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Countdown to royal spectacle begins The royal wedding is almost upon us! While to some this means nothing and the day will pass as per usual, to others however, the world will stand still and they will be glued to whatever media gives them a front row seat to see Prince William and Kate Middleton walk down the aisle. CNN has decided to go all out on the spectacle with multi-platform coverage featuring a host of live programming and in-depth features that should have royal family fans salivating. It is indeed the biggest royal wedding event since 1981 when Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer. You can be sure it will be headlining newspapers and leading TV and radio news broadcasts worldwide. And if you don't have access to traditional media, rest assured, the internet is bound to release the future Princess William of Wales' vows before she even utters them. Let the media jostling begin. Tally-ho!
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NEW YORK: Security agents of the semi-autonomous government of Southern Sudan confiscated 2,500 copies of the independent biweekly newspaper, The Juba Post, on Wednesday (30 March 2011), according to chief editor Michael Koma. 
NEW YORK: Journalists in Somalia are getting caught in the crossfire of increased fighting between joint government and African Union forces against Al-Shabaab insurgents, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Friday, 1 April 2011. 
JOHANNESBURG: Western Union late last week announced that consumers can now send money directly to Safaricom M-PESA subscribers in Kenya from 45 countries and territories. The expansion of the service to more than 80,000 Western Union agent locations worldwide follows the debut of the offering from Western Union agent locations and the Westernunion.com website in the UK. 
Mobile telecoms company MTN Group advised on Thursday (31 March 2011) that, following his stepping down as group president and CEO, Phuthuma Freedom Nhleko had also tendered his resignation as a director of the board of several MTN subsidiaries. 
On the day of the wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton, Friday 29 April 2011, from 9am BST, CNN's live programming will be anchored by Piers Morgan, Richard Quest, Anderson Cooper, Kiran Chetry and special contributor Cat Deeley, across CNN US and CNN International. The wedding ceremony itself commences at 11am BST. | International news |
SWITZERLANDCMOs and Twitter - have they joined the celebration?
[Willem Smit] LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND: Twitter users now send more than 140 million Tweets a day. With more than 20% of the tweets being related to products and/or brands, this means that every day 28 million tweets potentially concern your brand or company. Read more >>UNITED KINGDOMMost broadcasters to increase technology spend in 2011
HONG KONG S.A.R.Naked rugby rampage
UNITED KINGDOMAndroid to drive doubling of smartphone market by 2016
| Motoring |
SOUTH AFRICANew vehicle sales revving high
[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] New vehicles sales grew by 22.8% in March compared to the same month last year and were up 8.8% up on February sales with 53 478 new units sold. Read more >>More Motoring news...
| Travel |
SOUTH AFRICABiz.Travel Q&A with Sandro Fabris
[Brian Berkman: contributing editor, travel] Sandro Fabris is regional managing director of Orient-Express Africa. Brian Berkman, Biz.Travel's contributing editor, had a chat with Fabris about one of Cape town's most iconic hotels, The Mount Nelson. Read more >>More Travel news...
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