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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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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
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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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UN renews call for more aid to the poor on World Food Day
New York - United Nations leaders on Thursday called on the international community to assist the...
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Yushchenko Calls for a Defence of Ukraine's Currency
Kiev - President Viktor Yushchenko on Wednesday called for a tougher defence of the Ukrainian...
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EU leaders agree on financial rescue, deadlock on climate
Brussels - European Union leaders Wednesday endorsed a major financial rescue package but remained...
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Re-Elected Canadian Premier Harper Turns Quickly to Economy
Montreal - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, buoyed by gains in Tuesday's parliamentary...
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It's All Smiles again for Mr Brown,British PM Wins in Crisis
London- Gordon Brown is on a roll. No more gloomy poll news for the fingernail-chewing British...
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EU Gets Set for "Crisis Management" Summit
Brussels - European Union summits are traditionally the time when tough decisions are made and...
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What warming? Climate change slips among global priorities
Washington - You might call it the fourth crisis.
While collapsing financial institutions plunge...
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Boom to Gloom as Australians Join the Real World
Sydney - You have to be over 16 in Australia to have lived at a time when the economy was not...
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Three European Scientists Won The 2008 Nobel Prize For Medicine
One German and two French scientists won
the 2008 Nobel prize in medicine for their work in...
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Bank Lobby Calls for Extraordinary Global Action on Credit Crunch
Washington - An influential international banking lobby group on Thursday called for urgent and...
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Bailout Still under Fire from Both Sides
Washington - Pablo Fierro came to Washington from Philadelphia for a rally against the proposed...
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Senate to Vote Wednesday on Rescue Package
Washington - The Democrats who control the US Senate and minority Republicans have agreed to hold a...
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United Nations Plan to Eliminate Malaria by 2015
United
Nations officials stated Thursday that a plan backed by approximately $3 billion
in...
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Amid Finance Crisis, UN Aid Summit Raises 16 Billion Dollars
New York - Despite a massive financial crisis afflicting rich countries, a one-day United Nations...
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US Financial Crisis Triggers Comeback for Japanese Banks
Tokyo - It has not been so long since the world worried about Japan's financial sector.
After...
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Israeli government divided over compensation for West Bank settlers
Jerusalem - The Israeli government is deeply divided ahead of a debate scheduled for Sunday on a...
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Myanmar Begins Mourning Period for Cyclone Victims
Myanmar will observe three days of mourning beginning today (Tuesday) for the victims of Cyclone...
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ADB Begins Mission For Aiding One Billion Asians
During yesterday’s annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank
in Madrid, the decision reached...
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The UN Fights The Food Crisis
The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, has made
an appeal for a global effort to end...
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U.S. to Give $200 Million Emergency Food Aid
The response of the United States to the food crisis that is already affecting the world’s poorest...
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Remains of Four 9/11 Victims Identified
The remains of four more victims of the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center have been...
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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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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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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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World's Finance Chiefs Prepare to Tackle Credit Crisis
Washington - Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from around the world descend later this...
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Bank of Japan Injects Record $40 Billion into Market
Tokyo - The Bank of Japan pumped a record 4 trillion yen (39.8 billion dollars) into the money...
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Emergency meeting of Group of 20 to discuss financial crisis
Washington - The Group of 20 (G20) that brings together emerging economies and industrial nations...
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Asia-Pacific Markets Fall Sharply Wednesday
Tokyo - Stock markets throughout Asia and the Pacific fell sharply Wednesday in response to Wall...
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Panic in Latin America, trading suspended in Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo - The global financial crisis unleashed panic Monday in Latin American financial markets,...
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Analysis: Bail-out marks first step in long road back for US economy
Washington - While US President George W Bush signed a much- awaited 700-billion-dollar rescue...
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US emergency finance rescue plan clears final hurdle
Washington - The US House of Representatives approved a revised financial rescue plan on Friday...
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US Can Avoid Japan's Fate, Economists Say
Tokyo - As the world is dragged into a financial crisis ignited by the US subprime loan problem,...
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SEC loosens requirements for banks to report investment values
Washington/New York - In an effort to relieve pressure on the banking industry's hard-pressed...
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Europe may also need massive rescue plan, OECD head says
Strasbourg - Despite assurances by European leaders that their finance systems were stable, Europe...
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EU Urges US Lawmakers to Approve Rescue Plan
Brussels - United
States lawmakers were required by the
European Commission to assume their...
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Financial Crisis Can't Stop Africa Aid, Leaders Warn
New York - African leaders warned Monday that the financial crisis enveloping advanced economies...
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Australia Worries Wealth Not Spreading to the Middle
Sydney - It's a measure of the strength of the economy that analysts squabble over whether the next...
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Battle lines drawn over giant US finance rescue
Washington - Battle lines were being drawn in Washington on Sunday over the US government's rescue...
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US in Search of Comprehensive Plan to Restore Confidence
Washington - The US government was weighing its options for a more permanent fix to the ongoing...
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Barclays to Pay 1 Billion Pounds for Some of Lehman Brothers' Assets
Britain bank Barclays has agreed pay 1 billion pounds (1.75
billion dollars) for some of the core...
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Russia, Baltics Slip in Business Climate Survey
Vienna - Russia and Estonia lost ground in a global survey of pro-business policies as economic...
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Europe "on Edge of Recession" as World Economy Slumps
Berlin - The European economy shrank during the second quarter, data released Thursday showed, amid...
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