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ROME, Nov 16 — Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Rome for a UN food summit, spent several hours in the company of 200 Italian women recruited by an agency and tried to convert them to Islam, Italian media reported today.
“Seeking 500 attractive girls between 18 and 35 years old, at least 1.70 metres (5 foot, 7 inches) tall, well-dressed but not in mini-skirts or low cut dresses,” read the ad by the Hostessweb agency and quoted in Italy’s Corriere dell Sera newspaper in its story.
Some 200 women showed up at a Rome villa, having been told they would receive €60 (RM306) and “some Libyan gifts.” Among them was an undercover reporter for Italian news agency Ansa, who took photos and described the evening’s proceedings.
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TOKYO, Nov 17 — Japan’s former Olympic marathon gold medallist Naoko Takahashi has decided to become a vegetable farmer.
The 37-year-old, who won gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, will start her own farm on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, Japanese media reported today.
“It’s a new challenge for me,” Takahashi said, dressed in an orange farming suit and rubber boots and posing for pictures holding an onion and a giant radish.
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LOS ANGELES, Nov 17 — Pop star Janet Jackson holds Michael Jackson’s personal doctor responsible for her brother’s sudden death and has told ABC News that a day does not go by when she doesn’t think about her late sibling.
‘He was the one that was administering,’ Janet Jackson said about Houston-based physician Dr. Conrad Murray. ‘I think he is responsible.’
Murray, who was hired to treat Michael Jackson in the months before Jackson died on June 25 of a drug overdose, is currently a target in the manslaughter investigation of the ‘Thriller’ singer’s death.
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LOS ANGELES, Nov 17 — Hollywood veterans turned out in force to see Lauren Bacall, grand dame of film noir, receive an honorary Oscar at the motion picture academy’s Governors Awards on Saturday night, away from TV cameras.
Bacall, 85, starred in more than 30 films but never won an Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, coming closest with a nomination for “The Mirror Has Two Faces”.
The screen siren earned movie immortality with her husky voice, sultry gaze and curt retorts in films like “Dark Passage,” and her 1944 debut opposite Humphrey Bogart in “To Have and Have Not” launched one of the most electric on- and off-screen pairings in cinema history.
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BEIJING, Nov 17 — China agrees that Iran must show its nuclear programme is peaceful and transparent, US President Barack Obama said today after meeting Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing.
Iran’s disputed nuclear programme was among the issues on the table during Obama’s trip to China, which maintains strong energy and economic ties with Iran.
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LOS ANGELES, Nov 15 — A German man has been charged with trying to extort US$100,000 (RM340,000) from former supermodel Cindy Crawford (picture) and her husband over a photo of their daughter gagged and bound to a chair, authorities said.
Edis Kayalar, the man at the centre of the probe, was charged in federal court in Los Angeles on Thursday, but he was recently deported back to Germany and has not been arrested.
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SINGAPORE, Nov 15 — The United States and China sparred over exchange rates at a meeting of Asia Pacific leaders today, pointing to tricky talks ahead for President Barack Obama when he flies to China to address economic tensions.
The discord surfaced at a summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum in Singapore when a reference to “market-oriented exchange rates” was cut from a communique issued at the end of two days of talks. An Apec delegation official said Washington and Beijing could not agree on the wording.
That underscored strains likely to feature when Obama flies to Shanghai later today following moves by Washington to slap duties on various Chinese-made products and a growing drumbeat of pressure on Beijing to let its yuan currency strengthen. Chinese officials have grown testy about the pressure over the yuan. Chinese banking regulator Liu Mingkang told a forum in Beijing today that ultra-low interest rates in the United States were fuelling speculation in overseas asset markets and threatened the global economic recovery.
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