– Biggest event in Rome since his funeral in 2005 Pope John Paul's coffin was exhumed on Friday ahead of his beatification as tens of thousands of people began arriving in Rome for one of the biggest events since his funeral in 2005. The Vatican said the coffin was removed from the crypts below
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* Royal marriage watched around the world * Statesmen, royalty, stars, military and commoners attend * Princess Diana's memory kept alive at wedding Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton married at Westminster Abbey on Friday in a sumptuous show of British pageantry that attracted a huge world audience and injected new life into
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Strong demand for smartphones gave a further boost to overall cellphone market volumes in January-March, and making iPhone supplier Apple a rare winner on the market, research firms said on Friday. IDC saw January-March market growth of 20 percent, helped also by strong gains by smaller vendors as the three largest phone makers — Nokia,
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Central banks in Brazil, Chile and Thailand fretted on Thursday that high consumer prices could eat into economic gains, underscoring emerging markets' struggles to contain surging inflation. Different policy approaches in Thailand, South Korea, Chile and Brazil have so far yielded all-too similar results: stubbornly strong inflation rates that threaten to soar above policymakers' comfort
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The dollar slid to a three-year low on Friday after inflation data suggested euro zone interest rates will rise again this summer, while stocks paused for breath and gold climbed to a new record. Analysts see little upside for the dollar following the Federal Reserve's pledge this week to continue with near-zero rates for an
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The Association of Cyprus Travel Agents (ACTA) organizes the “TAXIDI 2011” exhibition, which constitutes the ideal forum where the Cypriot traveler can obtain valuable and comprehensive information on tourist destinations and travel packages. The exhibition will be opened this Friday by Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism Antonis Paschalides. More than 40 exhibitors will participate
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He said he would be back, and now Arnold Schwarzenegger is doing just that. The action movie hero turned politician is attached to star in a new "Terminator" movie being shopped to Hollywood studios, an industry source said on Wednesday. Schwarzenegger, 63, who played the killing machine cyborg in three of the blockbuster movies with
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Half of China's 1.34 billion population live in cities and towns, according to a census on Thursday that pointed to the daunting tasks ahead for policymakers as the labor market shrinks and the nation grows older. The census, which showed overall population growth slowing sharply in the decade to 2010, revealed fewer Chinese than some
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The European Central Bank will not raise interest rates again until July as it follows a steady path of policy tightening to rein in inflation while still supporting growth, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday. The poll of 76 economists, taken over the past week, found none of them expect a rate hike when the
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The Secretariat of the Cyprus EU Presidency announced here on Thursday the launch of a competition to create a special logo in view of the assumption of the Presidency of the Council of the EU by the Republic of Cyprus on July 1st 2012. The competition comprises two phases: the design of the logo and
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