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Mobile 'revolution' eases Pacific isolation, poverty

By Talek Harris

FEATURE SYDNEY: From the rugged highlands of Papua New Guinea to the remote islands of Tonga, a telecommunications revolution in the Pacific is helping ease poverty and isolation in some of the world's poorest countries.

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World's oldest piano maker tunes in to designer furniture

By Jurgen Hecker

FEATURE PARIS: Once the favourite of Chopin and Debussy, the world's oldest piano maker, Pleyel, has been hard hit by competition from Asia – so to adapt the firm is venturing into new territory: designer furniture.

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Caviar: The ultimate delicacy, from a farm near you?

By Emma Charlton

FEATURE: The grey pearls burst on the tongue to release their salty, marine aroma, lifted by notes of nut or fruit. Caviar remains the ultimate luxury food – except these days the Caspian delicacy likely comes from a farm near you.

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Grab a sandwich, lose a US$1.9m Stradivarius

LONDON: A musician who went into a central London sandwich store to buy something to eat has had a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin worth 1.2 million pounds (US$1.9 million) stolen, police said on Monday.

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Two-metre Christmas tree turns out to be cannabis plant

KOBLENZ (Germany): A two-metre-high Christmas tree in a German home turned out, on closer inspection, to be a cannabis plant, police reported today.

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When you have pain all the time, it can be fibromyalgia!

KUALA LUMPUR: “It is just a pain in your head, just ignore it,” a doctor once told Mary Gaspar, 54, when she consulted him for the continuous pain she had been suffering from.

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Why singles are single?

By K Pragalath

COMMENT During family functions, singletons tend to receive one question frequently: “When are you getting married?”

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Director Jolie learnt from the cinema greats

By Paula Bustamante

PARIS: Hollywood star Angelina Jolie says she learnt from the best about taking a turn behind the camera and put the lessons to good use in her directorial debut, already making waves before it hits the screen.

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