" Sony has announced plans to cut 8,000 electronics jobs - 5% of its global workforce - as well as shutting 10% of its manufacturing sites. The company said the jobs would be cut by April 2010 but did not say...
Google on Monday formally announced full support for the CalDAV protocol along with the release of a small piece of software for Mac computers that lets users easily link up their Google Calendars with the iCal...
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""The Winter of 2008-2009 will prove to be the winter of global economic discontent that marks the rejection of the flawed ideology that unregulated global financial markets promote financial innovation, market efficiency, unhampered growth and endless prosperity while...
As the value of the pound outside of the UK sinks, it appears that inflation within the country is falling as well. Inflation in th eUk fell at a record pace in October, data released today shows."Inflation tumbled at a record pace in October to 4.5 per cent, down from the...
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Dragged by global financial crises, Japanese economy shrinks in third quarter and enters in recession. "Japan fell into a recession in the third quarter for the first time since 2001, as the impact of the...
Spanning the world to bring the stranger things of lifeIt's tough all over...I guess"Russian Orthodox church stolen _ brick by brick November 14, 2008 - 5:25pm ...
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"Interview with K. Guruparan, a well known Sri Lankan Youth Activist. Guru is a student at the Faculty of Law University of Colombo and the Founder of the Sri Lankan Youth Parliament based at the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies. He is also associated with Beyond...
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I think that this may be the first semi-public statement of concern of Obama's foreign policy toward Iran from European circles. It is possible that the urgency and test by foreign powers of Obama's metal...
The British couple who were caught having sex outside of marriage, drunkenness and public indecency in Dubai are appealing their guilty verdict, which left them with three months in prison and deportation from...
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The trial of two Britons in Dubai for having sex on the beach and unmarried sex has finished with the pair being found guilty and jailed. This will hammer home the responsibility that travellers carry to make sure...
Thailand and Cambodia have been fighting centres on 1.8 square miles (4.6 sq km) of scrub near the 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple, which sits on a jungle-clad escarpment dividing the countries.The tension turned violent in October when one Cambodian and two Thai soldiers...
"What is a Life Worth? October 9th, 2008 | Posted by Mike Kearney Share This http://youtube.com/watch?v=6Q0uQAL_YDA Video of Care To Live member Ted Girgus taken at our nationwide protest in...
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A flat allegedly used to plan the 7/7 terror attacks in London has been raided in the UK. It is unclear why the flat is being raided now, so long after the attacks, which occured in 2005."Officers began the search of the flat at 7am after receiving information from a member...
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I found this interesting enough to share with NP. Nothing more to add yet.""There's a persistent Web meme to the effect that Google obscures sensitive or top-secret locations in Google Maps and Google Earth at the insistence of national governments. A July IT Security article...
" The rice exports from Pakistan during July-August – the first two months of the new fiscal year – increased by 147.34 per compared to the corresponding period of the last financial year. A total of 403,935 metric tons of rice costing $ 366,582,000 was exported during...