"An Italian priest says he is organising the world's first beauty pageant for nuns to erase a stereotype of them as being old and dour. Antonio Rungi says The Miss Sister Italy online contest will start on his blog in September. "Nuns are above all women and beauty is a gift...
Saudis, known for banning popular Bollywood and Hollywood films, are now organising the country's first ever film festival. Till date, there are no cinema halls in Saudi Arabia. In fact, when Sanjay Leela...
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UPDATE: 8:00p.m. May 7, Chinese climbers brings Olympic torch to summit."Chinese television showed the climbers, carrying special high-altitude torches, reaching the summit at 0920 local time...
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"THE son of the world's most wanted man is planning a race for peace.
Omar Osama bin Laden, 26, one of Osama bin Laden's 19 children, raised a storm last year when he married a 52-year-old British woman, Jane...
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"There is no way that Selin Tamtekin could be described as even remotely low-life. Immaculate, groomed to perfection, she walks towards me on perfectly unscuffed heels, without a gleaming hair out of place or a single microfibre of dust on her pristine white shirt.
At 33 she...
In this article Ray McGovern explores how the war against yet another enemy of the world, Iran, can be packaged and sold as a product we can't do without. Could this be done with the help of the usual...
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"Two teenagers who started organising rock concerts in their spare time after school have now booked Girls Aloud, one of pop's biggest attractions.
Alex Darlington and Aaron Kirkhouse, both 19, hope to attract...
"In recent years, the notion of al-Qaeda as a decentralised organisation - a group that inspires attacks rather than organising and planning them itself - has gained common currency.But now senior...
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"The Lebanese Prime Minister has blamed Iran and Syria for organising a general strike in Beirut that led to rioting and the deaths of at least three people
Fouad Siniora, the pro-Western Lebanese premier whose...
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"Fiji has lost the right to host next year's world netball championships, as the sport's governing body succumbed to mounting pressure to move the event.
The International Federation of Netball Associations (IFNA)...
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"Singaporean who go overseas to have sex with children could soon face the music at home after their jaunt.
In its current review of the Penal Code, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has recommended that any Singaporean or permanent resident who buys sexual services from a...