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1. Women in most countries are choosing to have fewer children than ever before, according to a report on world population trends released yesterday. The average number of children in families in developing countries has fallen from six to three in 25 years.
2. The Jersey Zoo that Durrell founded in 1959 lurched from one financial crisis to another in the initial years.
3. Young children who sleep with the light on are much more likely to be short-sighted when they grow up, according to new research published yesterday.
4. Black-cab fares in London are to rise so that taxis can meet strict standards on pollution by 2007, the Mayor said.
5. Jesse Jackson discussed an Izrael-Hezbollah prisoner swap with Syrian president on Sunday in Damascus.
6. They are not allowed to own more than 49 per cent of a fishing boat under Lebanese law, or even to join fishermen's unions; so they are even more vulnerable than many of their peers.
7. "There is no statistical correlation between stars and success," said Abraham Ravid, a professor of economics and finance at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Yet there is a bedrock belief that the winning formula consists of the right star in the right movie.
8. Several of the plotters had travelled to Pakistan within weeks of the arrests, according to an American counterterrorism official.
9. Several of the suspects met through their involvement in the charity, a friend of one of the suspects said.
10. Iran took in $45 billion in oil revenue last year, the Council on Foreign Relations in New York says.
11. A new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer — his first novel in 10 years — will be released in January, publisher Random Mouse announced.
12. There had been a boy among Fred's fellow pupils in the sixth form who possessed a virtually photographic memory.
