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A total of 36,200 homes were repossessed in 2011 - the lowest annual total since 2007, mortgage lenders say.
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SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Trading in shares of Alibaba.com Ltd was halted on Thursday pending an announcement regarding its parent, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, which reportedly plans to buy back the 40 percent stake in it held by Yahoo Inc.
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Wang Lijun is said to be receiving 'vacation-style treatment' after hundreds of police surrounded the US consulate in ChengduThe Chinese police chief rumoured to have attempted defection amid political intrigue visited a US consulate this week, Washington has confirmed.Political observers and internet users have been gripped...(more)
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Nietzschean high-school killers have obscured the interpretation of 'God is dead' as an opening, not a closing, of mindsA little over a year ago when the news broke that a lone gunman had shot Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 18 bystanders at a meet-and-greet in a...(more)
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SFr637m (£442m) loss compares with the SFr841m profit that the bank posted in the fourth quarter a year agoCredit Suisse Group has announced its first fourth-quarter net loss since 2008, posting negative returns of SFr637m (£442m) that were far below what analysts had expected.Analysts' consensus estimates...(more)
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Lack of UNSCR resolution 'encouraged Syrian government to step up its war on its people', says secretary generalThe UN's failure to agree a resolution on Syria is "disastrous" for the country's people, the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon has said as President Assad's government launched its...(more)
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• UN offers to join the Arab League monitoring mission• More killed on the sixth day of the assault on Homs• Pentagon draws up contingency plans10.29am: Syria's top Sunni cleric, Grand Mufti Sheikh Ahmed Badreddin Hassoun, met Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday and thanked Iran for...(more)
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#foxconn Foxconn has more to worry about. As well as struggling to deal with allegations of exploitative working conditions in its factories, it's now had the bad fortune of being hacked, having login and password information spread across the web.More »
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University of Leicester researchers have analysed daily flares from the supermassive black hole, thought to be caused by asteroids and comets being pulled into the Milky Way's black 'heart' and vaporised.
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VILLANOVA COACH Harry Perretta will have to wait another day to collect a win, but he did coach his 1,000th game as coach of the Wildcats in a 79-73 loss to Big East rival DePaul last night.
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BANGKOK (AP) -- World stocks moved cautiously higher Thursday as confidence rose that Greece will get its next bailout despite an 11th hour snag and investors took in stride data showing inflation in China is heating up again....
