Do you wish to rub shoulders, virtually speaking, with the likes of supermodel Naomi Cambell or fashion icon Jean-Charles de Castelbajac? If the answer is ‘yes’, then the solution is aSmallWorld.net, an exclusive social networking website for the wealthy and glamorous — that is, for those wealthy, glamorous and lucky enough to be admitted. “We […]
Israel wants to build 750 houses in two settlements in 2008: Peace Now
HELD AL QUDS: Israel has set aside money in its 2008 budget to build 750 homes in two settlements in the West Bank, the spokesman for the Israeli Peace Now movement announced Sunday. Talking to an international news agency, Yariv Oppenheimer, "We have discovered that the 2008 state budget includes 48 million shekels for the […]
Don’t Look Back : Profiling David Bussau
Most donors from the West like to hold on to their turf. They make grants and preach a lot about sustainability and self reliance but most often their programming support does not reflect that. So they will carry on funding their clients for a stipulated number of years and then move on, whether the client […]
Al-Qaeda still able to attack: Commander
The top U.S. commander in northern Iraq warned that Al-Qaeda in Iraq was still capable of staging spectacular attacks despite a 50 percent drop in bombings and other violence in his region. Army Maj. Gen. Mark P. Hertling said Al-Qaeda in Iraq was being pushed north by the increased numbers of U.S. troops that surged […]
ATM cash bonus lands man with life in jail
A MAN in China’s southern city of Guangzhou has been jailed for life for taking funds from a malfunctioning ATM, local media reported today. In April last year, Xu Ting let his friend in on his secret that the ATM deducted only 1 yuan from his account for every 1000 yuan withdrawn. "Xu subsequently withdrew […]
The Pride and Passion of a Manhunter
She is compact, with a shock of white hair and darting eyes that give more than a hint of the passions within the wrapping of the practice of law and its dry lexicon. Carla Del Ponte, the world’s most powerful criminal lawyer, has been chief prosecutor of the international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia […]
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