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Germany were so confident they were going to win World Cup they printed five million victory stamps BEFORE the final

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Գերմանիա, ֆուտբոլից հետո Germany printed five million stamps commemorating their fourth World Cup title before the final on Sunday had even started.

The 60-cent stamps are due to go on sale this week after the first commemorative copies are offered to the players and staff.

If Germany had lost the final, the stamps, printed by Deutsche Post, would have had to be pulped.

The stamps were ordered by Germany’s Finance Ministry, which holds 21 per cent of Deutsche Post’s shares through the state-owned KfW bank.
Meanwhile, it was reported yesterday that a new German football shirt bearing the four stars for Germany’s four World Cup wins sold out within hours of the team’s triumph in Brazil.

Germany were crowned world champions on Sunday night and Adidas wasted no time in commemorating the achievement – by revealing a kit with four stars above the badge.

On Monday morning Adidas’ website was already displaying a ‘sold out’ sign next to the new shirts.

 

Car bomb kills at least 38 people in Afghanistan

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A car bomb exploded in a busy market in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 38 people and wounding 30 others, police said.

The car was driven by a suicide bomber who detonated explosives after police ordered him to stop his car, said Nissar Ahmad Abdulrahimzai, deputy police chief of Paktika province.

Meanwhile, in the capital, Kabul, the Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack early Tuesday on a vehicle used by presidential palace employees.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement to media that three people were killed and six others injured in the explosion. He said all the victims were working in the presidential palace media department.

 

Libya Considers Calling for International Troops

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Libya’s interim government says it is considering requesting the international community to send troops to the country after three days of fighting destroyed large parts of the capital’s airport.

In a statement posted on its official website early Tuesday, the government also urged all rival parties to cease hostilities, saying commanders who violate its orders would face charges of “crimes against humanity.” It added that a national committee would supervise the withdrawal of militias from the airport area to outside the city.

The government also said that 90 percent of the aircraft at the airport were hit in the shelling, while several buildings, including the customs house, were completely destroyed.

The fighting was some of the most intense seen in Tripoli since longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi was toppled in 2011.

 

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World’s oldest bottle of mineral water uncovered: 200-year-old corked Selters flask found deep within the Baltic sea

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The world’s oldest bottle of mineral water has been uncovered from the depths of the Baltic Sea by Polish.

The 200-year-old flask, described as in a ‘good condition and still corked’, has the name ‘Selters’ inscribed in its stoneware.

Polish archaeologists found the 12 inch (30cm) bottle in shipwreck lying 12.2 metres (40ft) below water in the Gdańsk Bay close to the Polish coast.

Produced between 1806 and 1830, the brown bottle is an extremely rare find as most sealed flasks from that period contain either beer or wine.

‘We have not opened the bottle, we are not sure what it contains and what is the taste of the water which is 200 years old,’ said Tomasz Bednarz, National Maritime Museum archaeologist.

Apart from the bottle, the team managed to recover parts of ceramics, a small bowl and a few pieces of dinnerware.

Selters is a German luxury mineral water brand which gained popularity with Europe’s wealthy during the nineteenth century.