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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 »
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Getting to the bottom of an enduring appeal
AFP – Fri Dec 11, 1:27 am ET
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Japan city girls hit rice paddies, in style
AFP – Fri Dec 11, 1:13 am ET
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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 »
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Patenting melon juice? Not if India gets its way...
AFP – Fri Dec 11, 1:00 am ET
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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 »
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Malaysian Islamic scholars urged to be polygamists
AFP – Thu Dec 10, 10:46 pm ET
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KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - The spiritual leader of Malaysia's Islamic party has urged religious scholars to practice polygamy, saying they could rid the practice of its bad reputation, a report said Thursday. Full Story »
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Roman marble panel sells for 1.5 million dollars
AFP – Thu Dec 10, 7:15 pm ET
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NEW YORK (AFP) - A Roman sarcophagus panel that once belonged to French writer Emile Zola sold for well over its estimated value Thursday, going for 1.5 million dollars, auction house Sotheby's said. Full Story »
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Hong Kong women shrug off tattoo taboo
AFP – Thu Dec 10, 3:47 am ET
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HONG KONG (AFP) - Spurred-on by celebrity style or simply looking for a new way to stand out in a city of seven million, Hong Kong women are increasingly taking to tattoos -- an art form long considered taboo. Full Story »
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China to stage first gay pageant: organisers
AFP – Thu Dec 10, 9:30 am ET
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BEIJING (AFP) - A gay pageant is to be held for the first time in China, where homosexuality remains largely hidden, to crown the man who will represent the Asian nation at a worldwide contest, organisers said Thursday. Full Story »
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Italian tour guides protest new qualification proposal
AFP – Thu Dec 10, 1:52 pm ET
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ROME (AFP) - Hundreds of tour guides from across Italy demonstrated in Rome on Thursday, in protest at a government proposal to bring in a nationwide qualification for entering the profession. Full Story »
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Azerbaijan's traditional music thrives again
AFP – Thu Dec 10, 3:56 am ET
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BAKU (AFP) - Lifting his daf, a traditional Azerbaijani tambourine, to his ear, Mutalim Damirov begins to sing. Full Story »
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British drinkers get chance to check Xmas intake
AFP – Thu Dec 10, 11:58 am ET
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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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