| Tibetan
exiles scale walls of UN compound in Kathmandu
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Kathmandu,
Mar 28:
About 18 protesting Tibetan exiles scaled the walls of the United
Nations compound in Nepal's capital Friday, as police arrested
60 others rallying outside, dragging some into waiting vehicles,
officials and witnesses said.
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| I
don't want to insult Chinese: Rice
|
Washington,
Mar 28:
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that the Beijing
Olympics are a "moment of international recognition for
the Chinese people," whom she would not want to insult
by encouraging a boycott.
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| Out
of love, out of home
|
Sydney,
Mar 28:
A wonderful thing about research is its capacity to blow apart
received notions. Consider home ownership. Hardly a day goes
by in Australia without a newspaper story or a politician declaring
that the ...
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| Sarkozy's
wife hailed as France's Princess Diana
|
London,
Mar 28:
The day after splashing pictures of her naked, Britain's tabloids
hailed Carla Bruni as a fashion queen who could be the new Princess
Diana.
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| 'World's
greatest living explorer' sets sights on Everest again
|
London,
Mar 28:
The world's greatest living explorer according to the Guinness
Book of World Records, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, has said that he
would climb Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain after
his first attempt failed following a heart attack in 2005.
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