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Photo: A trainee steps on fellow trainees during a VIP security training course at the Genghis Security Academy in Beijing on Thursday. About 70 trainees, including six females and three foreigners, will receive intensified training at the bodyguard camp for more than 20 hours per day in a week. One-third of them will be eliminated.

Bilingual: Latvia will become the 18th country to use the euro after being approved for membership by the European Commission. In a report, the commission confirmed that the Baltic state had met the criteria for joining the single currency. Officials said the eurozone had defied those who predicted it would collapse under the sovereign debt crisis.