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Government agrees Alitalia sale
The Italian government agrees to sell the bankrupt airline Alitalia to a business consortium, paving the way for a relaunch.
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Government agrees Alitalia sale
The Italian government agrees to sell the bankrupt airline Alitalia to a business consortium, paving the way for a relaunch.
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Russia-Georgia talks 'progress'
Talks between Georgia and Russia aimed at defusing tensions after their conflict make substantial progress, diplomats say.
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European online library launches
The British Library is among more than 1,000 cultural groups contributing to a European online library.
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Falling demand hits BASF profit
The world's largest chemicals firm, BASF, reduces its profit forecast and says it will cut production because of a huge fall in demand.
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Final plea on Earth observation
Leading Earth observation scientists urge Gordon Brown to back Europe's environmental monitoring project, GMES.
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Politkovskaya trial doors closed
The trial of three men over the murder of Russian reporter and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya is closed to the public.
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Spain 'to slide into recession'
Spain is likely to slip into recession in the fourth quarter and stay there into 2009, the Bank of Spain governor says.
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Rwandan aide extradited to France
A senior Rwandan presidential aide is extradited to France from Germany in connection with the killing of a former Rwandan president.
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Prostitute users face clampdown
Paying for sex with prostitutes who are controlled by pimps or illegally trafficked to the UK is to be outlawed.
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Rats return to Pied Piper's town
Pied Piper needed again as rats return to Hamelin
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EU agrees cod stocks rescue plans
European fisheries ministers agree a plan aimed at increasing dwindling cod stocks, including better nets and new quotas.
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Rwandans protest over extradition
Rwandans protest against the expected extradition of a presidential aide from Germany to France.
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Controversial UN artwork unveiled
A ceiling painting worth £15m is unveiled at the United Nations in Geneva amid controversy over how it was paid for.
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Malignaggi issues Hatton warning
Paulie Malignaggi tells fans not to be surprised if he stops Ricky Hatton in Las Vegas on Saturday night.
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Former French PM to stand trial
Dominique de Villepin is ordered to stand trial in connection with a political smear campaign against President Nicholas Sarkozy.
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Windpipe transplant breakthrough
Surgeons in Spain claim a major breakthrough by giving a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells.
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Big cat fossil found in North Sea
A fossilised bone from a sabre-toothed cat has been dredged up from the seabed by a trawler off the UK coast.
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