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An Antwerp-based car dealership is offering consumers a buy one, get one free deal as car sales in Belgium continue to fall.
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Don Shiach was a writer, educationist and cinephile who latterly developed a successful business as a dealer in movie memorabilia. He had started his career as a teacher and was very committed to egalitarian politics, especially in the field of education. From the 1970s onwards, he became a full-time writer of books on both education and the cinema, which was a lifelong passion.
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The plan, which other European nations may emulate, could leave some of Britain's lenders partly in government hands.
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Munster legend Anthony Foley tells the four Welsh regions the secrets to becoming Heineken Cup champions.
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The Federal Reserve threw another financial lifeline to AIG, agreeing to provide up to $37.8bn in additional liquidity to the stricken insurer
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A range of deals are available to offer affordable car insurance to young drivers, the Association of British Insurers has said.
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The new head of U.S. Central Command praises the drop in violence in Iraq, but warns of "storm clouds."
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NEWCASTLE United was thrown into more turmoil today when Tony Jimenez left the club.
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Hexion Specialty Chemicals said Thursday morning that it will receive $540 million from its parent company, Apollo Management, to help it close its merger with fellow chemical maker Huntsman. The move may signal an end to a long-running dispute between Huntsman and its would-be acquiror, one that eventually wended its way into a Delaware courtroom. Two weeks [...]
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Sweden's banking crisis in the early 1990s offers a "surprisingly upbeat" message for equity markets, says Tim Bond at Barclays Capital
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THE International Monetary Fund has reactivated an emergency aid process for countries seeking help in the global financial crisis, IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said overnight.
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The Peruvian cabinet said it was considering stepping down over an oil concessions scandal after audio tapes implicated members of President Alan Garcia APRA party in a plan to give lucrative oil deals in exchange for bribes.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Extract from the leaves of the ginkgo tree offers promise to minimize brain damage caused by a stroke, scientists said on Thursday.
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Many consumers are sticking with DVD, but it's not necessarily because of mistaken "perceptions". In our recent review of the Panasonic DMP-BD55, we offered the view that Blu-ray has almost gotten its act together, after killing off HD DVD, getting more Profile 2.0 players on ...
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Apollo Management offered to help close the $6.5 billion merger between its subsidiary, Hexion Specialty Chemicals, and a rival chemical maker, the Huntsman Corporation.
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Alleged Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout appears in a Thai court to fight extradition to the US on terrorism charges.
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Canada's big banks are lowering their prime lending rates in response to an announcement Friday that the federal government will buy $25 billion worth of mortgage debt to help free up credit markets.
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CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday proposed a new loan program for small businesses, saying it would help stem job losses amid the deepening financial crisis.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Ever wonder what happens after you yank the chain on the old commode? Rhode Island is offering tours of several wastewater treatment facilities during what its dubbed the first annual "Rhode Island Water Infrastructure Month."...
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Beck’s new album often transmutes anxiety into giddy momentum; the concert on Wednesday at the United Palace Theater was bleaker by far.
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Jon Winkelried, Goldman Sachs's co-president and co-chief operating officer, is shopping his two lots on the tony Massachusetts resort for $55 million, The Daily News Tribune reported.
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Google’s Maile Ohye concluded Link Week with a tutorial on inbound links. It says basically what SEO experts have been saying for years: content and inbound links are most important, and in that order. read more
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Nathan Cleverly the Welsh boxer has offered England rugby poster boy Danny Cipriani boxing lessons after reports that the Wasps No 10 was in a fistic duel on the club training ground with fellow England back Josh Lewsey earlier this week.
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MUNICH, Germany (AP) -- Leonardo Patterson made his first archaeological find at age 7 in a yam field in his native Costa Rica - a piece of clay pottery his cousin said could be thousands of years old....
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The city of Pendleton’s Fall Harvest Festival on the Village Green attracted it largest crowd ever this year, according to officials.
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Sir Fred Goodwin, the chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, is understood to be close to resigning as part of the rescue deal being put together to raise £10bn from either the Government or the private sector.
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Officials are offering a reward of 500,000 pesos (US$37,300) for the capture of gunmen who killed 11 people in a northern city bar.
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IT is not just big-name NRL players being targeted by cashed-up French rugby union clubs.
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Barack Obama would like to offer John McCain a job if he becomes president, in what his allies say is an attempt to end the bitter partisan rancour that engulfed the White House race last week.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the Israeli police Sunday to show "zero tolerance" towards rioters after a fourth night of violence between Arabs and Jews in the northern Israeli city of Acre.
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The good news is that governments are at last abandoning an ad hoc approach in favour of a systematic response, writes Wolfgang Münchau
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The investment in Morgan Stanley by the largest bank in Japan is considered a crucial step in the U.S. government's strategy for revitalizing the financial system.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese automakers Chery Automobile Co and SAIC Motor said on Monday they have not had talks about possible access to Chrysler's U.S. dealership network with Cerberus Capital Management LP , majority owner of the troubled U.S. car maker.
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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Democrat Barack Obama proposed more immediate steps Monday to heal the nation's ailing economy including a 90-day moratorium on home foreclosures at some banks and a two-year tax break for businesses that create new jobs....
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