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China’s broadcasting watchdog has banned all “sexually suggestive” advertising on television and radio, state media has reported.
Adverts for products like sex-related health supplements and sex toys will be prohibited, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television said.
“Vulgar” adverts for things like breast enhancements and female underwear will also be banned, Sarft said.
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Preliminary results from Sunday’s election in Madagascar, give President Marc Ravalomanana’s party, the TIM, an early lead.
Confirmation of the final outcome could take several weeks, but the president’s party is expected to do well.
The turnout appears to have been low with some polling stations in the capital, Antananarivo, reporting that only one in five people […]

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The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has said that Iran is not heading for armed conflict with the United States.
In an American television interview, he said Iran was not on a path of war with the US and that Iran had no need of nuclear weapons.
He is due to address the UN General Assembly in New […]

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NEW YORK - A billion dollars just doesn’t go as far as it used to. For the first time, it takes more than $1 billion to earn a spot on Forbes magazine’s list of the 400 richest Americans.
The minimum net worth for inclusion in this year’s rankings released Thursday was $1.3 billion, up $300 million […]

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A controversial US reality TV show involving children gets its first airing on Wednesday on the CBS network.
Kid Nation takes 40 children, some as young as eight, to an abandoned New Mexico desert town where they are left to fend for themselves for 40 days.
The youngsters are meant to create a functioning society with a […]

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The US investment bank Lehman Brothers has reported a small fall in three-month profits, but the figures were still better than expected.
Net income between June and August fell 3% to $887m (£445m).
Lehman’s boss Richard Fuld said the results showed the bank’s diversity and strength under “challenging conditions in the markets”.
There is great interest how hard […]

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The authorities in Ukraine have approved a giant steel cover for the radioactive site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster - Chernobyl.
Ukraine has hired a French firm to build the structure to replace the crumbling concrete casing put over the reactor after the 1986 accident.
The casing project is expected to cost $1.4bn (£700m).
It will take […]

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Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (£343m; $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute.
The European Court of First Instance upheld the ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position.
A probe concluded in 2004 that Microsoft was guilty of freezing out rivals in server software and […]

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A US federal judge has sentenced a Californian man to 24 years in jail for attending an al-Qaeda training camp in Pakistan and lying about it.
The judge said Hamid Hayat, 25, had returned home ready and willing to wage violent jihad.
He was arrested in 2005 after returning from a two-year trip to Pakistan.
Prosecutors said he […]

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OSLO, Norway - Archaeologists opened a Viking burial mound on Monday, seeking to learn more about two women — possibly a queen and a princess — laid to rest there 1,173 years ago.
In 1904, the mound in southeastern Norway’s Vestfold County surrendered one of the country’s greatest archaeological treasures, the Oseberg Viking longboat, which is […]

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