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Budapest - Hundreds of Hungarian anti-Semites gathered in Budapest yesterday to protest at a major international meeting for Jews set for Sunday.

Three-time world champion surfer and musician Tom Curren chatted via telephone on April 1, 2013, with Digital Journal about his new album “In Plain View,” which is expected to be released tomorrow.

Medellin, Colombia: Voted 2013's Innovative City of the Year for its implementation of sustainable innovation and a unique budgeting system.

Despite its economic problems, Spain is still the healthiest place to live in Europe, and possibly the world, according to the medical journal Lancet, with an average of 70.9 years of healthy living, and a life expectancy of 81.4 years.

The government of India has rejected a request by the pharmaceutical company Bayer AG that it desists with the manufacture of a cheaper generic version of its patented cancer drug.

As the world turned, bringing 2013 to each country, fireworks lit the sky in incredible displays. Despite austerity, many major cities represented in the video offered pyrotechnic extravaganzas. Let us hope for peace and prosperity in the new year.

Toronto - Nigel Fisher and his boots have walked through some of the most remote and dangerous places in the world, but now, visitors to the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto may catch a glimpse of them, where the long-time UNICEF humanitarian has been inducted.

The US presidential election would be bereft of suspense and less exciting if the rest of the world could vote. Recent polls reveal that left to non-Americans Obama would win by a landslide.

Geophysical activities portend greater earthquakes. Recently an eastern Indonesian earthquake struck with the power of a 6.3-magnitude, a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off northwest Mexico coast, and 'silent earthquakes' ripple under Cascadia.

After writing an interview that I did with Hollywood producer Harmon Kaslow about his movie Atlas Shrugged Part II, he invited me to attend the World Premiere of the movie at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC.