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They're OK to eat honest
We live in strange times. We eat "healthy" breakfast cereals that contain more salt than seawater but also know over use of salt can cause heart disease, writes Dick Ahlstrom , Science Editor p
'We have no place to go. Dying here is better than leaving'
Falah Berek peers through the slanted shutters of an upstairs bedroom window in his Rafah home as armoured Israeli bulldozers demolish his neighbour's greenhouses some 300 metres away, writes Nuala Haughey p
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They know where you live
The next time you fly to the US, keep in mind that the authorities on the other side will have learnt lots about you before you are even at cruising altitude. In all, they might have 34 items of information about you. They'll know where you are staying, who is travelling with you, what meal you requested on the plane and where you are flying to next., writes Shane Hegarty pAll aboard the Luas, at last Tickets, please: the low-down on Luas
Travelling by tram from Sandyford to St Stephen's Green gives a completely new perspective on Dublin, just like everyone's first trip on the M50. Unlike the motorway's exploded landscape, however the tramway is very contained, usually by the numerous back gardens along its route. Frank McDonald , Environment Editor, takes a test trip pGay, proud and wed
It was a quiet Friday morning in the Ixelles commune of Brussels, a mix of discreet rows of Art Nouveau townhouses and the colourful streets of the city's African district. In the local town hall, Mayor Willy Decourty fastened his sash in the red, yellow and black of the Belgian flag around his hips and went out to perform a wedding, writes Susan Carroll pRed head: into black
Eoin (15): Three months ago Eoin had sex for the first time. "It was all right, I enjoyed it but I didn't really like the girl and it's not the way I really wanted my first time to be. He admits he buckled under increasing pressure from his friends to become sexually active. pCommunity and chips - Intel's legacy to Leixlip
To understand what the technology boom has meant to Leixlip, Co Kildare, one need only take the short walk from the Intel plant on the Galway road down towards the town centre, reports Ruadhán MacCormaic pSuccess in her pockets
While Marie Jones could be heard on radio this week sounding relieved that a London court judged her the sole author of her international hit play Stones in His Pockets, Pam Brighton's Dubbeljoint theatre company was firing off press releases around Belfast claiming that it wasn't so much a win for Jones as a draw, writes Róisín Ingle pThe latest in a royal flush of weddings
It must be something in the air . . . one week ago, Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark married his Australian bride in Copenhagen, and next week Crown Prince Rashid of Jordan will marry in Amman. But this weekend it is the turn of Crown Prince Felipe of Spain who will walk up the aisle this morning, to marry a former television journalist, Letizia Ortiz, writes Jane Walker pThis Week They Said
How many people go to the middle of the desert 10 miles from the Syrian border to hold a wedding 80 miles from the nearest civilisation? Maj Gen James Mattis, commander of the US 1st Marine Division, defends an attack on a remote Iraqi village where a wedding is said to have been taking place. A total of 45 people were reported killed in the assault. p
