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A Christchurch family are devastated their 20-year-old cat was handed to the SPCA and killed before they had a chance to save it.
The Clarke family of Halswell had Krumpet for 20 years.
Last Tuesday, father Gwyn Clarke was shocked to come home from work and find a note in his letterbox saying their female ginger cat [...]

The family of Pakistan’s ambassador to Kabul kidnapped by the Taliban in a tribal region three months ago expressed concern over the government’s failure to recover him and urged authorities to expedite their efforts.
Ambassador Tariq Azizuddin went missing in the Khyber tribal region on the Afghan border along with his driver and guard while traveling [...]

Group Therapy is a relationship advice column that asks readers to contribute their wisdom. Each week, we offer up a problem for you to weigh in on, then publish the most lively responses, with a final word on the matter delivered by our columnist, Claudia Dey.
A reader writes: My girlfriend moved to Fort McMurray, Alta., [...]

By Rob Taylor COLOMBO, March 22 (Reuters) - Visionary science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke will be buried on Saturday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, where his body has been visited by sci-fi pilgrims and the country’s president since his death on Wednesday. British-born Clarke, best known for [...]

By Rob Taylor
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Visionary science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke was buried on Saturday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, where the nation paused for an international “titan” it had adopted as its own.
British-born Clarke, best known for his work on the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”, died [...]

By Rob Taylor COLOMBO, March 22 (Reuters) - Visionary science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke was buried on Saturday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, where the nation paused for an international [...]

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By Kenneth Li
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times Co is expected to
meet with four board candidates backed by a dissident investors
group “within the next week or so,” a company spokeswoman said
on Tuesday, as the publisher braces for a second shareholder
uprising in three years.
The investor group, comprised [...]

(Repeats story first issued at 0000 GMT) By Krittivas Mukherjee PANDHARKAWDA, India, March 20 (Reuters) - Almost every farmer across India’s arid cotton-bearing central plateau is a hostage, in one way or another, to a profitable mega-business of illegal moneylending. Families have lost land, farmers have been asked [...]