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A new museum in Colombia is drawing the lazy. But it’s by
design: the exhibit is encouraging people to embrace laziness,
liberating themselves from obsessions about career and work.

The bridge is being displayed on the plaza of the
United in New York City.

A Canadian man died on Saturday, four days after police used
a taser stun-gun on him. He is the third person to die in 3
weeks in Canada after being shocked by the hand-held weapon.

The Annapolis meeting is being billed as a chance to relaucnh
negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians with a view to
reaching an agreement on establishing a Palestinian state,
possibly before President Bush steps down in 14 months.

The European planemaker snared a deal with Gulf airline
Emirates for 70 of its A360 Xtra Wide Body Airbus Planes and
options on 50 more - an order worth a potential $US35 billion.
Boeing is ahead in the annual race for orders with Airbus but
the Emirates deal means that gap is now narrowing as the two
fight it out for market share. Not to be outdone, Boeing did a
$13.5 billion deal with Qatar Airways for its 787 Dreamliners.

China Fashion Week opens in Beijing with designers showing
their spring-summer 2008 collections. Images of Rosestudio
Fashion Co. Ltd’s “Guo Pei Fashion Show”, an haute-couture
show, and the Cabbeen Clothing Co.Ltd. menswears’ line.

A Belgian man broke out of jail while his accomplice distracted
the guards by landing a helicopter in the prison. Authorities
caught up with Nordin Benallal in the Netherlands.

Police releasd few details Sunday, but continued to search for
clues at a Surrey, B.C apartment where six men were found
dead on Friday.

A woman survived a great white shark attack in Byron Bay,
Australia on Monday, THis is the second shark attack in
Australian waters since Saturday.

Monday night, jurors in a British inquest ventured by foot into
the dark underpass where Princess Diana’s Mercedes crashed
10 years ago.

As the inquest opens in the UK into the death of the late
Princess Diana, her son Prince William’s complaint bares an
uncomfortable parallel. He says he and his girlfriend Kate
Middleton were pursued by paparazzi as their car picked them
up from a night club; his mother died in a car crash as she was
being chased by photographers.

From Asia to Europe and the United States, activists called for
a day of action against the Myanmar goverment.

UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari began his mission to Myanmar
on Saturday, hoping to convince the military junta to end
its brutal crackdown that has virtually strangled a people’s
movement to end 45 years of military rule.

A famed Italian photographer is protesting super-thin models
and making a statement about anorexia during Fashion Week
on billoards and in ads.

An erupting volcano in New Zealand sent ash and steam
nearly three miles into the air Tuesday. Officials say
for people were reported injured after the volcano sent
mud and rocks racing down the mountainside.