Saturday, October 31, 2009 NEW YORK: This weekend is the 12th annual chocolate show in New York -- billed as the world's largest.There are more than 800 exhibits, including a chocolate bookstore, where famous chefs are signing chocolate cookbooks. There's also a chocolate lounge, featuring chocolate flavored liqueurs, coffees and snacks and a chocolate beauty pavilion that features products based on the cocoa bean.Hakan Martensson has a chocolate carving exhibit. He says it takes anywhere from one hour to a couple of months to carve a chocolate sculpture.One unusual offering at the show is a weeklong vacation at a lodge in the Belize rain forest, where one can learn to make chocolate.The chocolate show ends on Sunday.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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