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Berlin - Germans spend on average six weeks of their lives having sex, compared with two weeks on religious activities. According to the magazine Geo Wissen, the average German spends 16 hours of his or her life enjoying an orgasm - far less than the six months spent in traffic jams or nine months washing and ironing.
Blantyre - Malawi has declared the whole country to be in a state of disaster as the food crisis worsens. President Bingu wa Mutharika also called on Saturday for more international aid.
Drought has slashed the production of maize, a food staple, and high rates of HIV infection have contributed to the crisis, with many farmers too ill with Aids to plant or tend crops. The crisis threatens 5-million people.
The Hague - The International Criminal Court has issued its first arrest warrants, calling on Uganda, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo to help capture five members of Uganda's ruthless Lord's Resistance Army, responsible for killing 2 200 civilians and enslaving thousands of boys and girls.
Tel Aviv - Spanish police last week located a top Nazi war criminal, based on a sighting by an Israeli citizen, Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper reported yesterday.
It said Aribert Heim, known as "Doctor Death", was discovered in Palafrugell on the Costa Brava after tips from Germany and the Simon Wiesenthal Centre. Spanish police said the apprehension of the 91-year-old war criminal was "a matter of time".
Moscow - Alexander Slesarev, former head of two Russian banks which shut last year amid a banking crisis, was shot dead along with his wife and daughter on a highway outside Moscow, Interfax news agency reported yesterday.
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