Wednesday, November 11, 2009 PARIS: Award-winning French chocolatier Patrick Roger is commemorating the fall of communism with a 15m long and 900kg chocolate reproduction of the Berlin Wall. Roget has been building the chocolate wall in sections over the past four weeks in his studio outside of Paris. They bear the hallmarks of the original wall with uncanny chocolate replicas of the drawings like "the fraternal kiss" between the then East German leader Eric Honecker and the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. The wall is entirely made of black chocolate, the graffiti spray composed of coco-butter and artificial colouring. The chocolate sections of the wall are already on display in four of his French chocolate shops. On Monday, Roget will commemorate the fall of the wall by smashing his own chocolate incarnation in his flagship shop on Paris' Left Bank and the public will have a chance at joining in and enjoying the sweet taste of freedom. Monday marks 20 years since the Berlin Wall was pulled down, leading to the reunification of Germany. The German capital had been divided among the victorious European allies at the end of World War II and quickly became a symbol of the Cold War.
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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