JOhn Smith

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There is no standard date set for Mother’s Day around the world and next Sunday, May 11 sees it being celebrated in The Netherlands. Apart from chocolates or a meal out with the family, one of the most common Mother’s Day gifts is a bunch of flowers but many of those flowers, rather than being grown locally are imported from Africa or South America.

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As an immediate neighbour, Finland has in the past had a relatively close if sometimes problematic  relationship with Russia but things are now changing. Aware of the need to be aligned with neighbours which are part of NATO, Finland is to invest an estimated initial €1.5 billion to change the gauge of the train track from that which is aligned with Russia to a narrower gauge based on that in place in Norway and Sweden.

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For those who lived near London Heathrow or Paris Charles de Gaulle airports there was a certain excitement looking up and spotting Concorde in the sky. It was the first commercial supersonic passenger aircraft, but whilst cramped and not that comfortable to travel in, there was the benefit of getting from Europe to the USA or Brazil in a much faster time than ever before.

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Following a number of recent suspected terrorist activities in Germany, security continues to be very tight especially when apparently abandoned or suspect cars are involved. According to reports coming out of Finnish news group YLE, German police decided to cancel an event to be hosted by Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen who was due to deliver an address at the Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS) in Berlin on May 4.

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Extreme running sees only the fittest of competitors take part in non-stop racing where they have to cover a 6.706 km loop every hour in no more than 60 minutes. Polish policeman Łukasz Wróbel who is known as Butterfly Legs (Motyla Noga) took part in a gruelling Backyard Ultra competition in Brussels which saw him running continuously for 116 hours and landing a new world record as he covered 777.896 km.