The As-Sadeeqa Fatimatul Zahra Mosque, built in the style of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan's iconic memorial to his wife and opened this year, is already gaining a reputation as one of Kuwait's most distinctive buildings.
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Kuwait's new mosque is more than a nod to the Taj Mahal
Assad regime openly compares present situation with that of the early 1980s, insisting that now, as then, Syria facesan armed Islamic insurgency, while opposition activists use massacre as reminder of regime brutality and casual sacrifice of blood. Read article Government and protesters both invoke Hama massacre of 1982
Growing public outrage over alleged hacking of mobile phone belonging to missing girl later found murdered, and reports that the News of the World illegally paid tens of thousands of pounds to senior Scotland Yard officers had been to leak information, sees PM announce inquiry.
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Inquiry into phone hacking by Britain's best-selling newspaper announced
Dr Pierre Dukan, whose famous dieters include Penelope Cruz and Kate Middleton's mother, ordered by court to pay Dr Jean-Michel Cohen and a French health magazine damages of €3,000 after trying to sue over criticism of protein-rich Dukan plan.
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Creator of Dukan diet loses libel case against rival