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The Cern computer system displays images generated of the first collisions to take place in the Large Hadron Collider

Scientists take the first step in unlocking origins of universe

After 10 years – and £6bn – the first particles finally smash into each other in the Large Hadron Collider.

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Yana Kulikova is suing after her image was used to set up fake dates

Bailiffs stole ID to lure Russian debtors

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

A Moscow hairdresser is suing bailiffs from the Russian region of Udmurtia after they found a picture of her on a social networking site and used it to lure unsuspecting debtors into meetings.

French Muslims celebrate Algeria's football victory

France's crisis of national identity

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

John Lichfield: The country's failure to come to terms with its ethnic mix has been exposed by events on the football field.

Russian Orthodox priests carry the coffin of Father Daniil Sysoyev

Faith leaders call for calm as murdered priest is buried

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Religious tensions rise after death of man who converted Muslims to Christianity

Sex and cheese as Sarkozys meet The Simpsons

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni have entered the only real pantheon of international celebrity – by being parodied in The Simpsons. A short clip of their unauthorised, and rather uncomplimentary, appearance has become one of the most-viewed clips on the French-language internet in the past few days.

Clara Petacci, Mussolini's mistress in 1938, and Patrizia D'Addario

Italian stallions: The sex lives of Mussolini and Berlusconi

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Mistress's diary reveals Mussolini's lust, while memoir tells all on Berlusconi.

A Parisian woman makes the most of the self-service bike hire scheme

Taxpayers ride to rescue of Paris bike-hire scheme

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Public funds used to bail out Vélib project after 26,000 bicycles are stolen or wrecked

Incumbent president wins first round of Romanian vote

Monday, 23 November 2009

Incumbent President Traian Basescu won the first round of Romania's presidential election last night, and will face leftist leader Mircea Geoana in a Dec. 6 runoff, exit polls showed

Tony Paterson: The bratwurst is yet to come

Monday, 23 November 2009

Berlin Diary: Today sees the opening of the first of the 60 Christmas fairs that have mushroomed throughout the city

Amanda Knox in court in Perugia

Tearful Knox hears prosecutor demand life sentence for her

Sunday, 22 November 2009

She killed a British student because she hated and resented her, says lawyer

Prague celebrates the overthrow of Communism in Czechoslovakia

The accidental uprising: How 'corpse' killed Communism

Sunday, 22 November 2009

Twenty years after the Velvet Revolution, Victor Sebestyen recalls how the Czech regime fell to a hapless secret plot.

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