" For 30 years, Christine Gill devoted her life to caring for her parents and helping them run the family farm. She became a university lecturer so she could help out during the busy summer months, spent nearly...
A truly sad story, although the cause of death for this monther has yet to be determined." Sarah Campbell's black granite gravestone bears the poignant postscript: "Her mother left broken hearted". But yesterday there was no more pain for Pauline Campbell, who never got over...
Liberality and harmony, the ultimate unity of Yin and Yang are what the audience can feel from paintings and statues by the couple Le Cong Thanh and Nguyen Kim Thai."The exhibition displays 30 paintings and...
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"According to Kurtubi, Indonesia actually still had very sizable oil and gas reserves, namely about 86.9 billion barrels of oil and about 384 tcf of gas. The decline in investment in oil and discovery of new oil...
The blatant theft of traditional designs is an ongoing problem for the New Zealand Maori people. Their traditional designs are used for all sorts of promotions, from cigarettes to fashion. The Maori people have been...
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"CAIRO, 15 April 2007 — Egyptian police have detained 20 students and three older professionals from the Muslim Brotherhood in a crackdown on Egypt’s largest opposition group, a Brotherhood official said yesterday.
A police report on the case accuses the students of...
Today is Ghana's 50th year of independence from British colonial rule. To get an idea of where the country fits on the world stage, you need not look far: Former UN Secretary General (and Nobel Peace Prize winner)...
"Scientists claimed on Monday that owning a dog is good for your mental and physical health, more so even than cats.
Writing in the British Journal of Health Psychology, Dr. Deborah Wells, a senior lecturer at the Canine Behaviour Centre of Queens University, Belfast, found...