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  How a craving for an audience tempted warlord into the open
At some point in the past few years, life became too anonymous for Radovan Karadzic to bear. The former Bosnian Serb leader had always been a showman, a dapper dresser with bouffant ...
French parliament passes working hours reform
1:26pm France’s parliament passed a law on Wednesday that will allow companies to bypass compulsory 35-hour working week limits, effectively burying one of the flagship reforms of the former ...
Brad Pitt threatens legal action over family photos
1:31pm Lawyers for Brad Pitt on Thursday threatened legal action against anyone publishing recent photographs they say were taken by paparazzi of the actor and his newly enlarged family at ...
Fidel Castro praises brother for silence on report that Russian bombers may go to Cuba
1:36pm Ailing Fidel Castro said on Wednesday that Cuba’s president was right to adopt a "dignified silence" over a Moscow newspaper report that Russia may station nuclear bombers on the ...
Berlin ready for ‘Obamania’
12:24pm US presidential hopeful Barack Obama will on Thursday kick off a European tour in Berlin, where he can expect a rapturous welcome amid a deep yearning on the continent for change in ...

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Royal Marine who dived on hand grenade to receive bravery award
3:18pm A Royal Marine who dived on a live hand grenade to save his comrades in Afghanistan and escaped with minor wounds will be given Britain’s highest bravery award, the Ministry of Defence said on ...
 
Moscow living 1-1/2 times pricier than NY - report
2:23pm Moscow is the world’s priciest city for expatriate workers and is almost 1-1/2 times as expensive as New York, Shanghai, Amsterdam and Madrid, a report on relative living costs showed on Thursday.


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