The Russian wildfire crisis is now taking its toll on other parts of the world. Bread prices are set to soar after the country began its ban on grain exports this weekend. The wildfires roaring through Russia have destroyed crops, and the government has decided that what's left, needs to stay.
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For two days this week the French capital's most famous street - the Champs-Élysées - has literally gone green. Cows and sheep take the place of the usual cars and vans as the area is turned into a giant garden for a street art project that harks back to the avenue's past as an area of farmland.
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03.09.2010 16:00 UTC - 16:30 UTC
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