Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

World

EADS CFO signals higher dividends in years to come - paper

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Airbus parent EADS has signalled that shareholders can expect higher dividends in coming years as Europe's largest aerospace group moves out of a phase of high inv...
April 20, 2013, 7:19 pm
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German fining wants investors involved in future bailouts - report

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's finance minister said investors must be involved in future bank rescues in crisis states but added Cyprus, where a bailout is imposing losses on depositors, was still a un...
April 20, 2013, 6:34 pm

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Porsche says new Panamera sales to beat old model

By Andreas Cremer and Hendrik Sackmann
(Reuters) - German sports-car maker Porsche said sales of the overhauled Panamera coupe may beat deliveries of the four-door mod...
April 20, 2013, 6:05 pm

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Pakistan judge remands ex-president Musharraf in custody

By Mubasher Bukhari
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani court remanded former president Pervez Musharraf in custody for two weeks on Saturday as judges pushed ahead with plans to put the ...
April 20, 2013, 5:00 pm

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Watson gives up Australia vice-captaincy

SYDNEY (AFP) - Shane Watson has stood down from his role as Australia's vice-captain across all formats of the game, Cricket Australia said, following his controversial axing in India last month.
April 20, 2013, 3:59 pm

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Bomb victim loved Boston family say

The China-based family of 23-year-old Lu Lingzi who died in the attacks on Boston said in an open letter that she loved studying in America.
April 20, 2013, 3:12 pm

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Former MP wins UK phone-hacking damages

A former MP and a TV presenter have accepted damages and an apology from Rupert Murdoch's British arm after their phones were hacked.
April 20, 2013, 2:40 pm

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Tight Malaysian election campaign gets under way

PERMATANG PAUH, Malaysia (AFP) - Malaysian premier Najib Razak and opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim kicked off their rival campaigns for May 5 elections likely to be the country's closest ever.
April 20, 2013, 2:16 pm

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US bomb suspects' sister 'heartbroken'

A computer has been taken by the FBI from the US home of a sister of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing.
April 20, 2013, 1:07 pm
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Three bodies found after Hong Kong boat collision

HONG KONG (AFP) - Hong Kong underwater search teams have recovered three bodies, a day after two boats collided in fog in the city's busy waterways, with three crew members still missing.
April 20, 2013, 11:36 am

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N. Korea-US diplomacy: the art of the not very possible

SEOUL (AFP) - The focus of weeks of hostile rhetoric on the Korean peninsula has shifted from nuclear war to dialogue, but analysts warn the road to formal talks is longer and more challenging than it has ever been.
April 20, 2013, 11:07 am
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Obama urges caution on bombing motives

US President Barack Obama says there are still many unanswered questions about the Boston bombings but the suspect arrest closes a chapter.
April 20, 2013, 11:03 am

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Queen marks 87th birthday privately

The UK monarch has two birthdays - her actual birthday on April 21 and her official one in June, which is marked with the Trooping the Colour parade.
April 20, 2013, 10:35 am

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Australia's Babalj signs for AZ Alkmaar

SYDNEY (AFP) - Young Melbourne Heart striker Eli Babalj has signed with Holland's AZ Alkmaar on a four-year deal.
April 20, 2013, 10:21 am

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14 bodies recovered in Texas

The bodies of 14 people have been recovered from a fertiliser plant that exploded in Texas, as investigators continue combing the debris.
April 20, 2013, 10:15 am

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Bombing suspect in hospital

The Boston Marathon bomb suspect has been hospitalised in serious condition
April 20, 2013, 10:05 am

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6.6-magnitude quake strikes China's Sichuan

BEIJING (AFP) - A shallow 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck China's southwestern Sichuan province, with the US Geological Survey saying "significant casualties" were likely, five years after a massive quake devastated the same region.
April 20, 2013, 9:53 am

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Rolf Harris shows pulled from British TV

Two Rolf Harris TV shows have been pulled off the air in the UK after he was named as the Australian arrested following the Jimmy Savile scandal.
April 20, 2013, 9:38 am

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USA Today founder dies in Florida

Al Neuharth, the founder of the most widely read newspaper in the US, USA Today, has died at 89.
April 20, 2013, 9:36 am

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Three more questioned in Boston bombing

Two men and a woman have been taken into custody from a private off-campus housing complex at MIT where bombing suspect lived.
April 20, 2013, 9:30 am
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