While Ulyukayev conceded that the economy was tanking, he denied that it was entering a sustained period of contraction.

Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for simultaneous raids on two Iraqi prisons, setting more than 500 inmates free in July.

The serviceman was said to have attacked a mosque in the Bordeaux region last year, although little damage was caused.

In June, Bernanke said the Fed will likely slow its bond-buying this year and end it in 2014 because the economy is strengthening.

Kazakhstan found themselves second in the section going into the game, having won 1-0 in Belarus in their opening fixture.

Gorme, who was born to Spanish-speaking Jewish parents in New York in 1928, grew up speaking both English and Spanish.

Other work focused on different fields of physics, including statistical mechanics, thermodynamics and color theory.