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Breaking News Sun, 20 May 2012
Serbian President Boris Tadic addresses the media in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, July 22, 2010. Kosovo won a major victory on the world stage Thursday as the International Court of Justice, the United Nations' highest court, said its 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia was legal.
Business   Election   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Boris Tadi  
 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Serbs Vote in Presidential Runoff Election
| Correction Appended | PARIS -- Serbs voted Sunday in a presidential runoff election pitting Boris Tadic, a pro-Western reformer, against Tomislav Nikolic, a nationalist former cemetery manager who w... (photo: AP / Marko Drobnjakovic)
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 Independent online 
G-8 leaders hope Greece remains in eurozone
The United States and other members of the Group of Eight industrial nations agree that Europe's financial crisis must be addressed with a mix of growth and austerity measures, President Barack Obama ... (photo: Creative Commons / jvh33)
President Barack Obama and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron stand together on stage after a joint news conference at Lancaster House in London, Wednesday, May 25, 2011.  The Daily Mail 
Cameron and Obama talk euro crisis over workout as Tories at home plot £7bn welfare ...
| David Cameron and Barack Obama yesterday staged a 35-minute ‘treadmill summit’ side by side at a G8 gathering dominated by the Euro crisis. | Their crunch talks came as a group of influe... (photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster)
Business   Finance   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: David Cameron  
Serbian President Boris Tadic speaks during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012.  The Guardian 
Serbia holds presidential vote
| BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Voting has begun in Serbia's presidential runoff election that pits pro-European Union Boris Tadic against nationalists Tomislav Nikolic who wants closer ties with Russia. ... (photo: AP / Virginia Mayo)
Election   Photos   Politics   Serbia   Wikipedia: Serbia  
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Error sees 'Butcher of Bosnia' trial suspended NZ Herald
Error sees 'Butcher of Bosnia' trial suspended
| The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic was abruptly halted, just a day after it opened, because of prosecution "irregularities'' in the hig... (photo: UN / JC McIlwaine)
Bosnia   Crimes   Kosovo   Photos   Trial   Wikipedia: Bosnia and Herzegovina  
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Bulgaria extends smoking ban to cafes, stadiums
| AFP - Lawmakers in Bulgaria approved on Thursday last-minute changes to the country's health bill to ban smoking in stadiums and all enclosed public spaces such as cafe... (photo: WN / Arturo Ubaub)
Bulgaria   Health   Lawmakers   Photos   Smoking   Wikipedia: Bulgaria  
Mladic instigated ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, UN court told France24
Mladic instigated ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, UN court told
| AFP - Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic went on trial accused of carrying out a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing and Europe's worst massacre since Worl... (photo: UN / UN)
Bosnia   Court   Crime   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Bosnia and Herzegovina  
Former Bosnian Serb military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic is seen at the start of his trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday May 16, 2012. BBC News
Mladic trial: Prosecution to focus on Srebrenica massacre
A war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic is to resume, with the prosecution focusing on the Srebrenica massacre in 1995. | Gen Mladic is accu... (photo: AP / Toussaint Kluiters, Pool)
Crime   Massacre   Photos   Serbia   Wikipedia: Ratko Mladi  
Dramatic start to Mladic genocide trial The Australian
Dramatic start to Mladic genocide trial
| HE is no longer the swaggering general who held Sarajevo "in the palm of his hand" during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. Yet as his long-awaited genocide trial be... (photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras)
Dramatic   Genocide   Photos   Serbia   Trial   Wikipedia: Serbia  
President Barack Obama waits with Vice President Joe Biden before attending the STOCK Act signing event in the Hold Room of the South Court Auditorium at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) of the White House, April 4, 2012. Novosti
Putin-Obama Mutual Snubs Spell ‘Reset’ Crisis – Analysts
| The current diplomatic contretemps between Russia and the United States is a crisis for the reset policy in bilateral relations, which are still based on Cold War-era d... (photo: White House / Pete Souza)
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Serbian President Boris Tadic addresses the media in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, July 22, 2010. Kosovo won a major victory on the world stage Thursday as the International Court of Justice, the United Nations' highest court, said its 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia was legal.
Serbs Vote in Presidential Runoff Election
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- Nationalist Nikolic defeats Tadic for Serbian presidency
- Syria: Bomb strikes near UN officials
- Do not write off the West yet
- Two arrested for fatal school bomb
Serbian President Boris Tadic addresses the media in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, July 22, 2010. Kosovo won a major victory on the world stage Thursday as the International Court of Justice, the United Nations' highest court, said its 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia was legal.
Serbs Vote in Presidential Runoff Election
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health Education
- Former British PM heckled in Maine college speech
- Ending the Mindset That Gets Us into War
- Serbia holds presidential vote
- United States to Unveil Plans to Bolster NATO Alliance
Cigarette Smoking - Nicotine
Bulgaria extends smoking ban to cafes, stadiums
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- Bomb outrage at school: men held
- Italy school bombing: Two suspects arrested
- Two arrested for fatal school bomb
- Father of teenage fashion student killed in Italian bomb bla
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Technology Trade
- NZ dollar holds near 5 1/2-mth low; G8 divided over Greece
- World Week Ahead: EU rattles the globe
- Spain to pick bank audit firms on Monday: PM
- In America, A Digital 'Manifest Destiny' Is Playing
Conservative Popular Party candidate Mariano Rajoy puts his arm around his wife Elvira Fernandez Balboa after winning the general elections, in Madrid, Sunday Nov, 20, 2011.
Spanish banks don't need European rescue: PM
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- World Week Ahead: EU rattles the globe
- Greeks’ discouragement about economy makes animal rescue h
- A debate: Should you jump in on Facebook debut?
- Reports: Yahoo nears deal to sell stake in Alibaba
Gold (pronounced /old/) is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from its Latin name aurum) and atomic number 79. It is a highly sought-after precious metal which, for many centuries, has been used as money, a store of value and in jewelry. The metal occurs as nuggets or grains in rocks, underground "veins" and in alluvial deposits. It is one of the coinage metals. Gold is dense, soft, shiny and the most malleable and ductile of the known metals. Pure gold has a bright yellow color traditionally considered attractive
Is this the beginning of the end for gold?
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