Pakistan Fashion Week begins under shadow of Taliban
Pakistan Fashion Week was to kick off with an opulent opening ceremony Wednesday, against a backdrop of militant violence and security fears that delayed the event and kept away foreign glitterati. Models will sashay down catwalks for four days, flaunting the latest creations by local designers in the... 
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Jackson film tops UK box office
The Michael Jackson concert movie ‘This Is It’ topped Britain’s box office over the weekend, according to Screen International, knocking Disney’s ‘Up’ off the No 1 spot after three weeks. The footage of Jackson’s rehearsals for a planned series of 50 shows in London took 4.87 million pounds. Worldwide,...
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Germany and Egypt plan talks over Nefertiti statue
A German expert will attend talks next month to discuss Cairo’s demand for the return of a 3,400-year-old statue of Queen Nefertiti, Egypt’s antiquities chief said. The bust of the Egyptian beauty is the centrepiece of Berlin’s ‘Neues Museum’, which reopened last month 70 years after it was closed following...
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X-ray hailed as mother of all inventions
The X-ray was named the most important modern scientific achievement in a poll conducted for Britain’s Science Museum, beating Apollo spacecraft and DNA. Nearly 50,000 members of the public voted in the museum or online on 10 of the greatest achievements in science, technology and engineering selected...
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Historic Spitbank Fort sells for £1m
Spitbank, a historic sea fort off the south coast of England, was bought for more than £1 million - just 24 hours before it was due to go under the auction hammer. Spitbank Fort is a man-made island built a mile out into the Solent near Portsmouth Harbour to repel the French navy during the 19th century....
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Miss Earth 2009 beauty pageant
Manila: (L to R) Chanel Grantham of South Africa, Xu Yan of China, Yi-Wen Chen of Taiwan and Triantafyllia Sarantino of Greece, vying for the Miss Earth 2009 beauty pageant pose for press photographers. The winner of Miss Earth 2009 will be crowned on November 22, 2008 in Boracay Island from among...
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Experts meet to hash out global privacy rules
Hundreds of privacy experts from around the world met in Madrid for a three-day conference which aims to arrive at a global standard for the protection of personal data. US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as well representatives from data protection agencies from 50 nations and top managers...
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China sex-expert to help Taiwan’s pandas to breed
A Chinese panda expert has vowed to lend Taiwan a helping hand after two members of the low-libido species spent nearly a year at Taipei Zoo showing no inclination to breed, local media said. Zhang Hemin, director of the Wolong Giant Panda Protection Research Centre in southwest China, will offer advice...
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Shanghai gives go ahead to Disney theme park
China’s central government has given the green light to the Walt Disney Co to build its long-awaited first theme park on the mainland in Shanghai, after a decade of negotiations, both sides announced. The announcement of the deal, which would be one of the biggest ever foreign investments in China,...
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