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The irony can't be missed when the scion of a tiny sub-Saharan country, which has the dubious distinction for having the highest child mortality rate in the world and abysmal public health and education systems, splurges ill-gotten money on a multi-million dollar super-luxury yacht.

Sony Music and Japanese entertainment company Avex have rendered a written apology over the choice of attire by Japanese pop group Kishidan, who appeared on MTV Japan's Megavector program on February 23 wearing costumes that resembled the uniforms of the SS.

NYSE Euronext lucrative interest rate futures franchise on March 21, the exchange operator said on Wednesday.

Marijuana use in adolescents causes psychosis, according to a paper that appeared in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). This piece of research is significant in that it addresses a key question: in adolescents, is the higher-than-average instances of psychosis with marijuana users a cause-and-effect relationship or simply one of correlation?

A gunman shot dead two U.S. soldiers and injured two people seriously in a U.S. Army bus at Frankfurt airport Wednesday, said Boris Rhein, interior minister for the state of Hesse.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel quickly replaced popular Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg on Wednesday, hoping to put his plagiarism affair behind her to focus on three state elections.

Two people, including an American soldier, have been shot to death on a bus carrying US soldiers at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany.

Apple iPad 2 was spotted in Amazon’s German website by Yourdailyapple.net.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday a European Union document laying out options for a deal on safeguarding euro zone states' public finances was a good basis for discussions at a March 11 summit in Brussels.

The chances of Portugal accepting a bailout has increased as hopes of reining in the borrowing costs of peripheral European governments have faded.

Forest Laboratories and Nycomed A/S said the US Food and Drug Administration has approved Daliresp (roflumilast) oral tablet to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

With anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks, and social media platforms Twitter and Facebook in the running, Internet dominates the race for Nobel Peace Prize 2011.

Gold jumped against a falling Dollar in London trade on Tuesday, touching $1,432.10 per ounce, one dollar above the all-time peak of 7th Dec. Silver marks a fresh all-time high at $34.44/oz, while Western stock markets fell and Brent crude oil rose towards new two-year highs.

Anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, the Internet and a Russian human rights activist are among a record 241 nominations for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.

New computers from Lenovo show off a possible future of computer interfaces.

Iranian security forces have reportedly fired tear gas at anti-government protesters attending a rally in Teheran.

Boosted by the soccer World Cup, South Africa saw a record 15.1 percent increase in tourist arrivals in 2010 although the total of more than 8 million was not an all time-high, the tourism minister said on Tuesday.

Unemployment in the euro area fell back to sub-10 percent levels in January, official data showed on Tuesday.

Inflation in the eurozone rose from 2.3 percent in January to 2.4 percent in February year-on-year, according to the initial estimates by Eurostat.

Eurozone gross domestic product (GDP) will rise 1.6 percent this year, slightly above the previously forecast growth rate of 1.5 percent, the European Commission said in a report on Tuesday.

World Race 2011 will have about 25 cars from different countries racing to circle the globe on the same path on which the 1908-winner drove.