EUROPEAN CONFESSIONS

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Serbian police launch raids in Belgrade in an intensified hunt for war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic, but no-one is arrested.

Swiss adventurer Louis Palmer takes his solar-powered car to the UN climate change talks after a round-the-world trip.

A Moroccan man gets 10 years in prison for links to the group that carried out the 2004 Madrid bombings, killing 191 people.

The Bank of England has cut interest rates by one percentage point from 3% to 2%, their lowest level since 1951.

Ailing Thai king cancels birthday speech

Emissions - how much to cut

Dalai Lama's appeasement caution

Itchy conscience over Tibet

Minute's silence in Spain for ETA's latest victim

End of the line for 12,000 employees at AT&T

Credit Suisse to cut 5,300 jobs

Interest rates slashed across Europe

A Turkish court jails Kurdish politician Leyla Zana for 10 years for spreading propaganda for the Kurdish rebel PKK.

Putin hints at Kremlin comeback

The Bank of England has cut the base interest rate a full point to 2 percent only a month after chopping it by 1.5 points to soften the impact of recession.

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Court slams UK police over DNA bank

The European Central Bank delivers its biggest rate cut, lowering interest rates to 2.5% from 3.25%.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has held his annual live television call-in program -- an event that shows he still runs Russia, even though he stepped down as president earlier this year, an analyst said.