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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal regulators are considering a plan to build the nation's first nuclear power plant in a generation....
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ZURICH (Reuters) - The head of Wegelin -- Switzerland's oldest private bank and which the United States has indicted for helping clients dodge taxes -- is standing back from his role as chairman of the country's influential Neue Zuercher Zeitung daily.
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Reuters - Obese Americans in the military are a national security hazard and first lady Michelle Obama wants to see that change.
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CLEVELAND (AP) -- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame says six additional groups will be inducted this year after a committee determined they should be recognized with previously enshrined original lead singers....
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First contact reported by China in the wake of escalating violence in Syria and Beijing's veto of the UN resolutionChina's foreign ministry has said a Syrian opposition delegation visited the country this week and met a deputy foreign minister, Zhai Jun.It was the first contact reported...(more)
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England's landscape has changed since Stephen Lawrence was killed. Allegations of racism are taken seriously here nowSo there goes Fabio Capello, and maybe that's that for our bold experiment with foreign managers. It wasn't such a problem that Fabio is Italian. Indeed, one can look with...(more)
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Albanese has received cash and share payouts totalling $28.1 (£17.75m), in the four years after completing the Alcan deal - which has now been written down by $8.9bnThe boss of global mining group Rio Tinto has become the second FTSE 100 chief executive in as many...(more)
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Arrests and censorship continue despite Mubarak's fall, but defiant journalists and bloggers refuse to be cowedSince the Arab uprisings that rippled out from the unlikely epicentre of Tunisia, the region's hopes for freedom and dignity have never been higher, at least since the end of colonial...(more)
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• Leaders fail to agree pension cuts• €3bn savings agreed at marathon talks• Greek finance minister heads to Brussels with 'hope'• Today's agenda10.22am: Greek youth unemployment rate has now reached 48%, according to this morning's data (see also 10.05am). That's up from 22.4% back in 2008...(more)
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Mashable - Meet Walk off the Earth, the ultra-talented quintet that turned its version of a sleeper hit into a viral phenomenon on YouTube and earned itself a record deal.
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Continuing the theme of winter cycling, here are some more shots of Copenhageners just getting on... For the full photographic glory and the rest of the text, you know where to go. The Original Cycle Chic awaits.
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'Panelists' in Screenwise will be paid up to $25 in Amazon gift cards for installing a browser add-on that lets Google monitor their every move. Google was recently in hot water over its privacy policies.
