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Most ministers of EU member states in charge of telecommunications support the European Commission's proposal to cap the cost of roaming SMS messages within the EU starting July 2009.
On Thursday, November 27, at a meeting in Brussels, the interior ministers of the European Union member states officially announced that Switzerland should join the Schengen Agreement in the near…
The latest wave of economic crisis has significantly strengthened emigration sentiment in Ukraine. This is stated in a new study by the Israeli national repatriation agency 'Sokhnut'.
The global economic crisis has forced European hoteliers to reduce the cost of hotel rooms by 50% or even more. If not for this extreme measure, most hotels in major European cities would have been…
In December, Europeans waltz, sing, lose huge sums of money at the races, drink beer and cider, put on fireworks, and choose gifts for relatives and friends. In short, they have fun and entertain…
On the financial map of the world, you can find "quiet havens" that are least affected by storms. As Itogi notes, these states can be conditionally divided into four types. The first includes…
When you go to Canada, you subconsciously picture scenes from Discovery Channel films: pristine nature, mountains, forests, wild but cute bears (on screen they are all cute) catching fish in the…
Lonely Planet has released a new guidebook, Best in Travel 2009, which gathers the best travel ideas. The guidebook brings together 850 travel destinations and routes that, according to the authors…
The city of New Orleans, Louisiana, recorded the highest crime rate in the United States. According to CNN's website, such information is provided in a report by CQ Press (Congressional Quaterly).
The scandalous 2006 film 'Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan' still attracts tourists to the former Soviet republic. Kazakhstan, which had previously…
The Amsterdam municipality has decided to close 43 of the city's 228 coffee shops by 2011 – establishments where soft drugs such as hashish and marijuana are legally sold. The punitive sanctions…
US President George Bush signed a law that increases the duration of unemployment benefit payments. Now, unemployed people who have already received and spent their benefits but still have not found…