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Nuclear technology

The nuclear ambitions of North Korean and Iran are all over the International Press. As North Korea agrees to a deadline to it's entire nuclear programme, Iran claims a crucial threshold has been reached and scientists are now using .

The return of the exiled ex-PMs

And things are looking sticky for President Musharraf. We already know that , the exiled former Pakistani Prime Minister will return "very soon" and now the Supreme Cout has ruled that , also and exiled former Prime Minister, should be allowed to return to the country. He plans to challenge the military leader's efforts to secure another term as president.

Troops leave Basra

The in Iraq from their central Basra base is almost over, can we get locals talking to the British troops who have served there?

Motherhood on ice

A new IVF technique could revolutionise how women approach starting a family. Following a scientific breakthrough in the storage of eggs, women in the UK could be invited to , keeping them for use when it most suits their career or relationships.

A 14th wife

have started arriving in the spiritual capital, Ludzidzini, ahead of this week's annual reed dance, where bare-breasted virgins dance before Africa's last absolute monarch. He gets to choose one of them for his 14th wife. Not all Swais are happy with the obvious wealth and comfort enjoyed by the royal family when 70% of the population live on less than US$1 a day and political parties are banned.

A royal announcement aired on state radio summoned all maidens to register on Tuesday and be dispatched by cut the reeds on the banks of Mbuluzana River in the picturesque Bhamsakhe area on Wednesday. If a family don't send their daughters than can be fined.

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