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Champions League: Chelsea FC gives Abramovich his title

Sport » Soccer

And so ends the 2011-2012 UEFA competitions with Chelsea FC lifting the Champions League trophy after a magnificent win away at Bayern's Fussball Arena, Munich. After a monumental 120-minute game of football, it came down to penalties. Sadly, one team had to lose but Di Matteo, 41, gave Roman Abramovich the title he coveted.

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Greece: Show us how it's done!

Opinion » Columnists

Go on Greece! Show us how it's done! You gave us political democracy, now show us what economic democracy means. The choice is nuclear: the Drachma (translation: "handful") over the Euro ("empty hands"). After seeing what the European Union gave us, time for a radical, courageous change of policy. Who could argue otherwise? Here's how it's done.

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Asteroids are hazardous to Earth

Science » Technologies and discoveries

NASA estimates that there are 4,700 asteroids potentially hazardous to Earth, according to data from the WISE probe, which scans the cosmos with infrared light. The agency noted that the observations of WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) allowed a better assessment of the population of potentially hazardous asteroids in our solar system.

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Students in Chile take to the streets

Hotspots and Incidents » Conflicts

In Chile, the system repeats the educational and social inequalities of income distribution. More than 100,000 Chilean students were mobilized to protest a broad education reform and tax. Young people marched through several streets of the capital and various regions, repeating the scenario that brought down the popularity of President.

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Single mutation makes Melanesians blond

Science » Technologies and discoveries

Solomon Islanders have very dark skin. Most also have dark hair, but about one in ten of them have strikingly blond hair. How is this blond trait inherited, and do the people of the Solomon Islands inherit it the same way that other blond populations do? A fascinating study recently discovered the genetic basis behind blond Solomon Islanders

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Russia's break dance champion loses leg due to medical negligence

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Sky above Moscow turns anomalously green for two weeks

Versailles - personal universe of Louis XIV

Versailles - personal universe of Louis XIV

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A structure by Tomas Saraceno called Cloud City was erected on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The maker of Cloud City, Argentine artist Tomas Saraceno, wants to provoke the feeling of being in a cloud floating in the middle of several realities

Cloud City in New York

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Single mutation makes Melanesians blond

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Aliens are unlikely to resemble Earthlings

No nearby dark matter

No nearby dark matter

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Evolution and Bible cannot mix

Koalas in Australia may disappear

Koalas in Australia may disappear

Russia s renewed space drive

Russia's renewed space drive

Gen. Ratko Mladic goes on trial

Gen. Ratko Mladic goes on trial

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Greece reflects growing economic turmoil

Bravo, Cristina!

Bravo, Cristina!

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IMF can do nothing but cripple developing countries

The third crisis of capitalism

The third crisis of capitalism

Social security garnished for student debts

Social security garnished for student debts

Russian businessman s bank nationalized in Lithuania

Russian businessman's bank nationalized in Lithuania

Secret weapons destroyed by too much secrecy

Secret weapons destroyed by too much secrecy

Madeleine Albright: Russia s foe and Serbia s butcher

Madeleine Albright: Russia's foe and Serbia's butcher

Awards for criminals how special

Awards for criminals how special

Russia s break dance champion loses leg due to medical negligence

Russia's break dance champion loses leg due to medical negligence

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Sky above Moscow turns anomalously green for two weeks

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Versailles - personal universe of Louis XIV

The mother-of-three suggested that she and her model peers were “just born with” their svelte frames, but also put her figure down to “the right diet”.

“I respect my body, my body is my temple,” she began. “If I eat like a pig, I am going to feel like a pig.

“Sometimes I have a huge, delicious five-star dinner with my grandparents with seven courses. In the morning you wake up and you feel like s**t. If I feel like that, OK, I am not going to be able to feel good about myself.

“C’mon guys, you know it’s better to be skinny than to be fat.”

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A flood killed five people in Georgia s capital overnight after torrential rain caused the local river to burst its banks. The Agency for Emergency Situations said that a mother with her two children, an elderly woman and an elderly man died in Tbilisi s Ortachala neighborhood after the Kura River flooded Saturday night. All five were trapped in their homes and crushed when the buildings collapsed. One of the children was 6 months old; the other was 5, The Associated Press reports

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Clinton putting squeeze on India

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Opponents of official ideology in Israel receive life-threatening letters

Opponents of official ideology in Israel receive life-threatening letters

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Former Soviet state wants to set Ukraine against Russia

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