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Hong Kong — A Hong Kong dentist is wielding forceps to help reach for answers inside the last surviving example of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Great Pyramid of Giza.Islamists, Africans walk out on UN gay panel
GENEVA — Brushing aside high-level UN appeals for cooperation to halt murder and violence against gays and lesbians around the globe, Muslim and Arab countries on Wednesday walked out of a Human Rights Council panel to tackle the issue.UN soldier brought cholera to Haiti?
Bill Clinton, the UN’s special envoy to Haiti, said on Wednesday that a member of the global organisation’s peacekeeping force was probably responsible for bringing cholera to the Caribbean country, but may not have known that he was doing so.
Not all Muslims follow Islamic tenets
By Sheikh Abdullah Makwinja
Muslims, are very popular in the media nowadays. Worldwide debates rage about various topics that invariably involve Muslims. Almost continuous media exposure means that there is hardly a person left in the world that has not read or seen something about Islam or Muslims, or both.
Hormonal birth control gives HIV a chance
Hormonal contraception may make it easier for HIV to spread between heterosexual sex partners, according to a new study conducted in Africa.Women in the study who used hormonal contraception had double the risk of acquiring HIV or transmitting it to their male partners as those who did not use hormonal contraception.
Hormonal contraception advice not reaching women
JOHANNESBURG — The World Health Organisation (WHO) has advised women on injectable hormonal birth control to use condoms to prevent HIV infection in light of possible HIV risks associated with “the shot”, but HIV organisations and activists say this has not been effectively communicated to women.In October 2011, a study published in the medical journal, The Lancet, suggested hormonal contraception doubled the risk of a woman contracting HIV — and of HIV-positive women transmitting — the virus to their partners.
Army gets go ahead to evict Gunda’s widow
Court Reporter
BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Lawrence Kamocha yesterday granted the Ministry of Defence leave to execute a judgment ordering the widow of national hero Brigadier-General Paul Armstrong Gunda to vacate an army house in Bulawayo within 10 days.
NewsDay journalist detained for possessing a ‘stone’
From Temba Dube in MarangeA journalist from NewsDay was on Wednesday detained at Marange Diamond fields after being found with a “stone” at a security checkpoint.
The journalist, Moses Matenga, was allegedly captured on Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) picking the stone at Marange Resources, one of the four companies mining diamonds at the fields.
Govt urged to improve chiefs’ living conditions
Chronicle ReporterTHE Government should work on improving the status and living conditions of traditional leaders so that they perform their duties better, the chairperson of the Zimbabwe Local Government Association (Zilga), Councillor Sikhanyisiwe Mpofu, said yesterday.
In her solidarity message during the annual chiefs’ conference, which is being held in Bulawayo, Clr Mpofu, who is chairperson of the Umguza Rural District Council, said chiefs were playing an important role in communities.
Bogus property developers on the prowl in Gweru
Midlands CorrespondentBOGUS private property developers are on the prowl in Gweru where they are reportedly swindling home-seekers of their hard-earned cash through selling them non-existent residential stands.