Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld sent two models dressed as brides alongside his tiny godson down the catwalk on Tuesday in a public show of support for French government plans to legalise same-sex marriage and adoption. The models and Lagerfeld's four-year-old godson took the final bow at the German designer's Chanel haute couture show before Lagerfeld
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Meeting on the 50th anniversary of the pact sealing their post-war reconciliation, the leaders of Germany and France vowed to bridge differences on the shape of Europe's currency union and unveil joint proposals on deeper integration within months. Angela Merkel, a conservative, and Francois Hollande, a socialist, have had an uneasy relationship since the French
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Witnessing friends' vacations, love lives and work successes on Facebook can cause envy and trigger feelings of misery and loneliness, according to German researchers. A study conducted jointly by two German universities found rampant envy on Facebook, the world's largest social network that now has over one billion users and has produced an unprecedented platform
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Cyprus has some of the most successful researchers in Europe, relative to population size, according to European Commission data. A press release by the Commission notes that “relative to population size the most successful researchers are based in the Netherlands, Denmark, UK and Cyprus of the EU countries, and Switzerland and Israel of the countries
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Cyprus Minister of Finance Vassos Sharly said Tuesday that the government will do whatever it takes to meet its fiscal requirements during the first three months of the year. Sharly’s comments came in the wake of the Eurogroup decision that the financial assistance programme will be agreed with the new Cypriot government in March following
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Eurogroup President Jean Claude Juncker said Monday that an agreement for a Cypriot financial assistance programme will be signed with the new government next March. In his last press conference as Eurogroup President, Juncker also said that there will be close monitoring of the money laundering combating framework and its implementation. The Eurogroup was briefed
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Conditional terms could be included in Cyprus bailout deal such as greater commitment of future gas revenues to secure the sustainability of the Cypriot debt, according to Deutsche Bank’s report on Cyprus debt crisis issued on 18 January. Deutsche Bank , says, inter alia, in its report that “it is worth reminding ourselves that the
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Women in India's capital are taking self-defense classes, snapping up pepper sprays, booking cabs with female drivers or leaving work early, all signs of growing insecurity following the brutal gang rape and murder of a student last month. The assault on the 23-year-old – who was raped by six people and tortured with an iron
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**But Russian dependence increases** Cyprus’ overdependence on the UK for tourists has finally started to crack, with the proportion of arrivals from the UK dropping to 38.9% of the total in 2012, from 42.7% in 2011 and a peak of 58.5% in 2003. UK arrivals in 2012 amounted to 996,046, the first time they have
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The eurozone will review in depth an international rescue package for Cyprus at a later date, since not all necessary data is still available, French Minister of Finance Pierre Moscovici said on Monday upon his arrival to take part at a Eurogroup meeting in Brussels. “We do not have all necessary data in order to
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