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...surrealist carousel with flying frogs, bionic spacemen and Jules Verne spaceships. In Rome, the market in the baroque Piazza Navona is worth a visit for its first-rate buskers alone. In Naples, the entire Via San Gregorio Armeno is given over to cr?che scenes and figurines. The largest of Vienna's markets takes place in front of the Rathaus, or City Hall. At the Skansen open-air museum in Stockholm, look out for the procession of white-clad girls bearing candles in honor of St. Lucy (her feast is Dec. 13, the year's shortest day before the calendar change...
...with flying frogs, bionic spacemen and Jules Verne spaceships. In Rome, the market in the baroque Piazza Navona is worth a visit for its first-rate buskers alone. In Naples, the entire Via San Gregorio Armeno is given over to crèche scenes and figurines. The largest of Vienna's markets takes place in front of the Rathaus, or City Hall). At the Skansen open-air museum in Stockholm, look out for the procession of white-clad girls bearing candles in honor of St. Lucy (her feast is Dec. 13, the year's shortest day before the calendar change...
...total of 10, and added to the 100 coalition troops already killed in November, the worst month for casualties since the U.S.-led invasion began in March. Final Warning IRAN The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), censured Tehran for its clandestine nuclear program. The agency's board stopped short of U.S. demands that it refer the country to the U.N. Security Council. But the IAEA did warn of stern action in the event of "further serious Iranian failures." Tehran claims its program is for civil use. Come Get Him NIGERIA President Olusegun Obasanjo...
...people caught trying to pass counterfeit bills. Austrian antifraud investigators who rarely laid eyes on a fake schilling before the changeover reported 3,000 cases of counterfeit euros last year. This year, they've seen 15,000, mostly originating in Bulgaria, says Erich Zwettler, an anticounterfeiting investigator in Vienna. Next door in the German state of Bavaria, police also report an increase in forgeries from Lithuania, Italy and Turkey (mainly coins). Some 7,500 cases are awaiting trial in Bavaria alone. Police say that the most commonly faked euro bills - 50s, 20s, 100s and 200s, in that order - could become...
...Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reports that there is no "evidence" of such a program, though Iran is developing relevant technology and has shown a "pattern of concealment" over the past 18 years. At a meeting November 20 of the IAEA, the organization's 35-member board of governors will decide whether to declare Iran in noncompliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refer it to the U.N. for possible action, as the U.S. wants, or reprimand but continue to work with it, as the U.K., France and Germany prefer. TIME's Andrew Purvis spoke to IAEA head...