SIDEBAR: Inside the world's largest diamond-sorting facility
Gaborone - Before entering the world's largest diamond sorting facility in Gaborone, you have to check your chewing gum at the door - lest you be tempted to stud it with a stone. You may also be asked to turn out your pockets, show the soles of your ...
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SIDEBAR: Botswana: key facts
Gaborone - Following are some key facts about Botswana, the world's biggest producer of diamonds. -- Botswana has a population of 1.85 million people living in an area roughly the size of France or Texas. ...
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Novartis begins shipment of swine flu vaccine to US
Geneva - Swiss drugmaker Novartis said Tuesday it has started shipping vaccines against the A(H1N1) virus, better known as swine flu, to the United States. The company began sending doses last week from a production seed strain provided by the World ...
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Pakistani Taliban claim bombing at UN office
Islamabad - The Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday claimed the responsibility for a suicide bombing at United Nations World Food programme (WFP) offices in Islamabad a day ago. The Monday afternoon attack, which killed five employees of the WFP, prompted i...
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US stock sell-off on fears of weak recovery
New York - US stocks followed global markets in a broad decline amid investor fears over the world's uneasy recovery from recession. Major US stock indices fell about 1 per cent on average, following hefty declines in the DJ Euro Stoxx 50 and Japan's...
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Yahia is Algerian hero as Desert Foxes qualify for South Africa
Omdurman, Sudan - A former French youth international who plays his club football in Germany on Wednesday became the hero for Algeria as he scored the goal that took the Desert Foxes to the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa with a 1-0 victory ove...
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Artist Jeanne-Claude dies at 74
New York - Artist Jeanne-Claude has died at age 74 in New York, a family friend said Thursday. Jeanne-Claude and artist husband Christo are famous for wrapping several monuments around the world, including the Reichstag in Berlin, the Pont Neuf in Pa...
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PREVIEW: Champions Italy begin approach to World Cup finals
Pescara, Italy - After a fairly easy qualification phase to the 2010 World Cup, holders Italy step up the level of their opponents welcoming the Netherlands in a friendly set for Saturday in the seaside town of Pescara. The Dutch squad breezed throug...
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Swedish referees stay mum after controversial handball - Summary
Stockholm - One of the Swedish referees who officiated at the controversial World Cup play-off between France and Ireland declined to comment the matter Thursday, citing football's controlling body FIFA. The Swedish nationals have been heavily critic...
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Irish to lodge official complaint with FIFA over Henry handball
Dublin - The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) confirmed Thursday that it is to lodge an official complaint with FIFA over Ireland's World Cup play-off match against France. Ireland lost the play-off 2-1 on aggregate after Wednesday night's game ...
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World powers to discuss Iran action in Brussels - Summary
Brussels - Top diplomats from the so-called 5+1 group of world powers were to meet in Brussels on Friday to discuss how to respond to Iran's refusal to reach a nuclear deal, diplomats said Thursday. Officials from the UN Security Council's five per...
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Football match strains Algerian-Egyptian relations
Cairo - Egypt on Thursday said it would summon the Algerian ambassador in Cairo to protest attacks against Egyptian fans after Wednesday night's World Cup playoff in Sudan. The ambassador will receive a strong message about securing the Egyptian pre...
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EU, Arab world seek cooperation on green energy
Brussels - The European Union and the governments of Egypt, Israel, Syria and much of the Arab world kicked off discussions Friday on the launch of a common green energy market. The occasion was a conference in Brussels organized by the European Comm...
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Rocket crashes into moon in seach for water - Summary
Washington - A NASA rocket crashed into the moon Friday, sending a huge plume of dust above the surface in an experiment scientists hope will provide data about ice hidden in the perpetually dark lunar craters. Major telescopes around the world were ...
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Spain call up striker Negredo to replace injured Villa
Madrid - The Spanish football federation announced late on Tuesday that national manager Vicente del Bosque had decided to call up Alvaro Negredo of Sevilla to replace injured Valencia striker David Villa. Villa, 28, will miss Spain's final World Cup...
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England call up Hart, Cahill for Ukraine, Belarus qualifiers
London - Birmingham City goalkeeper Joe Hart and Bolton defender Gary Cahill were called into the England squad on Tuesday for the two remaining World Cup qualifying matches against Ukraine and Belarus. Hart replaces Paul Robinson in the squad after ...
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Luis Fabiano 'living through the most complete phase' of career
Rio de Janeiro - Sevilla striker Luis Fabiano is out to confirm in the last two rounds of the South American qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa that he is Brazil's top centre- forward. I'm living through the most complete phase in my ...
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Liu Zige smashes women's 200m butterfly world record
Jinan, China - China's Liu Zige knocked over one and a half seconds off Jessica Schipper's 200-metre butterfly world record Wednesday with an astonishing swim at the national swimming championships in Jinan. Liu recorded a time of 2 minutes 1.81 seco...
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World Cup centrepiece Soccer City celebrates snappy, safe build
Soweto, Johannesburg - Soccer City, the centrepiece stadium of next year's World Cup in South Africa, celebrated more than one million man hours of work without serious injury Wednesday with a roof wetting ceremony that was abetted by a shower of rai...
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Weaker Barbie sales push down Mattel earnings
New York - Mattel, maker of the classic Barbie doll, said Friday profits fell 3 per cent in the third-quarter. Weaker sales of the iconic doll led profits down to 230 million dollars, as revenues dipped 8 per cent to 1.8 billion dollars, the world's ...
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