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Fauja Singh becomes oldest marathon runner | |
A 100-year-old Briton has become the world's oldest marathon runner after finishing a race in Canada. Fauja Singh, from Ilford, east London, ran the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in eight hours, 25 minutes and 16 seconds...... → read more |
Move Over: World's Population Hits 7 Billion | |
She’s a 40-year-old mother of eight, with a ninth child due soon. The family homestead in a Burundi village is too small to provide enough food, and three of the children have quit school for lack of money to pay required fees. “I regret to have made all those children"..... → read more |
Jagjit Singh - A Tribute in Homage | |
Jagjit Singh, who died on Monday aged 70, was a singer and composer who popularised a poetic form of singing that originated in the Middle East and spread to India in the 12th century — winning a huge following both in modern India and..... → read more |
Global teacher shortage threatens progress on education | |
The world urgently needs to recruit more than 8 million extra teachers, according to UN estimates, warning that a looming shortage of primary school teachers threatens to undermine global efforts to ensure universal access to primary education by 2015...... → read more |
First Sikh High Court judge is sworn in | |
The first Sikh judge of the High Court was sworn in at the Royal Courts of Justice, London yesterday. Rabinder Singh QC, a human rights barrister from Matrix chamber, is only the second lawyer in the UK from an ethnic minority background to be promoted to the senior level of the judiciary...... → read more |