i agree with arthur c, clark

Chaos at the opening of Heathrow Terminal 5


http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/27/europe/heathrow.php

The 10 deadliest drugs
http://health.msn.com/health-topics/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100198254&page=2

Iraqi government's shaky authority
Can they really finish mehdi army?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/stalled-assault-on-basra-exposes-the-iraqi-governments-shaky-authority-801776.html

and ..
US President George W Bush has called the Iraqi government offensive against militiamen in Basra "a defining moment in the history of a free Iraq".
phew
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7319678.stm

MESSENGERS FROM GOD
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Asieh, a rat child,with her sisters at their house in a village near Gujrat. Asieh is a 9 year old girl living with her family. One of her brothers and one of her sisters have died from the same condition a few years ago. In Pakistan, children afflicted with a condition known as microcephaly, stemming from a variety of possible factors, have a distinctly smaller head and receding forehead. Known as rat children, in this society they are considered closer to God, or messengers

OCTOPUSHY
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Underwater hockey (also called Octopush) is a non-contact sport in which two teams compete to maneuver a puck across the bottom of a swimming pool into goals. This pictures are about the only amateur portuguese underwater hockey team who is training to the european championship in Turkey

Kamaiya
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Kalali region, November 2007 Ð Tharu ethnic group is subjected to a terrible kind of slavery named Kamaiya. The kamaiya is a slave, or forced worker, who had to subdue to one or more ÒmastersÓ in order to pay for a debt, even if a small one. As debts do not come to an end with the debtorÕs death, the condition of kamaiya is inherited for generations from father to son, from an individual to a whole family

GIANT PANDAS MATE AT A CHINESE ZOO (around 10am on the 29th March!!!)
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Two Giant pandas Qing Qing, male, and Ying Ying, female, make love at the Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in Wolong, southwest Chinas Sichuan province on the 29th March 2008. 11-year-old male giant panda Qing Qing and 17-year-old female giant panda Ying Ying started to mate around 10am on the 29th March. It took them 2 minutes and 9 seconds to finish the mating, according to the timing made by Tang Chunxiang, a researcher of the Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center. Tang said giant pandas have very selective on mating. The researchers of the center will perform an artificial insemination on Ying Ying to make sure that she will be pregnant