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...United Arab Emirates President and Abu Dhabi ruler Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan--was retrieved from a Moroccan lake on March 31, five days after his glider crashed there. The death of Sheik Ahmed--managing director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds--has raised fears of a power struggle among his 17 surviving brothers for control of ADIA...
...however, the rising use of unpaid internships has recently garnered headlines for perpetuating inequality between those who can afford to work for free and those who cannot. The country's largest union federation, Trades Union Congress, launched rightsforinterns.org.uk in late March to help get the word out that internships that offer no real training are exploitative - and illegal. So far, more than 2,500 people have joined a Facebook group that a British student started called Interns Must Be Paid the Minimum Wage...
Smoking is a “modifiable” factor with the largest impact on an individual’s longevity. The habit subtracts 2.5 years from men’s life expectancies and 1.5 years from women’s, according to the study, which was led by Goodarz Danaei, a research fellow at the school’s department of epidemiology...
Among the various ethnic groups, Southern rural African-Americans ran the largest deficit in life expectancy due to these health issues, according to the study, which was published in PloS Medicine...
...said the spokesman, who declined to give his name as per policy. As part of a new parliamentary mandate, which was passed by the Bundestag in February, German troop levels in Afghanistan will also increase from 4,500 to 5,350 later this year. (Germany is already the third-largest troop contributor after the U.S. and Britain.) The new mandate places a heavier emphasis on civilian reconstruction projects and the training of Afghan soldiers, which will make German soldiers more visible - and potentially easier targets. (Read "Germany's Doubts About Afghanistan Grow After Revelations About Air Strike...