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Iconic buildings switch off lights for Earth Hour
Wednesday March 17 2010
ICONIC buildings and tourist attractions will be plunged into darkness for an hour on March 27 as part of a global campaign to combat climate change.
Everest could stage gay 'weddings'
Monday March 15 2010
Nepal wants to paint Mount Everest pink with a campaign urging gay honeymooners to take a trek through the Himalayas.
Worthy causes a risky business for stars
Sunday March 14 2010
Joanna Lumley once told me how, when she was a child growing up in Kashmir, her parents had a memorable means of keeping certain conversations private. If they thought she or her sister were listening when they shouldn't, Lumley's mother spoke to her husband in Urdu, and he answered her in Gurkhali, the language of the Nepalese men he served with in the British army's Gurkha Brigade. She had no idea what they were saying, but it made up the music of her childhood memories and stayed imprinted on her mind, along with an affinity with the Gurkhas that lasts to the present day.
Man seeks 'world's shortest' title
Tuesday February 23 2010
A 22-inch tall man has left his home country of Nepal in a quest to be recognised as the world's shortest man.
It was a chill wind that blew no good across globe
Tuesday January 05 2010
ARCTIC air and record snow gripped the northern hemisphere yesterday, inflicting hardship and havoc from China, across Russia to Western Europe and over the US plains.
