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A new photographic commission on the capital of Azerbaijan by Magnum photographer Gueorgui Pinkhassov

With just over 100 days to go until the IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy 2010 kicks off, the International Rugby Board has announced the Pools and Match Schedule for the key age grade tournament at a launch in Moscow today.

The deadly attack on Togo’s football team as they prepared for the African Cup of Nations in Angola doesn’t represent a threat to the World Cup being held in South Africa, as has been sta

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Double Olympic medallist Rex Samuel Sellers has been recognised in the New Years Honours List for his services to New Zealand Yachting.

This week all air routes will be leading to Copenhagen. World leaders  (including John Key) will be heading there to the biggest environmental summit since that held at Rio De Janeiro in 1992.

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By Mark Geenty of NZPA

Marseille, Nov 27 NZPA - Getting through his first French club rugby match was the easy part.

Victory! It has taken over three decades of campaigning, determination and wishful thinking, but after 32 years of being cruelly confined inside the back of a truck, Jumbo, the aging female African circus elephant is free.

This week it was revealed that Michael Jackson could be placed in a glass coffin and put on public display.

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In part one of this series I looked at how Soviet style socialism was constructed in a centralised and hierarchical manner and as to how this lent itself to authoritarianism. Marxism-Leninism became the central tenet of Soviet and, after 1945, Eastern European socialism.

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