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Purus award finalists announced
13th of July 2011
Organisers of the CMS professional cleaning exhibition, which takes place in Berlin this September, have announced the 14 finalists for the final round of the Purus Award, which will be presented during the fair.
The Purus Award focuses on good product design and this year's competition attracted 47 entries from among CMS exhibitors - more than
Children evade school with no toilet facilities
8th of July 2011
Pupils in a Ghanan suburb are playing truant because their school has no toilet facilities. In fact the entire community of Sankor has only one block of public loos - and just five per cent of households in the village have a toilet at home.
Sankor, on the south coast of Ghana, is a fishing village comprising 2,000 residents. Schoolchildren are
EU maternity leave directive set to be shelved
7th of July 2011
A controversial draft EU law that would give women 20 weeks of maternity leave on full pay are set to be shelved by EU employment ministers.
A consortium of member states led by Germany and the UK are to freeze the Pregnant Workers Directive in the hope that the European Commission will later abandon it.In its original proposal for a directive
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5th of July 2011
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Martial arts street cleaner
5th of July 2011
A road sweeper has become a local celebrity in China for her habit of using her broom as an exercise prop to keep in shape.
Zhang Xiufang, from Beijing, said: "I got this job when my husband became very ill and was unable to work. Our daughter is in primary school and we needed to pay our bills.
"Before I got the job I used to do Taichi both
Moscow arms itself with terrorist-proof lavatories
5th of July 2011
Public lavatories strong enough to withstand a bomb blast are to be built in Moscow. The move follows a spate of Islamist terror attacks on the Russian capital over recent years.
Due to be up and running by the end of the year, the new lavatories will be built of ultra-strong fibrous concrete and their internal fittings will be made from a
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