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 Being exposed to traffic fumes increases your risk of heart attack by a third, according to a German study presented at this week’s American Heart Association meeting in Palm Harbor, Florida.The study was made by Annette Peters, PhD, and colleagues at the Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Center, Munich, Germany. They interviewed...
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 A new study presented at the American Heart Association's
49th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention in
Florida found that people were three times more likely to have an attack if
they had recently spent time on the roads, possibly because of the exhaust
fumes and other pollution they...
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 Ford Motor Co, the world's third- largest automaker, plans to cut as much as 12 percent of its salaried work force in the United States due to the surging fuel and materials prices, the Detroit News reported on Wednesday.Last week, Ford announced that the troubled US economy was one of the main causes for which it could not meet its plan...
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 An 18-year old study shows that people who live in areas with high concentrations of ozone are 25 percent to 30 percent more likely to die from respiratory illnesses than those who live in areas with cleaner air. Scientists of the University of California and Berkley reported on Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine that...
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 On Monday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) came forward with a report according to which, the state of roughly half of the US coral reef ecosystems can be clasified under poor or fair. The continuous rise of ocean temperatures is the main reason for this.Three years have passed since NOAA’s last report and...
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 This Memorial Day weekend, a rather unusual meteorological phenomenon snuck up on unsuspecting Sierra-bound travelers. Several mountain roads had to be closed as certain segments were covered with no less than four inches of snow. The routes which were considered to be unfit for traffic included the Tioga Pass Road in Yosemite National...
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Lewis Hamilton dominated qualifying for
Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix ahead of McLaren-Mercedes team-mate
Heikki Kovalainen as he seeks his third successive Formula One victory.
The 23-year-old Briton set a best time of 1 minute 20.899 seconds,
0.242 seconds ahead of Finland's Kovalainen to capture his fourth pole
position of the...
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 Even if China’s recent actions have raised critics and chaotic protests everywhere the Olympic flame went, the latest announcement by the Beijing officials is a good news for everyone, as they decided to implement a plan aimed to improve the air’s quality for the Games by shutting down factories and construction sites.The plan, which can...
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New Delhi - The stars of Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire returned to India Thursday to a rapturous welcome.
There were huge crowds waiting at the airports in Chennai and Mumbai as music composer AR Rahman, sound engineer Resul Pookutty, actor Irfan Khan and the child stars of of the film touched down, PTI and IANS news...
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The Walt Disney Studios previewed 10 new animated movies on
Monday that would be released by 2012, including further installments in “Cars”
and “Toy Story” series and two new fairy tales. It appears that except “Wall. E,”
a robot love story due to open on June 28, and “The Princess and the Frog,”
opening on Christmas 2009, the...
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 Starting today, online ads shown across Google's network of partner websites and on its video-sharing site YouTube are based on the user's browsing history. Joining an industry trend that has raised privacy concerns, the company introduced a new program called "interest-based" advertising, hoping to make ads more relevant and...
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 Not long after the Pentagon said Google is a threat to the national security, the web site was sued by a western Pennsylvania couple, who said that Google Inc.’s Street View has violated their privacy and devaluated their property.The home of Aaron and Christine Boring, in the Pittsburgh suburb of Franklin Park, was displayed in images...
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 An Oregon man’s home was robbed by almost all
his important possessions after a hoaxer had posted an ad on the popular
advertisements web site, Craigslist.org. The hoaxer impersonating the man
posted two ads on the web site in which he said that he had had to leave the
town suddenly and that he allowed any interested person to come...
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 There’s no genuine heeling, no rehabilitation, as Stephen
King’s latest novel, “Duma Key.”
The story makes its debut with the tragic accident of Edgar
Freemantle, who is nearly killed crushed by one of his cranes. A former
successful businessman in the construction field, he finds himself dreading the
fact that he is still alive,...
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 Barbara Walters is probably one
of the most “mature” American journalists of all times, so she would not lie to
us when saying that Britney Spears’ manager and good friend contacted her to
reveal some friendly secrets about his client and “good, good friend.” Yes,
Walters said recently that Sam Lutfi, the former pop princess’ manager...
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 The feds stated on Thursday the fact that the actor who
plays a steroid dealer in the Oscar-nominated movie "The Wrestler"
had a real-life stash: 1,500 bottles of anabolic steroids and more than
$100,000 in cash were found in two homes.
The details showed up in a criminal complaint filed by
federal Drug Enforcement...
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It seems that from now on, it will be a pleasure to commute.
Or at least this is the goal of introducing the new PATH
cars starting with the end of this year. The cars are meant to be more
comfortable for the commuters, and the long term target is to curb the
transport by personal cars, in order to alleviate the environmental...
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Sydney - Major fires were burning Friday across the southern Australian state of Victoria as more than 3,000 firefighters tried to hold containment lines with high temperatures and strong winds intensifying the bushfire danger.
More than 200 schools, childcare centres, and many national parks and tourist attractions in...
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Sydney - A train carrying iron ore derailed in the remote Pilbara region on Australia's east coast, spilling 80 freight cars and millions of dollars worth of ore onto the tracks, news reports said Friday.
The freight train, owned by giant miner Rio Tinto Ltd, was bound for Dampier Port, tore up 800 metres of track when it came...
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Sydney on Tuesday joined London, Singapore and other big cities in charging motorists for driving into the central business district (CBD) at peak times.
But the New South Wales state government is denying that a toll levied on cars coming over the famous Harbour Bridge into the city that varies according to the time of day is a...
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 Part of the earthquake-stricken New Zealand city of Gisborne remained
behind barricades and under a state of emergency on Friday night as
civil defence chiefs told residents to check on their neighbours nearly
24 hours after a disastrous shake.
An elderly woman, who reportedly suffered a heart attack just after
the quake struck on...
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When Zafar Wahid, a project manager with Liberty Life insurance company, was relieved of his car at gunpoint in Johannesburg recently, he knew exactly where to go to get a knock-down replacement.
On an unseasonably cold summer's evening, Wahid, still wearing his work trousers and tie, walks past a string of cars in Burchmore's...
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Five former Khmer Rouge soldiers went on trial Friday in the Cambodian capital, charged in the 1996 murders of a British deminer and his Cambodian translator.
Briton Christopher Howes and his interpreter, Houn Hourth, were abducted along with a group of Cambodian co-workers in March 1996 by Khmer Rouge guerrillas while clearing...
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 Kenyans headed to the polls Thursday in the country's closest-ever
elections that provoked fears of fraud and violence in a country known
for relative stability, but were generally calm with only minor
violations.
Most polling stations closed down around 5 p.m. (1400 GMT) except
for a couple in Kibera, East Africa's largest slum,...
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 Three armed men on Monday attacked a French family in the desert near
the Mauritanian city of Aleg and killed four of members, the local
police chief said.
Two small children had been among the victims, it was said. The
family had come to the Saharan country for a holiday, according to the
police. Only the father survived with...
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 According to local media reports, security forces were patrolling Senegal's
capital Thursday, where streets were reopened to traffic a day after hundreds
of young men protesting a move to clear the city of hawkers clashed with police
throughout Dakar.
The government late Wednesday agreed to allow vendors back onto certain
streets,...
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 A Lazio fan was accidentally killed by a policeman while he was heading to a Serie A game in Milan, on Sunday morning, according to outraged Italian media. Gabriele Sandri, who was 26 years old, has died at a motorway rest station as a cause of a warning shot of a police officer who was trying to stop a clash between the fans of Lazio...
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 Movie fans welcomed Disney's animated picture “WALL-E” upon
its premiere Friday. The film was played in almost 4000 theaters and the profit
was estimated at $23.2 million on the first day.
Critics believe that “WALL-E” will take in approximately $60
million during the weekend.
The film portrays a futuristic story about robot...
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 The 35th annual
edition of the Annie Awards, which celebrates animation movies, designated its
mega-winner Friday. Nominated for 13 categories, “Ratatouille” managed to take
home nine awards, including the most important award of the evening, for best
animated feature. The Disney and Pixar film beat “Bee Movie,” “Surf’s Up,”...
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 After the last week’s premiere of
‘Michael Clayton’, this week reserves a drug-traffic story that combines the
threats the illegal bonds imply with the complications of a blood family being
on opposite sides – trafficker and NYPD detectives.
James Gray’s “We Own The Night”
recalls the struggles that the New York policemen fought...
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 As the start of a a two-day strike due to hit in the next couple of
days, thousands of registered nurses walked off their jobs at 7 a.m. at 15
Northern California hospitals.
Union officials said as many as 5,000 nurses were expected
to participate in the strike, which is directed at Bay Area hospitals
affiliated with the Sutter...
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 About
ten days ago the German-language newspaper “Financial Times Deutschland” has
started a rumor that has appeared so strange that any respectable person that
keeps in contact with the high tech industry has not believed it. The newspaper
has in fact just speculated on Apple and Volkswagen’s CEOs’ meeting and has
started even to...
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 A recent article from the
German-language newspaper “Financial Times Deutschland” has left us all
wondering what the next surprise Apple is preparing for us will be. “Financial
Times Deutschland” has started to speculate when Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs has met
Volkswagen’s CEO Martin Winterkorn few days ago. Although nobody quite...
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Shops in Australia's biggest
state will have to keep cigarettes out of sight of their customers
under new anti- smoking regulations, New South Wales Premier Morris
Iemma said Wednesday. 'Smoking is a one-way ticket to
misery,' Iemma said. 'There's only one reason why the tobacco companies
do this sort of glossy advertising in...
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 Health officials have demonstrated that smoking a cigarette
in a car makes the air inside 10 to 30 times more toxic than the air outdoors
on one of Southern California's most polluted days.
On Thursday, state officials put on a live demonstration of that health hazard
to promote a new law that bans smoking in cars carrying...
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 In recent events, Indiana State Police are looking for some
stolen cargo that could be dangerous in the wrong hands.
In the dark, early Thursday morning, thieves took two trailers from Daum
Trucking in Plainfield. They backed up a couple of trucks and hauled them away.
Inside the trailers were health and beauty products, but a lot...
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According to recent research conducted by a British and Sweden team of
scientist who for the first time measured the effect of air pollution on heart
activity, trying to find a way to prevent heart attacks, have found yet another
cause for it.
Apparently the fume emissions from both gas and diesel cars,
but mostly diesel, are...
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 Children and parents, beware of
the killer toys! And it’s not about “Chucky”, the irritating toy murderer, but
about Mattel Inc.’s innocent toys, which have proved to be however dangerous
because of the excessive levels of lead paint they feature!
Just a week after the worldwide
famous toy-making company Mattel Inc.’s Fisher-Price...
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Two giant pandas given by China to Taiwan arrived in Taipei on Tuesday amid huge public interest in the latest sign of improving ties between the two political rivals.
The pandas, named Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, arrived on board a chartered EVA Air jet, following a three-hour flight from a panda reserve in China's Sichuan...
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Serbia and the Italian carmaker Fiat on Monday signed a joint-venture deal expected to bring almost 1 billion euros (1.3 billion dollars) in investment and revive the moribund Serbian car industry.
"This is a big day for Serbia," President Boris Tadic said after the contract was signed.
Fiat would pour 700 million euros...
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A Palestinian driving a bulldozer
went on a downtown Jerusalem street
Wednesday, plowing into a bus, cars and pedestrian people. The regrettable
episode finished up with the death of at least 3 individuals and the injuring
of minimum 45.
Traffic was brought to a
standstill, and countless terrified people ran off on the...
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 According to a statement given by federal safety officials
on Wednesday the famous Chinese automobile manufacturer, Toyota, will recall
floor mats from 55,000 Camry and Lexus ES 350 models due to complaints of unintended
acceleration caused by the mats sticking underneath the accelerator pedal.
Toyota Motor Co. will recall...
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 Two major forest fires in the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece have killed more than 15 people. The exact death toll is unknown because officials were unable to enter some danger areas to confirm all those presumed dead. Most of the casualties were burned to death but there were other types of deaths related to the fires. One of these was...
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 A terrorist attack is the presumed cause of the derailment
of a train that was travelling from Moscow to St. Petersburg that caused the
injury of 60 people. The incident took place on Monday, at 9:38 p.m. (local
hour) at the 179th kilometer from Moscow of the Oktyabrskaya Railway
near Malaya Vishera, according to Viktor Beltsov, the...
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Thailand's automobile
exports during the first half of 2008 increased 26 per cent, earning
the kingdom 174.8 billion baht (5.2 billion dollars), industry sources
disclosed on Tuesday. During the January to June period,
Thailand exported 385,870 pickup trucks and passenger cars, a 26 per
cent increase over the same period last...
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 Ford Motor Co. recalled some 3.8 million cars produced between 1992 and 2007 over concerns that a cruise control switch was causing fires. "Customers remain concerned about the long-term durability of the speed control system and about the safety of their vehicles," said Ford's spokesman Dan Jarvis.The switches apparently...
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Torrential rain in Monza on Friday caused the first free practice for Sunday's Italian Grand Prix to be abandoned shortly before the end of the 90 minute session.
The pit lane was completely under water and mechanics had to lift the cars to prevent them from being flooded.
Several drivers spun off the course on the 5.793...
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 In a modest ceremony on Sunday Ferrari unveiled its Formula One car for the 2008 season, which has suffered some aerodynamics changes, hoping that it would be able to win the drivers and teams' world championship titles that it had scooped up last year.The F2008 got back its number one on its nose, as Kimi Raikkonen managed to win the...
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Carl Edwards led for 182 laps, including the final 128 to claim victory at the Sharpie 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday, a track which underwent major changes to the racing surface over the past months. Edwards left behind Kasey Kahne with 166 laps to go and from then on he never let go of the lead, unchallenged for the rest of...
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 Kurt Busch managed to emerge victorious from the rain-delayed 3M Performance 400 in Brooklyn, Mich., on Tuesday afternoon to record his second win in the last three starts. The race was sent into overtime due to Greg Biffle’s spin out with two laps left, but Kurt Busch held off Martin Truex Jr., who drives a Chevrolet, in a tight finish...
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 Before shifting to Formula one, Sebastien Bourdais has some unfinished business in the Champ Car World Series and he began to take care of them by winning the Road America, a track that gave him a lot of problems in the three previous tries.Bourdais won in stile as he led 51 of the 53 laps in the one-hour, 40-minute timed race on Road...
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 Tony Stewart won the NASCAR Nextel Cup Centurion Boats at The Glen at Watkins Glen International after he benefited from Jeff Gordon’s mistake with two laps before the finish line. The three time Daytona 500 winner started from pole position and led the race for 51 laps out of 90 but he spun out leaving Stewart in front and finished...
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 Sebastien Bourdais, the biggest star on the Champ Car series, announced on Friday that he will shift to Formula One after this season where he will join the Italian team of Scuderia Toro Rosso, which is dismissing its current drivers. “It's been a long time coming," the 28-year-old Frenchman said. "I'm very satisfied that,...
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 Juan Pablo Montoya's NASCAR run for the rookie of the year award has been a success so far.The Columbian emerged victorious on the road from the Busch Series in Mexico City. He also won the Nextel Cup race on the road course at Infineon, finished second at the Brickyard 400, fifth at Atlanta and eighth at Texas.So far, he recorded a...
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 FIA’s governing body stated that McLaren will not suffer any immediate sanction for having confidential Ferrari technical data in their possession due to "insufficient evidence". However, McLaren could face future sanctions if evidence they had used the information to influence the world championships will occur. "We...
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 A meeting between Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone and the owner of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Tony George ended up in a disappointing manner for American F1 fans, as the US Grand Prix was scratched out of the 2008 calendar.Indianapolis hosted the race for the last eight years and attracted about 100,000 fans in recent years, but...
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 Kimi Raikkonen put Ferrari on top for the first time this season, after winning the Magny-Cours race on Sunday, while his team mate Felipe Massa clinched the second position. “Finally the start worked for me. That helped a lot. The car was good all the time but not exactly perfect. It worked out in the end and I couldn't ask for more,” a...
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 Severe storms hit the Southeast on Thursday, damaging houses and shopping areas in at least four states. Some northeast Mississippi counties and areas of northwest Alabama were under tornado warnings until midafternoon Thursday. One person was killed and three were injured by a tornado which hit North Carolina, authorities said. A strong...
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 Two trains collided on Thursday killing eight people and injuring more than 80 others near Rio de Janeiro.
A speeding train carrying commuters hit the back end of another train as it was changing tracks.
The commuter train was traveling at speeds well over 100 km/h (60
mile) when it hit the train in front of it, which was slowly...
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 Brazilian police cracked down on drug dealers in poor neighbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, at least 18 being killed in the ensuing gunbattles.Brazilian authorities decided it was time to root out drug trafficking in one of the country’s largest cities, putting on an impressive display of force, as a number of 1,300 security...
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 The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected Bush administration’s new standards for pollution for sport utility vehicles, pickups and other light trucks and vans, ordering a new plan that would be more strict regarding the auto emissions, on Thursday.The federal appeals court in San Francisco stated that the National Highway...
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Demand for classic cars from all eras has soared in
recent years, but what many owners fail to realise is that safety
systems cannot be compared to those in modern cars and that driving has
to be adapted accordingly.
"Driving a very old vehicle is a special responsibility," says
Josef Ernst, the spokesman for...
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 Car makers are building a range of mini SUVs (Sports Utility Vehicles) in apparent reaction to growing criticism that 4x4s are too heavy and thirsty for driving conditions in big cities.
"The big and heavy 4x4 is no longer in. The SUV is shrinking to the size of the average compact class with less consumption, emission and space...
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 Serious car accidents can often be put down to technical malfunctions resulting from poor maintenance or a lack of servicing, several experts said.
Around 10 per cent of accidents in Germany alone can be directly attributed to technical faults, says Alexander Berg, a researcher of at the DEKRA testing authority.
"We are seeing...
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 The Smart Fortwo, VW Polo Blue Motion, Toyota Prius and Ford Focus C-Max CNG are among the most eco-friendly cars on the road, a research institute found recently.
Apart from analysing factors such as fuel consumption, noise and emission levels ecological criteria from production, logistics and recycling were applied by the Institute...
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 The Brilliance BS6, the first Chinese limousine aimed at the European market, received a catastrophic rating in the EuroNCAP crash test.
In the head-on collision test the entire front section with A- pillar was pushed 20 cm into the interior on the driver's side. The door bent in such a way that it could only be opened with heavy...
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 Young and old drivers are most in danger of road deaths even though the total number of deaths on the roads are falling, according to German traffic accident researchers.
According to the German Office of Statistics, around 5,091 people were killed on the roads last year - the lowest level ever recorded - in a country with a...
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 In one of the most spectacular Formula 1 crashes in recent years, Polish driver Robert Kubica crashed his BMW-Sauber against a concrete wall during the Canadian Grand Prix at a speed of more than 280 km/h, almost miraculously surviving without injury.
Many a motorist might have thought: "Why can't such safety technology be...
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 Federal authorities announced that a professor from the University of Florida and his wife are under the suspicion of having stolen money from NASA. The police discovered the fraud after they had raided the professor’s office at the university on Wednesday.The university spokesman Steve Orlando said that the FBI searched the Innovative...
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Stocks in Tokyo surged in Monday morning trading on speculation that US automakers would receive a government bail-out and on the rise of the dollar against the yen.
The developments outweighed the biggest drop in business confidence among Japan's largest manufacturers in 34 years because analysts said the drop was expected and...
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The New Interstate 35W opened early on Thursday. A group of motorists crossed the interstate, now called the “smart bridge.” The bridge was rebuilt after last year the old one collapsed into the Mississippi river and killed 13 people. After 5 a.m. in Minneapolis, squad cars, fire trucks and ambulances accompanied a parade led by cars,...
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 On Monday, Hurricane Ike entered the northeastern Cuba and it could take over Havana on Tuesday morning, heading for the U.S. Gulf Coast during the coming week. Nearly 73 people in Haiti were killed by the heavy rains and the floods brought by Ike, leaving every place looking like hell itself.The officials evacuated the Florida Keys...
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 Evacuees for Hurricane Gustav came home to New Orleans even if the electricity wasn’t available yet. Mayor C. Ray Nagin ordered an immediate lifting of barriers blocking the residents’ entry on Wednesday morning. Nagin said that he didn’t agree for the residents to return yet if the city is still out of power.The citizens who managed to...
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 Three people died in a car crash last night in Los Angeles. Among the dead there were a pregnant woman and a little girl of only 12 years. Two other people were seriously injured as their car ran into a tree. Authorities believe that the car was participating in a possible drag race in northeast Los Angeles, in Eagle Rock community.The...
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Ebony Garcia, 21, cried for help for nearly 30 minutes. Her neighbors ignored her screaming but finally decided to call 911 after the woman was stabbed to death in an apartment in Queens. Investigators from New York try to find out what took so long for the neighbors to make the phone call to the police.Garcia was found outside her...
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 On Friday in central Oklahoma a train derailed and sent fireballs into the sky but the incident caused no injuries. Only two people were aboard the train, an engineer and the conductor, but they got off with no wounds. The train derailed near the 110-car Burlington Northern Santa Fe where about seven cars were carrying crude oil or...
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama
called on the United States to end its dependence on oil from the
Middle East and Venezuela within 10 years as part of a broad speech
laying out his energy plans on Monday. Obama, who celebrated
his 47th birthday Monday, said he would direct the 'full resources' of
government towards...
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 Nearly three dozen cable car passengers were stuck for
almost five hours during a sightseeing tour above Bronx Zoo. An emergency
mechanism caused the Skyfari, which offers its passengers a whole view of the
zoo, to shut down at about 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday night.
The Skyfari was opened in 1970 and it is certified
by the state...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation will introduce
a new program of improved safety ratings for automobiles and better crash
tests. For example, one of the new tests will simulate the effect of hitting a
tree, together with other frontal, side and rollover tests.
Secretary Mary Peters said that the new tests will
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A police officer killed a 27-year-old man who punched and stomped a toddler to death on a dark country road, the authorities said, according to the New York Times.Investigators were trying to establish on Sunday the relationship between the man and the child, both of whom died Saturday night. According to the Stanislaus County coroner,...
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 Flash floods inundated parts of the Midwest on Monday. Swollen rivers and lakes overflowed
their banks, broke through dams and forced residences to evacuate. The swollen Kickapoo River spilled over its banks again and inundated
nearly the entire town Monday morning, the Associated Press reported. By evening,
the village looked like a...
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A 78-year-old man was catapulted into the
air by a reckless driver last Friday. The driver kept on going and witnesses
continued their walk on the street. The incident was caught on video by a
surveillance camera in Hartford.
A car came speeding by and hit 78-year-old Angel
Arce Torres, catapulting him into the air. The impact...
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 Tornadoes hit Nebraska Thursday night, damaging houses and
businesses, derailing train cars, tearing down trees and blowing cars off the
tracks.
A possible tornado touched down near Aurora, about 70 miles west of Lincoln, damaging a few businesses and at
least one house on the outskirts of town, the Associated Press...
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 The Brooklyn
Bridge, one of the oldest suspension
bridges in the United States,
attracts thousands and thousands of tourists every year and it is considered an
icon for New York, as well as for America.
The 6,000-foot-long bridge over the East
River connecting the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn took
years to...
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 Windsor was hit by a large tornado which killed at least one person, destroyed
dozens of homes and caused a number of clashes and multiple injuries on
highways in Weld County. The victim of the tornado was a
resident at a campground outside Greeley, representatives of Weld County
said in a statement. He was identified as Oscar...
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3,000 residents who were evacuated Saturday morning from
their homes due to a rail car leak of hydrochloric acid are allowed to return home
tonight.
Six railroad cars heading on Saturday towards Lake Charles, close
to the Texas border derailed around 1:30 a.m. near Lafayette, a southern
Louisiana city about 125 miles west of New...
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The U.S.A has been devastated by an alarmingly high number of tornadoes this year. Records made by the Weather Channel show that 819 tornadoes ravaged the country between January and May, in comparison to 539 such phenomena in the same period of the last three years. There were 98 deaths registered, the biggest number of fatalities since...
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 A group of 216 people led by Rev. Al Sharpton was arrested
Wednesday after it snarled traffic across New York City in an attempt to
boycott the acquittal of three officers involved in the shooting death of Sean
Bell, the young unarmed man shot 50 times right on his wedding day. Bell’s friends who were
present at the scene, some of...
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 Two Manhattan subway cars
jumped the tracks near Central Park. More than
400 passengers and crew members were evacuated from the tunnel in about one
hour, officials said. They all escaped unhurt. One person suffered from anxiety
and another one reported a minor injury, but neither required medical
treatment, said NYC Transit...
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 Lawmakers said that Mayor Bloomberg’s quest to persuade
the state Legislature to agree to congestion prices, an important issue for
PlaNYC, appears to have failed. In December 2006, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
challenged New Yorkers to generate ideas for achieving 10 key goals for the
city’s future. The plan, named PlaNYC,...
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 Former 1970s radical Sara Jane Olson, who lived as a
fugitive in Minnesota,
went back to prison Saturday after her short-lived release on parole last week.
According to the corrections officials, she has to serve one more year, as they
miscalculated the date of her release.
“The department is sensitive to the impact such an...
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Flooding and heavy snow strike the Midwest.
The worst hit areas were Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky.
On Friday the residents from here tried to save their houses after rainstorms
pushed rivers out of the banks. They also built sandbag barriers to protect
their establishments. Meanwhile The U.S guard rescued people...
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 The ex-Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
fugitive Sara Jane Olson was released from prison on Monday, officials said Thursday
quoted by the Associated Press.
Olson had hidden for years claiming she was just an ordinary
housewife, but she pleaded guilty in 2001 after attempting to bomb police cars
with the SLA. She was sentenced...
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 An explosion that occurred in New York City's Times Square determined the police to cordon off a section of the area for investigations. According to preliminary reports, the target of the explosion was the Armed Forces Recruiting Station at which a man riding a bicycle threw an explosive device and an incendiary device. The blast...
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 A Union Pacific train derailed Tuesday morning in Southern California spewing toxic gas. Authorities quoted by The Associated Press confirmed the derailment and added there were no injured people.The area was quickly sealed off and about 60 people living in the town situated in the southern desert area couldn’t return to their homes. The...
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 The Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge in South Texas
reopened early Friday following a fiery wreck that killed four people and
injured six.
Authorities said a van burst into flames Thursday night when
it was hit by two 18-wheelers that collided on the bridge, which spans the
Texas-Mexico border. The cause of the wreck, which...
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 California sued the administration of President George W Bush Wednesday
over the refusal by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to allow
the state to impose strict limits on vehicle emissions that cause
global warming.
The EPA "has done nothing at the national level to curb greenhouse
gases, and now it has wrongfully...
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 An energy bill that raises the fuel efficiency of vehicles on US roads
for the first time in 32 years passed the Senate on Thursday, after
backers bowed to White House pressure and dropped higher taxes on oil
and gas companies.
Also dropped were provisions that would force power companies to
buy some of their electricity from...
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 At least 23 people died as a result of heavy ice storms that froze the central United States, US media reported Tuesday.
The storm that glazed the central US Monday and was to last for
several more days turned ice-coated branches into falling, lethal
debris and sent cars spinning on slippery highways.
About 600,000 households...
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 Interstate 5 opened to vehicle traffic just before noon Friday, with all lanes open to both cars and trucks. Crews worked around the clock to get the vital highway back open.On Thursday, one lane of traffic in each direction was opened at 5 p.m., but only to large commercial trucks over 10,000 gross vehicle weight.Friday morning, the...
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 According to witnesses and authorities a woman trying to
enter a parking deck at SouthPark mall today sped across the lot and hit a wall
at high speed, causing a partial collapse of the deck.
Medics confirmed that one person was dead, but it was not
immediately clear if she died from the impact or from what one witness said was
a...
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 Recent news reports say that at least 200 people were
evacuated from their homes, including 84 residents of an apartment building for
the elderly, after a tanker truck carrying 9,000 gallons of gasoline erupted
early Wednesday in a northern Boston suburb.
No serious injuries were reported in the Everett,
Massachusetts, blast, but...
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 At least five Amtrak crew members were critically or
seriously injured Friday when their train collided with a freight train
traveling on the same track, Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford
said.
The five employees were among 10 people rushed to the trauma
unit of Cook County Hospital, Sean Howard, a spokesman for the...
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According to local meteorological officials, strong
thunderstorms hit northern Texas
on Monday leading to at least one fatal accident and triggering widespread
flooding across Dallas and Collin counties with over 5 inches of rain reported.
Tumbling water turned suburban streets into mountain creeks
and left the creeks roaring like...
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The derailment of about 30 cars of a freight train hauling
some toxic chemicals in Painesville
Township, Ohio on
Wednesday led to the evacuation of the perimeter as a large, smoky fire rose
from the crash. According to local authorities, nu injuries were reported.
Authorities were evacuating an area within a half-mile...
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 A drag car plunged into a crowd of spectators at a children's charity event in Tennessee, killing seven people and injuring at least 15 others. The incident happened in the town of Selmer, during an annual "Cars for Kids" charity event, and was captured on amateur video broadcast by Memphis network WMC-TV."I can confirm...
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 Intel has always tried to go out of the microprocessor market, and has tried its hand in several other realms, but only as a sort of tourist who ends up making his bags and eventually heading back to his home market. Andy Grove, the well-known charismatic co-founder of the company, former chairman and CEO, has a brand new semi-unofficial...
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 NASCAR driver David Gilliland got off to a rocky start when a late-race accident on Sunday caused him to finish 32nd out of an original 43-car field. He is sponsored by the FCC and the crash almost ruined his DTV Transition Ford. FCC gave him a $350,000 sponsorship in three short-track races. In a race summary on his Web site, Gilliland...
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 On Monday, The Nikkei, the most important business newspaper in Japan, talked about Toyota’s 2009 plans for its Prius hybrid model. According to the popular publication, the company will use solar panels for the upcoming generation of automobiles.It seems the new Prius will feature rooftop solar panels, which will be used for partly...
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 According to an announcement made by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) on Wednesday, Smart ForTwo performed excellently during the side and front crash tests it was put to. However, the car is not going to be named a Top Safety Pick; although the Institute doesn’t have any size restrictions when evaluating cars, Smart...
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 On Tuesday, A123 Systems announced that it has started taking online orders from those Toyota Prius owners who want to switch from hybrid to plug-in hybrid. This can now be done by getting the new L5 battery module. However, it isn’t the cheapest of operations, as the battery and installation cost $9,995, to which $400 are added for...
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 On Thursday, a critique co-signed by Roger Pielke Jr., a science-policy specialist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, caused quite a stir. The study attempted to show that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was way off with its assessment of the technology challenge the world is facing.The study referes to the...
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 X Prize
announced on Thursday that more than 60 teams from nine countries were ready to
race in chasing the $10 million prize the foundation is giving to the
manufacturer of the best green supercar ever! The foundation wants the car to
be a record breaker when it comes to fuel efficiency and environmental issues.
The X...
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 At last, everybody will be able to be James Bond! If you were watching The Spy Who Loved Me and drooling for the Lotus Esprit that could travel on land, but also submerge when it was followed by the evil guys in helicopters, becoming an exquisite submarine, and no, not like the yellow one, but a beautiful airtight submarine with more...
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 Nokia, the Finnish cell-phone company, is collaborating with
the University of California, Berkeley,
in order to test if traffic can be predicted and monitored through cell phones.
The test lasted all day Friday and 100 Berkeley
students were involved, Cnet News reports.
Each student’s car was endowed with a Nokia N95 phone...
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 The rejection of states’ efforts to tighten rules on greenhouse gas emissions by the Bush administration caused an angry reaction from California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, as he vowed on Thursday to sue the administration.On Wednesday, the government blocked the intentions of 17 states, including California, to limit emissions from...
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 The 2007 Los Angeles Auto Show has opened its gates beginning on Friday and for the next nine days, until November 25. Before the show was opened to the wide public, there were two days for the press preview, where the reporters, photographers and bloggers were indulged with the latest models, new green-minded concepts and hybrids.The...
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 A Pentagon sponsored robot race at a former Air Force base in Victorville, California, took place on Saturday in the final event of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Urban Challenge. The race consisted in a 60 miles course in a simulated city that had to be finished in less than six hours.The race proofed that even...
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 For Honda Motor Co. modernity
will not be represented by electric hybrid cars in any case! The popular
company has recently publicly announced that it will keep on the traditional
track with its business. Honda Motor has said it will focus on improving the
traditional, conventional gasoline-electric hybrid technology for its...
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 If you have problems with parking
the car, but you also have to eventually buy one, wait a little bit till Nissan
Motor Co. Ltd. has released the new vehicles featuring advanced technology that
will make parallel parking a lot more easier. The new high technology that will
be embedded in the forthcoming vehicles made by Nissan Motor...
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 Two important car makers,
Chrysler LLC and Honda Motor Co., have announced on Friday their recalling for
some quite popular vehicles because of different problems that must be by all
means repaired.
So Chrysler LLC has announced on
Friday it will recall more than 300,000 sport utility vehicles that include
four of the car...
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 Google and Intel are just two of the members of a new green alliance that comprises high-profile names like HP, Dell, IBM, Microsoft or Lenovo, poised to fight against climate change.Called Climate Savers Computing Initiative, the alliance will be focused on energy-efficient policies and the reduction of greenhouse gases, by setting...
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What would you say if your notebook battery would take
seconds to recharge instead of several hours? It would be wonderful, isn’t it?
Or instead to wait a couple of hours to recharge your cell phone, you would
wait only a couple of minutes? Pretty amazing, no?
And the best news is that the MIT engineers believe that it
will take...
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 On Friday, 44 New York City subway cars were relocated in the Atlantic Ocean's Maryland coastal area, in the attempt to create an artificial reef. According to Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan, the reef will provide a good quality habitat for numerous marine species, which will surely benefit both the environment and the local businesses....
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 A new study has confirmed the
already known risks of passive smoking, while focusing on smoking in cars and other enclosed similar spaces. The study conducted by the researchers
from the Stanford
University has showed
that smoking in enclosed spaces such as cars or small rooms could even double
the risk of harmful intoxication for...
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 Google and Intel are just two of the members of a new green alliance that comprises high-profile names like HP, Dell, IBM, Microsoft or Lenovo, poised to fight against climate change.Called Climate Savers Computing Initiative, the alliance will be focused on energy-efficient policies and the reduction of greenhouse gases, by setting...
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 The Air Resources Board of California has lowered required number of zero-emissions cars to be sold by 2014 in a decision that dragged serious criticism from environmentalists, but brought relief to car makers.Under the ruling, auto manufacturers in California will have to produce 7.500 electric and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles in order...
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 The loss-making US automotive concern Chrysler announced Sunday at the annual Detroit motor show that it was setting itself the goal of doubling international sales in less than five years.
Speaking at the event, Chrysler head Robert Nardelli said there was still room for global growth in the car manufacturing industry.
In 2007,...
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 US federal judge William K. Sessions III upheld Vermont's right to adopt tougher than federal rules on CO2 gases to help fight global warming, contrary to the claims of the auto industry, which alleges federal laws took precedence over state rules."History suggests," he said in his decision, "that the ingenuity of the...
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 After recently posting the first profitable quarter in some time, mainly due to its overseas operations, General Motor says it will reduce the fuel consumption of its gasoline engines by making them run more like diesel engines. GM is the first company to demonstrate the technology in running concept cars, at the company's proving...
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 General Motors Corp. reportedly flexes its muscles to speed up develpment of its Chevrolet Volt electric-drive concept vehicle. The Detroit Free Press reported that GM could start producing the fuel cell vehicle as early as 2010."We don't build cars in research labs," Larry Burns, GM's vice president of research, development...
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 Thailand
makes a first step towards reducing pollution by compelling 10,000 gas stations
to provide customers with biodiesel fuel by April 1, 2008, Thai Energy Minister Piyasvasti Amranand told
media representatives on Saturday.
Thailand
made clear its intentions to cut greenhouse gas emissions along with oil import
by reducing...
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 Japanese car, motorcycle and engine maker Honda Motor Co., Ltd. has announced it will drop its hybrid Honda Accord from the fall product line-up. "We have found that our hybrid system works better on smaller cars," said Honda spokesman Chris Naughton. Instead, Honda has previously said it will introduce a new 4-cylinder diesel...
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 The biggest beneficiary in the auto industry after the gasoline price rising seems to be Toyota. The recent trend which saw the Americans turn away from gas-guzzling SUVs, luxury cars and pick-up trucks in favor of smaller, more fuel-efficient cars gave Toyota a much needed boost.The Japanese multinational corporation reported a record...
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Bangkok- Over the past three to four years, one of Asia's fastest growing industries has been exporting workers, especially to the oil-driven, construction-crazed economies of the Middle East.
Remittances have become a major contributor to foreign exchange earnings and gross domestic products (GDPs), peaking at an estimated 116...
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Beijing - Nearly 1,500 new cars drive out every day onto the already-clogged streets of Beijing, which has been ranked among the world's most polluted cities.
"The growing number of automobiles is creating serious traffic pressure and safety risks in the city," Song Jianguo, head of the Beijing Traffic Management...
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Tokyo - Tokyo may be one of the world's greatest metropolises but Japan Olympic Committee (JOC) members said Friday that the city intends presenting itself as the world's most compact stage in its effort to host the 2016 Olympics.
As the IOC emphasizes legacy, Tokyo says it will limit the use of taxpayers money by recycling...
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Seoul - South Korea's exports took a record dive of 32.8 per cent in January as the global economic downturn saw demand in China, Europe, the United States and Japan plunge, the government said Monday.
The export-driven economy recorded the year-on-year fall in its goods sold abroad to 21.7 billion dollars, their third-straight...
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China showed signs of faltering in December, even as overall 2008 levels showed an increase over 2007, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday.
December 2008 FDI fell 5.73 per cent compared to December 2007, but rose 12.3 per cent compared to November 2008.
It was the first...
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Annual growth of China's vehicle sales slowed to a 10-year low of 6.7 per cent in 2008, as the global financial crisis caused a drop in demand towards the end of the year, an industry association said on Monday.
Auto firms produced 9.34 million vehicles and sold 9.38 million in the world's second-largest market last year, against...
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Ailing South Korean automaker SsangYong Motor Co is to receive 45 million dollars from its Chinese top shareholder Shanghai Automotive Industry (SAIC) Motor Corp, the company said Monday.
The measure showed SAIC's determination to keep the SUV maker going, SsangYong said. Also the company received an order for 2,000 cars and minivans...
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Japan's industry output suffered a record fall in November, as unemployment numbers rise and slowing inflation rates raised deflation fears, officials said Friday.
The Minstry for Economy, Trade and Industry said production dropped by 8.1 per cent compared to the previous month, the largest drop on record since 1953, as foreign...
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Japan's industrial output suffered a record fall in November, as unemployment numbers rose and slowing inflation rates raised deflation fears, officials said Friday.
The Ministry for Economy, Trade and Industry said production dropped by 8.1 per cent compared to the previous month, the largest drop on record since 1953, as foreign...
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Indonesia Friday marked the fourth anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami, with thousands of people scrambling up to higher ground on the coast of North Sulawesi as sirens blared in a drill.
In Aceh at the northern end of Sumatra, where more than 170,000 people were either killed or went missing when a massive 9.0-magnitude...
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Indonesia Friday marked the fourth anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami, with thousands of people scrambling up to higher ground on the coast of North Sulawesi as sirens blared in a drill.
In Aceh at the northern end of Sumatra, where more than 170,000 people were either killed or went missing when a massive 9.0-magnitude...
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Japanese auto giant Toyota on Friday began a recall of nearly 122,000 cars which may have a fault that could cause loss of steering control, the company said.
Toyota's joint venture in the north-eastern city of Tianjin, the Tianjin FAW Toyota Motor Company, said a total of 121,930 vehicles contained a fault that could cause...
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Two giant pandas given by China to Taiwan arrived in Taipei Tuesday afternoon amid huge public interest in the latest sign of improving ties between the two political rivals.
The pandas, named Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, arrived on board a chartered EVA Air jet, following a three-hour flight from a panda reserve in China's Sichuan...
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Japan's largest automaker, Toyota Motor Corp, is implementing a series of cost-cutting measures to weather the global financial crisis and its resulting fall in car sales.
Toyota has put a project to develop a diesel motor with Isuzu Motors Ltd on ice, Japanese media reported Tuesday, citing informed sources.
The engine was...
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Business confidence among Japan's largest manufacturers fell the most in 34 years, the Bank of Japan's quarterly Tankan survey revealed Monday.
An index that measures confidence among the largest makers of cars and electronics dropped to minus 24 from minus three, according to the survey. The decrease of 21 points is the largest since...
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A spirit of rebellion has slowly enveloped Iceland, reinforced by every new horror story about the financial crisis.
"What responsibility to you feel over the fact that my debts have quadrupled, although I make my repayments on time and haven't taken out any new loans?" asked one ordinary citizen of Prime Minister Geir...
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Thailand's Parliament on Monday selected opposition Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva as the next prime minister, giving the 44-year-old Oxford-educated politician a slim majority to form the next government. An extraordinary session of the lower house gave Abhisit a thin victory by a 235-198 vote over his rival, police General...
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Thailand's Parliament on Monday selected Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva as the next prime minister, giving the 44-year-old Oxford-educated politician a slim majority to form the next government.
An extraordinary session of the lower house gave Abhisit a thin victory by a 235-198 vote over his rival, police General Pracha...
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Business confidence among Japan's largest manufacturers fell the most in 34 years, the Bank of Japan's quarterly Tankan survey revealed Monday.
An index that measures confidence among the largest makers of cars and electronics dropped to minus 24 from minus three, according to the survey.
A negative reading indicates a...
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Stocks in Tokyo surged Monday on speculation that US automakers would receive a government bail-out and the rise of the dollar against the yen.
The developments outweighed the biggest drop in business confidence among Japan's largest manufacturers in 34 years because analysts said the drop was expected and the market had already...
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Japanese automaker Mazda and electronics giant Sharp on Friday announced major reductions in production due the ongoing world financial downturn.
Mazda said it would be reducing production by more than expected due to the ongoing financial crisis in the world car industry, stating that 100,000 units cut by the end of the business...
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A ferry with 175 passengers on board ran aground on approaching the Spanish holiday island of Tenerife, shipping company Fred Olsen said Wednesday.
The passengers and crew were evacuated unharmed after the accident off the port of Los Cristianos on southern Tenerife in the Canary Islands late Tuesday.
MS Bonanza Express suffered...
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Up to 2,000 residents rallied against rumoured plans to relocate a north-western Chinese city devastated by the Sichuan earthquake, with some protestors smashing windows and attacking government cars, reports said on Tuesday.
The crowd had grown since early Monday in response to rumours that the local branch of China's ruling...
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Suzuki Motors Corp bought back its 3.02-per-cent stake from the US auto giant General Motors Crop (GM), the Japanese automaker said Tuesday.
The purchase of all the 16,413,000 shares came to about 22.37 billion yen (230.7 million dollars), Suzuki said.
Suzuki now owns about 20 per cent of its own outstanding shares, while GM lost...
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Suzuki Motor Corp has agreed to buy back its 3.02-per-cent stake from the US auto giant General Motors Corp (GM), the Japanese automaker said Monday.
Suzuki was expected to buy back 16.41 million shares, which are worth 22.37 billion yen (230.7 million dollars), from GM unit Controladora General Motors SA de CV through non-cross...
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Shi Han Min, who led the Beijing's effort to clean up its air for the 2008 Olympic Games, on Wednesday won the first Kong Ha Award for excellence in air quality management.
The award, which included a 10,000-dollar purse, was granted to Shi at the Better Air Quality 2008 workshop in Bangkok, which has drawn 900 delegates from the...
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The sun is shining through coconut palms and the air is warm and moist. Poinsettias, about three metres high, bloom at roadside among wild roses and hibiscus. A rental car is headed toward the beach, its driver looking forward to white sand and turquoise sea.
Thud.
The car has hit a pothole the size of a baby's bathtub. Nothing is...
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Microsoft Corp plans to invest 60 million dollars in South Korea's software industry over the next three years, chief executive Steve Ballmer told President Lee Myung Bak Monday during a visit to the Asian country.
The world's largest software maker wants to concentrate its investment on advancing software developers and new...
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The death toll in serial bomb explosions that struck India's north-eastern state of Assam rose to 77 Friday with several of the injured succumbing to their injuries overnight, police said.
More than 400 people were injured Thursday in 12 blasts that took place in quick succession - six in Assam's main city of Guwahati and six in...
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At least 61 people were killed and 275 injured Thursday in nine bomb blasts triggered by suspected separatist and Muslim militants in India's north-eastern state of Assam, officials said.
There were nine blasts within 20 minutes, the first at 11:20 am (0550 GMT).
Three blasts took place in the state capital, Guwahati; three...
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South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co on Thursday reported a 38-per-cent drop in third-quarter profits because of falling sales and strikes that caused drops in its production.
Net income fell to 264.8 billon won (187 million dollars) from 425.5 billion won in the same quarter in 2007.
Sales shrank 14.5 per cent to 6.1...
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Nissan Motor Co on Tuesday announced a plan to reduce its auto output due to declining demand in the US.
A spokesman for the Japanese automaker said the company would cut its projected production of 65,000 units mainly for exports to the United States by March due to rapid declines in demand amid the financial crisis.
The output...
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will not quit his post when his term officially ends on January 9, the Ramallah- based al-Ayyam daily reported Monday.
The daily quoted Abbas as telling newspaper columnists at his office Sunday night that since the Palestinian election law states that presidential and legislative elections should...
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At least 23 people were killed and 41 injured when a speeding bus rammed into a stationary truck in India's north-eastern state of Assam on Tuesday, police said.
The accident took place in the early hours of Tuesday on a highway in Dhubri district, some 320 kilometres west of Assam's state capital Guwahati.
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With the global credit crisis leading to the worst slowdown in the Indian real estate market in recent times, agents and developers are hoping the festive season surrounding Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, will drive away the gloom.
Coming at the end of October, Diwali will prove a crucial period for developers as many...
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A brawl between Arab and Jewish youths on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur in the town of Akko has led to some of the most intense inter-ethnic rioting in years, Israeli media reported.
According to the Ha'aretz daily in its Thursday edition, an Arab youth was harassed by a group of Israelis who claimed that the Arab youth was making...
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A female suicide bomber detonated herself on Wednesday, killing six people and injuring 20, in Iraq's Diyala province, the Egyptian State news agency (MENA) reported.
The bomber had targeted an Iraqi police patrol near a court in the restive provincial capital city Baquba, located some 66 kilometres north of the capital Baghdad,...
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News about the latest emergency package to save Germany's real estate financier Hypo Real Estate Holding AG could not clear the gloomy atmosphere in far-away Asia. It was the same with the bail-out package for US financial institutions approved last week.
It was no longer the banking crisis alone that caused deep concern in Japan...
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Pablo Fierro came to Washington from Philadelphia for a rally against the proposed 700-billion-dollar financial bailout, which the House of Representatives could vote on Friday.
He held up an orange sign: "No to the bankers' coup d'etat."
Thursday's rally within shouting distance of the US Capitol was organized by a...
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When wealthy residents of one of the world's most ostentatious cities - Hong Kong - start cutting back on luxuries, as reports suggested Friday, you know the global economy is in trouble.
High rollers in the high-rise city of 6.9 million which has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world are eating out less, spending less...
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At least five people were killed and 30 wounded on Monday in a bomb blast targeting a military bus on the outskirts of the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli, Lebanese security sources said.
Hospital officials said three of those killed were soldiers. At least 30 people who sustained medium and serious injuries had been admitted,...
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Amid what appears to be a trend in the killing of journalists in Iraq, the Iraqi Committee to Protect Journalists (ICPJ) issued a warning to media personnel to be on the lookout for car bombs.
"We call on all journalists and media staff to inspect the cars carefully before getting in the car, in case there is a bomb inside or...
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Sixteen people, including six policemen and six al-Qaeda militants, were killed in a car-bomb attack outside the US embassy in the Yemeni capital Sana'a on Wednesday, officials said.
Interior Ministry sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that all six attackers, including one wearing an explosive belt, were killed. A local security...
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Sixteen people, including six policemen and six al-Qaeda militants, were killed in a car-bomb attack outside the US embassy in the Yemeni capital Sana'a on Wednesday, officials said.
Interior Ministry sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that all six attackers, including one wearing an explosive belt, were killed. A local security...
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Five people were killed and 20 injured on Wednesday in a twin bomb attack west of Baghdad, police said.
Two cars loaded with explosives were detonated in front of a hospital in Al-Harithya neighbourhood, Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency reported.
Earlier, police sources said three Iraqis were killed in an attack by unidentified...
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Beijing police have ordered 10 pro-Tibet activists - all foreigners - to 10 days in detention in the harshest treatment so far of Tibet activists since a series of demonstrations were carried out in the capital during the Olympics.
The police faxed a statement Friday saying six foreigners arrested Tuesday for "disturbing public...
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Olympic fever that has swept most of China seems to have limited influence in Lanzhou, considered the geometrical centre of China.
For many, the 3-million-inhabitant city capital of Gansu province is still a frontier town, and while the Games' influence is hard to miss in the city centre with flags on mass display in shops and cars,...
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A total ban on the movement of cars was imposed in Karbala Friday as part of a tight security control in the holy southern Iraqi city, days before the Sunday pilgrimage to commemorate the birth of the 12th Imam revered by Shiites.
"A total car ban is imposed on Karbala from today till the end of pilgrimage on Sunday. Security...
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 Gun battle and bombing have started this weekend’s Olympic Games in China. Authorities believe that the attack that ended with 8 deaths in western China was an attempt made by the Islamic separatist group to arrest the global attention from the Olympic Games held in Beijing.The attack took place in Kuqa, a city in the Xinjiang region, in...
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A Taiwan air force AH1W Super Cobra attack
helicopter crash-landed at a village in the northern county of Taoyuan
Wednesday, killing the two pilots, defence officials said.
The helicopter first hit a three-story building before it crash-landed
in a narrow lane of the village, crushing two cars nearby, Taiwanese
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 On Monday, Silicon Valley
electric sports car-maker, Tesla Motors sued a competing company over allegations
of design idea and trade secret theft.
The story began last year when Tesla hired a Danish
designer, Henrik Fisker, to work on the body design of a new four-seat sedan,
called White Star. This is where things get hot, as the...
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 General Motors Corporation’s board chairman and financial chief declared on Thursday that the company is continuing its cost reduction plan while seeing hope for its products in foreign markets and even in the United States by the next year.During the North American International Auto Show week, GM chair Rick Wagoner and finance chief...
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 Toyota Motor Corp on Monday said it expects a marginal revenue increase in the hugely competitive US market in 2008.
The Japanese automaker, which could replace General Motors Co as
the world's largest automaker when total 2007 sales are released later
this month, also unveiled its new 2009 Venza model, a crossover between
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 Bentley, the luxury British marque owned by Volkswagen of Germany, has surpassed sales of 10,000 cars per year for the first time, the company said Sunday in Berlin.
The carmaker lifted 2007 sales to 10,014 cars, a gain of 7 per cent.
The United States was the main market for the cars, gaining 4 per cent to 4,196 units despite the...
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 Japanese car maker Nissan announced on Friday in Tokyo that it would start building cars for Chrysler, in a supply deal for cars that would be released in South America.The daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported that Nissan is expected to supply the Michigan based Chrysler with 30.000 small cars which should enter the South American market...
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 German carmaker Daimler AG's luxury Mercedes Benz announced on Tuesday that its sales have reached a record last year, rising by 2 percent, reaching 1.29 million dollars.The Stuttgart-based carmaker, which includes the Mercedes Benz brand as well as the compact Smart and the super luxury Maybach model, said that sales of its core...
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 Ford Motor Company announced on Tuesday that it plans to invest 500 million dollars in India in order to expand its operations in the country, putting into practice its commitments of developing and implementing a very serious growth strategy.Ford’s investment is aimed to double Ford India’s manufacturing capacity by 2010, to fund the...
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 South Korean electronics maker LG said Sunday that its cellphones now
accounted for 20 per cent of the US market helping the company achieve
sales of 11.5 billion dollars in the North American market.
LG expects US sales of 13 billion dollars in 2008, Michael Ahn, CEO
of LG Electronics North America told journalists at the start of...
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 Toyota Motor Corp said Tuesday that it plans to increase its production
in 2008 by 5 per cent to nearly 10 million cars, which would cause it
to leap ahead of General Motors Corp as the world's largest automaker.
Japan's leading carmaker said that thanks to rising demand in
China, the Mideast, Russia and other growth markets, it...
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 Despite booming sales of its luxury cars, BMW said Friday it would cut
thousands of jobs at its German plants in a bid to raise its profit
level.
The news website Spiegel Online said 8,000 jobs would go at BMW,
which leads Germany's three other premium brands, Mercedes-Benz,
Porsche and Audi, in unit sales worldwide.
Industry...
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 November was not a great month for US auto sales, as the subprime mortgage crisis and the high fuel prices kept customers from buying cars. Therefore, some of the world’s largest auto makers faced sale drops or slight increases, much lower than expected.General Motors’ sales dropped by 11.4 percent in the United States in November,...
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 China FAW Group Corp. is set to become the first company in the country that would have a plant in Mexico, as increasing competition in China makes the car makers to seek the opportunity of sales in Latin America or Europe.The construction of the assembly plant has begun on Friday, being due to be open in 2010 in Michoacan state, in the...
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 Ford Motor Co. has narrowed its loss to 380 million dollars, from the 5.2 billion dollars in 2006, in the third quarter of 2007, despite all the analysts' estimates for the second straight quarter. The second largest United States automaker made this possible by closing ten assembly plants, increasing the sales trimming 10.000 salaried...
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 During the last 12 years Lexus, a Toyota Motor Corp. luxury brand, was the best that car manufacturers had to offer in terms of quality and durability.However, according to the latest J.D. Power and Associates study of long-term durability, Lexus is no longer alone on the top spot as Buick, a General Motors Corp. car, tied the Japanese...
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 In the battle for world supremacy in car manufacturing the last subchapter saw General Motors Corp pull ahead of Toyota Motor Corp. in total sales for the second quarter of 2007. However, the Japanese manufacturer retains its lead through the first half of 2007.According to the rival companies’ latest releases, General Motors sold about...
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 Attempting to boost revenues coming from European and North American markets, US automobile manufacturer Chrysler signed a deal on Tuesday with Chinese car maker Chery Automobile for building vehicles that will reach Europe and the US.Through this deal, Chrysler will add a new category of low-cost cars to its wide scope of vehicles and...
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 Chrysler Group has announced details Thursday about their new engine, transmission and axle programs that aim to improve fuel efficiency, a big problem with Chrysler cars that also took its toll on the company's sales."As we implement our recovery and transformation plan, product remains the top priority. We know we must build...
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 A rumor that Ford’s subsidiary Volvo Car Corp would be sold to BMW emerged earlier this week, but the American company’s management firmly denied the suppositions on Wednesday.“Ford is not in discussions with BMW or any other carmaker regarding interest in the Volvo Car Corp,” Ford spokesman John Gardiner declared.The rumors appeared...
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 DeKalb County nightclub was the victim of gunfire on Saturday morning. Thousands of people stormed out of the club after a gun was fired at Jermaine Dupri’s party. While his guests were entering into the VIP area, gun shots could be heard inside the nightclub.Marcus Hodge, police spokesman, said that a bullet hurt a security guard, but...
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 Talk show host Oprah Winfrey had gifts for Stanford University’s graduates when she spoke at their commencement on Sunday, Reuters reports. “I really wanted to give you cars . . . just couldn’t pull that off,” said Winfrey, quoted by the same source. Instead, the 2,600 graduates in attendance got two books: Daniel Pink’s “A Whole...
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The daughter of Tampa Bay’s
most popular wrestler, Hulk Hogan, was involved in a car accident on Sunday
afternoon. Brooke had one passenger in the car (it wasn’t Hulk or Linda) and no
one was seriously injured. Originally it had been reported that Brooke’s
father, Hulk Hogan was the Hogan family member involved the...
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 After less than two months from her minor car accident in Los Angeles, Britney Spears, who is fighting to get her
life back in order, has landed in the back of a red SUV in Beverly Hills, this Tuesday. The pop diva was
driving her white Mercedes-Benz when she hit the red Ford Explorer in the back.
The SUV was driven also by a lady....
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 Hulk Hogan’s son. Nick Bollea is due to stay in jail for the
next eight months as ordered Friday. The wrestling superstar’s son pleaded
guilty to the crash that seriously injured his best friend, John Garziano, who
will now face medical treatment for life. The 17-year-old teenager took the
news pretty good. According to the...
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 After Priscilla Presley got angry with anyone who called her
overweight, while she was pregnant, now she confessed about something more
serious than extra pounds or her troubles as a contestant of “Dancing With The
Stars.”
Presley recognized that she got fooled by a fake plastic
surgeon a few years ago, who promised a procedure...
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 Relief for Britney Spears, more worries for her parents: the
pop artist has been released from the UCLA Medical
Center.
Spears has been in the psych ward for almost a week to
receive the appropriate treatment and was released on Wednesday. After she
checked out of the hospital, she briefly made a stop at the Beverly...
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It seems that the world indeed revolves around Britney
Spears.
The LAPD is mobilized to accompany her to the hospital, a
paparazzo is quitting his job and makes it public, what’s next? Bin Laden
sending suicide bombers in the name of Britney Spears?
Early on Thursday Spears was admitted to U.C.L.A. Medical
Center, but in...
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paparazzi show their claws again in a threateningly-similar chase to the one in
1997 that lead to the death of Princess Diana in a car accident. It seems that
they can never get enough and they hound for more, no matter if they jeopardize
the lives of their preys.
The Friday small hours brought recently made-up Prince
William...
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 The late Leona Helmsley, dubbed The Queen of Mean, has left her pet pooch with a lifetime of certain luxury, worth a whopping $12 million.
Trouble, Leona Helmsley’s pampered white Maltese, was not overlooked by his owner when she made her will. The pooch reportedly was left $12 million out of the hotelier’s $4 billion...
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 As it was earlier reported, actor Owen Wilson attempted suicide Sunday, by slitting his writs and overdosing on pills, police logs confirmed. According to 911 call records, police responded an emergency call made from Owen Wilson’s home on August 26, at 12:08 p.m., classified as "attempted suicide," Extra reported. The call was...
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 Actress Sara Gilbert known for playing Darlene, the youngest of daughters in ABC’s sitcom "Roseanne," welcomed her daughter Sawyer on August 2nd, according to Variety. Her publicist didn’t give further information regarding the birth, but this is her second child with girlfriend Allison Adler, a writer and producer with...
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 Former Laguna Beach cast member Jessica Smith, 19, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor DUI charge Thursday. Smith was sentenced to three years probation and ordered to attend one MADD meeting and serve 80 hours of community service, according to gossip site TMZ.In March, the car Smith was driving (a 1999 Volkswagen Beetle) smashed into the...
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 The legendary movie star feels he has gotten too old to play as he used to.
At 82, Paul Newman has decided to retire from his lifelong career in the movie industry. He told ABC’s “Good Morning, America” on Thursday: “I'm not able to work anymore as an actor at the level I would want to.
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Israeli police were on high alert in racially mixed Israeli cities Friday after two nights of the worst Arab-Jewish clashes in years in the northern port town of Acre.
Some 500 officers were deployed in Acre Friday to prevent a new outbreak of violence, Police Spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said.
Police arrested 12 of the rioters, who...
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Israel will have to withdraw from the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, if it wanted peace with its Arab and Palestinian neighbours, outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in remarks published Monday.
"We need to reach an agreement with the Palestinians, in which the significance is a...
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Three people were killed and five injured when a bomb went off in a cafe in Iraq's Hillah province, witnesses said Monday.
The explosion hit a coffee shop known for its young visitors and caused
serious damage, witnesses told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. Several
cars were also damaged. Hillah province is located some 100...
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 Thousands of Palestinians continued to cross into Egypt for
the fourth consecutive day despite the authorities’ efforts to seal the border
with Gaza.
A United Nations report said more than 700.000 people from
the Hamas-ruled salient took advantage of the free passage and bought needed supplies
from the neighboring country over the...
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 Israeli security officials said Monday evening that the military would
allow industrial diesel fuel to enter the Gaza Strip for one day only
on Tuesday, allowing the enclave's sole power plant to resume
operations following a four-day Israeli lockdown.
"On a one-time basis, Israel will allow in industrial diesel,"...
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 Lebanese and US security officials met Wednesday with Lebanon's General
Prosecutor Said Mirza, a day after a bomb blast ripped through a US
embassy car killing three people and wounding 20 others, Lebanese
judicial sources said.
The meeting was chaired by Mirza at the Lebanese Justice Palace, in
the presence of Lebanese military...
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 A bomb struck a car belonging to the US embassy north of Beirut on
Tuesday, killing at least three people and injuring 20, US, Lebanese
and Red Cross officials said.
The US embassy issued a statement late Tuesday confirming that one
of its vehicles was "involved in an explosion in the Karantina district
of Beirut" near...
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 A senior Lebanese army officer was killed along with his bodyguard in a
rush-hour explosion in eastern Beirut on Wednesday morning, sending
shock waves across a country already mired in political deadlock.
Brigadier General Francois al-Hajj was killed in front of a
municipal government building near the presidential palace in...
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 US-led coalition forces killed five civilians and injured four others
including women and children, in two separate incidents in Bayji city
and the Iraqi capital Baghdad, while Iraqi police found the bodies of
four abducted prisoners in Tikrit, sources said Tuesday.
Two Iraqis were killed and four others injured when US...
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 At least 24 people were killed and 84 others wounded in several acts of violence around Iraq on Friday.
In the day's bloodiest incident, at least 15 people were killed and
57 wounded when an explosive charge hidden inside a box containing
birds struck the al-Ghazl public animal trading market in central
Baghdad, witnesses and...
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 The military wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah
movement claimed responsibility Saturday for firing rockets into
southern Israel as the United Nations body for Palestinian refugees
expressed concerns over Israeli plans to reduce electricity to the Gaza
Strip.
Israeli radio reported three home-made missiles landed...
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 According to local media, armed clashes between Hamas-run
police and a Gaza-based clan started again on Saturday morning after two days
of ceasefire, killing a clan member.
They said that Mohammed Helles of their family was killed and a number of the
family members have been wounded in the new surge of violence between the
Helles...
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 Pakistan has no rest after the Red Mosque standoff, suicide attacks rocking the strife-torn country through the past days. On Sunday, two suicide attacks and a landmine explosion killing at least 14 soldiers and four civilians in the North-West Frontier Province, security sources informed.According to a military spokesman “two suicide...
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 A soldier and two other people died in fire exchange between soldiers and militant students outside a mosque in Islamabad on Tuesday. The feud between governmental forces and armed students from the Red Mosque took a sudden turn on Tuesday, a fierce clash occurring near the holy site after students attacked a group of policemen.Four...
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 Iraq is ravaged by savage explosions that killed at least 45 people and three British soldiers late Wednesday and Thursday.A fierce blast ripped through several cars in a mainly Shiite district of Baghdad, at least 30 people being reported dead and dozens injured. The explosive device was placed inside a car in a district east of Jihad...
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 A suicide attack apparently targeting a Shiite mosque in central Baghdad Tuesday killed 65 persons, at least 100 being wounded, security sources informed.The attack took place in the crowded commercial district of Sinak, in the center Iraq’s capital shortly after noon. In the neighbourhood is located the Shiite mosque Khillani, which was...
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 Two powerful blasts killed at least seven people Wednesday in a neighbourhood of Baghdad, while a prominent Shiite leader was shot dead about 160 kilometers from Iraq’s capital, Iraqi media reported.Explosive devices placed inside two cars went off in the mainly Shiite neighbourhood of Kadhimiyah, killing seven bystanders and wounding...
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 The political crisis in Pakistan deepens even more, after thousands of people marched against President Pervez Musharraf, who became the number one public enemy in the eyes of Pakistanis.All the turmoil started in March, when the country’s Chief of Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was dismissed by Musharraf, who charged the judge for...
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 Blasts and clashes, two usual events in Afghanistan, killed at least 31 persons Tuesday, most of them Taliban rebels.A police officer was killed on the spot after a mine exploded in Kandahar province when a police car was passing by. Six other people were wounded, three of them being policemen. The blast caused one more fatality later...
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 Sony quietly released the cartoonish, GTA-like game Calling All Cars on the PlayStation Network, for an estimated price of $9.99.Along with it Sony also launched on the PSN the arcade game Rampart. This is the second major release after last week’s PSN debut classic Gauntlet II ($4.99) and the long delayed combo (demo and full game)...
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Stockholm - The Swedish government Wednesday expressed disappointment over US automotive giant General Motors Corp's plans to sell Swedish subsidiary Saab while demanding Swedish state loans.
"What GM says is that they wash their hands of Saab, and drop it into the laps of Swedish taxpayers," Enterprise Minister Maud...
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Athens - Tens of thousands of people were startled out of their beds Tuesday after a moderate earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale struck western Greece. No injuries or damage was reported.
The underwater quake with an epicentre 65 kilometers south of the Ionion island of Zakynthos hit one hour after midnight and was...
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London - Severe storms and snowfalls hit parts of Britain Tuesday, sparking a number of flood alerts and leaving thousands of homes without power.
A band of heavy rain swept through southern Britain, accompanied by strong winds coming in from the Atlantic, which earlier hit parts of France.
Meanwhile, heavy snow has been falling in...
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Stuttgart, Germany - Luxury sports carmaker Porsche SE launched a 100-million-euro (129-million-dollar) cost-cutting program Friday after the global economic slowdown triggered a dramatic slump in its sales.
The manufacturer of 911, Boxster, Caymen and Cayenne sports cars, Porsche said sales will drop by 27.3 per cent to 34,000...
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Johannesburg - German automaker Volkswagen AG plans to cut 400 jobs at its South African plant, news reports said Friday.
Company spokesmen Bill Stevens said the cuts were necessary because of an expected 10-per-cent drop in new car sales this year, the SAFM radio station said.
Furthermore, Volkswagen plans to cut down...
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Workers were busy replacing paving stones into the cobbled streets of Riga's Old Town Wednesday morning hours after they were used to smash the windows of the Latvian parliament building.
A political demonstration Tuesday night degenerated into the worst civil unrest the Baltic state has seen for years.
Speaking on Latvian...
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Workers were busy replacing paving stones into the cobbled streets of Riga's Old Town Wednesday morning hours after they were used to smash the windows of the Latvian parliament building.
A political demonstration Tuesday night degenerated into the worst civil unrest the Baltic state has seen for years.
Speaking on Latvian...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Tuesday a major rescue package funded by borrowing to avert the worst effects of recession on Europe's biggest economy.
Merkel told a Berlin news conference, "When there is an extraordinary situation, one has to react in an extraordinary way."
The 50-billion-euro...
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Heavy-vehicle maker Volvo Trucks said Tuesday it was to give notice to 1,020 employees in Sweden, citing "very weak demand" in Europe and no sign of a recovery.
Volvo's Powertrain division, which makes engines and gearboxes used in its heavy vehicles as well as construction machinery, was also to cut some 600 jobs, the Volvo...
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Slovakia's carmakers halted or limited production Thursday, a side effect of Russia's decision to cut off natural gas supplies flowing to western Europe via Ukraine.
A Kia plant in Slovakia, which churns out 700 cars a day, halted production Thursday morning, spokesman Dusan Dvorak confirmed. A Peugeot plant decided to slash one of...
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An unusually heavy snowfall accompanied by a cold snap paralyzed travel in sections of southern France on Wednesday, with the city of Marseille particularly badly hit, French media reported.
The Marseille-Marignane Airport was shut down early Wednesday as 18 centimetres of snow fell on France's second-largest city.
The snow also...
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The organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) on Monday called for banning Vienna's traditional horse carriages, following a recent accident in which a drunken coachman lost control of his horses.
The carriages are a popular tourist attraction. Visitors can book the coaches, many of which are over 100 years old,...
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A Greek policeman was seriously wounded early Monday when unknown attackers fired shots and hurled a grenade at a police watch post in the ongoing violence since a teenage youth was killed by police in early December.
At Athens hospital, a spokesman said "the condition of the wounded (policeman) is extremely serious but...
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The death toll of traffic accidents has fallen to the lowest level in 44 years in Spain, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said Monday.
In 2008, at total of 2,181 people were killed in traffic accidents, 20 per cent down from the previous year.
The death toll has gone down despite the number of cars on the streets and roads...
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Italy's police forces are about to be equipped with a Ferrari and a Porsche seized from the mafia, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said Monday.
The luxury cars - a Ferrari 512 and a Porsche Cayenne - form part of a haul of some 4 billion euros (5.5 billion dollars) worth of assets confiscated from organized criminals in Italy during...
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The British government confirmed Thursday that it has been in talks with the Indian-owned Jaguar Land Rover car producer over the possibility of state aid.
Confirmation of the talks from Industry Secretary Peter Mandelson came as figures published Thursday showed a 33-per-cent slump in car production in Britain in November, compared...
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An appeals court in the eastern French city of Colmar on Thursday confirmed a 200,000-euro (292,000-dollar) fine imposed on Volvo for the deaths of two children in a 1999 accident.
The court found that the Volvo 850 TDI driven by a French teacher ran over the two children, aged 9 and 10, because its brakes had not functioned...
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Europe's biggest car terminal is bursting at the seams as unsold cars pile up, mirroring the dramatic situation in the automobile industry.
More than 90,000 vehicles are clogging the shipping terminal in the north German port of Bremerhaven, waiting to find new owners.
"We can't move the cars, work on them or deliver them...
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European shares opened sharply down Friday after the failure of the US car industry bail-out sent stocks tumbling in Asia. With shares in major European bourses falling in early trading, Europe's blue-chip Stoxx 50 opened down more than 4 per cent at 2,379.99 points. This followed a 2.8-per-cent fall in shares in Europe's leading market...
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European Union leaders Friday agreed on what they described as an "ambitious" economic recovery plan but were still locked in discussions on how to meet their greenhouse gas emission targets.
"We have agreed unanimously an ambitious stimulus package" designed to help the bloc weather recession, British Prime...
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Greek riot police fired tear gas into crowds of protesting students and teachers, who pelted them with rocks and chunks of marble in front of parliament in the seventh day of civil unrest.
Waving black and red anarchist flags, hundreds of students, made their way up the steps to parliament to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier before...
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Sales of Volkswagen cars slumped by 16.5 per cent in November compared to the previous month, Europe's biggest carmaker said on Friday.
New deliveries dropped to 447,000 last month, the company said.
The meltdown in the global car market in the final quarter of 2008 posed "a massive challenge," said Detlef Wittig, VW's...
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Greek riot police fired tear gas into crowds of protesting students and teachers, who pelted them with rocks and chunks of marble in front of parliament in the seventh day of civil unrest Friday.
Waving black and red anarchist flags, hundreds of students, made their way up the steps to parliament to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
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The Czech Republic's largest carmaker, Skoda Auto, a unit of Volkswagen AG, plans to cut its working week to four days in the first half of 2009 due to falling demand in Western Europe, a company spokesman confirmed Friday.
The company agreed on the plan with trade unions late Thursday in a bid "to preserve employment,"...
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Police divers on Thursday pulled the body of a woman from a car submerged in a flooded tunnel near Rome following a night of heavy rains and snowfalls around Italy.
The identity of the woman and the cause of her death were not immediately clear, the ANSA news agency reported.
The tunnel near Monterotondo was among several areas in...
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The European Union's so-called "20-20-20" package aims to fight climate change by reducing the bloc's overall emissions of polluting gases to 20 per cent below their 1990 levels by 2020.
It consists of the following main points:
INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS: the main plank of the package is a law aimed at strengthening a system...
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Thousands of people marched through a city landscape of burned and looted shops in the Greek capital Wednesday in a nationwide strike to protest against the government's economic policies.
In demonstrations coming after four nights of civil unrest, anti- government protesters shouting slogans and carrying black flags marched through...
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Thousands of people marched through a city landscape of burned and looted shops in the Greek capital Wednesday in a nationwide strike to protest against the government's economic policies.
In demonstrations coming after four nights of civil unrest, anti- government protesters shouting slogans and carrying black flags marched through...
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Police clashed with demonstrators, who threw fire bombs and chunks of marble, on Wednesday during a nationwide strike that paralyzed Greece already crippled by a crisis after five days of the worst violence the country has seen in decades.
More than 10,000 demonstrators yelling, "Down with the pigs," and carrying black flags...
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Police clashed with projectile-throwing demonstrators on Wednesday during a nationwide strike that paralysed Greece already crippled by a crisis after five days of the worst violence the country has seen in decades.
More than 10,000 demonstrators yelling, "Down with the pigs," and carrying black flags marched through a city...
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Police clashed with projectile-throwing demonstrators on Wednesday during a nationwide strike that paralysed Greece already crippled by a crisis after five days of the worst violence the country has seen in decades.
More than 10,000 demonstrators yelling, "Down with the pigs," and carrying black flags marched through a city...
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The Greek capital Athens and dozens of other cities were left crippled Tuesday after several days of arson and looting, triggered by the fatal shooting of a teenager by police.
Described as the worst riots in decades, thick black smoke, flames and tear gas had engulfed central Athens for hours as students set fire to cars, banks,...
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Greece braced for more widespread protests and possible violence Tuesday with the funeral of the teenager who was fatally shot by police over the weekend, triggering the worst rioting the country has seen in decades.
Widespread riots first erupted late Saturday shortly after the shooting of the teenage boy by a police officer in the...
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Civil unrest, which rocked Greece over the weekend after the shooting of a teenager by police, subsided early Monday, media reports said.
According to Greek television reports almost all of the 150 hooded youths who had sought shelter inside the Polytechnic University, which is off-limits to police under Greek law, had left the...
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Greece braced Monday for a third day of demonstrations and civil unrest after the shooting of a teenager by police over the weekend.
The widespread rioting and looting by thousands of self-styled anarchists left Athens and the northern port of Thessaloniki resembling war zones as youths destroyed businesses, cars, banks, police...
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The Swedish government has no immediate plans to take control of troubled Swedish carmakers Volvo and Saab, Deputy Prime Minister Maud Olofsson said Wednesday.
Olofsson, minister for enterprise and energy, said the government was in close contact with the managements of US car giants Ford that owns Volvo and General Motors that owns...
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The last of the Yugoslav-era cars, known for their lack of reliability as much as tasteless design and crude unworkmanlike finish, rolled off the assembly line in Serbia on Friday, nearly two decades after Yugoslavia itself fell apart.
Zastava, the car factory in the central Serbian town Kragujevac, has effectively ceased to exist...
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US pop diva Madonna and her British film director husband Guy Ritchie ended their eight-year marriage in a low-key "quickie" divorce in London Friday following a private settlement.
The singer, 50, and Ritchie, 40, did not attend the hearing before the High Court's family division. It lasted just a few minutes and was heard...
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As the discussion about state aid for ailing German carmaker Opel continues, EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen on Wednesday described the firm as a "special case" in Europe.
"Extraordinary circumstances require extraordinary measures," Verheugen said in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, although he...
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There's a saying in Germany that when Daimler coughs, the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg catches pneumonia.
Things are not yet quite as bad as that in the home of Mercedes- Benz, or in Germany in general. But strong medicine is needed to get Germany's ailing car industry back on its feet amid a slump in profits and sales.
The first...
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Volkswagen reported a drop in sales in October but predicted it would sell more cars in 2008 than it did last year.
Europe's largest automaker said it delivered 502,600 vehicles last month, a drop of 5.1 per cent from a year ago. Sales in the first 10 months of 2008 were up 2.8 per cent to 5.29 million.
VW said increased sales in...
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A cabinet minister ruled out a government bailout for the German auto industry on Monday as Chancellor Angela Merkel prepared to meet the management of Opel to discuss state aid.
The troubled carmaker has requested credit guarantees from Berlin to counter a financial squeeze, triggered by dwindling sales and problems with its parent...
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The European Commission on Friday threatened to refer the United States to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over Washington's plans to subsidize its ailing car industry.
"Of course, if it is illegal state aid, we will act at the WTO level," Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told French radio station Europe 1.
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The 15-member eurozone officially slumped into recession Friday after its economy contracted by 0.2 per cent for a second quarter in a row, the European statistical office said.
Figures from Eurostat showed that gross domestic product in two of the euro area's biggest economies, Germany and Italy, fell by 0.5 per cent in the third...
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The 15-member eurozone officially slumped into recession after figures out Friday showed its economy contracting by 0.2 per cent for a second quarter in a row.
The eurozone's latest GDP estimates were published just one day before heads of state and government from the world's 20 leading economies were due to meet in Washington to...
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Germany slumped into a recession for the first time in five years, official data released Thursday showed, amid signs that a global economic downturn was taking hold.
Europe's biggest economy shrank by 0.5 per cent in the third quarter of 2008, after it contracted 0.4 per cent in the three months to the end of June, the Federal...
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With sales of new cars in Latvia shrinking by more than a third in the first ten months of 2008 according to figures released Monday, it was left to carmakers at opposite ends of the price spectrum to report the strongest results.
Total sales of new cars in the Baltic country for January to October dropped to 10,434 from 17,239 in the...
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General Motors, the world's largest automaker, on Friday opened a 300-million-dollar factory, its first fully-owned venture in Russia.
GM joins five other foreign carmakers with plants in the outskirts of St Petersburg, an area coming to be known as the new Detroit of the automotive industry, as firms hope to compensate for slumping...
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German sports car manufacturer Porsche announced a huge jump in profits for the 2007/2008 financial year on Friday as Daimler AG and BMW reported a major slump in October sales.
Group profit before taxes in the 12 months up to the end of July soared to 8.57 billion euros (11.2 billion dollars) from 5.85 billion euros the previous...
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Thousands of German factory workers walked off their jobs Tuesday and attended demonstrations, demanding wage rises of 8 per cent on the fourth day of nationwide labour disruption.
In the port city of Hamburg, 5,000 repair workers left a riverside shipyard and trooped through a pair of 100-year-old tunnels originally built for...
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