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Highest tide in 20 years floods Venice new
Large parts of Venice were flooded today as heavy rains and strong winds lashed the lagoon city, with sea levels at their highest level in 22 years.
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Facebook user pokes PM and gets locked up
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Send good karma, post a photo, criticize the prime minister - all things you can do with the click of a mouse at Facebook.
Swiss voters give boost to heroin on the NHS
Monday, 1 December 2008
Switzerland set to back radical plan to help addicts
Outcry over arrest of French journalist
Monday, 1 December 2008
'You are worse than scum,' police told senior executive
Oligarchs on their uppers
Monday, 1 December 2008
The Millionaire's Fair in Moscow is where the rich flaunt their wealth. This year, nobody's got any money.
'King of the Arches' is Italy's culture tsar
Monday, 1 December 2008
Shock at appointment of former McDonalds boss
Bruni embraces role as AIDS ambassador
Monday, 1 December 2008
The French First Lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, today said that she would work to protect mothers and children against the HIV virus as a global ambassador for the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Georgian President urges "compromise" on NATO membership
Sunday, 30 November 2008
The Georgian President, Mikheil Saakashvili, has urged Nato members to bury their differences and agree to a "compromise" that would accelerate his country's membership of the Western military alliance, despite the fallout from Georgia's six-day war with Russia.
Planes to bring Spaniards home from Thailand
Sunday, 30 November 2008
Spain is to send planes to repatriate more than 500 Spaniards stranded in Thailand due to the closure of Bangkok's airports.
Journalist's murder puts Russian justice on trial
Saturday, 29 November 2008
Politkovskaya hearing highlights 'legal nihilism'
Dutch court upholds ban on magic mushrooms
Saturday, 29 November 2008
The Netherlands will ban the sale and cultivation of hallucinogenic mushrooms from next week, the latest target of a country seeking to shed its "anything goes" image.
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1 Facebook user pokes PM and gets locked up
2 Highest tide in 20 years floods Venice new
3 Millionaire's Fair: Oligarchs on their uppers
4 The joke's on EU: A cartoon history of the European Union
5 Swiss voters give boost to heroin on the NHS
6 Outcry over arrest of French journalist
7 Cartoon Carla: fiction – or fact?
8 The gigolo, the German heiress, and a £6m revenge for her Nazi legacy
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• Terence Blacker: The greasy gravy train of lobbyism
The idiocy and graft at work in the system barely merits a second glance.
• Dominic Lawson: When 'life' should mean life.
Sometimes the public feel the perpetrator should not be released.
• Steve Richards: Who is accountable for the police?
Why was Damian Green arrested with such spectacular insensitivity?
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