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Whether you’re redecorating your house or perhaps your offices, often the last detail that people think of is door handles these tend to be something of an after thought. But recently, door handles have started to become something of a style statement-an easy and not too expensive way to inject a bit of style into your home or business space.

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• Crystal or glass
• Centre door handles
• Black antique
• Pull handles
• Period traditional style

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Nato leaders have approved plans to expand a European missile defence system that would protect all of the military alliance’s member nations including the US.

Barack Obama, the US president, announced the agreement on Friday at the end of the first day of a summit of leaders from the 28-member grouping in Lisbon, the Portuguese capital.

Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president had previously fought against the missile shield, saying it was a threat to his country’s own nuclear deterrence.

But Nato on Friday decided to invite Russia to join the defence shield, extending its protection across Russian territory.

Medvedev will be arriving in Lisbon on Saturday to discuss Russia’s role within the Nato plans.

Russia may demand leeway over the defence system, and also on Nato expansion into former Soviet states.

More than a day has passed since a gas explosion ripped through the Pike River Mine in New Zealand’s largest known coal deposit.

The mountainous area is cordoned off – but rescue operations for the 29 missing men remain on hold.

Al Jazeera’s Gerald Tan reports.

A company in southern India has come up with a viable way for poor households to help themselves.

The locally-made biogas plant, filled with bacteria found in the stomachs of cows, silently and odorlessly converts food waste and into gas.

More than 20 thousand homes in Kerala have installed the hand made plant, and the money they save pays off the machine in less than 3 years.

Their home cooking, they say, tastes all the better for its green credentials.

Al Jazeera’s Tarek Bazley reports from Thiruvananthapuram, India, on a solution in India that got’s plenty of merit when it comes to powering homes in areas of the developing world often beset by power cuts.

Farmers in the Gaza Strip are battling an army of moths.

The insects are threatening the Palestinian territory’s tomato crop that earns the impoverished area more than $60 million a year.

The problem is so bad that the Israeli government has allowed traps to be especially brought into Gaza to capture as many as possible.

Al Jazeera’s Nicole Johnston reports from Gaza.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has said that his government is ready to send the bulk of its low-enriched uranium abroad for processing in exchange for nuclear fuel rods.

In an interview with Iranian state television, he also said that Tehran has the capacity to enrich its own uranium if the shipped supply is not returned.

Last year Tehran in effect turned down the proposal to hand over its uranium supply in exchange for nuclear fuel.

The US says Iran should inform the International Atomic Energy Agency if it is ready to now take the deal.

A free trade deal between China and the Association of Southeast Nations (Asean) comes into affect this year.

The government Indonesia, which is part of Asean, says removing barriers and ensuring easy cross border trade will help grow the domestic economy.

But many workers are worried they will not be able to compete against a flood of Chinese products and Indonesian farmers, especially, worry that they will soon be out of jobs as consumers choose cheaper Chinese produce.

Thousands of workers have taken to the streets calling for parts of the trade pact to be delayed.

Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen reports from Cipanas in West Java.

The Dead Sea in Jordan is shrinking at an alarming rate, causing some 3,000 massive sinkholes to spread along the coasts of the sea, and with many more expected to come.

The sea has shrunk by a third since the 1960s when its major water source – the River Jordan – was diverted for upstream projects in Israel, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.

Now, the projects have backfired for many residents and farmers that live or work near the sea, as the once verdant and fertile land is become increasingly barren.

And the fact that the ground can open up at any time and swallow whatever in its path is a deepening problem for many.

From Ghor Al Haditha, a farm village, Nisreen el Shamayleh reports.

A Haitian judge is expected to rule today whether there is sufficient evidence to try the 10 jailed American missionaries for child trafficking.

They were arrested for trying to bring 33 children they believed were orphans out of the earthquake-hit country.

The children, whose ages ranged from 2 months to 12 years, are now staying in a temporary home.

Haitian officials have given warning that child traffickers could take advantage of the chaos after the quake.

The 7.0-magnitude quake on January 12 killed 170,000 people, made more than one million homeless and left many children vulnerable in Haiti.

Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull reports from Port-au-Prince on how orphans are easy prey for child traffickers.