Tweet London: A French theme park is being planned in honour of Napoleon Bonaparte, almost 200 years after his death, the daily Telegraph reported Saturday. "Napoleonland", the brainchild of former French minister and history buff Yves Jego, is being touted as a rival to Disneyland. The plan is to build the unlikely amusement park on [...]
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Tweet Moscow: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has stated that Russia should solve its poverty problem by 2020. The country will hold presidential elections March 4, 2012. Putin, who held the presidential post in 2000-2008, is generally considered a shoo-in for a new presidential term this year. "Ten to eleven percent of our nationals are still [...]
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Tweet Moscow/Washington: Russia's failed Phobos-Grunt Mars probe spacecraft will likely plunge back to Earth between Jan 15 and Jan 16, reports Xinhua. The 14-tonne spacecraft that carries 11 tonnes of toxic rocket fuel, would fall into the Atlantic Ocean. Most of it will burn up in the atmosphere, but 20 to 30 chunks of charred [...]
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Tweet The Hague: Women in the Netherlands have been advised to remove their breast implants as a precaution because they raise the risk of ruptures and other complications. Women who had received the faulty PIP or M-implant brand of breast implants, as well as those whose implants have no problems so far were advised to [...]
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Tweet Moscow: At least 17 people, including three children, died in separate fire incidents across Russia during New Year celebrations, local emergencies services said. Nine people died in three separate fires in the Republic of Buryatia in East Siberia, the regional emergencies centre reported. A 30-year-old woman, her one-year old daughter and son, aged 3, [...]
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Tweet Madrid: Spain's National Transplant Organization set a new record with 94 organ transplants during the period of Nov 23-25. The donations allowed 53 kidney and 23 liver transplants to be performed, along with eight lung, six heart, one intestine and three pancreas transplants, the health ministry said in a communique. Two of the people [...]
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Tweet London: Highway prostitutes working outside a town in northern Spain have been ordered to wear reflective vests to make them visible to passing traffic and reduce the risk of accidents, a media report said. Women touting for customers on a rural highway outside Els Alamus near Lleida in Catalonia have been told to don [...]
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Tweet Moscow: Production has resumed at Europe's largest emerald deposit in Russia's Sverdlovsk region in the Ural mountains following an idle period of several years. The Ural Mountains, or the Urals are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western Russia, from the coast of the Arctic ocean to the Ural [...]
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Tweet Moscow: As part of a crackdown on illegal casinos, Russian authorities have closed down about 4,000 illegal casinos and over 25,000 gambling parlours, RIA Novosti reported. It could be done since a new law on gambling came into force in 2009, a senior police official has revealed. "As of today, 3,900 illegal casinos and [...]
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Tweet London: Germany's former capital Bonn will now tax prostitutes, it was reported here. Prostitutes working the streets of Bonn will have to buy tickets from roadside vending machines that once dispensed tickets to the city's motorists. A night's ticket will set a prostitute back 5.30 pounds, irrespective of the number of clients they have, [...]
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