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  • Coins flow in to help Indonesian Facebook Mum

    AFP – Fri Dec 11, 11:57 pm ET  
    Indonesian Prita Mulyasari cries as she receives money donated... AFP/File

    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 »

  • Stage set for Miss World finale in South Africa

    AFP – Fri Dec 11, 12:04 pm ET  
    Some 40 beauties of the 112 selected contestants participate... AFP/File

    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 »

  • Getting to the bottom of an enduring appeal

    AFP – Fri Dec 11, 1:27 am ET  
    From the country that gave the world Brigitte Bardot and topless... AFP/File

    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 »

  • Chanel cleared in French counterfeit case

    AFP – Fri Dec 11, 12:18 pm ET  
    A French court on Friday threw out accusations against Chanel... Chanel

    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 »

  • Club Med plans ski village in China

    AFP – Fri Dec 11, 12:05 pm ET  
    The chairman and chief executive officer of French leisure group... AFP

    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 »

  • Japan city girls hit rice paddies, in style

    AFP – Fri Dec 11, 1:13 am ET  
    Japanese fashion model and singer Shiho Fujita (right) fits friends... AFP/G-Revo/File

    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 »

  • Patenting melon juice? Not if India gets its way...

    AFP – Fri Dec 11, 11:58 am ET  
    Indians are seen performing Yoga exercises during a teaching... AFP/File

    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 »

  • US videogame sales to hit $20 bln for year: NPD

    AFP – Fri Dec 11, 12:06 pm ET  
    A customer is seen after buying a copy of the best-selling video... AFP/Getty Images/File

    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 »

  • Down but not out: embattled Kazakh paper fights back

    AFP – Fri Dec 11, 12:08 pm ET  
    Oxana Makushina, Deputy Editor of the Kazakh opposition newspaper... AFP/File

    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 »

  • British drinkers get chance to check Xmas intake

    AFP – Fri Dec 11, 8:33 am ET  
    A passer-by looks at a digital screen displaying the average... AFP

    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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