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UK's Best Small Company offers to share its secrets
Christians Against Poverty launches first 'Share the Secret' Day
Protests in U.S before Olympic torch run
Protesters angered over China's crackdown in Tibet marched in San Francisco ahead of the Olympic torch's arrival on Wednesday but Olympics chief Jacques Rogge said there are no plans to cut short the global torch relay.
Bush to press case against Iraq force cut
The top U.S. officials in Iraq will testify on the war for a second day to Congress on Wednesday as the Bush administration makes its case against a big troop pull-out.
Eight killed in violence ahead of Nepal polls
Seven Maoist cadres have been shot by police, party leaders said on Wednesday, while another party's candidate was killed in separate incidents of violence ahead of elections meant to map Nepal's political future.
Zimbabwe's opposition warns of bloodshed
Zimbabwe's opposition accused President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday of unleashing a campaign of violence since the March 29 elections and called on African states to intervene to prevent widespread bloodshed.
France calls off Colombia hostage mission
France abandoned a mission to treat Colombian rebel hostage Ingrid Betancourt in her jungle camp on Tuesday after guerrillas rejected the initiative in a setback to attempts to free scores of captives.
Protests over food prices paralyze Haitian capital
Haitians erected fiery barricades and tried to storm the National Palace on Tuesday as protests against rising food prices, which have killed five people, paralyzed the impoverished nation's capital.
Kenya opposition halts talks
Kenya's opposition suspended talks with President Mwai Kibaki's party on Tuesday and police fired tear gas to scatter opposition supporters protesting against deepening deadlock over a power-sharing cabinet.
CRE focuses on church growth
The National Christian Resource Exhibition (CRE) returns to Sandown Park next month with a seminar, workshop and special features programme carefully constructed to meet the needs of people at all levels of church leadership.
Suicides in Lithuania show social pains persist
Lithuania has the highest suicide rate in Europe and Darius Linkevicius, a wood cutter with a wife and three children, can understand why.
China toughens smoking ban in schools before Games
China has further tightened smoking restrictions - targeting schools and day care centres - as it extends a crackdown linked to its pledge to hold a smoke-free Olympics.
Protesting monks storm media tour in western China
A group of 15 Tibetan Buddhist monks interrupted a state-sponsored media tour of a riot-hit region of western China on Wednesday, demanding the return of the Dalai Lama and yelling that they had no human rights.
Tutu says Mugabe may still 'redeem' himself
Robert Mugabe could still redeem himself by stepping down as president of Zimbabwe to ease tensions after elections that threatened his 28-year rule, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said on Tuesday.
U.N. council deplores Haiti violence and calls for aid
The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday strongly deplored violence in Haiti sparked by high food prices but called for emergency aid to relieve hardship in the Caribbean nation.
Iran tests new nuclear programme equipment
Iran tested a new machine with greater capacity on Tuesday as part of its nuclear programme, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said.
Iran ex-nuclear official gets suspended sentence
A former Iranian nuclear negotiator has been given a two-year suspended jail sentence for breaching national security, a news agency said on Tuesday.