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To the visitor it may seem picturesque. But when you’ve spent several hours a day for 20 years vigorously shaking a dead goat’s stomach filled with milk to make butter, the novelty has long worn off. In the village of Susiya, not having...
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Arizonans with concealed weapons permits will be allowed to take a handgun into bars and restaurants that serve alcohol under a bill signed Monday by Gov. Jan Brewer.
The measure, backed by the National Rifle Association, will require bar and...
Google is to launch a new operating system, in its most direct challenge yet to the dominance of Microsoft.
Google Chrome OS will be a development of its Chrome web browser. The search giant initially aims to install the new system on small, low-cost...
Sarah Palin, the soon-to-be ex-Governor of Alaska, was rumoured to be fishing with her family yesterday, though firm information on her whereabouts was scant. So too intelligence on the question so many Americans were still waiting to hear answered:...
Anyone who is in any way surprised by Sarah Palin’s announcement today that she will not be seeking re-election, and, even more significantly, is stepping down as Governor of Alaska, has not been paying close attention. The signs have been...
While the onslaught of miserable June weather played havoc with people’s plans and psyches, it has also provided a quiet benefit to many city neighborhoods. Fatal and nondeadly shootings in Boston have plunged, and police acknowledge the weather has...
Guinea-Bissau, a small West African country, has a calm, almost jubilant atmosphere as elections approach to replace recently-murdered President Vieira. While Bissau-Guineans like to believe that elections will put their impoverished country on the...
Europe and the United States announced last night co-ordinated action against China for busting World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules by restricting exports of essential raw materials, raising fears of a damaging east-west trade war in the depths of the...
The Mexican Navy says it has seized more than a tonne of cocaine hidden inside the carcasses of frozen sharks.
Armed officers found slabs of cocaine inside more than 20 sharks aboard a freight ship in the Gulf coast port of Progreso in Yucatan...
The son of a poor potato farmer, Mr Mehsud, a former fitness instructor, has grown into the most feared militant leader in a country regularly rocked by violence and terror. His age is unclear – perhaps no more than 35 – and no distinct photograph...
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