Friday, 24 June 2011 08:10 'A top surgeon who interrupted a photo opportunity for David Cameron and Nick Clegg has gone on leave. David Nunn, a leading hip replacement specialist, burst in on the pair when they were visiting patients at Guy's Hospital in Central London last week. Mr Nunn complained about some of the Prime Minister's aides and journalists covering the visit not having their sleeves rolled up - a hospital hygiene stipulation - before being ushered outside.' Read more: Surgeon Who Laid Down Law to Cameron and Clegg 'on Indefinite Leave' from Hospital Friday, 24 June 2011 07:56 'The five nuclear experts killed in a plane crash in northern Russia earlier this week had assisted in the design of an Iranian atomic facility, security sources in Russia said on Thursday. The five Russian experts were among the 44 passengers killed when the Tupolev-134 plane broke up and caught fire on landing outside the northern city of Petrozavodsk on Monday.' Read more: Nuclear Experts Killed in Russia Plane Crash Helped Design Iran Facility Friday, 24 June 2011 07:50 'The rest of the world needs to sit up and take notice of what is going on in Greece right now. This is what can happen when you allow government debt to spiral out of control. Once it becomes clear that you can’t pay your debts, a financial collapse can happen very suddenly and you start losing your sovereignty to those that you must turn to for financial help. So is the financial collapse of Greece the “canary in the coal mine” for the global economy? EU finance ministers have given the Greek government two weeks from Monday to approve another round of brutal austerity measures. If the austerity measures are not approved, Greece will not receive the next bailout installment of 12 billion euros. If that happens, the whole globe better buckle up because it is going to get crazy.' Read more: The Financial Collapse Of Greece: The Canary In The Coal Mine For The Global Economy? Friday, 24 June 2011 07:40 'An investigation into the massive drugging of kids in Florida juvenile jails has uncovered psychiatric doctors with deplorable records working for the state's Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). Their histories include not only grand theft and medical malpractice, but overmedicating patients to the point of death. Friday, 24 June 2011 06:03 '"About 450 people were detained in Belarus for participating in the Revolution Through Social Media protest action," RIA Novosti news agency reported, citing a post published on the website of Belarusian Vesna human rights group. Thursday, 23 June 2011 13:16 'An attempt by European Union environment ministers to strengthen EU action to combat climate change was blocked by Poland last night, prompting a swift rebuke from the energy minister Chris Huhne. "I'm deeply disappointed that the only country in the EU that could not accept a good compromise on how we can move Europe to a low carbon economy was Poland," he said in a statement. "It's a dark day for Europe's leading role in tackling climate change, but the UK together with its European colleagues will continue to make the economic case for tighter EU carbon targets so that we can make the most of the future green economy," he added.' Thursday, 23 June 2011 12:44 Thursday, 23 June 2011 12:39 'With one child going missing every six hours in South Africa, a pilot project sampling pupils’ DNA aims to aid police investigations. The project was launched at Bastion Primary School in Brackenfell yesterday, where scores of pupils queued to take part in the IDENT-A-KID initiative. Brackenfell Community Policing Forum (CPF) chairman Leon Brynard said that through this initiative between the CPF and the Brackenfell police, they hoped to extend IDENT-A-KID to other schools in the area, and repeat it annually to accommodate new pupils.' Thursday, 23 June 2011 11:25 'The European Parliament will today back down and order the release of a secret report detailing the widespread abuse of expenses by MEPs, The Independent has learnt. A meeting of senior MEPs is expected to accept a European Court of Justice ruling that there is an "overriding public interest in disclosure". The decision could have far-reaching consequences for transparency within the European Parliament and wider European Union institutions. It will increase pressure on the parliament to publish more details of the expenses claims of MEPs including their travel expenditure, attendance records and the highly controversial €4,300 (£3,800) "go anywhere" budget given to members.' Read more: Europe Braced for MEPs' Expenses Storm 
In a series of outstanding articles in the Palm Beach Post, reporter Michael Laforgia lays out the heinous trail of a still unfolding investigation. It began with an expose that children in state custody were receiving heavy dosages of powerful antipsychotics; in two years, Florida bought hundreds of thousands of these tablets with no DJJ tracking system in place to detect practitioner abuse. This led to a finding that doctors giving the diagnoses had taken huge speaker fees or gifts from drug companies that make antipsychotics.'
Several thousand people took to the streets in downtown Minsk on Wednesday to protest against Lukashenko's economic policies and his management of the financial crisis in the ex-Soviet republic.
Belarusian Special Forces moved in, rounded up dozens of people and hustled them into police buses. Journalists of local media were among those detained.'
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