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Mad Money
A comedy about three ordinary women who form an unlikely friendship and decide to do something...
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Bernanke: End-of year recovery depends on financial system
Washington - The US economy continues to show signs of stabilizing and may be growing again by the...
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Thousands mark Easter Sunday in Jerusalem
Jerusalem - Thousands of Christian pilgrims flocked to Jerusalem Sunday, to mark the resurrection...
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Ahmadinejad, Chavez want to jointly tackle global economic crisis
Tehran - The presidents of Iran and Venezuela after talks Thursday said they had decided to...
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WTO chief Pascal Lamy: Protectionism is on the rise
Geneva - Since the beginning of the year, countries around the world have been implementing...
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US assures world that economic fundamentals are strong
Washington - The United States sought to reassure other countries Friday that its long-term...
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Clinton meets Chinese foreign minister, days after naval spat
Washington - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang...
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Obama: US seeks aggressive action from G20 members
Washington - The United States will push for aggressive action to halt the global economic slide at...
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Germany Engulfed By Gloomy Economic Winter
Berlin - Germany is caught in the midst of a gloomy economic winter with the government attempting...
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Sarkozy calls for "moralization of capitalism"
Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday opened an economic symposium in Paris by...
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German Unemployment Jumps As Economic Downturn Gains Ground
Berlin - German unemployment rose for the first time in nearly three years in December, data...
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Linz Shakes Off Industrial Image To Unveil Cultural Side
Linz, Austria - The Austrian city of Linz is easily overlooked on the route between picture-perfect...
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Taiwan Reached A Record High In Its Foreign Exchange Reserves
Taipei - According to the Central Bank, Taiwan's foreign exchange reserves...
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Japan's Stock Market Ends Worst Year In Trading History
Tokyo - For Tokyo's traders, it was the worst year on record for Asia's leading stock market -...
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Lagoons, Rivers And Mennonites Separate Belize And Mexico
Chetumal, Quintana Roo - The vast lagoons between Bacalar on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and the...
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UN Fears World Financial Turmoil Will Sink Programmes
New York - The United Nations may be the next unintended victim of the global economic crisis as...
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Slovakia Seals Its New Image With Euro Switch
Bratislava - A decade after Slovakia set out to abandon its reputation of a thuggish post-communist...
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Brazil floods are early sign of global warming, expert warns
Rio de Janeiro - The rains that devastated 30 towns in the southern Brazilian state of Santa...
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Record European Inflation Fall Paves The Way For Rate Cuts
Berlin - Inflation in the 15-member eurozone fell sharply in November and unemployment edged...
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Elders Tell MDC: Join Government Now, Push For Change Later
Johannesburg - The Elders on Monday urged Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change...
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German Business Confidence Plunges To Near 16-Year Low
Berlin - German business confidence plunged to near a 16-year low in November, a key survey...
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Bush Encourages Cooperation At APEC Summit
U.S. President George W. Bush, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and...
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Leaders meet as economic woes pile up
Washington - The world's 20 leading economies are holding an historic summit in Washington Saturday...
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G20 leaders open critical financial summit
Washington - The world's 20 top economies launched on Saturday an historic summit aimed at...
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IMF Hopes To Improve Reputation With Expanded Lending Role
Washington - As leaders of the Group of 20 nations gather for Saturday's historic meeting, one of...
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Historic G20 Summit Hopes To Head Off Global Recession
Washington/Berlin - The leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies will hold an historic meeting...
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Brazilian President Calls for Global Solutions
Saturday, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
urged international finance ministers to...
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Russia Focuses on Medvedev Address after Last-Minute Delay
Moscow - Russia watchers were long curious to hear President Dmitry Medvedev's first national...
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Hungary to Receive Loan of 6.5 Billion Euros from EU
Paris - The European Union is extending a loan of 6.5 billion euros (8.25 billion dollars) to...
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Amsterdam's Financial Mile Facing Credit Crisis
Amsterdam - It's a beautiful Autumn day in Buitenveldert, one of Amsterdam's most popular...
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Euro Hits Three-Year Low as Economic Gloom Deepens
Frankfurt - The euro plunged to a three-year low Friday, slipping below 1.25 dollars, amid...
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U.S.
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TV entertainment holds mirror to US during recession
Los Angeles - US viewers turning to their televisions for comfort and distraction from economic...
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US trade nominee Kirk: No "deal fever" in Obama administration
Washington - Ron Kirk, President Barack Obama's nominee for US trade representative, pledged...
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Madoff faces new charges; Congress starts probe
Washington - Bernard Madoff, already awaiting trial in a 50- billion-dollar investment Ponzi...
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US Congress to start probe of Madoff Ponzi scheme
Washington - The US Congress on Monday was to open a probe into Bernard Madoff's alleged...
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US criticizes lack of clean technology progress in climate talks
Washington - The world must step up its efforts to develop the kind of clean technologies needed to...
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Geithner To Head Obama's Economic Team During Crisis
Washington - President-elect Barack Obama Monday unveiled the economic team that will attempt to...
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Geithner to head Obama's economic team during crisis
Washington - President-elect Barack Obama Monday unveiled the economic team that will attempt to...
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Obama Focused on Assembling Cabinet Quickly
United States’ President-Elect, Barack Obama, seems to be very aware about the fact that time is...
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INTERVIEW: Good Corporate Governance: A Challenge For East And West
Cairo - Although he rejects the idea that good corporate governance would have decreased the effect...
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US Presidential Race Long, Costly
Washington - The 2008 presidential campaign has been one of the longest in US history, spanning...
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Iran's Ahmadinejad Blames the US for Global Financial Crisis
Tehran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday again blamed the United States for the...
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Bush successor to inherit Middle East quagmire
Tel Aviv/Ramallah - There are not many parts of the world where George W Bush - one of the most...
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Latin America Favours Obama, but Can Handle McCain
Buenos Aires - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said it best for how much of Latin...
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US Pledges $40 M to Save Coral Triangle
Manila - The United States Thursday pledged 40 million dollars to help save the Coral Triangle, the...
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Paulson warns of more bank failures amid more cash for AIG
Washington - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Wednesday warned that more banks would fail as...
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McCain, Obama agree that Buffett could lead US treasury
Washington - Senators Barack Obama and John McCain both mentioned billionaire investor Warren...
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Movies
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The World is Not Enough for Bond. James Bond
Despite the fact that it won't open in the United States until November 14, "Quantum of...
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New Movie “Eagle Eye” Dismantled By Critics
Who would have thought that the old strangers-meet-to-save-the-world plot is still a valid idea for...
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Good Things Come To The Family That Preys
In-between business lunches, meetings, bills and mortgages, everyone could use a good old movie...
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Johnny Depp Saves Extras' Lives
Johnny Depp was on the set of “Public Enemies,” the crime drama he is currently filming...
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“Horton Hears A Who!” Tops The Weekend Box Office
As expected, the animated movie about the elephant Horton,
who claims that he has discovered...
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"Horton Hears A Who!" Leads Friday’s Box Office
Twentieth Century Fox’ animated family movie, “Horton Hears
A Who!”, is on its way to become a...
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Wooly Mammoths Push “10,000 BC” To $37.5 Million
The movie critics hated it, but the viewers loved it. This
is, in brief, the box office story of...
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10,000 B.C. On The Way To Become a Big Box Office Hit
In spite of the cold welcome from movie critics, “10,000
B.C.” is on the verge to become a box...
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Heath Ledger’s Will Found
Before playing in “Brokeback Mountain,” Heath Ledger wrote a will in
which he left all his...
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Specials
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Pyramids to go dark for "Earth Hour"
Cairo - The Pyramids and the Sphinx, normally bathed in the golden glow of high-powered...
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Europe's clock man has all the time in the world
If you use a radio-controlled watch in Western Europe, or observe an airport clock, the chances are...
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Award-Winning Holocaust Postal Collection Acquired By Ill. Foundation
A collection of over 250 World War II postal documents, representing
evidence of the Holocaust,...
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Shipwreck Found in Namibia: "A Heritage for the World"
Oranjemund, Namibia - The archeologists are into raptures about the close to 500-year-old shipwreck...
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Heath Ledger's Co-Stars' Touching Tribute To His Daughter
Hollywood actors Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell, who took the challenge to complete the...
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Yves Saint Laurent Is Tearfully Laid to Rest
A grand and emotional funeral ceremony took place Thursday, May 5, at the Saint Roche church in...
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Rothschild’s Faberge Egg Sold For A Record Price
A Russian private bidder has bought a Faberge egg made for
the the Rothschild banking family at...
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The British Novelist Doris Lessing Wins Literature Nobel Prize
The Royal Swedish Academy
announced in Stockholm
on Thursday that the Literature Nobel Prize is...
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Technology
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Dangerous Trojan At Loose, Over 500,000 Personal Accounts Compromised
Hundreds of thousands of accounts have been compromised, as a Trojan started running around loose...
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Mozilla Launches New Tracking Add-On Geode
Mozilla is taking a step forward improving its famous browser. After the multiple Firefox updates -...
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Cheap Web Access for Poor or Remote Countries
Satellite Company O3b Networks that stands for "other 3 billion," referring to the...
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Windows: Dead OS Running?
In a conference held in Las Vegas, two Gartner analysts presented a report titled "Windows Is...
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Microsoft Committed To Helping Underprivileged Communities
Microsoft is working on new
partnerships to help create economic and educational opportunities for...
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Say What? Windows 7 To Be Released Next Year?
It seems like the successor of Windows Vista will be
released earlier than we previously thought....
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Real Congressional Hearing On Second Life: Limits And Dangers
What are the limits and extent of a virtual world? This was the
topic on Tuesday’s congressional...
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Swiss Bank Drops Wikileaks Lawsuit to Avoid Further Damage
The Swiss bank which sued Wikileaks.org and managed to deny DNS access to the site has asked the...
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Wikileaks Back Online, Hearing Schedule Set
The Julius Baer bank in Switzerland, a favorite bank for the mega-wealthy across the world, filed a...
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Wikileaks Case PR Disaster for Swiss Bank
The bank which sued and managed to shut down DNS access to an anonymous whistleblower website is...
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Polaroid Could End Instant Photo Technology Era
Polaroid Corp., the company become famous for its instant cameras and photos, has decided to close...
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Jobs Does Deserve a Wow for MacWorld
Steve Jobs was more than able to obtain a collective Wow last year but this time around reactions...
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New Zealand Teenager Questioned for Global Cyber Crime
New Zealand
police are questioning a teenager suspected of being part of an international
team of...
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Microsoft Raises the Stakes with Free 5GB Hotmail
After launching SkyDrive, a free online storage service formerly known as Windows Live Folders,...
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Business
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Report: 10 US banks need more capital
New York - About 10 large US banks will need to increase their capital under a government...
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Federal Reserve chief Bernanke to testify as stress tests near
Washington - With the US central bank expected to release the results of long-awaited bank stress...
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Lula: If necessary, troubled banks must be nationalized
Rio de Janeiro - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday spoke about the...
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Signs that US may be headed slowly toward recovery
Washington - More than a year into one of the longest and deepest US recessions in living memory,...
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Banks push US stocks higher
New York - A rally of bank shares pushed US stock indices up on Thursday after Wells Fargo reported...
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Digital age, economic woes: can the post office survive?
Bern, Switzerland - E-mail, internet bill paying and other electric substitutes had already...
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World economic powers reach deal to combat crisis
London - The world's biggest economic powers reached a deal Thursday aimed at forging a new global...
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Obama pledges to do what is necessary to kick start recovery
London - US President Barack Obama wound up his first day on the world political stage Wednesday,...
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Fans apply for over 1.6 million tickets 2010 World Cup tickets
Johannesburg - Football fans applied for over 1.6 million tickets for the 2010 football World Cup...
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US reviewing trade barriers, existing free-trade deals
Washington - The United States is reviewing existing free- trade deals and will take other...
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Dollar drops as Geithner sees greater role for IMF currency
Washington - US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sent the US currency tumbling Wednesday by...
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German business confidence slips to 26-year low
Berlin - Business confidence in Germany slipped in March to its lowest point in about 26 years, a...
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US legislators: IMF needs more money to keep nations from failing
Washington - The International Monetary Fund must be given more resources to rescue poorer nations...
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New York Times sells headquarters in leaseback deal
New York - The New York Times has sold its landmark headquarters for 225 million dollars in a deal...
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Bank of England cuts interest rates to all-time low
London - The Bank of England Thursday slashed interest rates to an historic low of 1.5 per cent in...
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Siemens' Bribery Flourished Despite Warnings
Washington - A culture of bribery and impunity flourished at German corporate giant Siemens AG...
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Bernard Madoff, Not As Impeccable As Thought
Bernard Madoff has been arrested for a multibillion fraud that stretched from Europe to Asia and...
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World Bank: Global recession likely worst since Great Depression
Washington - The World Bank on Tuesday warned that a financial crisis striking the global economy...
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No Christmas Gravy For Europe's Ailing Carmakers
Brussels - Ah, the style of an Italian Ferrari, the solidity of a German Mercedes, the flair of a...
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World summit aims to close gaps in finance market rules
Washington - The leaders of the world's top economic powers are expected to agree Saturday to close...
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Half-price BMW, Anyone? South Africa Feels The Squeeze
Johannesburg - When Zafar Wahid, a project manager with Liberty Life insurance company, was...
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European Inflation Falls as Oil, Food Prices Slide
Berlin - European inflation edged down in October, data released Friday showed, as a result helping...
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Bank of England Warns of Further Risks in Financial Sector
London - The Bank of England (BoE) said in a report published Tuesday that losses suffered by...
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Financial Crisis Sends German Business Confidence Tumbling
Berlin - German business confidence plunged to its lowest level in more than five years in October,...
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Euro hits three-year low as economic gloom deepens
Frankfurt - The euro plunged to a three-year low Friday, slipping below 1.26 dollars, amid...
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EU approves rescue package as Brown inspires EU summit
Brussels - The European Union approved its own financial rescue package at a summit that saw...
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Germany on the Edge of Recession, Economists Warn
Berlin - Germany's leading economic research institutes warned Tuesday that Europe's biggest...
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Cambodia Backs Less Developed Economies amid Global Crisis
Phnom Penh - Cambodia Tuesday urged developed countries to focus on poverty alleviation in less...
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India may weather worst effects of financial crisis: officials
New Delhi - India may escape the worst consequences of the global financial crisis due to strong...
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Poor Take Hits too as Financial Crisis Moves Beyond the Rich
Washington - As the world's richest nations debate how to bring a catastrophic financial crisis...
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