Germany and Denmark agreed Friday to build an 11-mile bridge spanning the waters between the two nations and cut travel times between Scandinavia and central Europe. The road and rail span over the Fehmarn Strait is scheduled for completion in 2018. It is expected to cost some $7.5 billion, with private investors paying part of the bill and the European Union also providing funds. Motorists from Copenhagen, Denmark, to Hamburg, Germany, now must load their cars onto a ferry.
Spain: Concert workers die in fall
Two workers dismantling a Rolling Stones’ stage at a stadium in Madrid fell to their deaths from a metal scaffold Friday, officials said. Two other Spanish workers were injured in the accident at the Vicente Calderon Stadium, one critically. Police said three of the workers fell about 30 feet from the scaffold, and landed on the fourth worker. The Rolling Stones, currently on the European leg of their A Bigger Bang world tour, performed in the Spanish capital Thursday night. They are due to play in the southern town of El Eijido this weekend.
Egypt: Fatal female circumcision
The death of a 12-year-old girl at the hands of a doctor performing female circumcision has sparked an outcry and prompted health and religious authorities to ban the practice. The girl died this month while undergoing the procedure in an illegal clinic in Maghagh. Her mother told the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper that she paid about $9 to a female physician to perform the procedure. The mother also told the paper the doctor tried to bribe her to withdraw a lawsuit accusing the physician of murdering her daughter, in return for $3,000, but she refused.
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