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The stadium in the Equatoguinean capital Malabo is ready to host next year’s finals, where it will stage one of the semi-finals in February Fixtures and tables for the qualifiers for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations to be co-hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. Holders: Egypt Group A P W D L GF GA Pts Eq Guinea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Libya 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Senegal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Zambia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21/01/12: Equatorial Guinea v Libya, Bata 21/01/12: Senegal v Zambia, Bata 25/01/12: Libya v Zambia, Bata 25/01/12: Equatorial Guinea v Senegal, Bata 29/01/12: Equatorial Guinea v Zambia, Malabo 29/01/12: Libya v Senegal, Bata Group B P W D L GF GA Pts Ivory C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sudan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Burkina F 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Angola 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22/01/12: Ivory Coast v Sudan, Malabo 22/01/12: Burkina Faso v Angola, Malabo 26/01/12: Sudan v Angola, Malabo 26/01/12: Ivory Coast v Burkina Faso, Malabo 30/01/12: Sudan v Burkina Faso, Bata 30/01/12: Ivory Coast v Angola, Malabo Group C P W D L GF GA Pts Gabon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Niger 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Morocco 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tunisia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23/01/12: Gabon v Niger, Libreville 23/01/12: Morocco v Tunisia, Libreville 27/01/12: Niger v Tunisia, Libreville 27/01/12: Gabon v Morocco, Libreville 31/01/12: Gabon v Tunisia, Franceville 31/01/12: Niger v Morocco, Libreville Group D P W D L GF GA Pts Ghana 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Botswana 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Guinea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24/01/12: Ghana v Botswana, Franceville 24/01/12: Mali v Guinea, Franceville 28/01/12: Botswana v Guinea, Franceville 28/01/12: Ghana v Mali, Franceville 01/02/12: Botswana v Mali, Libreville 01/02/12: Ghana v Guinea, Franceville Quarter-Finals: 1.
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Zainab Jallo, a Nigerian poet and playwright, has won the West African zonal prize of the Arterial Network maiden continental Playwriting Competition. Jallo’s play, Onions Make Us Cry, and five others from other zones (Northern Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa, Eastern Africa and Western Africa) came top in the zonal finals. More than 300 submissions were received, and after a lengthy selection process, six writers have been selected as regional winners of this inaugural competition.
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The playground of Aden’s al-Haqqani school should be filled with squealing children at this time of year instead, goats pick through the brittle grass as young men doze atop crumbling school desks strewn across the yard. The two-storey, faded white concrete building is one of some 76 schools in this port city half of the total overflowing with refugees from the volatile south as Yemen’s humanitarian crisis worsens by the day.
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Zachary Quinto, who made headlines this week when he said he was gay, is best known for playing Spock in the 2009′s “Star Trek” and for his role as the evil Sylar on the recent TV series “Heroes.” The 34-year old actor has leveraged his fame to start his own production company, Before the Door Pictures, whose first film, “Margin Call” opens in theaters on Friday. The film, in which Quinto also stars, boasts an all-star cast including Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Stanley Tucci and Demi Moore among many others. It takes place in an investment bank over a 24-hour period at the start of the 2008 financial crisis
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Selena Gomez has obtained a temporary restraining order against a 46 year-old man who her attorney claims has a history of mental illness and spoke about thoughts of killing the entertainer.
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Bette Midler’s famous mermaid stage costume, the Valentino gown she wore to the 1992 Oscars and a collection of headdresses are all going up for auction in November, Julien’s Auctions said on Tuesday. The singer and actress also is selling several stage costumes designed by Bob Mackie and outfits she wore on album covers dating back to the 1970s. Top items include a glittering pink-and-purple mermaid costume that Midler wore during her recent two-year residency “The Showgirl Must Go On” in Las Vegas, which is expected to sell for $1,000 to $1,500.
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English author and bookmakers’ favorite Julian Barnes finally won the Man Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday, despite once dismissing the coveted award as “posh bingo.” The 65-year-old triumphed with “The Sense of an Ending,” which at 150 pages was described by one review as a “novella.” It was his fourth time on the Booker shortlist — Barnes was previously nominated for “Flaubert’s Parrot” in 1984, “England, England” in 1998 and “Arthur and George” in 2005.
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English author and four-time nominee Julian Barnes, who once dismissed the Man Booker Prize for fiction as “posh bingo”, is favoured to win it on Tuesday with his novel “The Sense of an Ending”. The annual award to a writer in English from the Commonwealth, Ireland or Zimbabwe is a major event in the publishing calendar, significantly boosting publicity and sales for shortlisted and winning works. It is also an opportunity for Britain’s “literati” to air their grievances about writers who have or have not been nominated and question the ability the judging panels to choose the right winner.
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The boxing robots of “Real Steel” had better footwork at the ticket window than the kids in the remake of the 1980s dance classic “Footloose” and held on to the domestic box-office title for a second straight week. “Real Steel” racked up an estimated $39.6 million in global ticket sales over three days, distributor Walt Disney Co said on Sunday.
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Britons are now including internet passwords in wills to ensure their online music, photographs, videos and other digital data are not lost when they die, a British study showed. Around 11 percent of the 2,000 British people surveyed by the Center for Creative & Social Technology (CAST) at the University of London for their “Cloud Generation” report said they had included internet passwords or plan to include them in their wills in a trend that CAST labeled “digital inheritance.” “It’s an area that will become increasingly important given, for instance, the monetary value of music collections and sentimental value of photograph collections – fewer people now keep hard copies of either,” the report quoted Steven Thorpe, partner at Gardner Thorpe Solicitors, as saying
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