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Arsenal 1 Chelsea 1 (Arsenal 4-1 on pens): Gunners win 2017 Community Shield in first ABBA penalty shootout
“The stats at the moment say that 60 per cent of penalty shootouts are won by the team that takes the first penalty."
A legal farce calls Greek reform into questionA statistician is a convenient scapegoat for the failures of politicians
Thousands of houses for sale to cover debtsMore than 20,000 houses have been put up for sale in Greece over the last 12 months because their owners are unable to meet their obligations, particularly regarding mortgage payments.Fearing that their bank accounts will be frozen or their properties confiscated, owners are being forced to put their homes on the market at prices low enough to attract buyers and to pay their way out of financial troubles.
Leftist govt tables draft amendment to exempt Mt. Athos monasteries from property taxesThe government on Friday tabled a draft amendment in Parliament that exempts Orthodox monasteries on the all-male monastic community of Mount Athos from paying property taxes.
UK data protection laws to be overhauledProposals included in the bill will:* make it simpler for people to withdraw consent for their personal data to be used* let people ask for data to be deleted* require firms to obtain "explicit" consent when they process sensitive personal data* expand personal data to include IP addresses, DNA and small text files known as cookies* let people get hold of the information organisations hold on them much more freelyThe bill is also intended to transfer the European Union's current General Data Protection Regulation into UK law.This places a strong burden on firms to protect data and allows for significant fines if they fail to protect information or suffer a breach.In the UK firms that suffer a serious data breach could be fined up to £17m or 4% of global turnover. The current maximum fine firms can suffer for breaking data protection laws is £500,000.
Police at Kef airport yesterday arrested... a Turkish couple with two kids, all trying to use forged documents to board a flight to Italy.
Athletics-Stefanidi completes collection of major pole vault titlesGreece's Ekaterini Stefanidi, the new queen of the pole vault, added the one missing gold medal to her big-event collection when she soared to the world title with the best vault of her life on Sunday.
Germany to resume sending migrants back to GreeceGermany is set to send asylum seekers back to Greece, although reception centres there are overcrowded and there is a huge backlog in processing claims.
New grass snake discovered in the UKA new type of snake has been discovered in the UK, bringing the total number of species to four.Scientists say the barred grass snake, Natrix helvetica, is actually a different species to the common or eastern grass snake, Natrix natrix.Before, it was thought the grass snake was one species with several subspecies that looked slightly different.The others native to the UK are the smooth snake and the adder, which is venomous.Grass snakes are a protected species under the Wildlife and Countryside Act so it is a criminal offence to injure or kill them.
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