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Charles Davy, along with the other owners of the Bubye Conservancy in Matabeleland South province, has accepted an investment in the 720,000-acre property by a consortium led by Dubai World, the sovereign investment company of the Arab emirate.

No other white landowner in Zimbabwe is known to have managed to raise such investment for years.

A study has found that over the past 30 years, average calorific intake has increased by at least 500 calories a day, while exercise levels have changed little.

The study is the first major piece of research to quantify the relative contributions of food and exercise habits to the obesity epidemic.

Dynamic and charming in social situations, Dominguin was thought an ice-cold, analytical genius in the bull-ring. His cool, elegant flourishes - kneeling before the bull, walking disdainfully away, kissing the head of the wounded animal before dispatching it with a sword - led to accusations of arrogance and disrespect, but brought him a huge following. Having slain his first bull aged 14, by 1955 he was a 29-year-old millionaire with 2,300 kills to his credit. He then decided to retire, declaring, "I have lost the feeling and when one loses the feeling one cannot play with one's life."