The Belfast Telegraph
Next Pope will get Irish invite
By Alf McCreary in Rome
08 April 2005
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The Irish hierarchy hopes to invite the new Pope to Ireland when he is elected to complete the process begun in 1979 by the late Pope John Paul II.
Bishop John Magee, the Newry-born cleric who was the late Pope's secretary from 1978 to 1992, told the Belfast Telegraph at a reception in the Irish College in Rome last night that the proposal was under "active consideration".
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Mugabe's Vatican trip sidesteps EU ban
By Marta Falconi
08 April 2005
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President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has arrived in Rome to attend the Pope's funeral, side-stepping a European Union travel ban because it does not apply to the Vatican.
The EU imposed sanctions on Harare in 2002 after its observers were barred from elections. It also banned arms sales and froze Zimbabwe's assets in European banks as well as some development aid.
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Concern at lack of evidence: Adams
By Noel McAdam
08 April 2005
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has again voiced concern over the the failure of witnesses to provide evidence against the killers of Robert McCartney.
And he has confirmed that he is still in contact with the McCartney sisters, who have returned from their trip to the European Parliament in Brussels.
Mr Adams was asked yesterday if he remained concerned or was more concerned about the McCartney case, now ten weeks after the killing on January 30.
"I am absolutely more concerned - I actually take it personally - and I remain in contact with the family of Robert McCartney and we continue to our best as we have been doing," the West Belfast MP said.
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Ellis Island: Darn them sox!
Walter Ellis reports from New York
06 April 2005
There's no doubt what the Big News is this week in New York City. The Boston Red Sox are in town as the World Champions of baseball.
Whooah! Let's run that by me again.
The Boston Red Sox are in town as the World Champions of baseball.
For 86 years, it wasn't possible to write that sentence, other than as fantasy. Up until 11.40pm, October 27, 2004, when Boston took the title after a four-nothing sweep of the St Louis Cardinals, the Sox hadn't won the World Series since 1918.
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Last lap for Rover as talks collapse
By Nigel Tilson, Business Editor
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08 April 2005
Workers arriving at MG Rover's Longbridge plant in Birmingham today were concerned that it could be the end of the line for the last remaining major British car manufacturer.
Workers at the company's huge Longbridge plant in Birmingham said that they had believed that a deal with the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation was about to be signed.
But they conceded that the talks had now collapsed.
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Don't mourn Rover
(Filed: 09/04/2005)
Rover makes the British unwontedly sentimental. Once again, the closure of the Longbridge plant - a story that has been flickering on the periphery of our vision since the 1960s - is dominating the news, despite the wedding, the funeral and the general election. It is right that we should feel for the 6,000 workers who could now lose their jobs, especially given the strenuous efforts they have made to increase their productivity. But we seem to have lost our sense of perspective: 6,000 manufacturing jobs are, after all, lost roughly every fortnight.
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BP on course to set new profits record as oil soars
By Saeed Shah
05 April 2005
BP is likely to smash last year's multibillion-pound profits record despite revealing yesterday that refining margins had shrunk and production growth had stalled in the first quarter.
Analysts said that given the booming oil price and additional oil and gas fields that will come on stream this year, the company is on course to beat the £16.2bn net profit it made in 2004.
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Viewpoint: IRA must respond positively
Adams' appeal: Only an end to all paramilitarism will do
08 April 2005
To nobody's great surprise, the IRA has loftily decided to give "due consideration" to Gerry Adams' appeal for it to abandon its so-called armed struggle and fully embrace the political process.
Given the inextricable links that exist between the IRA and Sinn Fein, it would have been a major upset had the organisation rebuffed the party president. The sequence of events has been well choreographed, and now a weary public is required to await the IRA's response which will come "in due course".
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Arab Israeli beats Jewish boys in quiz on Zionism
By Donald Macintyre and Said Ghazali in Jerusalem
07 April 2005
In a fortnight when two Arab footballers have kept Israel in World Cup contention, an Arab schoolboy has beaten hundreds of Jewish children to win a quiz focused on the history of Zionism.
Rami Wated, 12, an Arab Israeli from Jaffa, was a winning finalist in a competition to answer questions mainly based on Tel Aviv street names and their relevance to the history of Jewish nationalism.
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The Telegraph UK
A host of daffodils - and not one from Wales
By Caroline Davies
(Filed: 09/04/2005)
This being the Prince of Wales's wedding, there are daffodils - 35,000 of them.
Columns of the spring flowers will adorn the grand staircase at Windsor Castle today as Prince Charles and his bride, the Duchess of Cornwall, ascend to their wedding reception.
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The woman he loves
(Filed: 09/04/2005)
When marriages break up, the friends of the husband and the wife tend to divide into hostile camps. The husband's friends, if he seems to be the wronged party, will denounce the wife and her lover. The wife's, if she has been wronged, will say that the other woman is a trollop.
The truth is hardly ever as simple as that. The Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles have suffered more than most divorcees from this natural human tendency to take sides. This is because so many millions of people thought of Diana, Princess of Wales as their friend.
We know that today's ceremony in Windsor will provoke nothing like the public euphoria that greeted the Prince's first marriage.
This will not be a fairytale wedding between a prince and a young beauty, but the formal union of a mature couple who have loved each other for many years, whose children approve of the match and who seem to need each other very much.
We believe that the Prince of Wales will be a better man, and one day a better king, for having the help and support of a wife whom he loves. We rejoice for the couple and wish them every happiness.
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Alone at last (with just a few house guests)
By Elizabeth Grice
(Filed: 09/04/2005)
Many royal honeymoons have been celebrated in the wild seclusion of Birkhall, the much-loved Scottish retreat that the Prince of Wales inherited from his grandmother, but none as unconventionally as the one that begins there this evening.
Marriage second time around for Prince Charles and his new duchess doesn't require all-inclusive romantic solitude (albeit in the company of a few servants). Instead of a traditional honeymoon, they have gone for a small house party comprised of people they feel most comfortable with.
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DNA puts man in dock 21 years after Murrell death
By Neil Tweedie
(Filed: 09/04/2005)
The murder of Hilda Murrell, the anti-nuclear activist, a fertile source of conspiracy theories for 20 years, was the work of a teenage criminal who would have escaped justice but for advances in DNA profiling, a jury heard yesterday.
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Christianity in a Godless age
(Filed: 09/04/2005)
Four reigning kings and more than 70 rulers of nations were corralled in front of St Peter's for the Pope's funeral yesterday. For once, they were not the centre of attention. At the moment of the Mass known as the Kiss of Peace, they found themselves awkwardly faced with having to shake hands. President George Bush of the United States turned to Kofi Annan, the discredited secretary-general of the United Nations. In front of him stood President Mohammed Khatami of Iran, part of the Axis of Evil.
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Equitable: Let's talk about this £2bn battle
By James Moore (Filed: 09/04/2005)
Equitable Life chairman Vanni Treves yesterday made an 11th hour plea to the troubled life insurer's former auditors to enter talks about settling its £2billion lawsuit ahead of the start of the High Court battle on Monday.
Mr Treves said he would be prepared to meet representatives from accountant Ernst & Young "any time, anywhere" if it were prepared to enter discussions over a "fair and reasonable settlement".
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The Globe and Mail
The final farewell
The final commendation is meant to be the solemn climax of a Requiem Mass. But as the first cardinals processed towards John Paul II's coffin to line up four deep on either side and melodiously solicit prayers for his soul, they were greeted with a storm of applause.
Then banners were unfurled in several places around St Peter's Square demanding the late Pope be made a saint forthwith. Then came chants of "Viva il Papa" and "John Paul, John Paul".
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Reporters 'face jail' in Zimbabwe
Two British journalists arrested for working without accreditation in Zimbabwe are bracing for jail terms of up to two years if found guilty at a trial expected to conclude next week.
Toby Harnden and Julian Simmonds, who were detained during last week's disputed parliamentary elections, appeared in court on Friday handcuffed together, dressed in prison garb of khaki shorts and shirts.
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Beauty and the breast
Malena Amusa and Tiffany Sakato
08 April 2005 12:00
‘Why are we focusing on women’s cleavage anyway? What about the butt-crack?’ (Photograph: Nadine Hutton)
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death for women in South Africa, with one in 31 women suffering from this disease. The second National Cleavage Day (April 8) is being held to raise funds for the Cancer Association of South Africa through a series of promotional events planned across the country.
“Having something like National Cleavage Day is important,” says Dr Carol-Ann Benn, founder of the Netcare Breast Care Centre of Excellence. “People need to be aware of examining the breast, the beauty of the breast, so breast cancer isn’t seen as this mutilating and humiliating disease.”
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Chissano: US media coverage of Africa unfair
The United States's media coverage of Africa over the past decade is anything but fair and balanced -- and focuses overwhelmingly on the negative, former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano said on Friday.
"Coverage of Africa, by the leading forces of American media, is, at best, dismissive of the continent's progress and potential," he said.
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WHO puts Angola's neighbours on Marburg alert
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended that four countries go on a Marburg alert around Angola, the epicentre of an outbreak of the deadly Ebola-like virus that has now claimed 174 lives, a top health official said on Thursday.
"Everybody should be on alert. Not only other provinces in Angola but all its neighbouring countries, the Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia and Zambia," said Anarfi Asamoa-Baah, the Geneva-based United Nations health organisation's assistant director general of communicable diseases.
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Christianity is not a comfort zone
Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya
08 April 2005 08:10
Nobody is perfect. Not even Christ’s vicar could claim to be. So Pope John Paul II, who stepped into the shoes of St Peter, the man who denied Jesus Christ thrice, was only human.
But he was the leader of the biggest Christian outfit in the world and, therefore, his actions rightly attract scrutiny.
The pontiff had made his mind known with reference to women’s roles in the church. Many Catholics, especially women, are unhappy that the church has yet to pay sufficient attention to their position in the organisation.
Many other Catholics feel that the church is out of touch with its continued stance against contraception and the use of condoms.
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Rwanda reburies 20 000 genocide victims
Rwandans reburied the bodies of more than 20 000 victims of the 1994 genocide who had been dumped in mass graves as the country marked the 11th anniversary of the massacre.
The reburials on Thursday were a gesture meant to restore dignity to the victims of the genocide in which more than half a million died in a killing frenzy. Rwandans marked the massacre with a week of mourning.
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