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Mara Carfagna, nicknamed Mara La Bella, or Mara the Beautiful, also said she was still shocked over her rapid ascent to the top of Italian politics. The 32-year-old was made the minister for Equal Opportunities last week.
The German tabloid Bild has...
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Four years into a robust economic expansion, this country has shaken off its history of sleepy Arab state socialism and embraced the market. A rush of construction is throwing up office buildings as fast as Western-sounding names, such as Palm Hills,...
Hundreds of tourists who have taken home a chunk of Australia’s best-known landmark, the towering monolith called Uluru, have returned their illicit souvenirs, with some claiming to have been struck by bad luck as a result of the theft.
The...
Jimmy Carter (Comment, May 8) is right to highlight the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. But it is unfair to hold Israel primarily responsible. Israel renounced all claims on Gaza nearly three years ago, when it unilaterally withdrew all its settlements and...
Appalled at the Chinese allegations linking the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) with terror group Al Qaeda, the Tibetan leaders have hit back terming the charges the “biggest joke the Chinese could ever come up with”.
While TYC chief Tsewang...
Malaysian women’s groups reacted with outrage yesterday to a government proposal to impose restrictions on woman planning to travel overseas on their own.
The mainly Muslim country is considering requiring women to obtain the written consent of...
Gordon Brown is mounting a final fight-back after Labour crashed to its worst electoral drubbing for a generation at the hands of the Tories and criticism intensified of his record as Prime Minister.
Mr Brown struck a new note of contrition as he...
The big powers have formally acknowledged for the first time that the policy of isolating Hamas through an economic blockade of Gaza is not working.
In a statement issued after talks at foreign minister level in London, the Quartet for Middle East...
The BBC’s Mohammed Allie in Cape Town looks at whether racism is still thriving in South Africa, 14 years after the end of apartheid, as President Thabo Mbeki suggested in a speech to mark Freedom Day.
Earlier this month, the owner of a South...
Africa and Latin America should adopt their own versions of agricultural protection along the lines of Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as a response to rising demand for food, according to Michel Barnier, France’s farm minister. He wants...
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