Vladimir Gusinsky, a media tycoon on bail in Spain and under heavy fire from the Kremlin, has given money to improve conditions at one of Moscow's worst prisons, where he spent a few uncomfortable nights last summer.

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The shooting was the worst at a U.S. high school since one person was killed and five wounded at a high-school football game in Houston 11 months ago, according to the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which promotes tougher controls on firearms.

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You wouldn't think Britain was one of the Western world's worst economic laggards by looking at the latest sales figures from Tesco , the supermarket giant that gets about half its revenues from the United Kingdom.

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The attack, at a midnight screening of Batman film The Dark Knight Rises, was one of America's worst mass shootings.

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He said at the trial the company's failure to abide by safety rules was "one of the worst examples of sustained industrial negligence in a high risk industry I have ever seen".

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Those sentiments were echoed by Neville's manager, David Moyes, who was particularly pleased with the manner in which his team bounced back from last weekend's 2-0 defeat at Bolton, a performance he described as one of the worst of his nine-year Goodison Park tenure.

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It is an attempt to tackle one of Pakistan's worst problems: the huge number of children who receive no education at all.

ECONOMIST: A small start on the big problem of illiteracy

South Korea's Kospi Composite was the best performing market on Tuesday, as one of the region's worst performing markets in 2013 gained 1.0% to end at 1968.83.

WSJ: Kospi Outperforms, Shanghai Lags