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  • Avril Lavigne plans lavish wedding

    Singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne has started planning for her lavish wedding with Nickelback frontman and lead guitarist Chad Kroeger. She even has a special surprise for him. The 28-year-old star is keeping the details to herself till the big day, reports femalefirst.co.uk. "I'm planning a weddingsome things will be a surprise. Some things will be what he likes and still will surprise him! ...

  • Nigeria arrives late for Confederations Cup

    The Nigerian soccer team arrived in Brazil, three days behind schedule and a day before it opens its Confederations Cup football campaign against Tahiti. The team landed in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte early Sunday morning, putting an end to speculations that Nigeria might miss the eight-team tournament due to unspecified "internal problems", reports Xinhua. Africa's current top team ...

  • Confederations Cup Nigeria thrash Tahiti but Joanathan Tehau dreams

    BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil // Jonathan Tehau struggled to articulate his joy after becoming the first player to score for Tahiti at a high-profile international tournament in his side's 6-1 defeat to Nigeria at the Confederations Cup. Ranked 138th in the world, Tahiti are making their first appearance in a competition of this level and despite the margin of defeat in Monday's game, they ...

  • Tunisia - Net freedom in Tunisia Still a long way to go

    announced the end of online filtering -- killing "Ammar 404 (the nickname given to the country's filtering system by its netizens).Just this month, CEO of the Tunisian Internet Agency (ATI) Moez Chakchouk announced that ATI won an appeal against filtering of adult content. The case dates back to May 2011, when a primary court ordered the agency to filter X-rated websites on the ground ...

  • Theft from S. Sudan Presidents Office Inside Job

    JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN -- A spate of alleged thefts from the office of South Sudanese President Salva Kiir may have been an inside job, officials investigating how tens of thousands of dollars went missing from Kiir's office said Monday. Some $70,000 U.S. that was kept in the president's office to pay staff who do not have bank accounts, along with two laptops, went missing from ...

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The Iron Lady

The Iron Lady

The title of The Iron Lady comes from the nickname given to Margaret Thatcher by the Soviet media in the mid-1970s, but it may just as well be used to describe Meryl Streep, who gives us another of her impressive historical disappearing actsone of the current cinemas greatest speci ... ...

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  • Tunisias current Sharia-compliant assets total to USD 1.4 billion

    (MENAFN) General director of debt management and financial cooperation at the Tunisian Finance Ministry, Chaker Soltani, said that the country's current Sharia-compliant assets totals to USD 1.4 billion, and has the potential of growing up to USD5 billion in five years, reported The Daily Star.Soltani added that if the country issues necessary decrees, educates people and investors were ...

  • NEMA Warns Southern Nigeria of Impending Heavy Rainfall

    By SaharaReporters, New York The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has warned residents of the southern parts of the country to prepare for heavy and potentially-dangerous rainfall. It would be recalled that last year, similar severe weather caused unprecedented flooding in the southern half of the country, resulting in villages being washed away and many people losing their ...

  • Tahiti make history despite defeat to Nigeria in Confed Cup

    Nigeria beat Tahiti 6-1 in Group B opener at Confederations Cup Nnamdi Oduamadi scores a hat-rick in Belo Horizonte 138th-ranked Tahiti reply through Jonathan Tehau South Pacific minnows next play world champions Spain in ...

  • Rwandan general to command new UN peacekeeping force in Mali

    U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Rwandan Maj. Gen. Jean Bosco Kazura as commander of the new U.N. peacekeeping force in Mali that is expected to take over from an African-led mission on July 1. Kazura is commandant of the Rwandan Defence Forces Combat Training Center. Ban said Monday that he previously served as senior military and security adviser to President Paul Kagame and ...

  • Tahiti trump Nigeria in celebration stakes

    Tahiti has treated Monday's 6-1 Confederations Cup loss to Nigeria in Belo Horizonte like a victory in the World Cup final.The French Polynesian island, who stunned New Caledonia to win the 2012 Oceania Nations and qualify for the Confederations Cup, managed to score a goal in their first appearance at a major tournament.Tahiti head coach Eddy Etaeta had described a goal as the team's ...

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