Berners-Lee wins Millennium Prize for web birth
Tim Berners-Lee, 49, receives 1.2 million cash prize in Helsinki for creating the World Wide Web and for not commercializing or patenting his Internet contributions. He says charging fees would have prevented the Web. In separate news, Shabina Begum loses legal bid to overturn her school jilbab ban in Denbigh High School.
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Kremlin signals choice for Chechen presidency
Chechnya Interior Minister Alu Aikhanov announced he will seek to replace slain president Akhmad Kadyrov, with the Kremlin signaling support after a lavish Kremlin meeting with President Putin. The Aug 29 Chechen election follows Kadyrov's death in May from a bombing.
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Dubliners celebrate Bloomsday centenary with Ulysses homage
Tens of thousands in Ireland and abroad mark the 100th anniversary of June 16 1904 the setting of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus epic journey through inner-city Dublin. The novel was banned in Britain and the U S until the mid-1930s for its vulgarity and vivid topics and Ireland only fully allowed access in the 1960s after Joyce's death.
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