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  1. An Indian woman looking into a jewellery shop display window in New Delhi on November 2009.

    Flashy Indian brides struggle with high gold prices

    AFP - Monday, November 23

    NEW DELHI (AFP) - - For Indian brides buying jewellery, the bigger the better is the general rule, but record gold prices during this year's wedding season are forcing many to compromise.

  2. A copy of Darwin's book the

    Rare Charles Darwin book in toilet in Britain

    AFP - Monday, November 23

    LONDON (AFP) - - A first edition of Charles Darwin's seminal "On the Origin of Species" will be sold this week after it was found in a family's toilet in southern Britain, an auction house said Sunday.

  3. Lebanese women sit on a bench in front of a poster announcing the opening of a Christian Dior shop in downtown Beirut on November 5. Brimming with style, Beirut is regaining its reputation as a shoppers' paradise, with luxury labels such as Christian Dior and Louis Vuitton among a slew of shops opening in the city's renovated souks.

    Beirut sets out to woo back shoppers

    AFP - Monday, November 23

    BEIRUT (AFP) - - Brimming with style, Beirut is regaining its reputation as a shoppers' paradise, with luxury labels such as Christian Dior and Louis Vuitton among a slew of shops opening in the city's renovated souks.

  4. Pistols, Tasers, assault rifles sell fast at US show

    AFP - Monday, November 23

    CHANTILLY, Virginia (AFP) - - Recession-stoked fears of rising crime and tougher gun laws under a Democratic government are sending US gun sales sky high, and big crowds at the Chantilly Gun Show this weekend proved it once again.

  5. Taliban suffocate Pakistan Buddhist heritage

    AFP - Sunday, November 22

    TAXILA, Pakistan (AFP) - - Archaeologists warn that the Taliban are destroying Pakistan's ancient Gandhara heritage and rich Buddhist legacy as pilgrimage and foreign research dries up in the country's northwest.

  6. Crisis forcing hard-up Spaniards to sell their hair

    AFP - Sunday, November 22

    MADRID (AFP) - - Cash-strapped Spaniards are pulling their hair out over the economic crisis -- literally.

  7. Desperate retailers seek holiday season rescue

    AFP - Sunday, November 22

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - - US retailers are taking desperate measures to spark holiday sales in the face of what promises to be another troubled year-end shopping season.

  8. Botswana tries spicy solution to keep elephants at bay

    AFP - Sunday, November 22

    GABORONE (AFP) - - Tourists love to watch herds of elephants trekking across Botswana's famed Okavango Delta, but nearby farmers watch in dismay when the animals trample their crops, leaving them little to eat.

  9. Poland restricts gambling outside casinos

    AFP - Saturday, November 21

    WARSAW (AFP) - - Poland's parliament on Friday adopted a law that confines gambling to casinos and phases out the slot machines currently in many Polish cafes, clubs, shops and service stations.

  10. Auction record for umbrella stand as YSL mystique inflates prices

    AFP - Saturday, November 21

    PARIS (AFP) - - A humble if eye-pleasing umbrella stand once owned by Yves Saint Laurent fetched an amazing 90,000 euros (134,000 dollars) Friday at the close of a sale of the last belongings of the late couturier and his partner Pierre Berge.