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Maksim Bakiyev. Tengrinews.kz stock photo Kyrgyzstan says toppled president's son arrested in London The son of Kyrgyzstan's ousted president has been arrested in London and could be extradited to the United States, the Kyrgyz presidency said late Friday.
13 October 2012
France charges, imprisons seven terror suspects: court source Seven Frenchmen arrested as part of a weekend swoop on a suspected Islamist terror cell believed to have plotted attacks in the country were formally charged Thursday.
13 October 2012
Sarkozy resurfaces at New York bank conference Five months after losing re-election, an unshaven French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy appeared Thursday at a New York banking conference and reportedly said he looked forward to a "new life."
13 October 2012
Brad Pitt. ©REUTERS Brad Pitt becomes first male face of Chanel No.5 Brad Pitt is set to become the first male face of Chanel No.5, a role previously filled by such fellow Hollywood luminaries as Marilyn Monroe and Nicole Kidman.
13 October 2012
Photo courtesy of gbj.com Unemployment 30 mn higher than before crisis: ILO There are now 30 million more people without jobs around the world than before the global financial crisis began, the head of the International Labour Organization said.
12 October 2012
IMF wants to give Greece two more years The International Monetary Fund is happy for debt-battered Greece to have an extra two years to bring its runaway deficit in line with the demands of global creditors.
12 October 2012
©REUTERS EU to sanction states in bid to streamline air traffic The European Commission plans to sanction EU members to nudge them into action on efforts to create a pan-European airspace that would cut costs and delays.
12 October 2012
Spain, France vow action on eurozone crisis The leaders of France and Spain vowed concerted action on the eurozone as they met on Wednesday amid IMF calls for new measures to control the debt crisis threatening the global economy.
12 October 2012
Photo courtesy of architecture.uwaterloo.ca French gang rape trial ends with acquittals, light sentences Two teenage gang rape victims said they had seen a "judicial shipwreck" after a French court acquitted 10 youths and handed down light sentences to four others.
11 October 2012
Haruki Murakami. Photo courtesy of ikewrites.com Munro, Murakami and Roth among Nobel literature favourites With just hours to go before the Nobel Literature Prize laureate is announced in Stockholm, speculation has hit fever pitch with Canada's Alice Munro and Japan's Haruki Murakami often cited as possible winners.
11 October 2012
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev. ©REUTERS Nazarbayev arrived in Turkey Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev arrived with an official visit in Turkey on October 10.
11 October 2012
Austrian space diver no stranger to danger Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian daredevil who had hoped to make history Tuesday with a jump from the edge of space, is no stranger to death-defying danger.
11 October 2012
Quantam research will yield 'super-computers': Nobel winner David Wineland, who won Tuesday the Nobel Prize for work in quantum physics with Serge Haroche of France, said our limited computers will "eventually" give way to super-fast, revolutionary ones.
11 October 2012
A woman undergoes a mammogram. ©REUTERS Menopause drugs: Study stokes new debate over cancer risk Women who start hormone replacement therapy (HRT) soon after menopause do not show higher cancer incidence within 16 years.
11 October 2012
Britain faces sink or swim moment, Cameron says Britain faces a sink or swim moment and must take painful action to avoid falling behind its global competitors, Prime Minister David Cameron was set to warn on Wednesday.
11 October 2012
Photo courtesy of huffingtonpost.com Time for a woman to win Nobel Literature Prize, say pundits Stockholm's literary circles are abuzz with speculation about this year's Nobel Literature Prize, and while it's notoriously difficult to predict the laureate, some experts are saying it's time for a woman.
10 October 2012
Cannabis eases sclerosis stiffness - study Use of cannabis extract helps ease painful muscle stiffness among patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a large trial published on Tuesday in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.
10 October 2012
painting by U.S. artist Mark Rothko. ©REUTERS Man arrested over Rothko graffiti British police on Monday arrested a 26-year-old man suspected of defacing a mural by US artist Mark Rothko at London's Tate Modern gallery.
10 October 2012
Lady Gaga visits Julian Assange. Photo courtesy of Lady GaGa/littlemonsters.com Gaga and Assange meet in London US pop star Lady Gaga has visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at London's Ecuadorian embassy, where he is currently seeking refuge.
10 October 2012
Merkel's Athens visit chance to ease tension German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit Tuesday to debt-strapped Greece may provide a chance to ease tensions born of the economic crisis.
10 October 2012

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