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A French couple have been ordered by a court not to call their baby girl ‘Nutella’ (named after the popular chocolate spread), ruling that it could make the child a target for bullying.  The pair […]

For some unknown reason black cars have beeb banned in Turkmenistan.  BBC News report: Customs officials in the Central Asian country have reportedly refused to allow the importation of black vehicles, according to Chrono-tm.org, a Vienna-based […]

The recent Oxfam study claims that the richest 1% will soon own more than the rest of the world’s population. It would now appear that the mega rich are getting worried….but are they worried about […]

While on a working trip to St Petersburg Vladimir Putin visited the Mining University. Here is an excerpt from a transcript of the meeting with students: Regrettably, the government in Kiev has refused to take […]

Facebook said it had suffered a self inflicted outage lasting for an hour on Tuesday that made its site inaccessible to users worldwide. A Facebook statement said the disruption was caused by a technical change […]

Officials in the European Union have warned Greece’s new leaders that they must stick to the country’s previous financial commitments. A spokesman for German chancellor Angela Merkel ON Monday took a tough line at Greece’s […]

Mother of Helric Fredou, the Charlie Hebdo Police Commissioner who was suicided shortly after the Paris attacks in mysterious circumstances, has said that she has been told by authorities that she will not be allowed to look […]

The Ukrainian government has introduced a state of emergency in the war-torn south-eastern Donetsk and Lugansk Regions, and has put all other territories on high alert. Tass news agency report: Ukraine’s government on Monday decided […]

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin declined to meet US leader Barack Obama during a visit to New York, says an Israeli newspaper. The White House said the meeting was not possible due to the two officials’ […]