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Maids -A group of Filipino maids eat lunch and talk on their typical day off in Hong Kong´s central business district Sunday, April 11, 1999. For more than two decades, Hong Kong families have hired foreign maids for housework and cheap child care.
Food   Photos   Prices   School   Tokyo		  Daily Yomiuri 
City schools hiking lunch costs / Municipal governments, Tokyo wards increasing fees as food prices rise
Fourteen major cities, including Sapporo and Niigata, and eight Tokyo wards have raised school lunch fees this fiscal year, largely due to soaring prices for wheat, milk and other food, according to a... (photo: AP Photo)
Serbia's President and presidential candidate Boris Tadic addresses media after his headquarter claimed victory in presidential elections, in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008. President's wife Tanja is left. The cyrillic letters in the background read: "Let's conquer Europe together."
Elections   Photos   Politics   Serbia   Society		  Philadelphia Daily News 
Serbia's pro-Western president declares victory in elections
BELGRADE, Serbia - Serbia's pro-Western president declared victory in Sunday's parliamentary elections , a stunning upset over ultranationalists who tried to exploit anger over Kosovo's independence... (photo: AP Photo / Darko Vojinovic)
INDIA-FRUIT-MARKET  The Manila Times 
Surging food prices bite across Asia
From the rice paddies of Asia to the wheat fields of Australia, the soaring prices of food are breaking the budgets of the poor and raising the specters of hunger and unrest, experts warn. A billion... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
Asia   BIo Fuel   Food   Inflation   Photos
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Kremlin: British PM Brown calls Medvedev, meeting planned for July
MOSCOW (AP) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown telephoned Russia's new President Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday, the Kremlin said, suggesting they discussed ways to smooth out their countries' strained... (photo: Public Domain / )
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Tamil Nadu leader's son acquitted of murder

Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh: M.K. Azhagiri, son of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, and 12 others were yesterday acquitted of all charges in the 2003 murder of DMK... (photo: pibphoto )
Chennai   India   Photos   Politics   Tamil Nadu
A large statue of Buddha sits in water at a temple that was heavily damaged by last week's destructive cyclone Nargis, in the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday May 11, 2008. The Australian
Tear down Burma's bamboo curtain
Thousands more will die if aid does not start flowing THERE seems to be no underestimating the brutality of Burma's regime as millions of people struggle to stay alive in... (photo: AP / )
Burma   Disaster   Photos   Society   UN
Steel Industry (sl1) The Australian
Beijing's behemoths want more iron action
THE first ship to load iron ore produced by Fortescue Metals Group will dock on Thursday at Port Hedland in Western Australia. It will leave with 170,000 tonnes of ore,... (photo: AP Photo / Andy Wong)
Australia   Business   China   Metal   Photos
Villagers on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, catch boxes of food tossed from a US Navy (USN) helicopter during Operation UNIFIED ASSISTANCE, the humanitarian operation effort in the wake of the Tsunami that struck South East Asia on December 26, 2004. The Australian
US help could save thousands of lives
ONE April day in 1991, the world awoke to the news that a devastating cyclone and tidal wave had struck the coast of Bangladesh. As bodies washed ashore by the thousand... (photo: US Navy file/PHAN Nicholas Morton)
Aid   Disaster   Photos   Society   US
Asif Ali Zardari Dawn
Altaf, Asif discuss situation
LONDON, May 10: The Pakistan People’s Party and Muttahida Qaumi Movement have underscored the importance of unity among all political forces for resolving pressing... (photo: AP Photo / Fareed Khan)
Karachi   London   Media   Pakistan   Photos   Politics
Suspended Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, center, is surrounded by his supporters and lawyers as he arrives at Supreme Court for a hearing, Tuesday, March 13, 2007 in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan´s top judge set up a The Australian
Pakistan's parallel courts proposal 'farcical'
ATTEMPTS to reinstate Pakistan's anti-Musharraf judges approached high farce yesterday when proposals were mooted for parallel supreme courts as the only way out of the... (photo: AP/Anjum Naveed)
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