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• Thousands pay tribute to late Zambian president Mwanawasa

  - 2008-09-03

  LUSAKA AFP — Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai put aside their rivalry Wednesday to join African heads of state at the funeral of Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa. The bitter rivals mingled with more than a dozen African heads of state and government, as well as...

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• Legal challenge to French warship dismantling in Britain

  - 2008-09-03

  LONDON AFP — Environmental campaigners said Wednesday they would go to the courts in a bid to stop an asbestos-contaminated French aircraft carrier from being broken up in Britain. The 32,700-tonne Clemenceau, once the pride of the French navy, has spent the past five years being moved around the...

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• Scottish schoolgirls get cancer jab

  - 2008-09-01

  LONDON AFP — Schoolgirls in Scotland became the first in the country to get a jab against cervical cancer on Monday. Pupils aged 12 and 13 in several areas are being offered the vaccine from this week, as part of a nationwide programme announced last October. The programme...

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• Carla Bruni to jam with McCartney, Metallica on British TV

  - 2008-08-30

  LONDON AFP — French first lady Carla Bruni Sarkozy will jam live with Paul McCartney and Metallica on British television next month in support of her new album. The erstwhile supermodel -- who married French President Nicolas Sarkozy in February -- will appear on "Later ... with Jools Holland"...

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• Olympics: 2012 torch relay 'will not leave Britain': report

  - 2008-08-30

  LONDON AFP — The Olympic torch relay before the 2012 Olympics in London will be restricted to Britain after protests marred the worldwide relay ahead of the Beijing Games, a report said Sunday. Tessa Jowell, the British minister with responsibility for the Olympics, told The Sunday Times newspaper she...

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• British experts green light Novartis' sight-saving drug

  - 2008-08-27

  GENEVA AFP — Novartis said Wednesday its Lucentis eye treatment has been recommended by Britain's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence NICE as a cost-effective therapy to stave off blindness. The Swiss pharmaceutical giant said in a statement that NICE had recommended Lucentis as "a cost-effective therapy for...

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• Britain still backs British Energy-EDF tie-up: minister

  - 2008-08-24

  LONDON AFP — Britain continues to favour a tie-up between British Energy and French energy group EDF, Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks said in an interview published Monday. Speaking to the Financial Times last week while on a visit to Lagos, Wicks said a deal with EDF was "the most...

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• Paedophile Glitter faces the music back in Britain

  - 2008-08-22

  LONDON AFP — Paedophile 1970s glam rocker Gary Glitter arrived back in Britain on Friday after a farcical merry-go-round of Asian airports and was immediately ordered to register as a top level sex offender. Despite the fact he may never leave the country again, Glitter, 64, claimed he was...

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• Thailand threatens to expel Gary Glitter to Britain

  - 2008-08-21

  BANGKOK AFP — Thai immigration authorities threatened Thursday to expel former glam rocker and convicted paedophile Gary Glitter to his native Britain after Hong Kong refused to let him in. Glitter, 64, was released from a Vietnamese prison on Tuesday after serving nearly three years for committing obscene acts...

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• Grand Theft Auto IV 'most popular game this year'

  - 2008-08-21

  TOKYO AFP — The notoriously violent "Grand Theft Auto IV" has blown away the competition since its launch thanks to strong sales in the United States and Britain, a survey showed Thursday. The game has already sold 6.3 million units in those two markets since it was released in...

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