Ukrainians head to the polls Sunday to vote for a new parliament in elections they hope will break years of political crisis. The leaders of the country's Orange Revolution say they want to reunite after bitter infighting split them apart. But whether their side will win is still unclear.

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U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari spent the weekend in Myanmar, in an effort to find a peaceful solution to the military government's crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators. He met with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday and separately, with Burmese military rulers.

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The map on the new Euro coin does not include Turkey, which desperately wants to become part of the European Union.

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Organic apple farmers keep their fruit free of worms by spraying their trees with a naturally occuring virus. But insects in some orchards in Germany have developed resistance to this biological insecticide and farmers are concerned.

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