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Nordic women at home in the workplace

A highly-educated woman who becomes a stay-at-home mum is a "complete waste" of a university degree, Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, herself a mother-of-two, lashed out in a British newspaper interview last year.
07 March 2013 18:58

Kazakhstan may cease gas supplies to Russia

If we don’t agree on the prices now, all this gas will be redirected to the south, possibly to China, in 2015 after Beineu-Bozoi-Shymkent pipeline is completed: Kazakhstan Minister.
07 March 2013 18:39

iPhone extends gains in US market: survey

Apple's iPhone gained ground in the US market over the holiday season and early 2013, outpacing Samsung and other smartphone makers using the Android operating system.
07 March 2013 18:31

Google Play celebrates first birthday

Google Play turned a year old on Wednesday and the Android-focused rival to Apple's online iTunes shop celebrated with deals on books, games, music, movies and apps.
07 March 2013 16:32

Syria rebels seize UN peacekeepers, take key city

Negotiations were under way with Syrian rebels who seized 21 UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights ceasefire zone between Syria and Israel, as rebels took total control of the key northern city of Raqa.
07 March 2013 15:43

Google says FBI watching the Web

Google says the FBI is monitoring the Web for potential terrorist activity. But it can't confirm the extent of the surveillance.
07 March 2013 13:44

Iran's Ahmadinejad mourns 'martyr' Chavez

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad paid tribute to late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez on Wednesday saying he had fallen "martyr" to a "suspect illness".
07 March 2013 13:07

Warhol's Marilyn lips lead online auction

An online-only auction of a trove of Andy Warhol's lesser, but often hitherto unavailable works, raised $2.3 million at Christie's, with a lithograph of Marilyn Monroe's lips coming out on top.
07 March 2013 12:43

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