TRAUNSTEIN, FRG A polite engineer standing up trial Monday acknowledged miscalculations in the building of an ice skating rink that gave way two geezerhood ago, voting down 15 citizenry, mostly minors.

But two early defendants — the caput of building and an designer — took a firm stand they existed innocent as their test on charges of manslaughter and carelessness opened in southerly Germany.

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Britain’s Prince Charles will non attend the openning up ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing — and a grouping that campaigns against China’s human rights record told Monday that the future monarch’s conclusion was in solidarity with its aims.

Free Tibet Campaign functionaries said they held written to the Prince of Wales request him to rest away from the case, which begins on August 8.

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Six work force were run over by a railroad train and shot down while taking the air home from a club in northern Ukraine, harmonizing to Russian reports.

The manpower, aged from 17 to 20. existed crossing rail tracks “in the early 60 minutes” Sunday when a railroad train hit them, the Novosti word agency told.

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Greater London, England A London court Monday launched five work force guilty of Britain’s large ever cash looting.

A panel at the Old Bailey court convictedded the workforce after a five-month test, a judicature spokesman stated. One man was not guilty.

Sentencing was expected as early as Tuesday, the spokesman said.

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Britain’s Prince Charles will non attend the openning up ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in solidarity with a grouping that campaigns against China’s human rights records, the Free Tibet campaign emphasised Monday.

Free Tibet articulated it held written to the Prince of Wales request him to remain away from the case, which begins on August 8.

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Six hands were run over by a railroad train and voted out while taking the air home from a cabaret in northern Ukraine, agreeing to Russian reports.

The hands, aged from 17 to 20. existed crossing rail tracks “in the early hour” Sunday when a railroad train hit them, the Novosti tidings agency emphasised.

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Capital of the United Kingdom, England McDonald’s employees trained in acquisitions needed to bunk outlets for the fast food chain can acquire credit toward high school sheepskins, the British authorities announced Monday.

Along with two former large companies, McDonald’s Corp. was yielded the powerfulness to present the equivalent of innovative high-school makings as part of a program to ameliorate young people’s accomplishments, said the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, a regime education governor.

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Capital of the Russian Federation, Russia Russia’s Central Election Commission disqualified one of Kremlin’s critics from the country’s presidential election Sunday, laying claim that the touchs collected for his putting forward petitions existed forged, the province news federal agency said Sunday.

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Athinai, Greece Archbishop Christodoulos of the Greek Orthodox Church popped off Monday after a fight with malignant neoplastic disease, church functionaries told CNN. He was 69.

Christodoulos was the spiritual drawing card of or so 15 000 000 Greek Orthodox Christians world, including about 10 000 000 in Greece.

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A rider train jumped in Turkey Sunday, defeating at least nine citizenry and wounding about 50 others, CNN-Turk reported.

It was at least the fifth major train wreck in the commonwealth in the past four old age.

The railroad train was on its way from Istanbul to the western metropolis of Denizli when it jumped near the metropolis of Kutahya, CNN-Turk stated.

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