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Art student Jessica Collins, 19, from Radyr, Cardiff, south Wales, was in a car crash in Munich, Germany, last week....
- Anti-terror unit skirts the law
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The first audit of the LAPD's anti-terrorism activities in a decade has found that officers were allowed into the highly sensitive unit without taking polygraphs, confidential information was sloppily handled, and the Police Commission didn't get require...
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NEW YORK - Tokyo s stock prices slipped Monday as traders held off moves before the release of economic data. Shanghai surged to a new record on buying...
- Associated Press Business News: Reuters Confirms Possible Takeover Bid - MSN Money
Howard Hughes
LONDON (AP) - Reuters Group PLC said Friday that it had received a preliminary takeover approach, sending shares of the British news and financial information company soaring 25 percent...
- Engineers Promised Bigger Share Of Economic Pie Bahamas News
Miriam Liddle
January 22, 2007 at 6:43 pm The Ministry of Financial Services and Investments is prepared to revisit heads of agreement requirements and stipulate that a lead Bahamian engineer or engineer of record and related consultants become intimately involved in...
- China s legislature approves new contract labor law
Franky Micklestone
China passed a new contract labor law on Friday in a bid to improve basic worker rights amid widespread complaints of unpaid wages, forced labor and other abuses, state media said Friday...
- France caters to market for the most simple of computers
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PARIS: The Minitel, a French government-sponsored minicomputer that was wired into 14 million French homes at its peak in the mid-1990s, had a limited service offering, a black-and-white screen and slow connection speeds that doomed it to near-extinction...