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Oil falls below $ 50 a barrel

Department of Energy calls for bigger rollbacks
OPEC ministers meet in Cairo on falling prices

LONDON (AFP) – Oil prices sank under 50 dollars a barrel in London on Thursday, reaching the lowest levels for three and a half years, as the market was plagued by weak energy demand.

Brent North Sea crude for delivery in January tumbled to 48.54 dollars a barrel – last reached in May 2005. The contract had closed on Wednesday at 51.72 dollars.

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Pope decries godless societies

Monday, October 6, 2008

ROME – Pope Benedict XVI warned Sunday that modern culture is pushing God out of people’s lives, causing nations once rich in religious faith to lose their identities.

Benedict celebrated a Mass in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls to open a worldwide meeting of bishops on the relevance of the Bible for contemporary Catholics.

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Swiss man flies over Channel on jet wing

Saturday, September 27, 2008

DOVER – A Swiss daredevil crossed the English Channel strapped to a homemade jet-propelled wing yesterday, parachuting into a field near the white cliffs of Dover after a 10-minute solo flight.

Yves Rossy leapt from a plane at more than 2,500 meters, fired up his jets and made the 35-kilometer trip from Calais in France in about 10 minutes. Rossy passed over a thin strip of land in front of South Foreland lighthouse, looped over onlookers and opened his parachute, his wings still strapped to his back.

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FEATURE

‘Stupidest’ German bankers suspended

BERLIN: Three executives dubbed “Germany’s stupidest bankers” in the press have been suspended from state bank KfW over erroneous transfers of more than 500 million euros ($710 million) to the bankrupt Lehman Brothers.

Two board members and a top risk control manager were suspended “pending final clarification of the incident” following a meeting of KfW’s supervisory board meeting attended by top ministers including Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, the bank said in a statement late Thursday.

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Pope asked to give up fur

Friday, August 15, 2008

ROME – A group opposed to wearing fur has asked Pope Benedict XVI to give up his ermine-trimmed attire.

The Italian Association for the Defense of Animals and the Environment said Wednesday it has collected about 2,000 online signatures since the campaign was launched in July.

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Reaching for the sky: the world’s highest structures

Agence France-Presse
First Posted 07:37:00 05/28/2008

PARIS — French officials on Tuesday said that a new tower to be built on the western edges of Paris would soar 301 meters (990 feet) into the sky.

This will make it the city’s highest man-made structure after the Eiffel Tower, which is 324 meters (1,063 feet) high.

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Amnesty International slams US
05/29/2008 | 03:11 AM

LONDON – The United States is shirking its duty to provide the world with moral leadership, and China is letting its business interests trump human rights concerns in Myanmar and Sudan, a human rights group said Wednesday.

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Food crisis payback for ‘20 years
of mistakes’ – UN expert

PARIS: The United Nations’ new top adviser on food blamed two decades of wrong-headed policies by world powers for the food crisis sweeping the globe.

In a stinging interview published on his first day in office, Frenchman Olivier de Schutter, a law professor and human rights campaigner, told Le Monde newspaper that the international community was “unforgivable” for its failure to anticipate the riots sparked last month by soaring food prices.

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Vatican shrugs off Time ‘Top 100′ list snub to pope

Agence France-Presse
First Posted 22:07:00 05/02/2008

ROME — The Vatican on Friday dismissed the US newsweekly Time’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people as “bizarre and arbitrary,” saying the Holy See was pleased that the pope was not included.

“I am happy about this absence (of Pope Benedict XVI) from the list, whose composition is kind of bizarre and arbitrary,” Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told Agence France-Presse.

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Austrian docs keep ‘horror house’ victims from public

Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 03:57:00 04/30/2008

AMSTETTEN, AUSTRIA—Austrian doctors kept a woman and her children – freed from a windowless cellar that had been their prison for years – away from the public eye Tuesday, and said it would take weeks of treatment before they could get used to living in a world they have never known.

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