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Sweden has a host of holiday food traditions, including reindeer meat. IKEA, the Swedish based furniture icon, is now under fire by a group of British vegans for taking those traditions to market.
Published 19 hours ago by ■ Nikki Weingartner in Food
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After a tracking device was found on Simon Cowell's Rolls Royce his lawyers have warned the UK media to stop harassing their client. The word out is enough is enough.
Published Dec 3, 2008 by ■ KJ Mullins in Entertainment
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After meeting in Oslo, Norway, almost one-hundred countries have signed the cluster bomb ban. Neither Russia nor the United States agreed to sign the ban.
Published Dec 3, 2008 by ■ Can Tran in World
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Nutritionists and doctors are worried that Australians are consuming too much salt, which may harm their health just as adversely as cigarettes do.
Published Dec 3, 2008 by ■ Chris V. Thangham in Health
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A 16-year-old, who can not be named under UK law, was acquitted of the murder of Christopher Faulkner last week. Mr Faulkner died after being stabbed during a scuffle in King George’s Playing Fields, Stevenage in April this year.
Published Dec 3, 2008 by ■ Tim Neale in Crime
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A British doctor volunteering in Congo sought the help of a fellow surgeon to do an emergency amputation to save a boy's life. Using text messaging, the doctor was able to perform the surgery successfully.
Published Dec 3, 2008 by ■ Chris V. Thangham in World
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Four armed robbers used 8-year-old Afrikaans farm boy , Juandré Reyneke, as a shield yesterday to lure a game farm owner from his homestead and shoot him down.
Published Dec 3, 2008 by ■ Adriana Stuijt in World
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The Nov. 26 terrorist attack on the cultural and economic center of India has traumatised Indians and shocked citizens abroad. In the wake of the attacks, action is surely required, but conscientious management of this crisis is critical.
Published Dec 2, 2008 by ■ G. Robert M. Miller in Politics
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Dec 1 2008. South Africa. A South African policeman's wife, Erika Zeeman, saved her toddler's life when the mother threw herself across the little girl -- and took a robber's five bullets instead.
Published Dec 2, 2008 by ■ Adriana Stuijt in Crime
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If you live in England there's a chance you could have your Christmas feast prepared by David Duverger, head chef of Papillion. Of course you have to outbid everyone else on E-Bay.
Published Dec 1, 2008 by ■ KJ Mullins in Food
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