the world to conquer on a Sand-X, but there is definitely fun to be had on a...
Raising ocean awareness through photography
15/06/2007
DIVING in the Seychelles is an amazing experience and photographing the marine life in the paradise islands is wildly...
Miniature oases green havens in New York skyline
15/06/2007
I'VE never really loved miniature worlds because the real thing always seemed so much more compelling. Why put little...


