Europe

Businessman Retaliates Against Ice Cream Truck Driver

10:23am October 17, 2013

A Swedish newspaper reports that a prominent businessman, Percy Nilsson who owns a hockey team, confessed to drilling holes in the tires of an ice cream truck. Nilsson said he was infuriated by the teenage driver blowing the horn. The driver admits to blowing the horn almost 100 times per hour.

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Workers stand inside the gold mine in Greenland's Nulanaq mountain in 2009. The Danish territory's underground wealth was at the forefront of elections in March. Now, Greenland faces another dilemma: whether to end a zero-tolerance policy on uranium extra

As Greenland Seeks Economic Development, Is Uranium The Way?

6:39pm October 16, 2013

by Sidsel Overgaard

The debate over lifting a ban on uranium extraction pits the Danish territory's lawmakers against environmentalists. It would be a controversial move and one with consequences for Greenland's economic development as well as its political status.

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World News

Moscow Suburb Riot Shows Russia's Tense Ties With Migrants

6:12pm October 15, 2013

by Corey Flintoff

Authorities in Moscow have rounded up more than 1,600 migrant workers after an ethnic riot took place over the weekend. Russian nationalists and soccer hooligans attacked a market area in a gritty industrial suburb of Moscow that's home to many migrant workers from the North Caucasus. The riot broke out after police announced that they were searching for a North Caucasian man suspected in the stabbing death of a young, ethnic Slav man. The situation highlights Russia's immigration problem — the country needs migrant labor, but fears what it perceives as foreign influence.

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3 American Economists Win Nobel Prize

7:46am October 14, 2013

Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller won the 2013 economics prize for their work on developing new methods to study trends in asset markets. They will share the $1.25 million prize.

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Man Leaves Wife Accidentally At Gas Station

6:37am October 14, 2013

A German man was driving back from his honeymoon in France. He pulled over to fuel up, thinking his bride sleeping in the backseat had remained put. She actually got out to use the facilities. He drove on, and more than two hours later he noticed his wife was gone.

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Prize In Economics A Latecomer To Nobel Lineup

4:21am October 14, 2013

The Nobel Prize in economics will be announced Monday morning in Sweden. This prize is a relatively new one — it was established in 1968 by Sweden's central bank. The prizes announced last week, like the Nobel Peace Prize, were established more than 100 years ago in Alfred Nobel's will.

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World News

Readers Lament 'International Herald Tribune' Name Change

4:21am October 14, 2013

by Eleanor Beardsley

Starting Tuesday, American expats throughout Europe will pick up their The International Herald Tribune to discover it has been renamed, The International New York Times. Many longtime readers say they'll feel a great loss.

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Russia Sees Staggering Income Inequality

6:12pm October 13, 2013

In Russia today, 110 billionaires hold 35 percent of the nation's wealth. Host Arun Rath talks with the Wall Street Journal's Lukas Alpert about this post-Soviet phenomenon.

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At the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia, each item is accompanied by a story from the donor on how a romance fell apart.

A History Of Love Gone Wrong, All In One Croatian Museum

9:50am October 08, 2013

by Sean Carberry

From furry handcuffs to a toy bunny that a couple once shared, the Museum of Broken Relationships is filled with artifacts of romances that didn't quite work out.

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Bear Breaks Into Siberian Cottage Devours Pot Of Borscht

7:28am October 07, 2013

The bear had eaten all the borscht before the owners spotted him and called police. The culprit fled into the forest.

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