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Game to destroy CCTV cameras: vandalism or valid protest?
Activists in Berlin are teaming up to trash surveillance cameras. Points are given, with bonus scores for the most innovative modes of destruction.
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Why Greenland's Melting Could Be the Biggest Climate Disaster of All
Glaciologist Jason Box is racing to figure out just how rapidly we're pushing the 7 meters of sea rise level locked up in the Greenland ice sheet onto our shores.
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Volkswagen’s Spectacular Car Towers
When a person goes to buy a new car, the anticipation is overwhelming. You can imagine yourself seeing the car all beautiful and shiny and this makes the revealing moment even more dramatic. So imagine that you want to buy a new Volkswagen car and you go to Wolfsburg, Germany. There, you enter a 20-story building and take a glass lift that takes you to an observation deck.
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Australian radio show at heart of royal prank taken off air permanently
An Australian radio show whose prank targeting Prince William's pregnant wife went horribly wrong has been taken off the air for good.
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'House of doom' sees nine die in 15 years
A building in the leafy suburbs of Berlin has been dubbed the house of doom after it emerged that nine people died unnatural deaths there in the last 15 years. Tabloid newspaper Bild dug up the details.
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The Wild, Offensive Advertising Of "HUMO" Magazine (10 Ads)
The Belgian satire weekly has offended many people over the years.
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Fendi to finance Trevi Fountain makeover
Fendi is the latest Italian luxury fashion house to come to the rescue of a deteriorating tourist attraction in Rome.
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103 arrested in Europe trafficking sting
Police in Europe arrested 103 people in 10 countries this week, all accused of smuggling in people on boats, freight trains and small hidden compartments in the floors of buses and trucks.
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Fatal blast outside U.S. Embassy in Turkey
Tension is high in Turkey as questions loom Friday over who is responsible for a suicide bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara.
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The Shard, EU's tallest building, opens to the public
The Shard -- eyesore to some, marvel to others -- on Friday opened to the public, most of whom will head straight to the 72nd floor, 244 meters above ground level.
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When Newspapers Were New, or, How Londoners Got Word of the Plague
Daniel Defoe's novel about London's 1665 plague can help us understand new media. No, really.
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British prosecutors decline to file charges in radio show prank suicide case
British prosecutors declined Friday to file charges against anyone involved with a prank carried out by an Australian radio show that targeted Prince William's pregnant wife and was followed by a nurse's suicide.
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The Nordic countries are probably the best-governed in the world
The Nordic countries pride themselves on the honesty and transparency of their governments.
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Women in Paris finally allowed to wear trousers
A 200-year-old law forbidding women to wear trousers in Paris has finally been revoked.
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The remains of Richard III, one of the most famous figures in English history, have been found.
Experts from the University of Leicester said DNA from the bones matched that of descendants of the monarch's family. Lead archaeologist Richard Buckley, from the University of Leicester, told a press conference to applause: "Beyond reasonable doubt it's Richard."
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Chances Are You've Seen A Fixed Soccer Game
A wide-ranging match-fixing investigation has uncovered more than 680 suspicious games - including World Cup and European Championship qualifiers and two Champions League games - and found evidence that a Singapore-based crime gang is closely involved in match-fixing, Europol said Monday.
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Body of missing NY mother found in Turkey
The family of an American woman who went missing in Istanbul nearly two weeks ago is in mourning after learning that Turkish police found her body Saturday.
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Ireland cashes in on jelly beans
Booms, busts and bubbles are all jargon you might associate with today's troubled Irish economy. But now you can add "beans" to that list.
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Richard III dig: DNA confirms bones are king's
A skeleton found beneath a Leicester car park has been confirmed as that of English king Richard III.
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Marc Dutroux case: Belgium child killer asks for release
Belgian child killer Marc Dutroux has gone before a court to ask for early release from a life jail sentence imposed for the kidnap and rape of six girls, and three murders.
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