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Maids -A group of Filipino maids eat lunch and talk on their typical day off in Hong Kong´s central business district Sunday, April 11, 1999. For more than two decades, Hong Kong families have hired foreign maids for housework and cheap child care.
Food   Photos   Prices   School   Tokyo		  Daily Yomiuri 
City schools hiking lunch costs / Municipal governments, Tokyo wards increasing fees as food prices rise
Fourteen major cities, including Sapporo and Niigata, and eight Tokyo wards have raised school lunch fees this fiscal year, largely due to soaring prices for wheat, milk and other food, according to a... (photo: AP Photo)
Serbia's President and presidential candidate Boris Tadic addresses media after his headquarter claimed victory in presidential elections, in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008. President's wife Tanja is left. The cyrillic letters in the background read: "Let's conquer Europe together."
Elections   Photos   Politics   Serbia   Society		  Philadelphia Daily News 
Serbia's pro-Western president declares victory in elections
BELGRADE, Serbia - Serbia's pro-Western president declared victory in Sunday's parliamentary elections , a stunning upset over ultranationalists who tried to exploit anger over Kosovo's independence... (photo: AP Photo / Darko Vojinovic)
children, poverty , homeless,  Bahrain Tribune 
Anything goes
Myanmar (AFP) The few houses that weren't washed away in this ruined shantytown are surrounded by muddy, black water. Starving children beg for food – or drag their fishing nets through the sludge.... (photo: Public Domain / )
Children   Humanitarian   Myanmar   Photos   Poverty   Slideshow
Melting Arctic sea ice - Winter sea ice in the Arctic has failed to reform fully for the third year in a row. Scientists said yesterday that the area of ocean covered by Arctic ice at the end of the winter months was lower only in March 2006. global war  Daily Yomiuri 
Arctic ice seen shrinking to smallest size recorded
Ice sheets in the Arctic Ocean could shrink this summer to the smallest area on record since satellite observation of the sheets began in 1978, according to researchers. Researchers at the Japan... (photo: NOAA)
Aerospace   Arctic   Japan   Photos   Researchers
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Steel Industry (sl1) The Australian
Beijing's behemoths want more iron action
THE first ship to load iron ore produced by Fortescue Metals Group will dock on Thursday at Port Hedland in Western Australia. It will leave with 170,000 tonnes of ore,... (photo: AP Photo / Andy Wong)
Australia   Business   China   Metal   Photos
Royal Orchid restaurant in Dubai Marina, Dubai, UAE, November 2007 Buffalo News
Where to eat / Restaurant reviews in brief
Following are some restaurants visited by News restaurant reviewers. New restaurant reviews appear the first Sunday of every month in Niagara Weekend. Hailey's Cafe... (photo: WN / Guillaume Poulet-Mathis)
Food   Menu   People   Photos   Restaurants
The G8 Heads of State and Government on the pier at Heiligendam cg1 International Herald Tribune
G-8 labor officials gather in Japan to seek environment-friendly working style
: Labor ministers from the Group of Eight industrialized nations met with international trade union and business groups Sunday to discuss the reduction of workplace... (photo: REGIERUNGonline/Gebhardt )
Development   Environment   Japan   Photos   Trade
Prime Minister Tony Blair warned on Friday it would be very difficult for Northern Ireland´s feuding politicians to strike a deal on power-sharing if they failed to agree by a November deadline. WN/Bero Amer CNN
Blair broke promises to stand down, says deputy
LONDON, England (AP) -- Tony Blair's former deputy says he intervened in dozens of angry disputes between the prime minister and his eventual successor Gordon Brown, even... (photo: WN/Bero Amer)

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The Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee is being presented a book titled ´India Nuclear Doctrine´ by Mr. Ashley Telli of US , in New Delhi on July 17, 2003 Thursday). Jpib2u AOL
India quietly observes 10th anniversary of nuclear tests+
NEW DELHI, May 11 (Kyodo) - India on Sunday quietly observed the 10th anniversary of its underground nuclear tests that stunned the world and served as the occasion for... (photo: PIB photo)
Delhi   India   Nuclear   Photos   Rajasthan
KLdy1 - currency - usd - dollar - us dollar - u.s dollar - united states dollar. (dy1) International Herald Tribune
Inflation worries expected to prop up weak U.S. dollar
: The tide may be turning at last for the U.S. dollar after seven years of decline as policy makers recognize the inflationary threat of an endlessly weakening dollar... (photo: WN)
Economy   Finance   Inflation   Photos   USA
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Felipe Massa Massa keeps Ferrari on top in first practice Dawn
Lewis Hamilton Hamilton on victory drive after losing the anxiety The Independent
Liu Xiang Liu Xiang going for a fifth consecutive win in Osaka Grand Prix The Star
Liverpool's manager Rafael Benitez Lee lined up as Benitez assistant IC Newcastle
Entertainment
John Mayer Macworld / wam2 John hotter than Brad: Aniston Bahrain Tribune
Salma Hayek What taught Salma to love? The Times Of India
Kate Bosworth, who´s all of 21, admits she had never heard of Bobby Darin before landing a co-starring role in a film about the 1950s crooner. sa1 Classic Kate hits the jackpot Sydney Morning Herald
Melanie Brown Mel B's supportive love The Boston Globe
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A wide-view of the Security Council members voting unanimously to renew the arms embargo against the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Give generals the boot, it's the only way The Australian
An aerial view of damage to villages and infrastructure following Cyclone Sidr. (mb1) Grief is compounded by desperation The Australian
Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y. on Saturday, April 19, 2008. Pope: Sex can become 'like a drug' CNN
A nun receives the holy communion by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano, center, during mass and opening ceremony in new Saint Josef Catholic Cathedral in the capital Sofia Sunday, May, 21, 2006. The cathedral was inaugurated in 2002 during the visit of Pope John Paul II and was open today by the Cardinal Angelo Sodano. There are about 80,000 Catholics in the predominantly Orthodox Balkan nation of 7.8 million Catholics enlisted in green war Canada Dot Com
Tokyo Headlines
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Full StorySony's Newest Display Is a Culture Shift

Full StoryNissan to outsource sales network setup in India -

Full StoryChina's Hu ends 'satisfactory and successful' Japan visit
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Full StoryToronto-based indie stars Tokyo Police Club grow up as their
Full StoryTokyo to submit bill on CO2 targets
Full StoryBad news at Toyota

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