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Photo courtesy of theaustralian.com Euro falls to lowest against yen in over a decade The euro tumbled below 95 yen for the first time in almost 12 years on Monday as dealers rushed to the safe-haven Japanese unit owing to growing fears about Spain's debt crisis.
23 июля 2012
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed. Photo courtesy of lexpress.fr A Frenchman's union of Islam and homosexuality A newlywed homosexual Frenchman is on a mission to prove that "being gay and Muslim is possible" after feeling forced for years to choose between his religion and sexuality.
23 июля 2012
Cycling: History-maker Wiggins wins Tour de France Bradley Wiggins has been crowned Britain's first Tour de France champion, becoming an instant sporting hero at home just ahead of the London Olympics -- in which he hopes to star again.
23 июля 2012
Departing IMF economist rips fund's leadership A departing senior IMF economist has excoriated the fund, alleging it failed to address Europe's crisis and "suppressed" its challenges.
22 июля 2012
Batman movie director laments 'savage' massacre Batman movie director Christopher Nolan lamented Friday the "senseless tragedy' and "unbearably savage" gunning down of 12 movie goers at a Colorado theater screening of "The Dark Knight Rises."
22 июля 2012
Oil strikes two-year high; soya scores record high Oil prices hit two-month highs this week, driven by Federal Reserve stimulus hopes and Middle East unrest, while soyabeans soared to a record high as US supplies were hit by drought.
22 июля 2012
Photo courtesy of gizmodo.com Google grabs startup devoted to Apple gadget email A French startup behind email applications for Apple gadgets has been bought by Google as the Internet titan increasingly tailors hit software to run on its rival's hardware.
21 июля 2012
Police struggle to identify Bulgaria suicide bomber Bulgarian police, the FBI and Interpol are struggling to identify a suicide bomber who killed six people, including five Israelis, as the US said the attack bore the "hallmarks" of Hezbollah.
21 июля 2012
Warsaw to mark start of Nazis' 1942 ghetto deportation Poland is preparing to mark one of the darkest episodes of the Holocaust, when the country's Nazi German occupiers launched an operation to kill the population of the Jewish ghetto they created in Warsaw.
21 июля 2012
French lawmakers vote to cut pay of president, PM French lawmakers voted Thursday to reduce the salaries of President Francois Hollande and Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault by 30 percent as part of a series of budget-cutting moves.
20 июля 2012
Bulgaria releases video of bomber in attack on Israelis Bulgarian authorities have released a video of the suspected suicide bomber behind a deadly attack on Israeli tourists that Israel has blamed on Iran.
20 июля 2012
Police fire rubber bullets after huge Madrid crisis protest Spanish police fired rubber bullets and charged protestors in central Madrid early Friday at the end of a huge demonstration against economic crisis measures.
20 июля 2012
Olympics: London cracks down on unofficial souvenirs The London Olympics pop up on teapots, bunting and a one-eyed mascot -- but strict branding laws are in place to ensure that official products are the only ones in the race.
20 июля 2012
Massive iceberg breaks off Greenland glacier A massive iceberg twice the size of Manhattan has broken off of a glacier in Greenland, according to NASA satellite imagery, in what could be the latest indication of global warming.
20 июля 2012
David Hemler. Photo courtesy of pennlive.com American deserter resurfaces in Sweden, 28 years later An American fugitive who has been missing and "wanted" since he deserted the US Air Force in 1984 has turned up in Sweden where he has been living under a under a new identity for nearly three decades.
20 июля 2012
Russian Yekaterina Bespalova (C) became "Miss Eurasia-2012". Photo courtesy of official website of the pageant Kazakhstan beauty won Miss Photo at Miss Eurasia-2012 pageant Yuliya Loginovskaya, a beauty from Kazakhstan who represented the country at Miss Eurasia-2012, was awarded Miss Photo title.
19 июля 2012
Bulgaria probes 'barbaric' attack on Israeli tourists Bulgaria began probing Thursday a blast at its Black Sea airport of Burgas that left six people dead and more than 30 injured in the deadliest attack on Israelis abroad since 2004.
19 июля 2012
Photo courtesy of indepebdence.ie July 22, 2011, the day hell descended on Norwegian island Ordinarily peaceful Norway, known for tolerance and high living standards, was wrenched out of its serenity that Friday, July 22, 2011, when two deadly attacks from within plunged the nation into horror.
19 июля 2012
Photo courtesy of sodahead.com Physical inactivity kills 5 million a year: report A third of the world's adults are physically inactive, and the couch potato lifestyle kills about five million people every year.
18 июля 2012
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. ©REUTERS/Stringer First visit of UN chief to site of Srebrenica genocide Ban Ki-moon begins a tour of the Balkans this week which will include the first visit by a UN chief to the site of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and to Kosovo since it declared independence in 2008.
18 июля 2012

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