Foreign Minister Murray McCully will attend the high-level conference on Afghanistan in London next week co-chaired by British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Spanta.

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

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This week in 1989 was one of the most historic in recent times. In Berlin, a city divided after the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in 1945, the wall came tumbling down. And that made it both a good and a bad time to be a socialist.

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The World Association of Newspapers has called on European leaders who are meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao this week to reaffirm their commitment to improving human rights and press freedom in China, after Germanys justice minister expressed respect for the Chinese approach to human right