Helmut Zilk, a former mayor of Vienna, the Austrian capital, and a past champion of Czech anti-Communists, was due to receive from President Havel a Czech honour, the Order of the White Lion.

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The flagship center, located on Maoming Road in Shanghai, China, has seven theme rooms: Snow White, Lion King, Cars, Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Winnie The Pooh and Toy Story.

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And there, in the corner, hiding behind a white Caucasian sheepdog, sits a lion cub.

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The arrest last week of four men, including a white builder, accused of beating a black worker senseless and feeding him to a lion, has sparked a tense debate over race relations.

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