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LONDON - Many state-funded schools are breaking the government’s new code on fair admissions, with some asking parents to make a financial contribution before accepting an application, Schools Secretary Ed Balls said yesterday.
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This list, though hardly exhaustive, provides an overview of some of Africa’s major contemporary civil conflicts.
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Great number of women mostly illiterate, have keen interest to learn a handicraft as means of income and a profession.
Next: Afghan Women Working in Factories
The Status of Women in Afghanistan
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
As we near the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, yet another mass grave has been discovered in a country that is pocked with crude burial sites dating back to Saddam Hussein’s Baathist rule that began in 1979. The most recent grave — the largest yet in Diyala province […]
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Jeff Berkowitz responds at length to my suggestion yesterday that GOP bigwigs try to talk Jim “0-for-Four” Oberweis into stepping aside in favor of a more voter-friendly candidate. I wrote that Ill. House Minority Leader Tom Cross would be a good replacement for Oberweis to do battle in November against Bill Foster in the west-suburban […]
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Sky.Com News is on-air and online from 7.30pm tonight.
The most-clicked stories on Sky News Online:
China bans the serving of dog meat in Beijing’s restaurants
Air passengers face up to higher charges
American politician caught up in prostitute scandal
Driver on YouTube hit with a taser to receive £20,000
Britain continues to be threatened by strong winds
Former half-ton man misses […]
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Serial Killer Charged With Brit’s Murder
Updated:15:23, Tuesday March 11, 2008
Self-confessed French serial killer Michel Fourniret has been charged with two more murders including that of British woman Joanna Parrish, his lawyer has said.
He is set to go on trial this month for seven other killings.
Joanna Parrish
Fourniret, 65, is charged with the kidnap, […]
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Sophie Dahl has hit out at the media’s portrayal of her relationship with jazz star Jamie Cullum.
The couple have made headlines because of the height difference between them, with 6ft Dahl eight inches taller than Cullum.
The model-turned-author told The Times: Thanks to genetics the image of us together has been treated like a […]
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A Red Cross official says up to 30,000 people have fled their homes because of an army operation in western Kenya.
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In particular, the drug Rituxan, in combination with chemotherapy, has helped younger patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which occurs in roughly 20 of 100,000 people, the researchers found.
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The Clintons’ rather transparent Veep ploy was shot down by the would-be Veep, Sen. Barack Obama, today in Mississippi when he noted that he has won more states, more popular votes and more delegates than the would-be president, “So I don’t know how somebody who’s in second place is offering the vice presidency to the […]
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Perhaps Britain’s Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, the Church of England’s most senior cleric, was right after all when he recently suggested that it was inevitable that the U.K. would accommodate certain aspects of the Islamic religious law known as “sharia.” The preacher’s comments instantly provoked controversy, as they implied that Britain’s secular, legal-judicial system […]
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A technical breakdown was the last thing I needed while reporting from the remote mountains of northern Iraq last week. Equally, a fire station was furthest from my mind when it came to finding a solution.However, when the battery in my B-Gan (a contraption that – when it works – enables you to email data) […]
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My hunch about Shinzo Abe (a.k.a. Tom Conti, a.k.a.Scarecrow) proved to be right. His death (politically speaking) on the night of the Upper House election in July was being covered up the Soviet Communist/Liberal Democratic Party hierarchs in order to maintain the peace and stability of the Motherland/Beautiful Country. In the weeks since the disastrous […]
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David Cameron has just finished his speeech, to a enthusiastic reception in the hall.
Afterwards, Mr Cameron could be heard asking his shadow cabinet if he had done all right as the crowd burst into an ovation at the end, according to the Press Association.
“Was that all right?” his microphone picked up. Shadow […]
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WASHINGTON — Colombians had a whiplash moment this past week. For the first time in more than six years, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by its Spanish initials FARC, freed two hostages. The deal was made possible through the participation of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who received the heartfelt gratitude of Colombians, including […]
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Imagine a huge nation, a huge democracy, increasingly prosperous, increasingly powerful and increasingly sympathetic to the ideological and strategic objectives of the United States and its democratic allies around the world. Imagine that this powerful, prosperous, democratic nation sits on the same continent with Russia and China, two huge geopolitical problems waiting to happen. Imagine […]
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UNITED NATIONS — Murder, arson and rape do not suffice as weapons in Sudan’s campaign against the civilians of Darfur. Khartoum also plays the race card to block outsiders from coming to Darfur’s rescue.
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For the women of Mostar, surviving a war is not the end of the story. With trauma and scars still raw, they are trying to reweave their social fabric and move beyond their differences.
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MADRID, March 9 — The Socialist party of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was leading the conservative Popular Party in parliamentary elections Sunday, according to exit polling, and high voter turnout indicated that the Socialists would be returned to power for another four-year term, analysts said.
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