This year’s World Cup opened in a glamorous way with an opening ceremony which was outstanding in every way at Munich Allianz Arena, with Pele, a World Cup winner in 1958, 1962 and 1970, carrying the trophy onto the pitch, and German supermodel Claudia Schiffer at his side. The [...]

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He was relaxed. He sat back and closed his eyes as the taxi cruised towards UNILAG. Life could be beautiful if you know how to go about it. “Chislow wasn’t born to suffer. Yes, Chislow wasn’t born to struggle. I was born to be great. That is how I will live my life on campus. [...]

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Hours after Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, threatened to assassinate terrorists involved in rocket-attacks against Israel, an IAF aircraft fired missiles at a Popular Resistance Committee’s (PRC) training camp in the southern Gaza strip late Thursday night killing four terror suspects including Jamal Abu Sahamdana, head of the PRC and responsible for most of the Kassam [...]

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The world’s biggest sporting event outside the Olympics, the FIFA World Cup, is here again. As teams converge in Germany for the soccer fiesta, the real question on everyone’s lips is who will win the trophy this time? Will it be the Samba boys of Brazil, who are tagged as favourites, the Azzuris from Italy, the German [...]

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A U.S. military strike has killed the most feared terrorist in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. As the head of a group called “al-Qaida in Iraq,” Zarqawi was blamed for coordinating suicide bombings, beheadings and other violence. The U.S. military reportedly relied on intelligence from Zarqawi’s own network to find him. The Jordanian-born Zarqawi was killed [...]

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The U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday voted 379 to 35 to approve Senate legislation that would raise federal broadcast indecency fines tenfold to a maximum of $325,000 per violation. President George W. Bush has signaled support for a legislation that would help him appeal to the GOP’s conservative base. His signature would clear the way for [...]

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Chinese doctors have successfully removed an abnormal, but well-developed, third arm of a two-month old baby boy named Liu Junjie. Dr Chen Bochang, the Chief Surgeon, said that the surgery went much better and smoother than expected. The child, who was operated on at the Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, now requires long-term physical therapy to gain function [...]

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Engine problems were to blame for leaving adrift a boat packed with Europe-bound African migrants that floated for four months across the Atlantic to the Caribbean Sea off the island of Barbados, investigators said Thursday. Everyone aboard the boat died. The would-be migrants allegedly paid US$1,800 each to reach Spain, said Barbados police spokesman Barry [...]

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A Nigerian militant group on Wednesday claimed responsibility for kidnapping five South Korean workers from a natural gas plant operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, a unit of Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN), in the Niger Delta. In an email to Dow Jones Newswires, Jomo Gbomo, spokesman for the Movement for the Emancipation of [...]

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This morning, I woke up startled and was about to go back to sleep, when I heard someone scream, “YOU’VE GOT TO GET UP, DONT YOU KNOW YOU HAVE A CLASS BY 8″. “Alright, alright, I’ve heard.” I think I survived the first few moments that everyone goes through each time they are awakened from [...]

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Hello friends, I am Toyin Falana. My birthday falls on the 26th of February. I am a student of Osun State College of Technology studying Accounting. I love honest people and dislike dishonest ones. Cooking and reading are my hobbies.  Well, my mentor is Mrs Juwe because of her lifestyle which poses challenges to me; [...]

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Hi, my name is Callistus Akalika. I was born on December 02, 1984. I am a diploma II student studying banking and finance. My hobbies are reading novels, watching movies and playing badminton. I strongly hate corruption, bureaucracy and political talks. My goals are to become a successful chartered accountant with a degree in IT [...]

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