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Electric Guitars product of Yamaha-music instrumental
(photo: WN / Emico Silalahi)
Strings of Sweet Sounds
Indian Express
| Rohan Swamy | The music styles are as diverse as the instruments they play. One has mastered the Celtic Harp, the other is a self-taught guitarist. But musicians, Anna Tanvir from the UK, and Yann Beaujouan from France feel that their musical journeys have transcended these genre-based boundaries....
British Prime Minister David Cameron listens at the start of his meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, at Chequers, the country residence of the British prime minister in Wendover, England Saturday May 15, 2010. A Downing Street spokeswoman said Karzai is stopping in Britain on his way back from the United States, where he met with President Barack Obama.
(photo: AP / Philip Ide, Pool)
Cameron and Karzai holding talks
The Guardian
| David Cameron and President Hamid Karzai are to sign a pledge setting out the next stage in relations between Britain and Afghanistan. | At bilateral talks the leaders will discuss security progress as well as the future support needed from the international community following the withdrawal of t...
Community Calendar | Jan. 28, 2012
The State
| TODAY | ONE-ACT PLAY FESTIVAL: 6:30 tonight in the Dreher High School Auditorium, 3319 Millwood Ave. Three-D Players production of senior-directed plays. $5 at the door. | RED NOSE RUN: 8 a.m. today at Colonial Life Arena, 801 Lincoln St. 10K start...
Educator recognized for love of patriotism
The State
| So passionate is Darlene Cantey about bringing America's history to life that she calls her Camden Elementary School fourth grade class the Patriots. | And when her students study the Revolutionary War in the coming weeks, they'll take part in colo...
Man quizzed over 'road rage' death
The Guardian
| A 42-year-old man is being questioned by detectives in connection with the murder of a man who was stabbed to death in a suspected road rage incident. | Officers were called to Teehey Lane in Bebington, Wirral, just after 3pm on Friday where they f...
Brothers in court on murder charge
The Guardian
| Two brothers are due to appear in court accused of murdering a man whose decapitated body was found on fire. | The body of John Grainger, 32, was discovered by firefighters in Stockport, Greater Manchester, at 5.10am on Thursday when they extinguis...
Khat cultivation in western Yemen, near at-Tawilah.
Creative Commons / Antti Salonen
UK could become 'smuggling hub' for herbal high khat
BBC News
The UK could become a hub for smuggling the herbal stimulant khat, European police and politicians have warned. | The Netherlands is the latest country to outlaw the sale of the pl...
In this May 10, 2011 file photo, the exterior view of Skype offices in Palo Alto, Calif., are shown.
AP / Paul Sakuma
Why crimes on Skype leave witnesses but no evidence
BBC News
A woman is in custody in Norway accused of murdering her child while her boyfriend allegedly watched on Skype in the UK. It is the latest in a series of incidents allegedly witness...
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (right) meets with UK Prime Minister David Cameron (left), 15 June, 2011.
NATO
Cameron warned his reforms will lead to rise in human rights abuses
The Independent
| Human rights organisations warned that the Prime Minister's demands could backfire by undermining the basic protections the court offers to citizens of Central and Eastern Europe...
Britisher A. S. Byatt wrote intellectually sharp ‘Possession’
The Examiner
| (Current fiction and quality fiction of the past.) | Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of 1991, “Possession” (Vintage) by A. S. Byatt remains an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellect...
Lawmaker dies in London
Sun Star
| REPRESENTATIVE Ignacio "Iggy" Tuazon Arroyo Jr. (Fifth District, Negros Occidental) died on Thursday in London. | The lawmaker suffered a cardiac arrest at around 10:30 a.m. (Philippine time) and was declared ‘clinically dead’ by his doctors. |...
Strings of Sweet Sounds
Indian Express
| Rohan Swamy | The music styles are as diverse as the instruments they play. One has mastered the Celtic Harp, the other is a self-taught guitarist. But musicians, Anna Tanvir from the UK, and Yann Beaujouan from France feel that their musical journ...
Britain
British Prime Minister David Cameron listens at the start of his meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, at Chequers, the country residence of the British prime minister in Wendover, England Saturday May 15, 2010. A Downing Street spokeswoman said Karzai is stopping in Britain on his way back from the United States, where he met with President Barack Obama.
(photo: AP / Philip Ide, Pool)
Cameron and Karzai holding talks
The Guardian
| David Cameron and President Hamid Karzai are to sign a pledge setting out the next stage in relations between Britain and Afghanistan. | At bilateral talks the leaders will discuss security progress as well as the future support needed from the international community following the withdrawal of troops in 2014. | That will be backed up by the sig...
Business
Khat cultivation in western Yemen, near at-Tawilah.
(photo: Creative Commons / Antti Salonen)
UK could become 'smuggling hub' for herbal high khat
BBC News
The UK could become a hub for smuggling the herbal stimulant khat, European police and politicians have warned. | The Netherlands is the latest country to outlaw the sale of the plant, which is now banned in sixteen EU member states and Norway. | Khat is freely sold in the UK and observers say the UK's isolated stance could make it the main base fo...



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