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The DreamWorks Animation adventure took in $15 million to reclaim the No.1 spot in its fifth weekend of release. “How to Train Your Dragon” opened in first place in late March, then dropped back into the pack. But it has held up strongly and climbed to the top again amid a flurry of so-so new [...]

The citizens of all 27 members of the European Union went to the polls to elect the deputies of the European Parliament on June 7. The parliament seems to be just a decoration against the background of the European Commission, which makes the most important decisions on the continent. Nevertheless, the European Parliament exerts a [...]

Think Russian women – think beauty, high heels and… now stop here because you wont find another one of those “Russian women are beautiful stories” here. If some cliches are anything to go by, Russia is populated with stunning brides and blonde tennis players. But what exactly is the famous Russian beauty? Russian women stunned [...]

The invasive Asian clam, Corbicula fluminea, is known as the “golden clam” in the aquarium trade and the “good luck clam” in its native southeast Asia. A thumbnail-sized clam blamed for clouding the azure bays of Lake Tahoe high in the Sierra Nevada has now turned up in a mountain-ringed Adirondack lake renowned for its [...]

A Soyuz space capsule carrying U.S. billionaire Charles Simonyi and a Russian-American crew touched down safely in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. Charred black from its re-entry into the atmosphere, the capsule — also carrying U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke and Russian flight engineer Yury Lonchakov — landed northeast of the Kazakh industrial city of Dzhezkazgan as planned [...]

China’s economy is in better shape than expected, the country’s premier said, but a big fall in wholesale prices in Japan showed the world’s second-largest economy was sliding back towards deflation A jump in China’s industrial output last month, along with a record rise in new lending, gave further credence to the idea that the [...]