HARARE, ZIMBABWE — The main opposition party and independent observers said today that President Robert Mugabe was suffering a resounding defeat as election results were tallied, but no official returns were released and capital was rife with speculation that they were being rigged.
Tension was high in the capital, Harare, with police deployed on most corners [...]
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Ram Gopal Varma had created a coup of sorts by casting the father-son jodi (Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek) in ‘Sarkar’, a film that left people awestruck, all thanks to the power-full performances by the Bachchans. This time round, Ramu has gone one-step ahead to add one more member (Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan) from the Bachchan clan and [...]
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Posted in France, Jean Nouvel on March 30, 2008 | No Comments »
The designer of a soaring, glass-shelled condo planned for Century City is the winner of this year’s Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honor.
French architect Jean Nouvel is singled out in the Prizker jury citation for his “persistence, imagination, exuberance, and, above all, an insatiable urge for creative experimentation.”
Nouvel is the architect behind Paris’ Arab World Institute [...]
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Scraping together a little extra income to support one’s party lifestyle can be a struggle for most hard-up students.
But when you are set to inherit the best part of £650million pounds, the drinks are bound to taste a little sweeter.
And the party appears to have started in earnest for Fawn James.
The 22-year-old granddaughter of porn [...]
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Posted in Islam on March 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Islamic and Arab leaders denounced a Dutch film Saturday that portrays Islam as a ticking time bomb aimed at the West, demanding international laws to prevent insults to religions.
The 15-minute film entitled “Fitna,” or “ordeal” in Arabic, by Dutch anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders brought condemnations from Muslim capitals and street protests [...]
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Morgan Tsvangirai born March 10, 1952, is a trade unionist, human rights activist, Democrat and President of the mainstream [1] Movement for Democratic Change, the main opposition party in Zimbabwe.
Tsvangirai was born in the Gutu area in then-Southern Rhodesia, the eldest of nine children and the son of a carpenter and bricklayer. After leaving school [...]
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Xcor Aerospace announced its intention to offer private suborbital space flights in 2010. The company plans to build the Lynx, a two-seat spaceship that is about the size of a private aircraft. The Lynx will let passengers experience weightlessness at the edge of outer space for about four and a half minutes.
“Lynx will be the [...]
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Equatorial Guinea has issued an arrest warrant for Sir Mark Thatcher over his alleged role in a failed 2004 coup.
The country’s attorney general said that Sir Mark, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, had provided money and transport.
In 2005, Sir Mark was given a fine and a suspended sentence in South Africa after [...]
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Pappu Saein, Reshma and Shoaib Mansoor
In the President’s Awards ceremony held at the Governor’s House (Lahore) on March 23 (Pakistan Day), a couple of the industry’s biggest players were brought into a limelight of another kind - a kind they’re not quite used to! Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan received the Presidential Award, Atif Aslam and [...]
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