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Jolie and Pitt found out about the clinic at a film premiere

Hollywood couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have donated $100,000 (£51,000) to a medical clinic in Sudan.The Duk Lost Boys Clinic is the first of its kind in south Sudan’s Duk County and will serve more than 150,000 people when it opens later this [...]

Vonage says its business will not be affected

A US judge has banned internet phone firm Vonage from using technology patents owned by rival Verizon after it was found to have infringed its rights.A permanent injunction was issued on Vonage using the technology to connect users to landline phones but it was stayed for two weeks [...]

The Police tour marks 30 years since the band’s formation

The Police are to headline the second Virgin music festival in the US.The Beastie Boys and Smashing Pumpkins will also headline the festival on 4 and 5 August in Baltimore, Maryland.
Last year’s event was held in September but festival organiser Seth Hurwitz told Billboard.com it had [...]

Mr Bemba does not want to accept police guards

There is heavy shooting in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, between guards of a former presidential candidate and the army.Troops loyal to Jean-Pierre Bemba have refused to abide by an ultimatum to disband and join the national army.
They say Mr Bemba’s protection is [...]

Many relatives are still unable to come to terms with their loss

Mass funerals are taking place in Russia, following a gas explosion at a mine in Siberia that killed at least 108 people on Monday.More than 50 miners were buried in the city of Novokuznetsk and nearby Osinniki in the Kemerovo region.
The methane blast at [...]

Tokyo’s Imperial Palace was valued higher than California in the 1980s

Japan’s land prices have risen for the first time in 16 years, in a further sign that the world’s second-largest economy is continuing to recover.Since 1990, land prices have been sliding following the bursting of the asset price bubble.
However, government figures showed that nationwide land [...]

Kim Kye-gwan made no comment to reporters

Talks on North Korea’s nuclear programme appear to have broken down after its chief negotiator went to Beijing airport apparently to fly home.The move came after delegates at the six-nation talks made no progress.
The talks have stalled over the North’s refusal to discuss a deal to disable its nuclear [...]

The first post mortem on Woolmer proved inconclusive

Police in Jamaica are still unable to confirm the reason why Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer died, but continue to treat the case as “suspicious”.A post-mortem conducted by a government pathologist was inconclusive and further tests are being carried out.
Despite that, a police spokesman confirmed they had now [...]

Sir Elton “wed” on the first day of same-sex unions in England

Sir Elton John has called on people to “shout back” against homophobic abuse, “whether the bigot is in our local pub or a thousand miles away”.People were persecuted all over the world “just because of who they love and who they make love to”, [...]

Al Gore brought 500,000 letters urging action on climate change

Former US Vice-President Al Gore made an emotional return to the US Congress to testify about global warming.The winner of an Oscar for his film on climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, told an overflow crowd that “our world faces a true planetary emergency”.
He said the US [...]