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One of the legendary figures in the world of fashion Yves Saint Laurent has died at the age of 71. Born in Algeria, when it was still a French colony, he joined the Christian Dior Fashion House in Paris in 1954 after winning a dress design competition. Martin Belam looks back at the French designer's life .

Yves Saint Laurent‘s rise to fame in the world of fashion was meteoric. He was born in Algeria in 1936 when it was still a French colony, and in 1954, he joined the Christian Dior Fashion House after winning a dress design competition. Within three years, Christian Dior had died, and Yves Saint Laurent was appointed chief designer at the age of 21. He sets up the highly successful Yves Saint Laurent Fashion House and dresses some of the world's most famous women.

Voters in Puerto Rico have chosen Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic Party candidate for the US presidency. The spokesman for Mr. Obama said he hopes to clinch the nomination on Tuesday. Kim Ghattas has more.

It's a symbolic victory for Hillary Clinton. She was always expected to take Puerto Rico, but even the wide margin of her victory there will not turn the overall lead of her rival Barack Omaba. And Puerto Rico doesn't vote in the presidential election, so it's not a state that will make a difference in November. But Senator Clinton is showing no sign of giving up the fight yet. She insisted that her lead in the popular vote gives her a mandate to continue the race for the Democratic Party nomination. The Obama campaign said they hope the Illinois Senator will clinch the nomination this week with the last two primaries being held on Tuesday in South Dakota and Montana.

The President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has arrived in Rome for World Food Summit. It's President Mugabe's first visit to Europe since the opposition Movement for Democratic Change won a majority in parliamentary elections in March. Christian Fraser reports from Rome.(Www.hxen.net)

The leaders of 50 countries are gathering in Rome this week to attend a summit hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization aimed at securing much-needed aid and long-term strategies to safeguard food production. Zimbabwe, once a net exporter of food, is now one of those African countries that depends on international handouts. Mr. Mugabe's controversial land reform program has brought the country to the brink of collapse. Mr. Mugabe has been banned from traveling to the European Union since targeted sanctions were imposed on Zimbabwe in 2002. But he has managed to evade the ban on several occasions for UN conferences. Mr. Mugabe is contesting a presidential election run-off with the MDC's Morgan Tsvangira later this month.

Thousands of immigrants, who've been seeking refuge at police stations following a wave of xenophobic attacks in South Africa, have been moved by the authorities. Aid agencies have warned that one site earmarked for the displaced is very close to where attacks took place. But the officials say they are being sent to safer places that have toilets and washing facilities.

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AS votes still being counted in the general election in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Prime Minister Nicola Gruevski says that his centre-right party have(has) on a decisive victory . The party campaigned on a program of speeding up work towards membership of NATO and the European Union. The poll has been marked by outbreaks of violence among ethnic Albanians who make up a quarter of Macedonia's population.

The Los Angeles fire department says a blaze at the Universal film studios in Hollywood has now been contained but not extinguished. Los Angeles fire department chief Michael Freeman has more.

The fire started in the backlot area, the facades, on New York street. Those are basically building fronts with some walls, but they're very susceptible to rapid burning, the fire moved through there, it also burned courthouse square, and then it got into the King Kong Building, and ... destroyed spots in internal contents.

Voters in Switzerland have decisively rejected proposals which would have made it harder for foreigners to become naturalized citizens. The proposals would have revived the controversial practice of holding secret ballots to decide whether candidates should be granted citizenship and remove the right for appeal against unfavorable outcomes. Correspondents say the vote is a major setback for the right-wing Swiss People's Party, the largest in parliament, which mounted a populist anti-immigrant campaign and supporter of the changes.

And at least eight football fans are reported to have suffocated during a World Cup qualify match in Liberia. United Nation's peacekeepers have closed the Samuel K. Doe stadium in Monrovia, because of serious overcrowding hours before the match against Gambia. The exact circumstances of the fans' deaths are unclear. But one reporter said a metal bar broke under the crush of spectators in an upper tier of the stadium and dozens then fell onto people below them.

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backlot: (电影制片厂的)外景场地