After weeks of protests, Emil Boc, Romania’s prime minister, resigned Monday, the latest European leader to fall victim to a mood of public outrage over austerity measures and stagnant growth.

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The British team are going head to head against hundreds of downhill skaters in the latest leg of the Red Bull “crashed ice” world championship.

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VIDEO: Bushell rides crashed ice course

ATHENS — For Greeks who have watched their taxes skyrocket, their wages plunge and their prospects flatline, news of the latest austerity demands from European leaders came like the punch line to a bad joke. Read full article > >

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A new think tank launched in the District Monday with the goal of reducing the cost of health care through research and entrepreneurship. The West Health Policy Center is the latest project of Gary and Mary West, the two billionaire philanthropists behind the West Wireless Health Institute and the West Health Investment Fund, a pair of California-based organizations that develop and fund health technology products. Read full article > >

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In the latest criminal case in the Obama administration’s effort to punish leakers, an ex-CIA officer who helped track down and capture a top terror suspect was charged Monday with disclosing classified secrets about his teammates to the media.

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New York’s redistricting process has long been derided, and critics of the latest effort, including Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, say it gives an unfair advantage to incumbents.

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New York’s Redistricting Process Led by Insiders

A nuclear scientist is killed after a suspected bomb exploded in a car in northern Tehran, reports say, the latest in a string of such nuclear-linked attacks.

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‘Scientist killed’ in Iran blast

The death has shocked this South Texas border city, but it was only the latest in a series of shootings involving realistic-looking BB guns and pellet guns.

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The warning, by Iran’s army chief, was the latest and most aggressive volley in a near-daily exchange of barbed statements between Iran and the United States.

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Iran Warns the United States Over Aircraft Carrier

A new report from the Congressional Research Service — the nonpartisan public policy branch of Congress — takes a closer look at the drivers of income inequality between 1996 and 2006, the last period of moderate economic growth before the latest boom-bust cycle. The report explains that the Bush tax cuts contributed significantly to growing inequality but concludes that income from capital gains and dividends — investments in stocks, bonds, real estate and other assets — mattered even more: Read full article > >

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The biggest driver of income inequality: capital gains

For centuries, Russian rulers have feared protesters as a force that needed to be reined in. But the latest protests, with their mostly middle-class turnout, require a different strategy.

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Memo From Moscow: In Russia, a Change in the Dynamic of Protests

BUENOS AIRES — Some make the mistake of calling Juan Carlos Rennis’s school an academy, a word he associates with elitist institutions, blue blazers and snooty attitudes. “We’re a technical school,” Rennis, rector for 17 years, said with conviction. “We take people and teach them to do a job.” Rennis, a wiry man with a booming voice, wasn’t talking about plumbing or cabinet-making. But the job his 600 students are training for is one he considers of equal practical value — and far greater emotional significance — to the country: reporting the latest scores, trades, contract talks, back-office negotiations and other minutiae of the most Argentine of passions, sports. foreroj@washpost.com Read full article > >

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Verizon backed away on Friday from plans to charge customers a $2 fee to pay their bills online or over the phone after receiving thousands of complaints, the latest victory in a wave of consumer activism that has roiled some of the nation’s largest companies. The announcement came a day after the fee was made public. Consumer advocacy groups derided the charge as “ pay-to-pay .” The fee also caught the eye of Verizon’s regulator, the Federal Communications Commission, which had said it would look into the issue . But it was individual consumers — amped up after battles this year with corporate giants such as Bank of America and Target — that the company said tipped the scale. Read full article > >

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Rural villages and valleys towns across Wales are among the latest places to be given access to faster broadband.

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Faster broadband for rural areas

MOSCOW — A Soyuz spacecraft safely delivered a Russian, an American and a Dutchman to the International Space Station on Friday, restoring the permanent crew to six members for the first time since September. But just as concerns over the reliability of the Soyuz have eased, a different version of the Soyuz rocket failed Friday during an unmanned launch. It was the latest in a string of spectacular launch failures that have raised questions about the state of Russia’s space industry. Read full article > >

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Soyuz spacecraft carrying Russian, American, Dutchman docks at International Space Station