BEIJING, June 7 (Reuters) – Hundreds of students clashed with police and burnt cars in central China after street inspectors beat up a female student, a police officer and a witness said on Thursday, the latest in a series of public disturbances.

Babacan: Turkey must choose EU or Third World Turkey will be relegated to the status of “a Third World country” unless it applies EU standards of democracy and the rule of law, the country’s chief EU negotiator State Minister Ali Babacan said on Tuesday.

California lawmakers took a step closer Tuesday toward ordering the state’s two giant public pension funds to unload more than $2 billion in retirement money invested in foreign companies doing business in Iran.