AP - A rarely displayed segment of the Dead Sea Scrolls will be part of an exhibition for President Bush and other dignitaries attending Israel’s 60th anniversary celebrations next month, a museum official said Wednesday.
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AP - The only Jewish woman lawmaker in Bahrain is a candidate to become this Persian Gulf kingdom’s ambassador to Washington.
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I’d thought I knew The Blue Lamp, the film in which George Dixon was shot dead, pretty well, so I began to watch it half-heartedly last night. It wasn’t the acting so much as the streets of Notting Hill that soon grabbed my attention (though it was nice to see Sam Kydd turn up towards the end as a bookie at White City Stadium).
The streets of Notting Hill look very different today
The film was released in 1950, and some of the buildings show the effects of wartime bombing. But there is far more of interest among the independent small shops than most of these streets possess today. It is a pleasure just to look at them half a century on.
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AFP - Didier Drogba sent Chelsea to their first Champions League final and got revenge on Rafa Benitez as his double strike clinched a 3-2 win against Liverpool in Wednesday’s semi-final second leg.
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AP - A working class suburb of Chile’s capital began handing out free Viagra to senior citizens on Wednesday. Lo Prado Mayor Gonzalo Navarrete said he launched the program because “an active sexuality improves the overall quality of life.”
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AP - Zimbabwe’s opposition rejected a presidential runoff election despite a media report saying Wednesday that the long-delayed official tally delivered them a victory short of an outright win.
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Full coverage of the Mayor of London election 2008
Over at Coffee House, James Forsyth has compiled an invaluable and quick guide explaining how to vote for Boris Johnson. Swap Boris’s name for Ken if that’s what floats your boat instead. If you are voting for Brian, remember it’s only your second preference which really matters. If you use it to vote for anyone other than the top two then it is a wasted vote.
Meanwhile a colleague says: isn’t Boris a little like Kinnock in that voters will hesitate besides his name when casting their vote and decide that taking the risk just doesn’t feel right? By Friday evening we should all know.
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AP - Police say Josef Fritzl left a lot of human wreckage in his wake: the daughter he imprisoned and raped for 24 years, the seven children he fathered with her and the wife whose life he shattered.
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Reuters - Leaders of Pakistan’s coalition
parties made progress in talks to save the month-old government
on Wednesday but will meet again on Thursday to try and resolve
remaining issues, officials said.
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AP - A dissident former general has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for bombing attacks on Spanish and Colombian diplomatic missions in Venezuela’s capital.
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