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. Some people have not yet realised that as Cyprus (still) aspires to become a services centre and business hub, it needs to provide seamless products that will build and support the

. BY LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS Even with the massive 2008-2009 policy effort that successfully prevented financial collapse and depression, the United States is now halfway to a lost economic decade. Over the

. * Decision on Greek rollover may be crucial to bailout * Proposal to create European rating body in doubt * Other steps to curb agencies running into difficulties A year after

. Turkey's re-elected Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan faces hefty challenges as he starts his third term: Syria, Israel, Kurds, stalled EU membership talks, an overheating economy at home and writing a new

. Abolishing Women’s Ministry Harms Women’s Rights Efforts The Turkish government’s changes to the current Ministry for Women and Family is a step backward in its struggle to combat gender inequality and

. By Shavasb Bohdjalian The International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank — known as the troika – are currently in Greece assessing how sustainable the country's debts

. Superfast machines helped Chinese and German scientists decode the genes of Europe's deadly E.coli strain with astonishing speed — but on the front line in the war with bacteria, old-fashioned detective

. Shavasb Bohdjalian For the past two months, Fed officials have been insisting that there is no threat of inflation and that the spike in oil, metals and agricultural prices would not

. By Shavasb Bohdjalian  The dollar sank to a three-year low against a basket of major currencies last week after the Federal Reserve said it would end its bond-buying programme in June

. By Shavasb Bohdjalian All eyes will be on Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's first post-meeting news conference after a two-day meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy-setting committee, which will be concluded