Colonial Congo's flatpack home on show in London
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Rescued from the steamy jungle and civil wars of the Republic of Congo, a pioneering 1950s flat-pack house now calls the chilly banks of London's River Thames home.
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Africa may be seen by the rest of the  world as a continent dogged by war and poverty, but Africans  themselves are fiercely proud of their homeland, a survey  conducted by British broadcaster the BBC showed on Monday.
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home to the Bridge on the River Kwai and a magnet for British backpackers - bears the slogan: &quot;Welcome to the land of Peace and Love.
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Zipcar Inc., the Cambridge car-sharing service launched in 2000 with a dozen Volkswagen Beetles, said yesterday that it is making its European debut today in London.
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Of the two collection shows now running, the one in Boston offers a far truer, newer and more surprising vision of Africa.
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Urban creativity versus rural gentility is the story of the shows that opened the London fashion season. There are spare, sharp, often hyper-sexy clothes that go with the Brit/art and music scene, and are
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The notorious show from London uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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A contemporary art exhibition marking the bicentenary of the outlawing of the British slave trade has opened in London, part of a season of such events throughout the country.
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LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters Life!) - Britain's first Scandinavian-style IKEA flat-packed housing, built in a factory wall by wall and assembled on site, is ready for viewing, the company building it said on Thursday.
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A Chinese developer has brought the delights of Paris to a housing estate on the outskirts of Shanghai, including the world's second-largest replica of the Eiffel Tower.
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British finance minister Gordon Brown  visited one of Africa's largest slums on Wednesday at the start  of a tour of the continent aimed at making the fight against  poverty a top priority for the world's richest nations.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair was made an honorary paramount chief while visiting the country on a tour of Africa this week.
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The Museum for African Art unveiled plans on Thursday for a new home in Manhattan, becoming the first major addition to New York's Museum Mile in 50 years.
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British finance minister Gordon Brown visited one of Africa's largest slums Wednesday at the start of a tour of the continent aimed at making the fight against poverty a top priority for the world's richest nations.
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LAKE SIBAYA, South Africa  - Bongi Nkosi stands  proudly by her family house gushing over an expansion made  possible by politics and pavement.
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From the outside it's an ordinary, red-brick house in a terraced row, not unlike tens of thousands of others scattered across Britain.
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Confusion surrounds the brief return of a statue of  Belgian colonial king Leopold II in the DR Congo capital, Kinshasa.