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  • Council of Europe Concerned About Russias Human-Rights Record

    MOSCOW Thorbjorn Jagland, secretary general of the Council of Europe, has told President Vladimir Putin that the human rights body is concerned about Russia's law requiring non-governmental organizations to register as foreign agents. Jagland said Europe will watch how the Kremlin implements the law that went in effect last November, a measure requiring non-governmental organizations ...

  • U.S. dollar slips against euro after Fed official remarks

    Beijing, May 22 (Xinhua-ANI): The U.S. dollar advanced against most major currencies on Tuesday, but weakened against the euro after a U.S. Federal Reserve official indicated that the central bank may not taper its bond-purchasing program soon. St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard said at an event in Frankfurt that the Fed should continue with the quantitative easing to boost ...

  • The European Commission French President Hollande accelerate austerity

    In recent days, French President Franois Hollande has been under pressure from the European Union (EU) and also from his own Socialist Party (PS) to accelerate austerity measures, amid a slowdown of the French and world economy. On Wednesday May 15, Franois Hollande went to Brussels to meet the President of the European Commission, Jos Manuel Barroso, and twenty EU commissioners. The EU ...

  • Barbaric scenes on London street as soldier beheaded in terrorist attack

    23 May 2013 Shoppers on a busy London street looked on in horror as two men brandishing meat cleavers hacked an off-duty soldier "like a piece of meat" in broad ...

  • Atrocity plays out on social media

    23 May 2013 EMERGENCY services were called to the scene of the Woolwich attack at 2.20pm, and within 30 minutes the incident was setting social media ...

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Eight Below

Eight Below

Perhaps you have to be a dog owner to be reduced to the blubbering mess that I found myself in by the end of Disney's Eight Below, but there you have it. Even with my sharpened critical faculties turned on high alert to detect every ounce of contrived tear duct manipulation, I was ... ...

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  • Sunny Kate welcomes guests to bash

    23 May 2013 KATE Windsor, the Duchess of Cambridge, was on hand to welcome Olympians, Paralympians and officials from the 2012 London Games to the first Buckingham Palace garden party of the ...

  • Cardinal tells women to stay home have babies

    Jeevan Vasagar Berlin - 23 May 2013 GERMAN women should be encouraged to "stay at home and bring three or four children into the world", rather than relying on immigration to solve the country's demographic crisis, the Catholic Archbishop of Cologne has ...

  • Shortest story writer wins top prize

    Davis was picked from a shortlist of 10 names to win the fifth Man Booker International Prize, which is presented once every two years for "achievement in fiction on the world stage".The 60,000 (EUR70,000) prize is awarded to a living author for a body of work published originally in English or available in translation in English.Davis's stories are among the shortest ever written ...

  • Expansion project of Port of Rotterdam completed

    Dutch minister of infrastructure and environment, Mrs. Melanie Schultz van HaegenPeople celebrates the finish of the expansion project of the Port of Rotterdam on May. 22, 2013. (Xinhua/Port of ...

  • Vietnam-France relations edge closer

    Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday hailed Vietnam's valued relationship with France and declared that the two nations are making efforts to develop their ties to the strategic partnership level in 2013. The PM made the comments at a meeting with the former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who is on an official working visit to the country. Dung declared ...

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