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Commonwealth leaders debate climate change
The fate of tiny island states threatened by global warming is to be brought to the forefront of the “climate change” debate by Commonwealth leaders today. As fears over rising sea levels grow…
Climate
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Toyoto recall sparks improvement pledge
Toyota has promised it will strive to make better cars following its biggest ever recall of four and a quarter million vehicles in the USA to fix faulty accelerator pedals. The world’s number…
Cars
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French unemployment in October, a two percent rise on September
French unemployment has lurched further into the red with more than 57,000 people joining the dole queues in October, a two percent rise on September. It’s the strongest rise since April, and brings…
Unemployment
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EU telecoms reforms enter force in December
Broad new telecommunications rules for the European Union have finally been fully approved, carrying various customer benefits. When a customer chooses to change service providers, the company will…
Telecommunication
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Anti-mafia MEP Crocetta still unguarded
Rosario Crocetta has lived under close police protection in Italy ever since 2003, when the mafia tried to murder him. He was mayor of the southern Sicilian city of Gela, population 100,000. He is…
Mafia
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Flu vaccine: A race against time
Each year hundreds of thousands die as a result of influenza, millions become infected and the loss to the economy runs into billions. Vaccines are available but they are manufactured using old…
Influenza A (H1N1)
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Neukölln puts accent on integration
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, more than 38 per cent of the Berlin city district of Neukölln is made up of immigrant familes and the unemployment rate in the immigrant community is…
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Minaret debate angers Swiss muslims
In Switzerland populist right-wingers and Christian Fundamentalists say minarets are not Swiss and in the run-up to a referendum on whether or not to ban the construction of them, have wall-papered…
Controversy
terra-viva
Farmers in India convert to organic cotton
Cotton is one of the most polluting industries in the world. India is the second largest producer after Turkey. Although cotton only occupies five percent of cultivated land in India, it…
Agriculture
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Antibiotic resistance is “everybody’s problem”
The discovery of antibiotics revolutionised medical care in the 20th century. Today, however, the wonder drugs are losing their effectiveness at an alarming rate as more bacteria become resistant to…
Medicine
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Danish band Volbeat to tour with Metallica
Danish rockers Volbeat are causing a stir on both sides of the Atlantic. US heavy metal legends Metallica have chosen the band as their opening act on their US tour.
Music
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From Germany the chick with two ears!
Zweiohrkueken, the latest comedy from Germany -in English ‘The chick with two ears.’ The film follows a couple once madly in love, now struggling as routine and boredom kick in. It is the sequel of…



























































