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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission opened an in-depth investigation on Friday into BHP Billiton's $170 billion unsolicited bid for rival miner Rio Tinto , with prices of iron ore
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HAMILTON, Bermuda, July 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. (NYSE: OEH)( href="http://www.orient-express.com">http://www.orient-express.com ) will...
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The American military said that its airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan hit two vehicles carrying insurgents, while a provincial governor said that civilians had been killed.
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) - Thrilled as she was to win her fifth Wimbledon singles championship, Venus Williams dialed down her celebration. No hopping in place and skipping to the net after match point, the way she's done so often on that Centre Court lawn. No giddy laughter and whoops of joy, as she's let out in the past. This title was different from her previous successes at the grass-court Grand Slam....
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean police said about 50,000 people protested in Seoul on Saturday against a U.S. beef import deal and the policies of the new president, whose government has faced weeks of street rallies.
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The US government is developing a "long-range plan" to empty its war-on-terror prison at its naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, and seeking help on what to do with inmates who won't be tried.
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Is Barack Obama close to being shadowed by giant flip-flops and, worse, having the image stick with people all the way to the voting booth? Four years ago, Republicans branded as a...
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For a while now, we've been pointing out how, for advertising to be effective, it also needs to be good content that people don't just "not mind" seeing, but which they're willing to actively seek...
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In the past, we've covered plenty of stories about social engineering to get people to admit stuff they shouldn't -- suggesting you really just need to ask people to give up personal info and they...
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We were just complaining about the fact that governments should be exposing APIs on certain government data so that people can create more useful services out of them -- and it appears that someone...
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Here's one for the "didn't quite think that through, did you" files. Gizmodo points us to the news that British authorities trying to prevent...
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Reuters - France's Banking Commission on Friday
fined Societe Generale 4 million euros ($6.3 million) for
serious breaches in internal controls...
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Reuters - World stocks edged lower on Friday,
getting no relief from a decline in crude prices as concerns of
further banking write-downs weighed...
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AP - Fuel prices are soaring and credit markets tightening, but the super-rich are still lining up to pay tens of millions of dollars for mega...
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Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) -The Dow rose on Thursday, a day after
the blue-chip average entered a bear market, on relief payrolls
data was not as...
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