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Obama wins landmark vote on healthcare overhaul
The House of Representatives has backed President Obama’s sweeping overhaul of the US healthcare system. It was a close call with 220 in favour while 215 voted nay. Its a political…
Health
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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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Tiananmen Square and the Berlin Wall 20-years on
1989 saw two of the most dramatic events in recent world history, in June China ordered the crackdown on pro-democracy students at Tiananmen Square, while five-months later the Berlin Wall fell…
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Visa-free EU travel for Balkan states?
The European Commission has proposed that citizens from Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia be allowed to travel freely to the EU member countries without a visa from this coming January. Their outlook…
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Mikhail Gorbachev, former USSR President :“Perestroika won, but politically I lost.”
In 1986, the Soviet regime made the first breach in the Iron Curtain. Mikhail Gorbachev, the new Secretary General of the Communist Party, used the 27th Party Congress to annouce an ambitious…
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Studying the seas
The circulation of water in the world’s oceans influences the climate. An important factor is the salinity of the water. Global data however, is incomplete. It is hoped that the SMOS satellite will…
Research
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Maternal stress can harm unborn child
Anxiety is common during pregnancy. But research shows that if anxiety turns to stress, it can affect the unborn baby.
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Antony Gormley spins into Beijing
It looks a bit as though a giant spider has been at work in the Galleria Continua in Beijing. But the steel cords are the work of British artist Antony Gormley.

















































