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A Brit, from the beautiful county of Norfolk in Eastern England, who since last August has been living in the American Mid-West. Sadly for my American family and friends I still cannot understand the rules of American Football or Baseball, preferring instead proper football - OK, I mean soccer.
I have tried my hand at several different things in my life, writing on DJ being one of the most enjoyable. At the last count I had visited over 30 different countries and definitely subscribe to the view that travel broadens the mind. I took a course in Mexico last year and qualified to teach English as a Foreign Language. Another worthwhile experience.
No training in journalism whatsoever I am afraid but, and you are welcome to disagree, I don't think that is too obvious from my articles.
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Christine Lagarde, Finance Minister of France, has spoken of her concern that some of the world's major banks are "on steriods" as a result of the massive amounts of public money they have received during the global financial crisis.
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Two members of the Czech army, who wore Nazi symbols on their helmets whilst serving in Afghanistan, have been dismissed from the army by the country's Defense Minister Martin Bartak.
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A study conducted by researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago has revealed that people who are physically stronger stand a better chance of avoiding Alzheimer's disease than those who are physically weak.
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As a five-day anti-corruption convention got underway on Monday in Doha, the capital of Qatar, the United Nations said the cost of political corruption to governments around the world is about $1.6 trillion each year.
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With many of the country's current nuclear power stations coming to the end of their working lives, the U.K. government has revealed the details of ten locations where it is hoping to build a new generation of nuclear plants over the next two decades.
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The general prosecutor in Tehran has confirmed that three U.S. citizens arrested near Iran's border with Iraq in July have been charged with espionage.
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As world leaders past and present gather in Germany to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a poll has revealed that one in eight Germans regret the day that their country was reunified.
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Omar al-Bashir, President of Sudan and the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, has decided against traveling to Istanbul for a summit of Muslim nations.
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Chelsea have gone five points clear at the top of the English Premier League after a 1-0 victory over reigning champions Manchester United at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.
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Warren Buffet, one of the richest people in the world, has seen profits at his investment company Berkshire Hathaway, he is the company's CEO and Chairman, triple during the third quarter of the year.
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After agreeing to provide authorities in the U.S. with details of 4,450 of its American clients the Swiss bank UBS has now received requests from authorities in the U.K. and Australia for information on its cross-border wealth management services.
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Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act have confirmed that the Territorial Support Group (TSG), a unit within London's Metropolitan Police Service, has received 5,000 complaints in just four years.
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Authorities in Iran have announced that 109 people were arrested in Tehran on Wednesday as security forces clashed with supporters of opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi at a rally to mark the anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy.
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At a meeting of G20 finance ministers being held in St Andrews, Scotland, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spoken of how a global levy on their transactions could help make banks more accountable to the taxpayers who have bailed many of them out.
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A jury in Bergen County, New Jersey on Friday convicted of murder a Florida man accused of killing his former son-in-law, refusing to believe that the man, Edward Ates, was as he claimed 'too-fat-to-kill'.
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A court in the Shinyanga region of northern Tanzania this week sentenced to death four men convicted of killing a 50-year-old albino man whose body parts the killers believed to have magical powers.
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Former U.S. Vice-President and defeated presidential candidate Al Gore has spoken of how he sees civil disobedience as both honorable and understandable, asserting also that it has a part to play in the fight against fossil-fuel polluters.
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Fannie Mae, the U.S. mortgage buyer currently in the conservatorship of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), has requested another $15 billion in state aid following a net loss of nearly $19 billion in the third quarter of the year.
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Authorities in the German capital Berlin have proscribed a group said to be the fastest growing neo-Nazi organization in the city.
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Protesters held a candlelight vigil at the Tron theater in Glasgow, Scotland this week on the first night of a play in which Jesus is portrayed as a transsexual.
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