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Woman trapped in shop at new year
While most people celebrated New Year's Eve with parties and fireworks one pensioner in northern France spent the night alone in a locked supermarket.
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Putin offers passport to actor Depardieu, who fled France over taxes
The movie star and businessman recently fled his native France in a high-profile protest of government plans for a tax hike on the richest. He moved just across the border to the town of Nechin, Belgium, and ditched his French citizenship.
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Europe's 10 hottest destinations for 2013
Whether you're looking for culture or just a reason to party, you'll want to make sure these European destinations are on your radar in 2013.
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British soldier, Canadian sailor - January 1941
Amazing historical photo.
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Why Can't We Have Glow-in-the-Dark Highways Like the Netherlands?
It's one thing for the rest of the world to have way cooler trains than us. America has chosen car culture, for better or worse. But now comes word that the Netherlands is building way awesomer highways, while ours are stuck in the 20th Century.
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Crisis of faith over Vatican cash machines
A stand-off between two titans of finance, the Bank of Italy and the Vatican, has forced tourists to abandon their visits to the Sistine Chapel -- unless they have cash in their pockets.
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In Britain, you’re better off being a celebrity tax dodger than a criminal one
In an ongoing effort to crack down on tax evasion, the UK government today published a Flickr page of the "top tax cheats" of 2012. The profiles break down the crimes of 32 criminals that Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) sentenced to a combined total of more than 150 years in prison last year in a demonstration...
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Frano Selak – Truly the World’s (Un)Luckiest Man
What would you call a man who has managed to cheat death seven times, and also win the lottery? ‘World’s luckiest man’, might just be an understatement. But that’s exactly the story of Frano Selak, an 81-year-old music teacher from Croatia.
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A Point of View: The British and their bizarre view of Americans
We lap up their culture, adopt their economics and are obsessed with the "special relationship". So why do British people have such a confused - even negative - view of Americans, asks writer Will Self.
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Love Lock - Ponts des Arts bridge, Paris
The speciality of Ponts des Arts bridge is people used to hang locks on it with their name & their boyfriend/girlfriend/best-friend then throw the key into the river. So even though the friend/relationship may end, lock remains there. It stays there forever, as relevance to someone once a part of their life.
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How Scotch whisky conquered the world
Scotch whisky is a national brand worth toasting. It is a drink that can only be distilled and matured in one country - Scotland - but which sells in to 200 markets around the world. How did Scotch go from cottage industry to global phenomenon and how does it benefit its country of origin?
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U.S. Spy Law Authorizes Mass Surveillance of European Citizens
Europeans, take note: The U.S. government has granted itself authority to secretly snoop on you.
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Embarrassment in Berlin as airport opening is delayed again
The project, begun in 2006, was first expected to be completed in 2011, and has been delayed several times since.
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How Monopoly boards got second world war prisoners out of jail free
Monopoly boards were used by fake charities during the second world war to send maps and messages to prison camps in Nazi-occupied Europe.
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The Frightening Hungarian Crackdown
Unlike Germany, Hungary remains in a wistful, toxic relationship with the nineteen-thirties, with a fantasy of Jewish conspiracy and national moral decline. As the memory of the iron curtain fades and Europe recenters itself, Hungary’s fascist resurgence should be a matter of concern for all.
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3 Kurdish women political activists shot dead in Paris
The apparent assassination of three Kurdish women political activists in central Paris on Thursday, all shot in the head, has provoked shock among the Kurdish community.
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Abandoned Colony in Greenland: Archaeologists Find Clues to Viking Mystery
For years, researchers have puzzled over why Viking descendents abandoned Greenland in the late 15th century. But archaeologists now believe that economic and identity issues, rather than starvation and disease, drove them back to their ancestral homes.
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TV host Jimmy Savile exploited fame to abuse children on vast scale
Britain's late TV presenter and radio host Jimmy Savile sexually abused hundreds of people and carried out more than 30 rapes, police said Friday, as they unveiled a report exposing "vast, predatory and opportunistic" abuses across six decades.
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Duchess of Cambridge's first official portrait unveiled
The first official portrait of Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, has been unveiled at London's National Portrait Gallery -- but has met with a mixed reaction from art critics and the public.
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900 year old Magical Monastery in Norway
Between the years 1100 and 1300s, there were about 1000 stave churches built along the old trade routes in Norway. The Borgund Stavkirke is the best preserved of any today and is a truly unique temple to visit.
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