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IMF Europe chief quits amid crisis
The head of the International Monetary Fund’s Europe department has resigned a year after taking on the role.
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Michael Jackson juror tells all
Debbie Franklin, a juror from the Michael Jackson trial has broken her silence and revealed the reasons behind the sentencing of the singer’s personal doctor.
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Earthquake hits Turkey again
A 5.7-magnitude earthquake in eastern Turkey killed at least three people, creating new fears in a rural area still reeling from a quake last month.
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Pressure mounts to return the marbles
The bid to return the Parthenon Marbles by London’s 2012 Olympic Games will go up a notch when Greece’s Minister for Culture and Tourism Pavlos Geroulanos visits the UK capital thi
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Assange fails extradition bid
Julian Assange has failed to stop an extradition bid to send him to Sweden to face rape and sexual assault allegations.
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Soldier commits suicide on webcam
A young soldier committed suicide live on a webcam in France during an online chat with another user of a health forum.
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Jail term cut for radical cleric
An Indonesian court has cut the jail term of radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, a vocal advocate of violent jihad convicted of funding terrorism, from fifteen years to nine.
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Humanity reaches a global milestone
Seven billion people will call planet Earth home from this Monday.
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Deadly floods devestate Italy
Five people died, bridges were swept away and villages were hit by mud slides on Wednesday after 500 millimetres of rain fell in just a few hours in northern Tuscany, Italy.
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Yemen violence intensifies
Yemeni women set fire to veils on Wednesday in protest at the government’s crackdown on demonstrators.