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Tuesday 31 May 2011
Hunger crisis worsens, food system broken - Oxfam
LONDON (Reuters) - Food prices could double in the next 20 years and demand will soar as the world struggles to raise output via a failing system, international charity Oxfam said on Tuesday, warning of worsening global hunger.
Ex-Tory peer jailed over expenses
Ex-Tory peer Lord Taylor of Warwick is jailed for 12 months for falsely claiming �11,277 in parliamentary expenses.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-politics-13599624
Business group cuts growth forecast, sees rate rise
LONDON (Reuters) - The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) cut its growth forecasts for this and next year on Monday, pointing to the impact of the government's tough fiscal policy and high inflation on consumers' ability to spend.
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Privacy group gets part of Google settlement: judge
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge approved a class action settlement over Google's Buzz social network, and awarded $500,000 to an Internet privacy group that had previously been left out of the proposed deal.
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Gaddafi: I will not leave my country
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has made clear that he will not step down, despite the first big protest against him in the capital in months and a U.N. warning on Tuesday that his government was running out of food.
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Popular? What about tunesmiths Bizet, Handel, Rossini and Verdi?
Oh dear. Asking Radio 3 listeners for a Top Ten of Britain?s favourite arias is a bit like asking the Bullingdon Club to supply a list of the nation?s favourite tipples. It would include rare vintages, but not what they shift by the tankload at Bargain Booze.
10 injured after foreign workers clash
MALACCA: A quarrel over who gets to sit on an empty bus seat between two foreign workers of different nationalities escalated into a gangfight that left 10 injured.
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Overhaul for UK development firm
A government-owned overseas development company which was criticised for "excessive" salaries is to be overhauled.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-politics-13602238
Long-term jobless highest since 1997 - thinktank
LONDON (Reuters) - The number of Britons out of work for more than a year has jumped to its highest level since 1997, with men and the over 50s hit hardest, a leading thinktank said in a report on Sunday.
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Murray surges into Paris quarters
Andy Murray completes an extraordinary comeback to defeat Viktor Troicki in their fifth set shoot-out and reach the quarter-finals of the French Open.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/sport1/hi/tennis/13604860.stm
India, Pakistan fail to make progress on glacier
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India and Pakistan failed on Tuesday to break ice on how to demilitarise the world's highest battlefield in the Himalayan region in a sign of how far apart the nuclear-armed rivals are even on less contentious issues.
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Monday 30 May 2011
Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington dies aged 94
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - British painter Leonora Carrington, one of the last surviving artists from the golden age of Surrealism, has died aged 94 in her adopted home of Mexico City, where she had lived quietly for decades.
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Has Pippa Middleton got the fever for Justin Bieber?
Justin Bieber has got the seal of approval from Pippa Middleton after her family's firm signed a deal to sell the teen pop sensation's merchandise online.
LIFE slideshow: A Eulogy for Activationism (The Newsroom)
The Newsroom - LIFE.com offers a eulogy for and celebration of the short-lived, playful, and (evidently) quite exhilarating phenomenon.
Champs League final mania hits Putrajaya
PUTRAJAYA: The match was played at Wembley Stadium but the chorus of ?Glory Glory Man United? reverberated throughout Putrajaya in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
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Eleven killed in wider Syria military push - lawyer
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian forces killed at least 11 civilians and wounded scores on Sunday, a prominent human rights campaigner said, in a widening military push into central Syria to quell protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.
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Adidas eyes Olympics to take Nike's UK crown
LONDON (Reuters) - German sportswear maker Adidas plans to use the Olympic Games in London next year to generate 100 million pounds of sales in the UK and steal market leadership there from arch rival Nike.
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The Fast Fix: Is Obama now unbeatable? (The Newsroom)
The Newsroom - Will Osama bin Laden's death impact the 2012 presidential election? The death of Osama bin Laden is a momentous episode in American history that will undoubtedly re-shape the political dialogue for weeks and months to come. While making hard and ?
LIFE slideshow: Never-seen photos of MLK & the Freedom Rides (The Newsroom)
The Newsroom - It is the spring of 1961, and in the kitchen of a safe house in Montgomery, Alabama, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. looks tense, perhaps worried. As a volunteer bends his ear, the 32-year-old civil rights leader glances toward one of the 17 students hunkered down with him -- fresh-faced college kids who, moved by King's message of racial equality, have risked their very lives.
Cameron cuts his ties with Jewish charity in move hailed by pro-Palestine campaigners
The Prime Minister has cut ties with the Jewish National Fund, which describes itself as Britain’s leading Jewish charity.
Sunday 29 May 2011
Why women suffer stigma of being overweight even AFTER they've shed pounds
Research from the University of Liverpool shows that women look down on a girl who has won the battle of the bulge.
U.S. lawsuit claims RIM misled investors
TORONTO (Reuters) - Lawyers for shareholders of Research In Motion have filed a class action lawsuit against the BlackBerry maker, claiming its executives misled investors about its prospects in recent months.
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