PARIS (Reuters) – European Central Bank President Mario Draghi sa id on Friday that budgetary consolidation in the euro zone would entail a short-term economic impact but the currency bloc was on track for a recovery in the second half of 2013. Draghi told Europe 1 radio that euro zone governments must push ahead with implementing a banking union which should apply to all banks to avoid fragmenting the sector. Governments must pursue structural reforms to reduce labor market rigidity, notably in France and Italy, he added. (Reporting By Nicholas Vinocur; Editing by Daniel Flynn) Gotye wins big at Australia's Aria music awards
Gotye has taken home album of the year at Australia's Aria music awards for hi s internationally acclaimed "Making Mirrors." After long jail term, gaming gangster faces less violent but still murky Macau
MACAU (Reuters) – Wan "Broken Tooth" Kuok-koi will emerge from jail this weekend into a very different Macau gambling haven than the one he bullied in the late-1990s. Under new leadership, chosen at a Chinese Communist Party Congress this month where corruption was a dominant theme, Beijing is sending strong signals to Macau authorities to tighten regulation and promote responsible gaming in the world's casino capital. It's a far cry from more than a decade ago when Wan and other triad gangsters ran amok during the final days of Portuguese rule of this southern Chinese outcrop. … UPDATE 1-Cricket-Aussie bowlers put South Africa on the ropes
* Australian quicks rattle Proteas * Du Plessis again fights rearguard PERTH, Nov 30 (Reuters) – Australia’s overhauled pace attack mauled South Africa with five wickets in the hour around the lunch break to leave the tourists floundering at 141 for seven at tea on the opening day of the third and final test of the series on Friday. Seamers Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson and debutant John Hastings as well as all rounder Shane Watson all got amongst the wickets to leave South Africa perhaps ruing the decision to bat first on a bouncy WACA track. …
AP Exclusive: Myanmar verifying Muslim citizenship
Guarded by rifle-toting police, immigration authorities in western Myanmar have launched a major operation aimed at settling an explosive question at the heart of the biggest crisis the government has faced since beginning its nascent transition to democracy last year.
Macau braces as infamous gangster set for prison release to city transformed by casino wealth
HONG KONG – The Asian gambling mecca of Macau is bracing for the release on Saturday of a notorious organized crime boss who was at the centre of the gangland violence that plagued the city in the late 1990s.
Napoleon's letter giving order to blow up the Kremlin to be auctioned
FONTAINEBLEAU, France – The single line of Napoleon’s secret code told Paris of his desperate, last order against the Russians: “At three o’clock in the morning, on the 22nd I am going to blow up the Kremlin.”
Napoleon's secret coded Kremlin letter on sale
The single line of Napoleon's secret code told Paris of his desperate, last order against the Russians: "At three o'clock in the morning, on the 22nd I am going to blow up the Kremlin." 
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