Police in Spain say they've
dismantled
a drug ring which smuggled cocaine disguised as designer shoes into the country. The officers said they had detained a Colombian couple who molded cocaine into the shape of women's shoes which they dubbed Manolos after the Spanish shoe designer Manolo Blahnik. The cocaine shoes were worth almost $70,000 a pair.
Six men who've been locked up in total isolation for over 500 days to simulate a mission to Mars have emerged smiling from their capsule in the Russian capital Moscow. The Russian, European and Chinese crew have been living inside steel tubes in a warehouse meant to mirror the confinement and stress that a real voyage to Mars would entail.
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The fate of George Papandreou's crisis-stricken government will be decided in the next few hours with a confidence debate underway in the Greek parliament. The Socialists barely command a majority after defections from their own ranks following the prime minister's controversial proposal for a referendum on the latest bailout and austerity deal. Mark Lowen reports.
乔治·帕潘德里欧政府危机重重,命运如何,将于未来几小时内见分晓,因为希腊议会正展开一场信任辩论。总理提出就最新的救市和紧缩方案进行公投,引起争议纷纷,社会党内也出现脱党现象,自此该党很难得到多数人支持。Mark Lowen报道。