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London's landmark "Gherkin" office tower has been sold to investment company Safra Group, controlled by Brazilian-Lebanese billionaire Joseph Safra.
   

BELGRADE - Serbia marks the World War I Armistice Day as its national holiday on Tuesday. The day commemorates Germany's capitulation that led to the cessation of WWI hostilities. The capitulation was signed in a railway carriage in Compiegne, France, on November 11, 1918 at 11:00 a.m.

BELGRADE - The Belgrade-based NGO Forum for Ethnic Relations organized a roundtable on Serbia-Albania cooperation on Monday evening, with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama as a guest.

Dusan Janjic, director of the Forum for Ethnic Relations, said during the discussion that "the ghosts of the past should not trip the living up on their road to the future."

Corlatean resigned on Monday amid anger over long queues and chaotic scenes when Romanians living abroad tried to cast ballots at the presidential polls on November 2.

His move came after tens of thousands of people protested in cities across the country at the weekend in support of Romanians living abroad who were not able to vote.

BELGRADE - German Ambassador to Serbia Heinz Wilhelm has said that the fall of the Berlin Wall helped unite not only Germany, but Europe as well, adding that he hopes Serbia will soon become a member of the EU.

If you fell into a coma in East Germany in October 1989 and woke up a few months later - like the protagonist’s mother in the German movie “Good Bye Lenin!” - you would find yourself in a completely different country.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Nov. 9 praised the courageous citizens who peacefully brought down the Berlin Wall 25 years ago, calling the momentous day proof that "dreams can come true."

Merkel, who grew up in the communist East, was speaking at a memorial site to the 138 people killed in Berlin alone as they tried to flee the Soviet-allied state.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta hailed the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on his Facebook page on Sunday.

Turkish karateka Enes Erkan won his second world championship title in the men’s kumite (free fight) 84-plus kilogram division on Nov. 8.

The United States and Iran began high-level talks in Oman Nov. 9 ahead of a looming deadline for a deal on Tehran's nuclear programme, with both sides under pressure at home.