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As Spaniards migrate from villages to cities for work, education and access to health care, rural hamlets are ending up on the auction block. Foreigners are in the market for these properties.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it will allow pasteurized egg imports from the Netherlands to alleviate dwindling supplies and higher prices from the ongoing outbreak on U.S. poultry farms.

The tiny, island nation of Iceland is in the middle of a growth spurt. For the past month, the country’s Bardarbunga volcano has been churning out lava at a prodigious rate. And the eruption shows no signs of abating.

The cease-fire in eastern Ukraine was being tested Sunday, with intense fighting reported near the airport in Donetsk Saturday and Sunday.

The government of Ukraine in Kiev and pro-Russian separatists in the east have agreed to stop fighting at 11 a.m. ET.

The morning started on a hopeful note: The office of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin the two had agreed on a “permanent cease-fire.”

Russian troops are entering Ukraine — this much is known — but whether they are mounting a “full-scale invasion,” as one Ukrainian official told CNN, or are mistakenly crossing over, as Moscow itself claims, is uncertain.

The piano wasn’t fancy, and the acoustics were bad. But a performance of Beethoven’s “Für Elise” at a Prague airport is drawing rave reviews.

American analysts say they’ve verified several pieces of evidence that show pro-Russian separatist rebels shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, according to U.S. intelligence officials who briefed reporters Tuesday.

It might be the oldest tree in Britain. A yew tree that sprawls over a churchyard in Wales is more than 5,000 years old, according to experts.