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 Articles - Africa |  |
| [08-03-2009] | Women’s conference leaves Liberians out in the cold | | | An international conference aimed at the empowerment of women has caused a stir in the host country’s capital Monrovia after slums were bulldozed to give delegates world-class views from their hotels. |
| [23-08-2007] | Mixed reactions in Africa’s anti-graft fight | | | Anti-corruption campaigns are increasingly geared towards silencing leaders' political opponents, say accused... |
| [23-08-2007] | Botswana’s lake that came back to life | | | Only animals had not written off Lake Ngami, an inland lake in north-west Botswana famous for the birds that breed on its shores... |
| [26-04-2007] | Malawi warns Western tobacco dealers | | | Malawi's president warns foreign tobacco merchants he will expell them if they continue to offer low prices... |
| [26-04-2007] | Malawian pastors want Veep released | | | Malawian Vice President Cassim Chilumpha has won the sympathy of the clergy who are demanding his unconditional release from house arrest... |
| Articles - Americas | |
| [14-06-2010] | juwi solar completes construction of largest solar project in Ohio | | | juwi solar, a Colorado-based solar power company, has announced the completion of a project in Wyandot County, Ohio: the largest solar energy generation facility in operation there at 12-megawatts. |
| [18-02-2010] | Don't kick the dollar when it's down, says trading expert | | | Mike Baghdady explains why investors would do well to hold off on sterling for the time being and look instead to the mighty greenback – down but not out, it’s hit the floor and now, the only way is up... |
| [09-02-2010] | Buzz Technologies Inc (BZTG) Board of Directors have agreed to a name change | | | Buzz Technologies Inc BZTG Board of Directors have agreed to a name change to The Heffernan Group... |
| [21-09-2009] | Filesharing mum stung for two million dollars | | | Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a single mom, was recently sued for file-sharing 24 songs. The jury found her guilty and sentenced her to pay $80,000 per song – that is, $1.92 million in total. |
| [03-08-2009] | World authority on Price Behavior to address Miami | | | Mike Baghdady - a 33-year veteran of the NYBOT trading floor and global financial markets - will deliver the keynote speech to Bulltick Capital Markets' upcoming Miami trading expo on Sunday 9, Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 August... |
| Articles - Asia-Pacific | |
| [24-12-2007] | What is the best way to learn Chinese? | | | As China rises on the global business stage, more people want to learn the language. The question is, which version? |
| [23-08-2007] | Sleeping Beauty: Colonial architecture in Laos | | | More than 50 years after the French, the tranquil capital Vientiane boasts refurbished colonial buildings, formerly the
playgrounds of the elite... |
| [02-08-2007] | Government strike threatens Fiji | | | Fiji union leader arrested as mass civil service strike looms.. |
| [13-03-2007] | Beijing break: Seeing in the Lunar New Year | | | The celebrations on New Year's Eve in the West may now be a memory, but in China they're just beginning... |
| [21-09-2006] | Vanuatu beef for the organic market | | | Vanuatu has been producing some of the world's best beef for years, but now it is trying to take a cut of the organic market... |
| Articles - Europe | |
| [28-07-2010] | Filmmakers offered Raindance recognition with Muvizu 3D | | | Beginner and expert animators alike can scoop a prestigious Raindance film award by producing a winning clip with free CGI software, Muvizu... |
| [27-07-2010] | Students honoured by awards commemorating Anjool Maldé | | | The winner of the Student Personality of the Year has been announced in a ceremony taking place a year after the death of Anjool Maldé, a graduate whose own life represented ideals of soaring achievement... |
| [19-07-2010] | The most prominent carbon fibre conference programme of this year | | | IntertechPira is pleased to announce the unrivalled agenda for the leading event dedicated to the carbon fibre industry, GOCarbonFibre2010, featuring Airbus, Boeing, Opel / General Motors and Zoltek. |
| [14-07-2010] | MP awards Madiha Adil Asian female entrepreneur of the year | | | Madiha Adil of Get Licensed awarded Asian Female Entrepreneur of the Year 2010 by MP Simon Hughes at London Hilton Hotel, Park Lane at the prestigious event hosted by PAA on 10th July 2010. |
| [13-07-2010] | How To TV adds interactivity to Ooyala videos with its LinkTo technology | | | How To TV announced that they will be partnering with Ooyala, the leading video platform, to offer interactivity via their LinkTo technology to video publishers... |
| Articles - Film | |
| [27-05-2008] | Ten years later, ‘The Big Lebowski’ still abides | | | The Coen brothers just won four Academy Awards for "No Country for Old Men," but longtime fans are busy celebrating another landmark in the filmmakers' career: the 10-year anniversary of "The Big Lebowski," a film that has achieved cult status among devotees. |
| [27-05-2008] | Recent 'chick flicks' are not just for girls | | | More and more guys are becoming fans of so-called “chick flicks.” Recent studies show men enjoy them almost as much as women, and their enjoyment is higher if the movies involved are presented as fantasy rather than based on facts.
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| [09-03-2008] | Can catgirls save the troubled US anime industry? | | |
Drastic declines in DVD sales - from $550 million to $350 million in 4 years - mean trouble for the US anime industry. |
| [08-03-2008] | While they were out, striking writers kept writing | | |
The 100-day writers' strike provided just the free time and creative stimulation writers needed to resurrect back burner projects and develop new material, but it isn't destined for your TV. |
| [23-08-2007] | UK film industry must change to survive | | | UK movie production must change or die as more and more films fail to make enough to realise their costs... |
| Articles - Health | |
| [06-10-2008] | Spreading the word on flu jabs! | | | West country company vows to make communication easier and cheaper for UK doctors' surgeries... |
| [27-05-2008] | Women who pluck too much turn to eyebrow transplants | | | Some over-tweezed. Others simply want a bushier brow. Across the country, women (and some men) are discovering a new solution to their eyebrow woes: transplants. |
| [27-05-2008] | 'Belly casts,' the new rage to memorialize your pregnancy | | | Thousands of pregnant women are making plaster belly casts to have keepsake sculptures of their expecting bodies. Some use them as art; others want to remember that very special time in their lives. |
| [27-05-2008] | "The Biggest Loser" spawns weight loss competitions around US | | | Inspired by a popular reality television show, company employees, gyms, even entire towns are holding weight loss competitions of their own. |
| [27-05-2008] | Hey kids, wash your teeth off with soap | | | More Americans are tossing toothpaste aside for a mouth-cleansing throw back: soap. Entrepreneurs are adding flavors so it doesn't taste so much like, uh, soap. But some dental experts aren't convinced that soap is best for that clean, fresh feeling. |
| Articles - Lifestyle | |
| [01-02-2010] | Barbados: a totally tropical coral utopia | | | The strange outsider in a club of tropical islands that span a glorious arc stretching from Venezuela to Florida, Barbados is immediately set apart from its volcanic neighbours for a remarkable reason: it is formed entirely of coral. |
| [27-05-2008] | Knit one, purl two: Guys, too, are now tending to their knitting | | | A growing number of men across the country are picking up an unlikely hobby - knitting - and changing the face of the knitting world in the process. |
| [27-05-2008] | Parenting from the left side of the brain | | | Scientist parents don't necessarily check their analytical minds at the nursery door. Some of them look on the common problems of parenting as an intellectual puzzle that needs to be solved. |
| [27-05-2008] | Micro-farming comes of age: How to grow crops in your kitchen | | | Micro greens, once the domain of haute cuisine, are now ready to grow in kitchens everywhere. |
| [27-05-2008] | Home cooking hits the back burner, but food culture heats up | | | While books about food are flying off the shelves and cooking shows are hot, people are increasingly relying on their microwaves to make dinner. Cooking is becoming more recreational and less a necessity. |
| Articles - Mid-East | |
| [13-12-2009] | Major global security summit wraps up | | | The 6th IISS Regional Security Summit, The Manama Dialogue has successfully concluded after three days of policy addresses and bilateral meetings between senior government, parliamentary, and other distinguished delegates. |
| [09-12-2009] | Senior government ministers to headline Security Summit | | | The International Institute for Strategic Studies has announced the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait will open its Regional Security Summit in Bahrain. |
| [20-11-2007] | Iraq: Importing the perfect date | | | What has Iraq got that the US doesn’t? The world’s most coveted dates. Two men are fighting to export them... |
| [21-03-2007] | Iraq’s refugees followed out by their liberators | | | First the purge, then the surge, now the urge - to withdraw… |
| [29-01-2007] | Iraq crisis has made two million refugees | | | UN appeals for £30m in emergency aid as Iraqi refugee crisis escalates. Syria and Jordan struggle to cope as thousands enter... |
| Articles - Music | |
| [25-03-2009] | Spandau Ballet announce World and UK tour dates | | | One of the most successful and influential British bands of all time return this year. |
| [27-05-2008] | Vinyl is back, at least when it comes to phonograph records | | | Record shops are dying out and CD purchases are dwindling, but the love for old-fashioned records is still alive - and the market is thriving. |
| [11-03-2008] | Leonard Cohen announces world tour | | | Immediately following his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Leonard Cohen announced his world tour... |
| [24-12-2007] | Raising hell in the sun: Goths go on cruises | | | Members of a subculture known more for doom and gloom and pale faces challenge stereotypes (and have a great time) on
an annual tropical outing called GothCruise... |
| [02-11-2007] | Led Zeppelin guitarist fractures finger | | | The Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert is moved to December after Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page hurts hand... |
| Articles - Opinion | |
| [01-02-2010] | A golden goose that’s set to grow | | | The rush for risky commodities as investors dump the dollar is only just beginning, says Price Behaviour expert Mike Baghdady... |
| [01-02-2010] | Understand your Trading System | | | In today’s market, a trader’s problems change as quickly as he or she can solve them, which is why having a rule-based strategy is more important than ever, says Mike Baghdady. |
| [01-02-2010] | Profit from trading by going back to basics | | | Untrained traders flooding in paired with unprecedented market volatility means the game has changed for professional traders, says veteran Mike Baghdady, but the solution is simpler than others would have you believe... |
| [22-06-2009] | The traditional financial investment model is broken | | | If you polled the top 10 financial experts where the FTSE or S&P will be this time next year you will get a range from 3300-5600 or 600-1100 respectively... |
| [19-05-2009] | The Future Trader: Moving Home | | | There are two main types of professional trader today, but only one will win out in the future...
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| Articles - South Asia | |
| [29-11-2007] | Pakistan: Third time is never the charm | | | A descendant of Pakistan's ruling elite questions the chaos in his homeland as the country moves shakily towards democracy... |
| [20-11-2007] | Saving the children: The dark side of handmade rugs | | | A nonprofit group is fighting to get children out of rug factories in South Asia... |
| [09-10-2005] | Death toll from Pakistan quake soars | | | As many as 50,000 people have been killed and up to 42,000 injured in the devastating earthquake that rocked Pakistan, officials say... |
| [21-07-2005] | Terror base in UK not here, says Pakistan | | | Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said that there was no credible intelligence tying the London bombers to his country... |
| [14-04-2005] | Children buried alive in Hindu ritual | | | Over 80 people in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu face jail for burying their own children alive in a gruesome religious ritual… |
| Articles - Sports | |
| [09-03-2010] | Essex sports company comes up with quick fix for gym owners | | | Sportsafe UK has devised an innovative cable repair kit to get gym equipment running again quickly without calling out an engineer... |
| [23-05-2008] | Presswire buys 'Kick Off', forms Videowire | | | British media group Presswire has acquired the football TV news show ‘Kick Off’, launching its new multimedia arm, Videowire... |
| [11-04-2008] | Premier League lacks wheelchair spacing | | | Disabled facilities in the Premiership are not as bad as reported, the Premier League says... |
| [09-04-2008] | Football: Referee Respect | | | Respect the ref. Those are the words booming out of the Premier League... |
| [02-04-2008] | Manchester United overwhelm Roma | | | Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo put in a performance against one of Europe's big boys to finally silence the critics. |
| Articles - Technology | |
| [26-07-2010] | The award-winning SecPoint Portable Penetrator | | | Along with the popularity of wireless networks and the mobile devices capable of connecting to them, the need for supplying a proper security level arises... |
| [30-06-2010] | GroupSpaces raises investment from Index Seed fund and Silicon Valley heavyweights | | | GroupSpaces, the go-to site for simple online management and administration of real-world groups, has announced it has secured a $1.3 million investment. |
| [28-06-2010] | Cable&Wireless Worldwide launches enterprise cloud early adopters' programme | | | Cable&Wireless Worldwide has announced the Early Adopters Programme (EAP) for its enterprise cloud computing solution. Available for the first participants in early July, the EAP is intended to refine the roadmap to the adoption of cloud computing for enterprises. |
| [26-04-2010] | telent reaches another major milestone with BSkyB | | | telent, the technology services company, has reached another milestone for its work to date on the BSkyB Network Services contract. |
| [24-03-2010] | Opengear Extends Console Servers Into Cell Networks | | | Opengear, a leading provider of next-generation console server and KVM over IP solutions, today announced the ACM5004-G, the world's first advanced device server supporting EDGE, GPRS, GSM, HSDA and HSUPA high speed cellular access. |
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