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Italian outrage over Roma drowning photos

Italian newspapers, an archbishop and civil liberties campaigners expressed shock and revulsion on Monday after photographs were published of sunbathers apparently enjoying a day at the beach just meters from where the bodies of two drowned Roma girls were laid out on the sand.

CNNMoney: Dollar mixed after Britain freezes rates

The U.S. dollar was mixed against the euro and the pound Thursday after the Bank of England left interest rates unchanged, signaling with its peers that inflation was more pressing than growth.

CNNMoney: Head of ECB says inflation 'worrying'

European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet warned Wednesday that euro nations are already seeing the first signs of an inflation price spiral, calling on governments to take care not to grant wage hikes that could fuel further price rises.

Free food may tackle EU obesity

The European Union will aim to spend €90 million ($140 million) a year to provide free fruit and vegetables to schools across the continent to tackle child obesity, an official said Tuesday.

CNNMoney: Subsidies boost food prices - WTO

The WTO chief says European and American farm subsidies are partly responsible for high food prices because they undermine farming in developing countries.

Time.com: EU Approves New Immigration Rules

The European Parliament on Wednesday approved controversial new rules for expelling illegal immigrants from the bloc, overcoming opposition and protests

Big Thinker: Jeremy Rifkin

Jeremy Rifkin is an internationally renowned economist, social critic and author. Since 1977 he has been president of the Foundation On Economic Trends (FOET). For the last 14 years he has been a fellow at the Wharton School's Executive Education Program. He has written 17 highly successful and thought-provoking books including "The End of Work" (1995), "The Hydrogen Economy" (2002) and most recently "The European Dream" (2004).

Time.com: Europe Grapples Over Biofuels

Rising food prices, trade tensions and social unrest are prompting a rethink of the EU's ambitious hopes for running cars and trucks on biofuel

Peru to protest Europe on terrorism

Legislators in Peru plan to lodge a protest on Friday with the European Parliament after it declined to list the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, an insurgent group, as a terrorist organization.

FIFA thumbs down for '39th game'

The Premier League's plan for an extra round of overseas matches was given a unanimous thumbs down by FIFA's executive committee on Friday.

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