The stunning size 12 model branded 'too fat' for TV competition

Seeded on Sun Dec 10, 2006 2:51 PM EST (the Mail online)

Appearing here for the first time in the outfit which sparked the debate about size zero models, Miss Hunter - who was criticised on the show for being too fat - said: "This is what a real woman should look like.

skinny-models, beauty, odd-news

Lebanon crisis grows as sixth minister quits

Seeded on Mon Nov 13, 2006 10:52 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

Lebanon's political disarray deepened today as the last minister allied to the pro-Syrian Hizbullah movement resigned from the cabinet.

world-news, lebanon

LEBANON: Up to 200,000 still displaced after war, UN says

Seeded on Wed Nov 1, 2006 10:53 AM EST (Reuters)

BEIRUT, 1 November (IRIN) - Up to 200,000 people could still be displaced in Lebanon nearly three months after the Israel-Hezbollah conflict ended, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday.

world-news, lebanon, refugees, war

ETHIOPIA: Flood toll rises amidst appeals for aid

Seeded on Wed Nov 1, 2006 10:50 AM EST (Reuters)

following flash floods in southeastern Ethiopia has risen to 67 with thousands more displaced, humanitarian officials have announced, adding that emergency aid is being flown to the affected areas.

world-news, ethiopia, floods

Darfur's silent killer

Seeded on Wed Nov 1, 2006 10:48 AM EST (Reuters)

I have not eaten now for over 48 hours due to sickness and diarrhoea. It has left me feeling exhausted and extremely grumpy - those around me would confirm this in an instant.

world-news, darfur, children

Young women fleeing war and poverty fall prey to sex traffickers

Seeded on Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:30 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

Um Ahmad, as she was known to the girls, had it all planned out. From Baghdad to the border and on to Damascus and a new life, Mona and her three Iraqi friends didn't need to worry about a thing.

world-news, iraq, sex-traffickers

Just Another Mother Murdered

Seeded on Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:16 AM EDT (if americans knew)

Almost no one bothered to report it. A search of the nation's largest newspapers turned up nothing in USA Today, the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Chicago Sun-Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, St.

world-news

Opera boss censors Mozart over stage beheading of Muhammad

Seeded on Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:15 AM EDT (The Times)

THE bloodstained King of Crete stumbles onstage and holds aloft the decapitated heads of Poseidon, Jesus, Buddha and the Prophet Muhammad. "The gods are dead!" he calls out to the audience.

world-news

Thus spoke Bernard Lewis

Seeded on Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:12 AM EDT (Haaretz)

Lewis, 90, "the prophet from Princeton," is considered the founding father of the scientific field that engaged in the study of Islam and the Arab world, and most Orientalists, their students and their students' students are in one way or another considered the bearers of his le …

world-news, cuture-islam-lewis

From dawn to dusk, the daily struggle of Africa's women

Seeded on Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:16 PM EDT (The Independent)

Women work two-thirds of Africa's working hours, and produce 70 per cent of its food, yet earn only 10 per cent of its income, and own less than 1 per cent of its property.

world-news, africa-women

Hey, Roach Babe: Male cockroaches give fancy courting whistles

Seeded on Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:48 PM EDT (science news)

Some male cockroaches whistle at females with surprisingly complex, almost birdlike sounds that vibrate through the ground and the air, researchers find.

science, roach-whistles-science

Will Robert Fisk tell us the whole story?

Seeded on Tue Sep 5, 2006 3:55 PM EDT (CounterPunch)

More than a little uncomfortably, I find myself with a bone to pick with one of our finest champions of humanitarian values and opponents of war.

world-news, lebanon-reporters

Lebanese laugh it off

Seeded on Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:08 PM EDT (AL JAZEERA)

Amid sad stories about lost loved ones, destroyed homes and impoverished people who had to live in public schools, they joke about everything: Israelis, Americans, Arabs, but mostly they tell self-deprecating gags.

world-news, lebanon-jokes

US investigates whether Israel violated deal on cluster bombs

Seeded on Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:50 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

The US is investigating whether Israel's use of American-made cluster bombs in Lebanon violated an agreement that the weapons not be used in populated areas, officials said yesterday.

world-news, israel-lebanon-us

Pakistani Man Accused of Providing Hizbullah's al-Manar TV to New Yorkers

Seeded on Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:40 PM EDT (Naharnet Newsdesk)

A Pakistani man was due to appear in court in New York Thursday, accused of providing a banned Hizbullah-linked television station to viewers in the city, prosecutors said. Javed Iqbal, 42, allegedly offered to provide an undercover agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation …

world-news, us-fbi

Japanese Aid Worker Commits Suicide in South Lebanon

Seeded on Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:29 PM EDT (Naharnet Newsdesk)

A Japanese humanitarian worker apparently affected by the war in Lebanon has committed suicide in the southern town of Tyre, a local police official said Thursday. The official identified the man as Tyshi Hiroyasha, aged 53.

world-news, lebanon-japanese-suicide

Self-fulfilling prophecy

Seeded on Sat Aug 19, 2006 1:57 PM EDT (-)

"Journalist: How will the deaths of Israeli soldiers today affect your plans? Israeli Army Spokesman: You saw that massacre of 12 Israelis .. it will ... Journalist: Massacre you said? But those were soldiers and this is war.

east, racism, world-news, middle

The Myth of Incitement in Palestinian Textbooks

Seeded on Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:07 PM EDT (Palestine Monitor)

"There has been a flood of accusations for several years over the content of Palestinian textbooks; that the textbooks incite children to hatred and violence towards Israeli Jews, and fail to promote the values of peace, tolerance and coexistence.

palestine, world-news

The Draft UN Resolution on Lebanon (by Karim Makdisi)

Seeded on Wed Aug 9, 2006 4:03 PM EDT (CounterPunch.org)

"The draft UN resolution proposed by the US and France on Saturday thus seems strangely out of place, as though Israel had won this war decisively and is in a position to dictate the terms.

lebanon, world-news

Junkies of War (by Uri Avnery)

Seeded on Wed Aug 9, 2006 12:50 PM EDT (Gush Shalom)

" FOR ME it was a moment of shocking revelation.

world-news, israel-lebanon

"Peace talks with Nepal rebels stall"

Seeded on Mon Aug 7, 2006 10:23 AM EDT (AL JAZEERA)

"Nepal's rebel Maoists have said that peace talks with the government were stalling over the issues of their disarmament and the future of the monarchy..."

nepal, world-news

"US court hears Iraq rape case"

Seeded on Mon Aug 7, 2006 10:16 AM EDT (AL JAZEERA)

"An Iraqi army medic has described a scene of horror to a US military hearing that will decide if four soldiers are to be court-martialled for the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the killing of her family.

world-news, iraq-us

"Israeli strike kills 23 farm workers"

Seeded on Fri Aug 4, 2006 12:49 PM EDT (AL JAZEERA)

"At least 23 farm workers have died after Israeli aircraft fired missiles at vehicles in a farm near the Lebanon-Syria border, Lebanese officials said on Friday."

lebanon, world-news

"FSU professors, family escape from Lebanon"

Seeded on Thu Aug 3, 2006 10:21 AM EDT (tallahassee.com)

Joseph Schlenoff - a chemistry professor at Florida State University and member of the Center for Materials Research and Technology - share the terror he experienced with his family in Lebanon:

lebanon, world-news

"Iran's Jews learn to live with Ahmadinejad"

Seeded on Wed Aug 2, 2006 10:21 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

"Maurice Motamed has one of the loneliest jobs in the Middle East. When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made his controversial Holocaust statements, the sole Jewish MP in Iran's 290-member Majlis (parliament) felt he had no option but to confront him."

world-news, iran-jews

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