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EU lenders await 'stress test' bank results
Shares across Europe rose yesterday amid hopes that most of the continent's 91 top banks will pass EU-mandated 'stress tests'.
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Spain reveals Cuba's plan to free all political prisoners
The Spanish Foreign Minister yesterday told his country's parliament that Cuba would soon release "all" political prisoners.
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Gorillaz announce New Zealand concert
Gorillaz will play a New Zealand show off the back of an Australian tour later this year.
![All Blacks: Williams may play in Europe to aid fitness](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
All Blacks: Williams may play in Europe to aid fitness
Injured Ali Williams could look to Europe for a short-term contract in a bid to get match-hardened before the World Cup.
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A love-haute relationship
Haute couture may be struggling in these tough economic times, but there is still a place for it on the catwalks of Paris.
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Milan: City of style
The Milanese live up to their effortlessly elegant reputation, writes Zoe Walker.
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Poker hopefuls head south
Fifteen lucky poker players are headed from Auckland to Queenstown this week for a chance to strike it rich.
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US equities advance on better earnings news
Stocks in the US advanced as better-than-anticipated earnings outweighed a decline in homebuilder confidence.
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Divers find 200-year-old champagne
Divers have found what is thought to be the world's oldest drinkable champagne in a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea.
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Forget the LHC - physicists plan new atom smasher
Forget the Large Hadron Collider, Cern's scientists have their hearts set on a new, $9.48 billion, 31km Linear Collider.
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Solid US earnings fails to ease concerns
Solid earnings data from corporate America has done little to ease investors' concerns that growth in the world economy is slowing.
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Gays defy traditionalists with Warsaw march
To anyone who pictures Warsaw as a cold, grey, conservative city, yesterday offered an antidote.