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• Australia safely through first hour at Ashes Test (AFP)
• Sales of electronic cigarettes rise, and so does criticism (AFP)
• Spanish downturn ends immigrants' dream of better life (AFP)
• Spain holds Europe's fate in its hands in 2011: analysts (AFP)
• European debt crisis a boon for British blogger (AFP)
• Spain lotto winner nearly loses millions by tossing tickets (AFP)
• EU hails kickoff for new financial surveillance bodies (AFP)
• Lufthansa to create 4,000 jobs in Germany in 2011: report (AFP)
• Spain's bars and restaurants go smoke-free in tough new law (AFP)
• Winterkorn to remain at Volkswagen helm until end-2016 (AFP)
• Report: Bout says US offered him lighter sentence (AP)
• Prominent Kremlin opponent gets 15 days in jail (AP)
• Spain: Church holds Mass supporting family values (AP)
• Spain enacts tough anti-smoking law (AP)
• Russia calls for halt to Tu-154 flights after fire (AP)
• Pope: Mass attack in Egypt 'offends God' (AP)
• Pope denounces abuses of Christians (AP)

Australia safely through first hour at Ashes Test (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 04:45 PM PST AFP - Openers Shane Watson and Phillip Hughes gave Australia a boost by negotiating the first hour of play in the fifth and final Ashes Test against England at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Monday.

Sales of electronic cigarettes rise, and so does criticism (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 02:42 PM PST AFP - Makers of electronic cigarettes are reporting strong growth in sales as anti-tobacco laws force European smokers into the cold streets, but campaigners say the device is undercutting health efforts.

Spanish downturn ends immigrants' dream of better life (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 02:39 PM PST AFP - After losing her job as a maid several months ago, 26-year-old Magaly Baez is preparing to return to Paraguay with her husband, an unemployed waiter, and their nine-month-old baby.

Spain holds Europe's fate in its hands in 2011: analysts (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 02:24 PM PST AFP - For financial markets the doomsday scenario in 2011 starts with Spain buckling under its debt and unleashing a Europe-wide crisis that dwarfs anything seen so far in Greece or Ireland.

European debt crisis a boon for British blogger (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 02:10 PM PST AFP - When British economist Edward Hugh set up a blog that repeatedly predicted the euro could not survive, few people took notice. Not any more.

Spain lotto winner nearly loses millions by tossing tickets (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 12:50 PM PST AFP - A Spanish lottery player nearly lost nine million euros (12 million dollars) in winnings after tossing tickets in the rubbish only to later discover they were winners, Spanish media said Sunday.

EU hails kickoff for new financial surveillance bodies (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 12:23 PM PST AFP - The European Union hailed the 2011 kickoff this weekend of a series of new post-crisis pan-European watchdogs aimed at tightening regulation of the finance industry.

Lufthansa to create 4,000 jobs in Germany in 2011: report (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 12:20 PM PST AFP - German national air carrier Lufthansa will create 4,000 jobs in the country in 2011, its new boss Christoph Franz told the newspaper Bild in an interview to be published Monday.

Spain's bars and restaurants go smoke-free in tough new law (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 12:19 PM PST AFP - Smokers stubbed out their cigarettes in tapas bars and restaurants across Spain on Sunday as one of Europe's strictest anti-tobacco laws came into effect.

Winterkorn to remain at Volkswagen helm until end-2016 (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 11:14 AM PST AFP - Martin Winterkorn will remain as head of German carmaker Volkswagen until the end of 2016 after his contract was extended by five years, the company said Sunday.

Report: Bout says US offered him lighter sentence (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 09:25 AM PST AP - Viktor Bout, the suspected Russian arms merchant, is being quoted as saying U.S. authorities promised him a lighter sentence in exchange for information about his contacts.

Prominent Kremlin opponent gets 15 days in jail (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 08:56 AM PST AP - One of Russia's most prominent opposition leaders has been sentenced to 15 days in jail after being arrested at a New Year's Eve protest rally.

Spain: Church holds Mass supporting family values (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 08:46 AM PST AP - Tens of thousands of people celebrated a Mass honoring the family as a building block of Christianity in downtown Madrid on Sunday.

Spain enacts tough anti-smoking law (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 07:44 AM PST AP - Tapas bars — the noisy and bustling Spanish success story that combined delicious morsels with good wine and often a cloud of cigarette smoke — are now smoke-free. So are restaurants, discos, casinos, airports and even some outdoor spaces.

Russia calls for halt to Tu-154 flights after fire (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 06:51 AM PST AP - Russia's transport oversight agency is calling on the country's airlines to stop using the Tu-154 plane until the cause of a passenger jet fire and explosion that killed three people is determined.

Pope: Mass attack in Egypt 'offends God' (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2011 05:05 AM PST AP - Pope Benedict XVI says an apparent suicide bombing outside a Mass in Egypt that left 21 worshippers dead "offends God and all of humanity."

Pope denounces abuses of Christians (AP) Posted: 01 Jan 2011 06:33 PM PST AP - Pope Benedict XVI urged Christians to remain strong in the face of intolerance and violence in a New Year's appeal that came several hours after a bomb blast outside an Egyptian church that killed at least 21 people as worshippers left Mass.

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