Jennies BlogWorld newsDR Congo mines 'hit by extortion'
Former rebels in DR Congo, now in the army, are running mafia-style extortion rackets in mines, campaigners say....
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Beijing's silent invasion of electric bicycles...
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Greeks stage fresh general strike
Thousands of Greek workers are expected to bring the country to a halt with a second strike in a month over austerity measures....
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Mexican shakes up world rich list
Mexican Carlos Slim overtakes Bill Gates as the world's richest man, according to the Forbes "rich list", with a fortune of $53.5bn....
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Google to scan old Italian books
Italy signs a deal with Google to put online the contents of its two national libraries, including works by Dante and Galileo....
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I've been back in Houston for a while now. The first couple of weeks were a bit weird, but now things have gotten back to normal. Well, maybe not normal... I don't really know what normal is. Things always change here. Which is good. It just means you can't speak in terms of "normal" or "not normal", or "how it used to be".