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Archive for July, 2009

Aid agencies slam TV news report of happy Africans

Aid agencies have damned a Channel 4 news report that depicted Africans as contented, happy human beings, going cheerfully about their daily lives

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Posted: Jul 31st, 2009
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Road users not getting top speeds

British car owners are not getting the speeds they are paying for, a survey by motoring regulator OfRoad has revealed.

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Posted: Jul 31st, 2009
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Indian woman slams parental pressure to enter ‘arranged divorce’

It's all the rage.Jilpa Shori, a 26-year-old housewife from Mumbai, spoke out about the unfair and undue pressure being placed on her by her parents — who recently became besotted with western culture — to comply with their newfound beliefs and arrange a highly-public acrimonious divorce from her husband, Deepak.

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Posted: Jul 31st, 2009
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Antisocial networking site to close

Citing dwindling member activity and universally negative feedback, antisocial website keepoutofmyspace.com today announced that it was to close. The site had become known for having privacy settings permanently set to ‘piss off’, much to the annoyance of advertisers, data analysers and people hoping to discover that their ex had got fat

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Posted: Jul 30th, 2009
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Man wins lottery after fast-forwarding on Sky+

A Monmouth pensioner has admitted that he scooped last week’s eight million pound jackpot after fast-forwarding to the televised lottery results two hours before they were drawn.

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Posted: Jul 30th, 2009
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