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City of extravagance gleams in Kazakh steppe
05/07/2008
IF THERE is one thing Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev cherishes as part of his legacy, it is the gold-plated...
Free terror suspect slams bombers, UK
05/07/2008
ONE minute, Omer Almagboul says, he and his fellow Sudanese flatmate were lazing at their student flat in England,...
Lebanon's civil wars are finding new fronts
05/07/2008
AN EERIE calm reigns over the new demarcation lines drawn in northern Tripoli, the second largest city in Lebanon,...
Olympics threaten Beijing
04/07/2008
FEW in the Chinese capital are aware of the price their city would pay for staging the world's first 'green Olympics'...
Americans have no intentions to downsize to smaller cars
04/07/2008
SEVEN women pile out of a massive white Chevrolet Suburban and unload the vacuums, mops and buckets of their trade....
Fake Ferrari carmaker aims for wealthy car market
04/07/2008
CLEANING cars at a gas station near Washington DC in the late 1980s, Dick Kvetnansky spotted something weird. A yellow...
New approach offers chance to finally kill herpes
04/07/2008
RESEARCHERS from the United States reported that they may have found a way to flush out herpes viruses from hiding...
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood 'stronger' after party election
03/07/2008
RECENT internal elections within the Muslim Brotherhood opposition movement were trumpeted in the local press as a...
New York City restaurants go trans-fat-free
03/07/2008
ONE New York City chef spent a year mastering a trans-fat-free version of his sfogliatella pastries. Fast-food chain...
E-Government in Brunei: Where do we stand now?
03/07/2008
OVER the past two decades, many countries, spurred on by the "new public management" and "reinventing...
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