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Breaking News Tue, 29 Dec 2009
Coke - Coca-Cola - Soft Drinks - Soda
Boycott   Coca-cola   Consumers   Photos   Workers
 Independent online (SA) 
 Boycott Coke, say metal workers
Tue 29 Dec 2009
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has called on consumers to boycott Coca-Cola for four hours a day in support of soft drink workers picketing in Pretoria. Numsa spokesman... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua during the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) summit in Dakar, Senegal Friday March 14, 2008. The leaders of dozens of Islamic nations gathered in Senegal's capital Thursday for the opening of a two-day summit to study ways to improve Islam's image in the West and spur economic development in some of the Muslim world's poorest members.
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 The Star 
ANALYSIS - Plane attack adds to pressure on sick Nigeria leader
Tue 29 Dec 2009
LAGOS (Reuters) - The foiled Christmas Day bomb attack on a U.S. airliner has put further pressure on ailing Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua to either confirm he is fit to govern or hand over to his... (photo: AP / Olivier Asselin)
ANC President Jacob Zuma arrives at Parliament for the swearing in of members of Parliament and the president in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, May 6, 2009.  Independent online (SA)  Tue 29 Dec 2009
 Thousands at Zuma party
Submit your comment Thousands of people on Tuesday were attending the annual Christmas party for orphans and vulnerable children organised by President Jacob Zuma's education trust. The... (photo: AP / Mike Hutchings, Pool)
Christmas   Orphans   Party   Photos   Zuma
Model display the dress   during the COKUSS Kolkata Fashion File 2009 at City Hotel in Kolkata on Tuesday Evening 04 August 2009 ---- Picture By Bhaskar Mallick  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Tue 29 Dec 2009
Fashion Models Start Getting Their Hands Dirty

PARIS -- From Audrey Hepburn to Bob Geldof to Bono, hands-on humanitarian work has long held an appeal for stars who want to give something back. Yet, for all the celebrities in charity, the rarified... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
Fashion   Humanitarian   Photos   Refugee   Stars
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Pet_Micka_4 Independent online (SA) Tue 29 Dec 2009
 Dog rescued after rough night on mountain
By Caryn Dolley After a night out in the cold, she lay unfazed and cushioned by pale blue blankets as burly men carried her down the mountainside. Saving Sheba, a... (photo: Creative Commons / snappED_up)
Animals   Environment   Photos   Society   Wildlife
A Palestinian boy walks on the rubble of a building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009. U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes, on the first day of a five-day trip to the region, called the steep Palestinian casualty toll "extremely shocking" and suggested the United Nations might ask Israel to compensate it for wartime damage to U.N. compounds in Gaza, but that he was looking at immediate humanitarian needs and thinking about longer-term reconstruction in Daily Star Lebanon Mon 28 Dec 2009
The Gaza scorecard, one year later

By Rami G. Khouri Daily Star staff Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - Powered by A year after the Israeli attack on Gaza, a scorecard of “winners and losers”... (photo: AP / Khaled Omar)
Gaza   Human Rights   Israel   Photos   War
HIV-positive Namuddu Florence looks on as she receives free medical treatment from a health worker, Wednesday, July 9, 2003 at the Mbuya Parish in Kampala, Uganda. Compared to the other countries President Bush is visiting in Africa, Uganda is a political IRINnews Mon 28 Dec 2009
AFRICA: Treatment failure going undetected
web JOHANNESBURG, 28 December 2009 (PlusNews) - Too many HIV-infected patients in Africa are dying due to the difficulty of diagnosing and managing antiretroviral... (photo: AP Photo )
Africa   Health   Johannesburg   Photos   World
Pedestrians walks past a stock market graph in London, Thursday Feb. 7, 2008. The Bank of England cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point to 5.25 percent on Thursday, its second cut in three months as it attempts to shore up confidence in Britain's slowing economy. PR Newswire Mon 28 Dec 2009
Sappi to Delist from the London Stock Exchange

Download image JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Global pulp and paper group Sappi Limited (NYSE: SPP) today informed shareholders that it had decided to... (photo: AP Photo / Max Nash)
Economy   Financial   Market   Photos   Stock
 Actor and ClickStar co founder Morgan Freeman talks about the ClickStar movie service, which is meant to give directors and actors a mechanism outside Hollywood for releasing films straight to consumers with the new Intel Viiv technology during the Intel The Examiner Mon 28 Dec 2009
Freeman, Damon make Eastwood's "Invictus" a film to watch.
Miami Indie Movie Examiner rates this: Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, and Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar, in Clint Eastwood's Invictus. Photo: Warner Bros.... (photo: AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Damon   Eastwood   Film   Freeman   Photos
New Orleans, September 2, 2005 - A Southwest airliner takes on evacuees for transport to a shelter in San Antonio, Tx.  Many airliners from both civilian and military sources are working day and night to move evacuess left behind by Hurricane Katrina to selected sites throughout the nation.  Photo by Win Henderson / FEMA photo. The Examiner Mon 28 Dec 2009
Breaking News, travelers face stay-seated rule after Northwest Airlines bombing attempt (part 1)
Teagan Tullio, left, and her sister Tori, from Windsor Ont, Canada, waiting endlessly to board. AP Photo, Charles Rex Arbogast If you like this ... Breaking News, Casa de... (photo: Public Domain)
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