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Portal:Current events/2011 July 14

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Armed conflict and attacks

Arts and culture
  • The poet Liao Yiwu tells the BBC of how he fled China via Vietnam and other countries and arrived in Germany after his struggles with Chinese authorities who have spent decades suppressing his work and imprisoning him. (BBC)
  • A rare manuscript of an unfinished Jane Austen novel has sold for £993,250 (US$1.6m) in London. The work, The Watsons, was sold at Sotheby's for three times its estimated price. (BBC)

Business and economy

International relations

Law and crime

Politics and elections

Science