Mugabe, Tsvangirai urge end to political violence

HARARE, Zimbabwe 12, Nov, CNN

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai asked their respective parties to shun violence on Friday, a rare expression of unity between the political rivals. It came after disturbances Sunday between Mugabe’s Zanu PF party and Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change in Chitungwiza near the capital of Harare.

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Only one in 40 women gives birth at home

12 Nov Daily Telegraph

Just one in 40 women now gives birth at home, down from one in three 50 years ago, according to figures which also show that the average mother has two children – the highest rate in decades. In 2010 in England and Wales, 2.5 per cent of women giving birth did so at home, down from 2.7 per cent in 2009 and 2.9 per cent in 2008,

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At home with Schlamowitz - Gaddafi’s Jewish pen pal

12 Nov BBC

An elderly Jewish man from Brooklyn has spent decades as a pen pal to world leaders as diverse and unlikely as JFK, Ayatollah Khomeini and the recently deceased Col Gaddafi.

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