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...heavy blow to retailers feeling the pinch after last year's recession - and the gloomy holiday shopping period when sales were largely stagnant. According to HDE, the German retailers' association, at least a fifth of all payment terminals in German stores could not read the faulty cards after Jan. 1. Furious over the loss of sales that resulted, retailers have lashed out at the banks for failing to spot the problem earlier. "We have angry customers and lost revenues and it's simply not our fault," Stefan Genth, the head of HDE, told the German daily Bild. Genth says retailers...
...appears that foreign security officials have yet to fully implement the U.S.'s new Transportation Security Administration rules regarding passengers from global hot spots. Under the new regulations, which were announced on Jan. 3, any passenger traveling through or from Pakistan or one of 13 other nations that are "state sponsors of terrorism" or "countries of interest" should be flagged for extra security checks before boarding a flight to the U.S. Yet Ahmed Khan, who passed through Doha, Qatar, on his way to the U.S. from Pakistan, said that security in Doha was tight but not abnormally so. Every traveler...
What is killing the octopus of Vila Nova de Gaia? That question has obsessed the Portuguese city - located just across the Douro River from Porto - since Jan. 2, when 1,100 lb. (500 kg) of dead octopus were found on a 1.8-mile (3 km) stretch of local beach. The following day, another 110 lb. (50 kg) appeared; later there was just one expired creature. "It's very strange that so many should be killed, and in such a confined area," says Nuno Oliveira, director of the Gaia Biological Park, a nature refuge on the outskirts of Vila Nova...
...returned to Ireland from his native Slovakia on Jan. 2, was promptly arrested by police and detained for questioning. Good news, right? The Irish authorities could congratulate themselves on foiling a potential terrorist threat, couldn't they? Not quite. (See pictures of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab...
...community, which numbers about 16,000, has struggled for years to integrate more fully into a society that has grown more antagonistic toward immigrants like them. Then came the news that a man with an ax and knife allegedly burst into the home of Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard on Jan. 1 and threatened to kill him. Danish Somalis were aghast when authorities said the intruder was one of their...