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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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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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 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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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.
"The bus...
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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
television news...
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A bomb attack in Kabul killed nearly 40 people and wounded 141 others, on Monday, July 7. The explosion happened near the Indian Embassy and left serious damages.Dozens of bodies were thrown on the tree-lined streets in front of the embassy. The blast ripped through a crowd of people waiting in line for visas at the Indian Embassy in...
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Australia laid out plans Friday for a national
scheme for carbon-emissions trading it hopes will help slow climate
change without crashing the national economy or handing a competitive
advantage to other countries. The scheme is outlined in a
report delivered to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd by top economist Ross
Garnaut. It would...
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 The sight of Buddhist monks protesting while being surrounded by Chinese policemen has turned violent. Add some police cars set on fire by the monks or by the people who joined their protest and you’ll have the main market in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, at its worst. The Buddhist monks began protesting almost a week ago demanding greater...
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 Two suicide bomb attacks took place in Lahore, Pakistan killing at least 26 people. Lahore’s main police building was partly demolished and approximately 175 people were wounded as two cars packed with explosives were detonated a few minutes and kilometers apart during Tuesday’s morning rush-hour.The latest attacks made it clear that...
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 At least four people were killed and 16 other badly wounded in two suicide bomb attacks that took place at Pakistan's Navy War College. The attacks brought panic across Lahore, a city relatively tranquil until now, compared with the rest of the country.This is the fifth day of attacks carried out by the Pakistani pro-Taliban militants...
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 Pakistani ambassador to
Afghanistan, Tariq Azizzuddin, and two nuclear experts employed with Pakistan’s Atomic Energy Commission were
abducted on Monday near the northwestern border with Afghanistan,
a region where Taliban or Al-Qaeda militants have been carrying out operations
against the US
troops.
Tariq Azizzuddin was on...
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 Al-Qaeda's top commander in Afghanistan has claimed responsibility for
the assassination of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, the
Asia Times Online reported Friday.
In a telephone conversation with the news site, Mustafa Abu
al-Yazid, who emerged in May as the chief of al-Qaeda's operations in
Afghanistan, claimed to have...
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 According to local media, eight people were killed and as
many as 89 others were injured today when a powerful explosion ripped through a
shopping mall in Makati City,
the Philippine capital’s financial district.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, in a statement,
instructed the police to leave “no stone unturned” in its...
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 Lebanese lawmaker Antoine Ghanem, 64, a member of the
Western-backed parliamentary majority was killed on Wednesday in a car bomb that
shook a Christian neighborhood outside Beirut.
The incident took place just six days prior to a
presidential election held by the parliament of this politically divided
country. Six other people...
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 At least 20 people lost their lives in the Indian city of
Hyderabad, when the overpass they were taking shelter under during a rainstorm
collapsed on top of them Saturday.
Rescue workers have managed to recover two bodies crushed
under the ruble and twisted steel. Pedestrians were injured and near parked
vehicles were...
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 City officials have pulled hundreds of private cars off the streets of Beijing in a attempt to test whether such a ban could help ease the smog levels and traffic gridlock during forthcoming 2008 Olympic Games. The car ban will last four days and the selection method uses the odd-even license plate number, so only vehicles with...
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 At least 12 people died and dozens are still missing after a passenger ferry sank Thursday in central Philippines.The MV Blue Water Princess went under in the early hours off the coast of San Francisco, about 140 miles south-east of Manila in the Quezon province. According to the coast guard, 129 people have been rescued, but another 115...
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 A fierce explosion ripped through a karaoke bar in northeast China,
killing 25 people and injuring 33, media reported Thursday.
The blast occurred in the Tianshifu township, Liaoning
province late Wednesday and levelled the two-story building serving as bath
house also.
According to Chinese news agency Xinhua, 25 bodies were...
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 Two soldiers were killed in Kashmir by
a hand grenade, while 25 other were injured by a roadside bomb in the same
region, government officials reported.
Unknown persons threw a hand grenade into a military camp belonging
to the Indian paramilitary troops, gravely injuring five soldiers. Two of the
injured servicemen died at the...
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 The northern Indian state of Rajasthan is ravaged by a series of demonstrations that degenerated into riots, as the protestors clashed with security forces which didn’t hesitate to open fire on the rage-driven crowd.Protests actions were initiated Tuesday by the ethnic Gujjar community, which demanded they have a special status in order...
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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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German luxury carmaker BMW said Tuesday that it was lowering its profits forecast for 2009, following disappointing third-quarter results.
Profits plunged 62.9 per cent to 298 million euros (375 million dollars) compared to the same quarter of 2007, the company said in a statement released in Munich.
Turnover was down 8.6 per cent...
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During her 33 years as queen, Sofia of Spain had been known for her gentleness and discretion.
But at the time of her 70th birthday, the Greek-born wife of King Juan Carlos stunned the country with a sudden outburst of outspokenness, reigniting a debate about the role of the monarchy.
The queen opened up to journalist Pilar Urbano,...
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