Iraq war death toll at 162,000
Around 162,000 people, almost 80 percent of them
civilians, were killed in Iraq from the start of the 2003 US-led
invasion up to last year's withdrawal of American forces, a British
NGO said on Monday.
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Chinese culture being ‘Westernised’- President Hu
Chinese President Hu Jintao has warned that
“hostile” powers are seeking to “Westernise” the country and called
for greater efforts to enhance China's cultural influence overseas.
Hu's remarks published in the latest edition of Communist Party
magazine Seeking the Truth come after Beijing ordered the culture
industry -- taken to include the media -- to lift its game as China
pushes its “soft power” abroad.
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Twenty year-old charged with Indian student’s murder in Britain
British police on Sunday charged a 20-year-old
man with the murder of Indian student Anuj Bidve, who was shot in
the head in an apparently unprovoked attack in Manchester. Kiaran
Mark Stapleton had been charged over Monday's shooting of
23-year-old Bidve as he walked into the city centre with Indian
friends, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) announced in a televised
statement.
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Obama turns to roots as key year dawns
US President Barack Obama opened a landmark year
on Sunday by paying homage to his roots as he wraps up his vacation
in his native Hawaii. Obama visited the graveyard of his
grandfather, a World War II veteran, in the National Memorial
Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl, and then viewed an exhibition
of his late mother's anthropological field work in Indonesia.
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Elton John wants Timberlake to play him in biopic
Elton John is working on a biopic about himself
and would like Justin Timberlake to take on the lead role, he said
in an interview published Sunday. The British veteran star also
spoke about his and partner David Furnish's love for their son
Zachary -- whose first birthday was on Christmas Day -- saying the
child was the “light of our lives.” An announcement about the biopic
is due very soon, the 64-year-old told the Los Angeles Times
newspaper.
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