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How to Protect Yourself against Street Crime
Street crime takes place in every neighbourhood and its necessary that we protect ourselves against this danger. People living in well off localities might think that it is something that they need not be afraid of, but thats a wrong notion. ...
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CD Review: Manu Katch Third Round
Following on from "Neighbourhood" and "Playground", the latest installment of the music of the French drummer Manu Katch
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Brooklyn's DUMBO: History, chocolate, bridges
The Canadian Press - NEW YORK, N.Y. - Four centuries in 30 minutes. That's what tourists get in trendy DUMBO. The history of this offbeat Brooklyn neighbourhood includes Dutch settlers, George Washington, Walt Whitman, the Brooklyn and Manhattan ...
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Whistler municipality gaining more opponents as asphalt plant controversy escalates
A group of Whistler homeowners took to the streets on July 24 to vent their frustration with Whistler council's refusal to relocate a toxin-belching asphalt plant, just metres from their new homes in Whistler's Athletes Village.This is one of several ...
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Take ownership of local issues
Loh Keng Fatt says residents should an eye out in their own area for possible dangers.BLACK clouds in the sky now fill many people with dread. Will their house or road outside their home get flooded, they wonder? Is that big tree in their ...
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UK Police: Love It, Lock It
Police in Burnley and Pendle, England apparently have to emphasize that one should lock one's doors and windows before going out, lest some sneaky burglar take all of your most expensive worldly possessions. What might thieves who happen upon a door ...
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Local groups fear reduced census data will make their jobs tougher
Mary MacKeigan is on a team of people looking for two low-income neighbourhoods where they can boost recreational activities for kids.
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EU pledges millions to support universities in neighbour countries
Brussels- The European Union is to spend almost 40 million dollars over the next three years to support higher education institutions in Russia and within its Eastern European and Mediterranean basin neighbourhood, the bloc's executive said Monday. The ...
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Things will be great when youre downtown
In a seven-part series, Post Homes takes a look at new condo communities within the city and the meeting places that make these neighbourhoods really hum. Part two: Downtown.
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Rioters cause havoc in French city
RIOTERS exchanged gunfire with police in the French Alpine city of Grenoble, setting fire to shops and cars after police shot dead a man accused of robbing a casino.
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Mexico's richest city hit by drug war
Despite being the countrys richest city, even Monterrey appears unable to escape the grip of Mexicos increasingly violent drugs war. Yesterday at dawn, Police were called to one of its wealthiest neighbourhoods after four bodies were found ...
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Seven killed in building collapse in Cairo
Cairo- Seven people were killed and one injured when a house collapsed in Cairo before dawn on Wednesday, Egyptian security sources said. Eight labourers were living in old one-storey house in the low- income neighbourhood of Darb el-Ahmar. The men ...
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Lady Gaga spends fortune on rent
Lady Gaga is splashing out$ 25,000 a month rent on an exclusive$ 5 million home in Los Angeles. Lady Gaga is splashing out$ 25,000 a month to rent a house. The` Paparazzi' singer is renting a$ 5 million mansion in the affluent Bel Air neighbourhood of ...
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Marilyn Monroe's Last Home Up For Grabs
The Hollywood home where Marilyn Monroe died of an overdose in 1962 has been put up for sale for 2.36m.
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PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: Deadly Israeli shelling hits Gaza neighbourhood
An Israeli army shell fired into the Al-Bureij neighbourhood of the Gaza Strip killed one woman and injured five people on Tuesday, according to Palestinian medics. An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed the incident.
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The gains in Spain
Madrid is a city best enjoyed at street level, aperitivo in hand, as you mill among the Rioja-sipping crowd in the colourful doorway of a mosaic-fronted wine bar. The hour of the aperitivo, traditionally falling between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., is the first ...
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EDUCATION: Taking Science into the Streets
A group of 80 students, broken into smaller groups with their notebooks in tow, troop through the boroughs of New York City to survey the produce that populates farmers' markets and grocery stores in their neighbourhoods. Across the world, a ...
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Glamour back for Ottawa's Little Italy
The Canadian Press - OTTAWA - In the end, it was garbage that helped Ottawa's Little Italy go from grimy to gorgeous.
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20 new Jewish homes approved in east Jerusalem
JERUSALEM : The construction of 20 new homes in a Jewish settlement in annexed east Jerusalem was approved on Monday, officials said, in a move likely to hamper Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The ci...
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King West: The splish and the splash
The first installment of a seven-part series exploring new condo communities in the city homes in on Liberty Village and beyond.
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Thousands of Colombo slum dwellers rounded up by Sri Lankan military
Soldiers, police and security personnel in civilian clothes rampaged through a poor Sri Lankan neighbourhood last weekend and then rounded up thousands of residents.
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SOUTH AFRICA: In Johannesburg, immigrants fear new wave of violence
In Yeoville, a neighbourhood of Johannesburg where many immigrants live, residents fear that a new wave of xenophobic violence will break out after the World Cup. NGOs are sounding the alarm.
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Russia & Europe to Save Earth from Armageddon
The Russia and the European Commission recently announced that they will be partnering on a project to develop ways to protect Earth from the thousands of potentially hazardous asteroids headed for our galactic neighbourhood. In a meeting scheduled for ...
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Three soldiers, two civilians killed in Iraqi roadblock attack
Baghdad- Three soldiers and two civilians were killed in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Friday, when a suicide bomber detonated explosives in his car at a roadblock in the neighbourhood of Amiriya, local media reported. Attacks by al-Qaeda militants have ...
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Cambridge neighbourhoods granted extra parking spots
George Singh likes the fact that he can now park an extra car across the end of his driveway, but not the cumbersome way the city approved it.
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City garden plots all the rage in Paris
Paris- Paris is n't usually known as a green city, but there are more and more small gardening plots cropping up in the middle of the city. People who live in the neighbourhood and like to garden take care of the plots and open them to passers-by. ...
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Riihimen Peltosaari - Lhin ekotehokas uudistaminen
"Riihimen Peltosaari - Lhin ekotehokas uudistaminen" The neighbourhood Peltosaari was built during 1970's and 1980's next to Riihimki city centre about 70 kilometres north from Helsinki. Peltosaari has a direct connection with railway and bus ...
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Two killed as Yemeni police disperse protest in southern city
Sana'a, Yemen- Security forces opened fire on protesters in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on Wednesday, killing two and injuring eight, witnesses said. Hundreds of people reportedly took to the streets in the Khour Maksar neighbourhood of Aden, ...
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Roma rises again
A revolution and an earthquake haven't been able to flatten the creative spirit in this Mexico City neighbourhood
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AUSTRALIA: Hunger Far from Unknown in A Land of Plenty
Devina Celeste, 50, waits in a queue of about 40 people at the neighbourhood centre in the Australian inner-city suburb of Newtown for the only hot meal she will get on this cold winter night.
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