More than 1,200 Catalans have joined a movement which uses its own currency, the Eco, and has its own education and health systems as a way of beating the crisis.
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India’s top court has refused marketing exclusivity for an new form of Glivec on the grounds that it is not a novel medicine but an amended version of an existing compound. The decision means that generic drug makers are now allowed to sell more affordable copies of the cancer treatment to the 1.2 billion people living in India.
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This time, it wasn’t the surrounding ecosystem that turned out to have feet of clay, but the software behind Bitcoin itself. It seems that version 0.7 of the Bitcoin mining software – the program that does the cryptographic guessing, and exchanges blockchains over its peer-to-peer network – had a fatal but unknown flaw.
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The University of Dusseldorf on Tuesday evening stripped German Education and Research Minister Annette Schavan of her doctorate for plagiarism.
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The extent of the decline of France’s ailing industrial sector was laid bare on Tuesday, with the publication of a report stating over 1000 factories had closed since January 2009.
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Lady Gaga has been stripped of 156 million YouTube views after the site cleared out stats it deemed dummied up by hackers and viewcount generators.
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Officials at San Antonio’s Northside school district said they were willing to give her a chipless badge, but warned the straight-A student she would be expelled from her prestigious selective-enrollment school if she did not wear it.
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A Texan student who refused to wear a badge with a radio tag that tracked her movements has lost a federal court appeal against her school’s ID policy.
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The New York Police Department lost tons of crucial DNA and other evidence when two of its warehouses were destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. Now, Gotham’s justice system is struggling to produce the materials in court.
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France lost its top credit rating at Moody’s Investors Service, which also maintained a negative outlook for Europe’s second-largest economy, citing what it called a worsening growth outlook.
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