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Friday, 22 December, 2000, 16:44 GMT
Pick of the week
![]() 16 December - 22 December
BBC News Online presents a round-up of some of the week's more remarkable stories covered by BBC correspondents.
Madonna's son takes centre stage
Riots in Turkey's jails
More than 20 people died and hundreds were injured following three days of bloody rioting in Turkey's prisons, as a government attempt to break up a hunger strike by inmates ends in mayhem
Chess set-piece in Iran
The final of the world chess championship was held in the game's birthplace - where until recently it was banned after the Islamic revolution in 1979.
Kneeding noodles
Few people value their food as highly as the Chinese. But the time-honoured methods and skills of Hong Kong cuisine are under threat as the younger generation abandon the kitchen for the stock market or high finance. But in London some of the old skills live on. Double-take
Madame Tussauds creates a waxwork of the actor recently voted by BBC News Online's readers as the greatest star of stage and screen, Amitabh Bachchan. |
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