September, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

J’can mom being deported without child

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BRITISH authorities will today deport a Jamaican woman despite appeals that her siblings were victims of gang violence. Denise McNeil has spent 10 years in Britain and says she fled to that country in 2000 […] […]

Scientists hail cancer’s penicillin moment

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IN WHAT is arguably the most significant use of genetic knowledge to tackle disease, scientists in California have created a drug that prevents the effects of a gene mutation linked to malignant melanoma. The London […] […]

Thug caught after appearing on Come Dine With Me

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A BRITISH man wanted over a gang attack that left a man with a broken jaw was caught after he appeared as a contestant on reality TV show Come Dine With Me. Carlos Buller, an […] […]

UK a Third World country, says papal aide

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ONE of the Popes senior advisers pulled out of the visit to Britain in controversial circumstances over a German magazine interview in which he described the UK as a Third World country marked by “aggressive […] […]

Keep your dignity by knowing when to walk away

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Question: I recently broke up after two years of exclusive dating a man I met online. I’d found his profile on a dating site. This was what happened during our relationship. He didn’t date other […] […]

Drug-resistant superbugs found in three US states

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BOSTON – An infectious-disease nightmare is unfolding: Bacteria that have been made resistant to nearly all antibiotics by an alarming new gene have sickened people in three states and are popping up all over the […] […]

UK girl killed: Kiwi arrested

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A New Zealand man has been arrested over the death of an 11-year-old girl in a boating accident in England. Mari-Simon Cronje, from south-west London, was killed when she was thrown from an inflatable banana […] […]

Tony Blair awarded US Liberty Medal for peace work by Bill Clinton

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FORMER British prime minister Tony Blair has been awarded the Liberty Medal by Bill Clinton for his commitment to conflict resolution. Blair called the award, which he received from former US president Clinton’s National Constitution […] […]

Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe begins to fail

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ROBERT Mugabe’s health is on a downward trajectory and the battle to succeed him is intensifying, according to a senior Western diplomat. The 86-year-old President of Zimbabwe was still in charge and able to fulfil […] […]

Losing her hair

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AFTER watching her flash her long silky stresses on the catwalk for years, hardly anyone pondered what exactly famed supermodel Naomi Campbell had hidden underneath the wigs and extensions she regularly sported. That was until […] […]