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The Financial Times today has published a full-page account of the development of Gordon Brown’s bank rescue plan, which is worth reading for many reasons, but principally because it includes the above quote from Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Reporting from Podolsk, Russia - The young man named Anton is a member of Russia’s “lost generation.”
He’s the son of middle-class, college-educated engineers; he studied at a good university and became a truck sales manager in...
Roman Catholic couples are being encouraged to pray together before they have sex.
A book published by a prominent Church group invites those setting out on married life to recite the specially-composed Prayer Before Making Love.
It is aimed at...
There is always a price to pay for rising crime rates and an over-stretched police force.
But rarely is it so clear what that cost is. Residents of an affluent suburb in Southampton have decided to pay £3.15 a week to fund a private security force to...
A fire raged through a retirement home close to Brussels late Thursday, leaving nine people dead and three more in critical condition, officials said.
The fire broke out around 8 p.m. (1800 GMT) Thursday and quickly sent thick, black smoke through the...
A car bomb exploded outside a Civil Guard barracks in the northern Spanish city of Burgos early on Wednesday, slightly injuring 46 people, an emergency services spokesman said.
Part of the barracks facade collapsed into the street when the bomb went...
Moscow’s skyline and architectural heritage are on the verge of being destroyed forever because of low-quality renovations and thoughtless demolition, according to a report released yesterday by a group of Russian and international...
A 14-year-old boy from the Isle of Man has died on holiday in Thailand after he was sucked into a swimming pool vent.
Nathan Clark was on holiday with his father, brother, stepbrother and stepmother in the resort of Pattaya and was due to return home...
Perhaps the most surprising thing about the accusations this week that a British tabloid newspaper had routinely hacked into the cellphone messages of celebrities, sports figures and politicians is how widespread, even accepted, such dubious...
From Angela Merkel to Barack Obama, few have emerged unscathed from his peculiar brand of music hall humour, adolescent japes and sexist quips.
As Italy prepares to host the 2009 G8 summit, we list the colourful comments the Italian prime minister has...
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