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Out with the parties, booze and junk food, in with weeks of intense dieting and gruelling exercise - not your typical student experience, but recently 27 undergraduates at one German design university gamely took up the challenge of obtaining a rippling six-pack - all in the name of art.
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Soul-searching in Europe this week as it asked: Can the continent afford its own IMF? How will Europe fare in its power struggle with Asia? And can Slovenia really make amends to the 20,000 citizens it has ignored for 20 years?
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Our latest report on equality finds us in Germany, where statistics show that women earn 23.2% less than their male colleagues - a figure over 5% higher than the European average. The EU has condemned the gap and 26 March will mark “Equal Pay Day” in Germany. But why are they so far behind?
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Morgan Freeman playing Nelson Mandela with Matt Damon as support and Clint Eastwood in the director’s chair – it doesn’t sound like Invictus, the movie based on Mandela’s efforts to unite a divided country behind a rugby team, could go wrong. But then again, nothing is for sure in Hollywood.
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Turkey has withdrawn its ambassador from Sweden and cancelled a prime ministerial visit to Stockholm over the Swedish parliament’s decision to recognize the mass murder of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as “genocide.” The parliament defied their government's advice in passing the resolution.
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Another day, another strike. Although the outside world may be growing weary of hearing about Greece's economic traumas, today's protest was the largest and most violent yet, indicating that the Greeks are not planning on accepting their government's harsh spending cuts without a fight.
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The Ukrainian parliament has confirmed Mykola Azarov as the country’s new prime minister in a move strengthening recently-elected President Viktor Yanukovych’s grip on power.
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Lithuania today celebrated 20 years of independence from the Soviet Union. Heads of state from Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Finland and Slovenia attended the events. Lithuania’s historic secession launched a wave of similar declarations throughout the USSR.
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Today our series on equality in Europe takes us to Brussels to find out more about the battle over maternity and paternity leave in the EU’s corridors of power. While some MEPs are battling for more parental leave, critics are claiming the costs are just too high.
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EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton today faced down her critics and presented her plans for a new European diplomatic service to MEPs. Pointing to Europe's declining world influence, she said the time had come for the bloc to stop its infighting and unite - behind her.
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