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The Pope has embraced social networking. No, you can’t poke him or send him a private message, but the Vatican has indeed launched a Facebook page for the Pope as well as a Facebook application called “The Pope meets you on Facebook” which will allow users to “receive the messages of Pope Benedict XVI through [...]
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SHANGHAI — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, long a fierce critic of Beijing, toured China’s financial center of Shanghai today on a visit meant to highlight common goals in promoting clean energy to fight climate change. Read more
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Shining light in dark places just got a whole lot easier for the average citizen. The federal government has just launched Data.gov to great fanfare from administration officials and government… Read more
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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]
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Another school very evident at Chelsea Flower show was Writhlington School. Pupils embarked in March 2009 on a trip to Sikkim in the Himalayas to take part in the Gangtok Schools’ Orchid project. This has furthered the work of the botanical team at the school and resulted in a stand in the Continuous Learning area [...]
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WASHINGTON — The decline of U.S. influence in the world has been fodder for a lot of media analysis lately. “We’re just not that strong anymore,” columnist Thomas L. Friedman wrote this week in The New York Times. “We are not who we think we are. We are living on borrowed time and borrowed dimes.” [...]
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MENTON, France — In recent years, Jean Beaufranqui and his wife have spent most of their time in Menton, enjoying the sunshine and gentle Mediterranean breezes that have made this little town into a retirement haven, France’s version of Miami Beach. Read more
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SHANGHAI, May 25 – Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is leading a congressional delegation to China this week, issued the following statement today on the announcement by North Korea that it has successfully completed nuclear tests. Read more
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The Argentine and Cuban governments said yesterday that they would suspend flights from Mexico in light of the swine flu outbreak. Read more
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President Obama will make his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa this summer, the White House announced today, spending two days in Ghana with his wife, Michelle, after visiting Russia and Italy. Read more
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TOKYO, May 25 — North Korea exploded a nuclear device Monday morning, which is its second underground test in three years and is part of a pattern of escalating belligerence this year that has included a missile launch and withdrawal from all nuclear negotiations. Read more
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TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacked the presence of foreign forces in the region at a summit with his Afghan and Pakistani counterparts on Sunday aimed at tackling terrorism and other security problems. Read more
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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said it successfully conducted a nuclear test on Monday, a move certain to further isolate the prickly state, which argues it has no choice but to build an atomic arsenal to protect itself in a hostile world. Read more
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North Korea has staged a “successful” underground nuclear test, the state-run KCNA agency reports. Read more
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MADRID (Reuters) – World economic recovery will be slow and rising unemployment could bring the threat of social crisis and protectionism, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said in an interview with Spanish Sunday newspaper El Pais. Read more
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SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea says it has successfully conducted a nuclear test. The country’s official Korean Central News Agency reported that the test was carried out Monday. Lee Dong-kwan, a spokesman for the South Korean president, says that a nuclear test may have been carried out in the North. President Lee Myung-bak has [...]
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HELEN Fielding didn’t get where she is today (which is to say, stg£20m richer than the rest of us) without knowing a thing or two about neurotic women. Read more
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LONDON (May 24) — A royal chauffeur was suspended Sunday over allegations he gave undercover reporters a tour of Queen Elizabeth II’s luxury limousines and other sensitive areas of her Buckingham Palace home in exchange for money. Read more
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The extraordinary sums of taxpayers’ money claimed by MPs for travel can today be revealed by the Daily Mail. Read more