Bombers kill 18 in Afghanistan
;Agence-France Presse HERAT, 20 NOV: Bombers today killed 18 people in Afghanistan, a deadly start to President Hamid Karzai's second term in office that underscored spiralling insecurity nine years i

Thin is in... models ignite controversy
LONDON, 20 NOV: One of the most debilitating peer-inspired health issues for teenage ~ and older ~ girls across the world, the desire to be unhealthily thin or even size zero, has been brought into fo

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Obama’s winning moment New York, 20 Nov: Barack Obama's victory in the US presidential elections, launch of Wikipedia and emergence of the iPhone have been listed among the 10 most influential moments