Mobile phones to help fight AIDS in Africa

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 Mobile phones are to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa. Health-care workers will be able to report current health data from the field to a central database using their mobile phones, under a project to be launched with the help of leading phone companies and the U.S. government. The US$10 million project, called…

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On the campaign trail in the USA, September 2016

Friday, October 21, 2016 The following is the fifth edition of a monthly series chronicling the U.S. 2016 presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month’s biggest stories. In this month’s edition on the campaign trail: an arrest warrant is issued for the Green Party presidential…

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News briefs:May 06, 2010

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Four year-old boy battered with a brick in East Yorkshire

Saturday, August 26, 2006 In what Humberside Police are describing as a “nasty” attack, a four year-old boy was left with a fractured skull after being battered with a brick. The incident happened on wasteland close to the child’s home in Hessle, East Yorkshire. Charlie Davis was discovered by a couple on Thursday. He was…

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Parents kidnap daughter to stop marriage in U.S.

Thursday, October 5, 2006 On Friday, August 4, bride-to-be Julianna Redd’s parents, Lemeul and Julia Redd, told her that she was going on a shopping trip but instead she was driven 390 km (240 miles) from Provo, Utah to Grand Junction, Colorado by her parents trying to talk her out of getting married. Her now…

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Israel buys nuclear capable subs

Friday, August 25, 2006 Israel has purchased two more Dolphin class submarines which have the capacity to carry nuclear warheads. Israel already has three older nuclear weapons-capable Dolphin submarines but the new Dolphins have propulsion systems that allow them to remain submerged for longer periods of time, according to the Jerusalem Post, making it harder…

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Singer and songwriter Michael Jackson dies at age 50

Thursday, June 25, 2009 Michael Jackson, a singer and songwriter who was dubbed as the ‘King of Pop’, has died today at the age of 50. Initial reports had stated that Jackson is in a coma after being rushed to UCLA Medical Center. According to TMZ, rescue crews from the Los Angeles Fire Department responded…

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Wendy’s finger pointer gets fingered for crime

Friday, April 22, 2005 Las Vegas, Nevada – San Jose police arrested the woman who made the claim she found a human finger in a bowl of Wendy’s chili. Police made the arrest of Anna Ayala on Thursday night at or near her Las Vegas home. A sign on the front door of the Ayala…

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Immigration Detainees on Hunger Strike in Oxford UK

Thursday, June 15, 2006 One hundred and twenty detainees at an immigration removal centre in Oxford, UK, are on hunger strike. The protest started when some detainees refused breakfast on Wednesday 14th June 2006. A letter from the hunger strikers explaining why they are seeking to draw attention to their plight in this way has…

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