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JAKARTA (AFP) - From Aceh to Bali, Indonesians have donated a truckload of coins in support of a woman jailed for criticising health care provision in an email to friends. Full Story »
JAKARTA (AFP) - From Aceh to Bali, Indonesians have donated a truckload of coins in support of a woman jailed for criticising health care provision in an email to friends. Full Story »
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - After a month of traipsing around the country and immersing themselves in South African culture, beauties from around the globe now have their eyes set on the Miss World pageant Saturday. Full Story »
PARIS (AFP) - From the country that gave the world Brigitte Bardot and topless sunbathing comes a fresh expose of the human anatomy: man's enduring fascination with bottoms. Full Story »
PARIS (AFP) - A French court on Friday threw out accusations against Chanel of stealing a design from a knitwear supplier but ordered the fashion house to pay damages to the firm for illegally breaking a contract. Full Story »
PARIS (AFP) - Upmarket French leisure group Club Med is branching out in China where it will open a ski village next year to boost its profits, it said on Friday, reporting a fall in yearly earnings. Full Story »
TOKYO (AFP) - Tokyo's most fashionable city girls have ventured into unfamiliar territory, crouching in muddy rice paddies to help make Japan's dying farms cool again -- and now they can do it in style. Full Story »
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Fed up with foreign companies patenting traditional medicine from India, the country's top scientific body is compiling a giant database of everything from yoga positions to medicinal fruit juice. Full Story »
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - NPD Group said that US videogame industry sales for the year are on track to hit 20 billion dollars despite not measuring up to stellar revenues seen in 2008. Full Story »
ALMATY (AFP) - In less than six months Kazakhstan's best known opposition newspaper has been sued for almost half a million dollars, had its presses raided and an entire print run seized by the tax police. Full Story »
LONDON (AFP) - British drinkers are being offered the chance to compare how much alcohol they're guzzling compared to fellow boozers, in an interactive scheme launched for the Christmas party season. Full Story »
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