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AP – Thousands of protesters rallied Saturday in several cities across Russia to protest the government’s economic policy and demand more political freedoms.

The Gruyere from cheesemaker Cedric Fragniere in Kirchberg, Switzerland, was crowned best cheese at the World Championship Cheese Contest. John Jaeggi, the cheese industry and applications program coordinator for the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research, discusses what makes a top cheese.

BusinessWeek – Tinashe Chinyanga describes his childhood in Zimbabwe as fairly standard, working in the fields every morning before walking to school in a nearby village. But the rest of his education has been a world away from his village friends: boarding school, then a medical degree, and now the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (GSB). Education was his ticket out of an early grave, says 28-year-old Chinyanga. “Most of my peers have HIV, if they’re not already dead.” Chinyanga owes his more fortunate path in part to his father, who was a teacher and pushed him to succeed. …

Reuters – Steam-driven projects to extract crude from Canada’s oil sands, often held up as more environmentally friendly than mining, have major drawbacks of their own that require more stringent regulation to fix, an environmental think tank said on Wednesday.

AP – YRC Worldwide Inc., one of the country’s largest trucking companies, said Wednesday that shipping volume is improving this month after two months of severe winter storms.

Reuters – EU finance ministers backed plans on Tuesday by countries in the euro area to help debt-stricken Greece financially if it becomes the first state in 11 years of monetary union to seek such aid.

Reuters – Bombing by Nigeria’s biggest militant group in its oil delta this week will not derail an amnesty deal meant to restore security to Africa’s largest energy industry, government and security sources said on Tuesday.

Reuters – There is a consensus among OPEC members to keep output unchanged, and no change is expected at Wednesday’s meeting in Vienna, Kuwait’s oil minister Sheikh Ahmad al-Abdullah al-Sabah said on Tuesday.

Reuters – The Canadian dollar tipped lower against the U.S. currency on Monday as easing oil prices and lower stock markets caused investors to pause for the first time after an 11-day stretch of gains.

AP – Clothing maker Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. said Monday it has agreed to buy privately held Tommy Hilfiger in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $3 billion, creating one of the world’s biggest clothing companies.