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Rome's traffic woes: Stuck in traffic 11 days a year
Rome - Forget about zipping around the Italian capital on a sleek Vespa. Motorists in the Eternal City spend an eternity sitting in traffic - an average of 260 hours, or 11 days, each year. Rome ranks as the most congested city in Italy, according to...
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2009-11-09 ] Category : [
Cars (General) ]
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Singapore serial molester must serve 32-year jail term
Singapore - A Singapore serial molester who sexually assaulted girls as young as 9 has to serve 32 years in jail after a court dismissed his appeal against his sentence, a media report said Monday. From April 2007 to July last year, Huang Shiyou, 23,...
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2009-11-09 ] Category : [
Legal (General) ]
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Serbia's lawyers go on strike
Belgrade - Serbian lawyers said Monday they were going on a three-day strike to protest tighter financial oversight ordered by the government. The head of Serbia's attorney bar, Dragoljub Djordjevic, told radio B92 all 7,000 lawyers in the country wi...
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2009-11-09 ] Category : [
Legal (General) ]
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Don't get addicted to the runner's high
Seoul - Gym experts warn that runners should be careful not to become obsessed with their running routines. In South Korea for example several million people spend at least one hour a day running, walking or riding bikes. According to 2008 data from ...
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2009-11-09 ] Category : [
Homes (General) ]
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Pope Benedict: Church must seek dialogue with people
Brescia, Italy - Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday his own Catholic Church should do more to reach out to people in times of great challenges and to provide them with courage and support. While on a pastoral visit to the northern Italian city of Brescia,...
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2009-11-08 ] Category : [
Religion (General) ]
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Cyprus inaugurates new airport in Larnaca
Athens/Nicosia - Cyprus opened a new airport Saturday with the vision of it becoming a regional transport hub in the coming decades. Cyprus President Dimitris Christofias inaugurated the new Larnaca terminal, built by a consortium of French and Cypri...
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2009-11-08 ] Category : [
Travel (General) ]
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Vatican calls for more access to Cuban mass media
Havana - The Vatican on Saturday called on the government of Cuba to allow the Catholic Church greater access to mass media in the communist country. Our wish is for the Cuban church to have a more normal access to mass communication media, Archbis...
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2009-11-07 ] Category : [
Religion (General) ]
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