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Critics' best bets for Saturday...

Verizon Wireless Amphitheater only has one top-to-bottom rap concert this summer, and it's a doozy. Headliner T.I. is the self-titled King of the South, and the rapper is making the most of his time before he possibly goes behind bars on a weapons charge. The massive lineup also includes national names such as Keyshia Cole, Webbie, and Bun B., and St. Louis favorites Chingy, Murphy Lee, Jibbs,...

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Australian Aborigines threaten to close Uluru over govt policy...

SYDNEY (AFP) — Australian Aborigines threatened Saturday to close one of the country's top tourist destinations, Uluru, in protest at what they described as "racist" government policies in remote communities.

The threat to close Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock , a giant rock in Australia's red centre, came as authorities marked one year since police backed by troops were sent...

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Sir Sean Connery memoir talk tickets sell out in an hour...

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Brit toddlers to get lessons in human rights and cultural harmony...

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IFA Hotels & Resorts Launches Phase Two of Kempinski Residences ......

As a valued private-sector member of the , Kempinski is proud to support the Luis Figo Campaign to Stop TB through the distribution of campaign postcards in guest rooms, explaining how tuberculosis, if it is diagnosed and treated with effective medication, is curable. We share the Stop TB Partnership's vision and goal of a TB-free world.

Kempinski is a member of the . Based on the airlin...

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New music, Web site reviews...

"The Spirit of New Orleans" by Liz McComb (GVE): Liz McComb was born in Cleveland, made her name - and part-time home - in Paris and has now released a jazzy gospel CD that is all New Orleans.

Many of the songs on the 12-track project are old-time gospel standards such as "Just a Closer Walk With Thee," "I Know It Was the Blood" and "You've Got to Move." But all of the songs are recorded...

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Trigger-happy Turks wound 23 people during celebration...

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At least 23 people across Turkey were wounded by stray Bullets following the firing of shots across the country to celebrate the win over Croatia in the European Championship quarter-finals.

Governor Muammer Guler said today that 11 people were accidentally shot in Istanbul, the country's largest city where all night fes...

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Pan-Africanists: Our Collective Duty to Zimbabwe...

Experiences in Guyana, in Kenya and in Zimbabwe have taught us that it is amistake to adopt western standards of victory as our own, write Horace Campbell and Eusi Kwayana.Victory for us must mean reconciliation of divided populations. Reconciliation will fail utterlyif it is imposed; or allows free rein to corruption, militarism or if it ignores the choices ofthe people in valid elections. We ...

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The Booze Is Back in Baghdad...

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• Summer is here...

STONEHENGE–Thousands of partygoers, pagans and self-styled druids cheered and banged drums Saturday to greet the dawn at Stonehenge on the longest day of the year, the summer solstice.

Blowhorns signalled the rise of the sun over the ancient stone circle at 4:58 a.m. – although in typically English fashion, the sunrise was barely visible through the clouds.

Still, the mist and ...

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Pakistan's Sufi singers enthrall audience in JK...

Singers of Qawali genre of Sufi music from Pakistan enthralled the audience on Friday, in Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir.

The event aimed to promote the virtues of peace, harmony and love, turned out to be a marvelous evening of traditional music, developed many centuries ago by the Sufi saints.

"Sufism, Sufi music and Sufi art and all the activities related to it have a gr...

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Sao Paulo puts on display of Japanese culture for visiting prince...

SAO PAULO (AFP) — Sao Paulo put on a display of Japanese culture to rival one of its carnival parades Saturday in a procession attended by Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito.

A parade of military bands, traditional Japanese dance troupes, martial arts groups, drummers and brightly-clad participants filed in front of the heir to Japan's imperial throne and thousands of spectators.

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Where are they now? Rai...

Meeting the ex-professionals who disappeared back into the real world

Raí was Brazil's poster boy going in to the 1994 World Cup in the US. Brazil won - but Rai went away from the tournament deflated, having been asked to give up the captaincy to Dunga, Brazil's current coach, in the second-round game against the host nation. A São Paulo icon, and the younger brother of Br...

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Warning: Here there be irreverence...

Forget all those little surveys your friends forward to your e-mail that want to know whether you prefer Coke over Pepsi or what you keep in your glove box. I decided to jot down a few questions you should ask if you really want to get to know a person:

Speed you'd drive if you knew you wouldn't be ticketed:

Thing you say that makes you sound like your folks when you swore you nev...

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&#39;08 - THE YEAR WOMEN WON&#39;T FORGET What do Clinton&#39;s campaign, &#39;Sex ......

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The glass ceiling is cracked, but not shattered. The glass slipper fits, almost.

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Next Coke CEO is a son of privilege with a feel for average consumers....

• Bachelor of Science in economics, Hull University, England; Master of Science in administrative sciences, London City University, England.

• 1978-98; 2005 to present in a variety of marketing and operations roles, including president of east-central Europe division, president of Coca-Cola International and currently president and chief operating officer. He is slated to take...

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