June 28, 2007
Bulgarian society is still divided on whether anyone should bear moral responsibility for the communist past and, if so, who. Few believe the new commission charged with opening the archives will act impartially.
In a new twist on care for the elderly, thousands of Norwegians are relaxing in the Spanish sun and taking health cures at a growing number of geriatric and rehabilitation centres run by Norwegian municipalities and staffed almost entirely by Norwegians in the Alicante region.
A 17-year-old boy has been in jail awaiting his trial in Turkey for 10 weeks. If found guilty of abusing a 13-year-old girl from Manchester he could face up to 8 years in prison. The two teenagers met at a hotel in Turkey, the girl told him she was 15, they flirted and kissed, and the girl's mother pressed charges of sexual abuse against him the next morning.
"Follow the money". This famous phrase has inspired generations of investigative reporters.
She was known for dressing like a man and wearing a false beard, and was more powerful than either of her more famous female successors, Nefertiti and Cleopatra.
A bullet has been removed from behind the right ear of a US man who went to hospital complaining of a headache. He had woken up with a headache so severe he thought it was caused by an aneurysm. His wife took him to hospital but left when the bullet was found. She was arrested later over the shooting, but said it was an accident.
A New York teacher has apologised for taking sick leave to pursue a secret other life as a professional wrestler.
A professional wrestler has been found dead at his family home in the US along with his wife and son in what officials say appears to be a murder-suicide.
Armed gangs are seizing children for ransom payments in the lawless north of the Central African Republic.
Officers in Salisbury will be using cameras in their helmets to deter and detect crime across the city.
Students from a radical mosque in Pakistan's capital Islamabad abduct a group of Chinese nationals, including women, accusing them of prostitution. They raided a house in a residential part of the city which they said was a brothel.
A chance meeting in a White House waiting room sparked a young, almost adolescent journalist's friendship with an FBI agent, and this friendship would change their country forever.
The US Central Intelligence Agency is to declassify hundreds of documents detailing some of the agency's worst illegal abuses. Among them: the confinement of a Soviet defector in the mid-1960s; assassination plots of foreign leaders, including Cuba's Fidel Castro; wiretapping and surveillance of journalists; behaviour modification experiments on "unwitting" US citizens.
June 10, 2007
The 12.000 inhabitants of the town of Mourenx live in horizontal blocks if they are married, in towers if they are single. The married quarter consists of identical houses, symmetrically divided between two families.
June 09, 2007
The quiet revolt of Berlin actor Wolfgang Neuss, who in 1963 placed a notice in the paper "Der Abend"vgiving away the identity of the killer in a television serial that had been keeping the masses in suspense for weeks.
The Ecumenical Council has given the Pope permission to become a nun. Just on Fridays, though.
A medical examiner blames a 17-year-old girl's death on the use of too much muscle cream, the kind used to soothe aching legs after exercise.
Shumail Raj, 31, had sex-change surgery to become a man and then married his cousin - who was aware of the condition. The couple argue that they married to protect the bride from being sold into marriage to pay off her uncle's gambling debts. The two were arrested last week after the bride's family complained about the gender of her husband.
The mysterious disappearance of the 66-year-old Earl of Shaftesbury, a flamboyant multi-millionaire, gripped the French Riviera. His widow, Ms M'Barek, a former nightclub hostess was alleged to have been involved in the murder because her husband was in the process of divorcing her for another, younger woman.
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