Central Baghdad blast kills at least 10 A powerful car bomb killed at least 10 people outside a central Baghdad hotel used by US officials, injuring many and filling the air with thick black smoke, police said.
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ARTS & WEEKEND Lunch with the FT: Mineko Iwasaki The influential geisha says she doesn't much like talking to people – if reborn, she'd come back as a tree. Entertainer to politicians, business leaders and foreign dignitaries, her list of clients reads like a Who's Who.
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FASHION & BEAUTY Asian invasion Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill is set to unleash a craze for martial arts-inspired clothing. But the love of all things eastern doesn't stop at fashion.
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Man in the News
A hawk with ruffled feathers The sharp-edged US defence secretary is used to criticism, but Donald Rumsfeld has been bruised by a memo announcing that responsibility for the rebuilding of Iraq had been transferred from the Pentagon to the National Security Council. Oct 10 2003 | Read
Europeans should be grateful that the EU is not able to mount an appeal to its peoples based on gut emotion. We all know to what horrors such appeals have historically led.
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We now take a puritanical view of traditional intoxicants such as alcohol and tobacco and a libertine view of non-traditional
ones such as marijuana.
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Arab press review: Syria provides 'soft target' Fiona Symon, FT.com's Middle East specialist, reviews the reaction of the Arab press to Israel's attack on Syria and the
disagreements among the Palestinian leadership. 16:16 | Read
Lex: GE/Amersham General Electric has had a busy week. It has finalised a $14bn deal to merge NBC with Vivendi's Universal, closed the $2bn acquisition of Instrumentarium and now launched an agreed $9.5bn offer for Amersham, the UK medical company. 13:38 | Read