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Update: HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Releases Records Proving HRH Not in Spain in August 2008 HRH Travel Records and Testimonials Made Public PR Newswire RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 18, 2011 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The private office of HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud released today detailed, comprehensive records providing clear and unmistakable proof that HRH Prince Alwaleed was not in Spain in August of 2008 and had no connection whatsoever with alleged events to which he has been erroneously linked in recent press reports. The documents released today add a compelling body of documentation and level of detail to back up the statement previously released. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/update-hrh-prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-bin-abdulaziz-alsaud-releases-records-proving-hrh-not-in-spain-in-august-2008-130058018.html "Having just learned of these allegations through press reports we are moving swiftly h...

Press release: Nigerian Photographer Adolphus Opara Competes in Spain for Photoafrica Award May 20th, Tarifa, Spain – Award-winning Nigerian photographer Adolphus Opara competes with his work “Urban Insomnia” in finale of 4th Photoafrica contest, which takes place within the 8th African Film Festival of Tarifa (FCAT) in Spain, from June 6th to 19th. Adolphus Opara thematizes in his work, among other themes, also modern African cities and their dwellers. Opara won or was nominated for several domestic and international awards for his work including World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass 2010. He regularly exhibits his work in Nigeria as well as in Europe. The 4th Photoafrica contest offers €3,000 in prize money through 3 awards. The topic of this year Photoafrica is “Urban Space” of African cities seen through the photographers eyes. The exhibiton of altogether 27 large format photographs will be inaugurated and installed outdoors in Tarifa before and through the festival and after i...

NEWSWEEK International Editions: Highlights and Exclusives, OCT. 15, 2007 Issue COVER: Biology Reborn. (All overseas editions). In recent months, a perfect storm of new technology and research has blown apart 20th-century dogma in the fields of biology and genetics, writes Lee Silver, a professor of molecular biology at Princeton. He writes that many scientists now believe that heredity is the result of an incredibly complex interplay among the basic components of the genome, scattered among many different genes and even the vast stretches of "junk DNA" once thought to serve no purpose. The result of this seemingly modest conceptual breakthrough has been a torrent of new discoveries. Scientists around the world have identified alterations in the sequence of DNA that play causative roles in a range of common diseases, including types 1 and 2 diabetes; schizophrenia; bipolar disorder; glaucoma; inflammatory bowel disease; rheumatoid arthritis; hypertension; restless legs syndro...