Greece becomes trade battleground as foreign investors swoop

The Chinese are interested in airports, harbours and railways. The Russians are determined to infiltrate the energy market. The Qataris have made clear they want to invest in property.

Three years to the month after becoming the first eurozone country to be bailed out by the European Union (EU), European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF), Greece has finally got its long-delayed privatisation campaign off the ground, and the programme has turned the debt-choked country into a battleground for nations seeking access to the EU trading bloc.

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The nature of fame: the Lady Gaga professor who became a global star

Deflem said his experiences gave him a deep insights into celebrities and the wider culture that sustains them. Photograph: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

Professor Mathieu Deflem finally realised that something truly strange had happened to him when people started asking him for his autograph.

For the professor of sociology at the University of South Carolina is not a celebrity. He is just an academic, who teaches theories about fame in modern popular culture.

Amanda Bynes Claims Arresting Officer Sexually Harassed Her 'He Slapped My Vagina'

Amanda Bynes is now accusing the cop who arrested her Thursday night of sexual harassment ... saying on Twitter today, "He slapped my vagina."

Bynes just posted a long, rambling tweet trying to explain her version of the events that led to her arrest.

First off, she claims she only opened the window "for fresh air" and the cop was lying when he said she threw a bong out the window. She then explains, "He slapped my vagina. Sexual harassment. Big deal. I then called the cops on him."