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Photo courtesy of thewrap.com Italian 'Slave' posters pulled amid racism claims The US studio behind Golden Globe-nominated historical drama "12 Years a Slave," has asked the film's Italian distributors to withdraw posters which triggered an online storm over alleged racism.
25 December 2013
©Reuters Marks & Spencer in row over Muslim alcohol sales refusal British retailer Marks & Spencer faced criticism on Monday after it emerged that it allows Muslim staff to refuse to sell customers pork and alcohol.
25 December 2013
Mining threatens unique culture of Sweden's Samis As winter approaches, the Samis of northern Sweden move thousands of reindeer down from the snow-covered mountains for lowland grazing. They have done so for centuries, but they wonder how much longer they can continue.
25 December 2013
Alma Shalabayeva with her daughter. Photo courtesy of uralskweek.kz Alma Shalabayeva permitted to leave Kazakhstan Alma Shalabayeva, the wife of Kazakhstan's fugitive banker Mukhtar Ablyazov, is no longer under recognizance not to leave Kazakhstan.
24 December 2013
Alan Turing. Photo Courtesy of wikipedia.org Britain pardons gay 'father of computing' Alan Turing Britain on Tuesday granted a posthumous pardon to Alan Turing, the World War II code-breaking hero who committed suicide after he was convicted of the then crime of homosexuality.
24 December 2013
High winds, rain lash Europe, leaving two dead, one missing at sea High winds and heavy rain battered parts of Europe on Monday, leaving at least two people dead and one man lost at sea off France, and disrupting travel two days from Christmas.
24 December 2013
©Reuters/Paul Hackett BA airplane wing strikes Johannesburg airport building A British Airways airplane carrying 202 people struck an office building at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport with its wing while taxiing for take-off Sunday, injuring four.
24 December 2013
Photo a courtesy of universiadetrentino.org Kazakhstan hockey team wins silver at Universiade The Kazakhstan hockey team has won a silver medal at the Universiade in Tretino after losing to the Canadian hockey team in the final.
23 December 2013
Khodorkovsky to stay out of Russia, help jailed dissidents Russia's former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky said Sunday after walking free from a decade in jail that he would stay away from his homeland but help to free Russian political prisoners still behind bars.
23 December 2013
©Reuters/Stuart McDILL Revealed: Vast water store beneath Greenland's ice A vast store of water equivalent in area to Ireland lies beneath Greenland's icesheet, and it may provide answers to one of the big riddles of climate change, scientists reported on Sunday.
23 December 2013
©Reuters/Gary Cameron Swatch wins compensation from Tiffany's in contract row Swiss watchmaker Swatch Group has won a lawsuit against US jewellery group Tiffany & Co over a failed joint venture to jointly design and market luxury watches.
23 December 2013
EU banking union too complicated, too slow: analysts An EU system to prevent a repeat of the massive bank bailouts which crippled the economy is a major step but it is also too complicated when speed is absolutely essential, analysts said.
23 December 2013
Chinese billionaire feared dead in France helicopter crash Four people were feared dead Saturday including a Chinese billionaire and his 12-year-old son after the helicopter in which he was overflying his newly purchased French vineyard crashed into a river.
21 December 2013
Spain watchdog fines Google for privacy 'violations' Spain's data protection watchdog ordered US Internet giant Google on Thursday to pay a 900,000-euro fine for "serious violations" of users' privacy.
21 December 2013
Maximilien de Robespierre. Photo courtesy of emersonkent.com French Revolution's 'monster' gets modern diagnosis Depending on what you read, Maximilien de Robespierre was a defender of the poor and downtrodden -- "the Incorruptible" who defended the values of the French Revolution to the end.
21 December 2013
Shoukhrat Mitalipov Kazakhstan-born Mitalipov among Nature's Top 10 scientists of 2013 Kazakhstan-born Shoukhrat Mitalipov is among the Top 10 scientists, who have made the most significant breakthroughs this year.
20 December 2013
©Reuters/Lucy Nicholson  Six countries sign US pacts in fight against tax fraud The United States has signed anti-tax fraud pacts with six countries and territories including some considered tax havens, the US Treasury Department said Thursday.
20 December 2013
Photo courtesy of health.com 2,000 extra steps a day cuts cardiovascular risk by 8 percent People with a glucose-tolerance problem -- a driver of diabetes and cardiovascular disease -- can cut the risk of heart attack or stroke by simply walking an additional 2,000 steps per day, a study said on Friday.
20 December 2013
Scores hurt in London theatre collapse The ceiling of a packed London theatre collapsed on the audience during a hit show on Thursday, wounding 76 people including children and leaving terrified theatregoers covered in blood and rubble.
20 December 2013
The winner of the Undergraduate of the Year Award, Torgyn Shaikhina. Photo a courtesy of warwick.ac.uk Kazakhstani student wins Undergraduate of the Year Award in UK Torgyn Shaikhina from Kazakhstan won the IT and Computer Science Undergraduate of the Year Award at the University of Warwick, UK.
20 December 2013

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