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  • PHOTOS: Last Dance, Donna Summer's life

  • FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2009 file photo, Donna Summer performs at the conclusion of the Nobel Peace concert in Oslo, Norway. Summer, the Queen of Disco who ruled the dance floors with anthems like “Last Dance,” “Love to Love You Baby” and “Bad Girl,” has died. Her family announced her death in a statement Thursday, May 17, 2012. She was 63. (AP Photo/John McConnico, File)Twirling her leopard-print dress on stage in the '70s, proudly holding many of her music awards and performing in recent years on "American Idol", Donna Summer was the ultimate disco queen



  • Denmark aims low with green energy policy

  • SAMSO, Denmark (Reuters) - Over a beer or two, Danes like to tell a story that goes like this: One night the energy ministers of the countries around the North Sea got together to divide up its oil and gas wealth. The Danish minister got very drunk, but the Norwegian managed to stay sober. As a result, Norway carved out a jagged shape that included Ekofisk, which has proved to be a major field, and Denmark was left with the dregs. ...
  • Insight: Swing states: Could Europe decide the U.S. election?

  • A young boy peers out as U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign rally at the Ohio State University in ColumbusNAVARRE, Ohio/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The busy shop floor at Miller Weldmaster Corp could make a great location for an Obama campaign ad. As workers assemble the family-owned company's hot-air fabric welders, used to manufacture everything from inflatable rafts to truck tarps, it's hard to know the recession of 2007-2009 ever happened. Ten clocks on the wall of the plant in Navarre, Ohio, show local time from Norway to New Zealand and tell Miller Weldmaster's comeback story in a word: exports. Sixty percent of the company's business now comes from outside the United States. ...



  • Breivik killed with joyous "battle cry": witnesses

  • Norwegian mass killer Breivik is seen in a courtroom in OsloOSLO (Reuters) - Anders Behring Breivik roared a "battle cry" and appeared both angry and joyous as he shot people one by one with a distorted face, survivors of the Norwegian far-right killer's massacre told a court on Wednesday. "I heard screaming but I couldn't make out the words," Ingvild Leren Stensrud, 17, who was shot in the leg and shoulder, said. Stensrud, who survived after another victim fell on her, knocking her to the floor and creating the impression that she was dead, said she initially thought Breivik was not alone. ...



  • Kenya near to sealing more offshore oil search deals

  • Workers are seen at an oil exploration site in Bulisa district North-West of KampalaNAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya is close to sealing a deepwater exploration contract with France's Total and has offered three other oil majors new offshore blocks, the country's petroleum commissioner said. Martin Heya told Reuters on Tuesday a production sharing contract with Total for block L22 offshore was with the Attorney General's office, meaning it is close to being signed. He said the energy ministry had offered Brazil's Petrobras, Norway's Statoil and Italy's Eni offshore blocks, but the companies had yet to sign agreements. ...



  • Breivik victim 'hid under bodies'

  • A teenager who survived Anders Behring Breivik's attack on Utoeya island tells his trial in Oslo that she only lived because she hid under another victim's body.
  • Burning man tries to break into Breivik trial

  • OSLO (Reuters) - A man set himself on fire and tried to force his way into the Norwegian courthouse where far-right mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is on trial for massacring 77 people last July, police said on Tuesday. The man, who appeared to be a white Norwegian in his 50s, doused himself with liquid and set himself on fire before shouting at police officers and rushing toward a gate in the security perimeter, witnesses and police said. There was no indication of a motive. ...
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