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• A perfectly safe car — just not in the U.S.
Others are small, like the U.S. requirement that vehicles have side lights, which are optional in Europe. Ford isn't the only automaker facing this issue.
• Stocks end lower on personal income data
In Europe, London’s FTSE-100 index rose 0.63 percent, Frankfurt’s DAX rose 0.03 percent and the CAC-40 index in Paris rose 0.47 percent.
• Karadzic refuses to enter war crimes pleas
Srebrenica was its murderous climate — Europe's biggest massacre since the Holocaust. New indictment Bonomy pressed prosecutors to work fast to draw up a new, streamlined indictment against Karadzic.
• 'Grease to Greece' racers run on cooking oil
The "Grease to Greece" race, the brainchild of 34-year-old Londoner Andy Pag, took the teams on a 10-day mission across Europe in which they begged oil to fuel their cars from restaurants, motorway cafes and fast-food joints along the way.
• Dell’s quarterly profit drops 17 percent
In a conference call, Michael Dell, who returned as chief executive in 2007, acknowledged that Dell may have been overzealous in cutting prices to challenge its larger competitor, Hewlett-Packard Co., in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.