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World's Top 10 Largest Companies (SLIDESHOW)
International Business Times
Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil, General Motors and Mitsubishi are the only other companies to ever top the Global 500. The top-ten World's largest corporations ranked by revenue in order are: Wal-Mart Stores (US), Royal Dutch Shell (Netherlands),...
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International Business Times
GLOBAL MARKETS-Dismal US jobs hurt stocks; Treasuries soar
Reuters
Gold capped its best week of the year and investors rushed into US Treasury debt, turning safe-haven investments into the day's top performers. The US Labor Department said the country's non-farm payrolls -- a key indicator for global markets -- grew ...
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Shanghai rises to No. 6 financial city
EastDay.com
The Xinhua-Dow Jones International Financial Centers Development Index, a gauge to measure and value the development capacity of 45 global international financial centers, showed that Shanghai has moved two places higher from a year ago and now trails ...
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Global Video Game Industry Sales Expected to Top $112 Billion by 2015
GamerLive.TV
Despite a recent string of down months in US video game sales at retail this year, a new report from research firm Gartner paints a very rosy picture for the global video game industry. When adding in revenues from burgeoning online, mobile and digital ...
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Serengeti hideaway takes world's best hotel crown
The Independent
Impressively, Singita Grumeti Reserves was one of six African properties to place within the world's top ten hotels this year, suggesting that the continent is fast becoming a significant player on theglobal tourism scene. Travel + Leisure's editor, ...
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Africa: Usaid, Scientists Join in Search for Global Development Answers
AllAfrica.com
The director of the NSF, Subra Suresh, said partnership is increasingly important when some of theworld's worst problems transcend geographic borders. "We know that many of today's most pressing research challenges are global in scale, ...
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A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the ...
Washington Post
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Africa's growing economy and reliance on carbon-emitting energy from wood and charcoal could “exponentially” worsen global warming unless the continent steps up its investment in wind, solar and hydro power, ...
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Perils of Smoking, on Graphic Display
New York Times
The World Health Organization issued a report on Thursday noting that large pictorial warnings on cigarette packages are effective in deterring smoking. The report, which addresses the globalsmoking epidemic, validates the recent decision by the ...
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Kokkie Kooyman named world's best financial fund manager
Moneyweb.co.za
Cape Town, 8 July 2011: For the second year running, Sanlam Investment Management (SIM)Global's Kokkie Kooyman was named the top global financial fund manager in the prestigious Investment Week Fund Manager of the Year Awards. ...
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UCF Malaria Phone App Competes for International Honors
University of Central Florida
... today hoping a phone app he and a few friends developed will take top honors at the Imagine Cup World Finals. The international competition challenges students to use their imaginations along with the latest technology to solve global problems. ...
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University of Central Florida
Former Top Diplomat Says UK Might be Able to Cut Trident Sub
Global Security Newswire
At issue is whether the British deterrent in the 21st century still calls for the currentpractice of keeping at least one of the nuclear-armed vessels deployed at all times, ex-Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett told Global Security Newswire in June. ...
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Global Security Newswire
At UN, nations agree to new emphasis on education in global development
Winnipeg Free Press
By: AP GENEVA - Nations' top economic officials have agreed to new development strategies that emphasize better teaching the world's children, thinning the ranks of people who can't read or write and ensuring girls and women share in the advantages. ...
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Swiss top Europe-dominated innovation index
EurActiv
Switzerland is the most innovative country in the world – buoyed up by a high turnover of patent registrations – according to the latest Global Innovation Index (GII), heading a list dominated by Europe. The GII is compiled by French business school ...
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WORLD FOREX:Dollar Edges Up Vs Rivals Ahead Of Jobs Report
Wall Street Journal
By Andrew Monahan Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES TOKYO (Dow Jones)--The dollar edged up against its major counterparts in Asia Friday as investors speculated that a key monthly US jobs report later in the global day will come in strong, after separate ...
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Top awards for boom businesses on the way up in Notts
Waste Management World
Employing 200 people locally, it established a presence in China 18 years ago, has a purpose-built sales and manufacturing facility in Shanghai, a new business in Russia and a global network of representatives. Recent high-profile projects include the ...
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Eddie Arizmendi Ready to Take MW by Storm, Starts at M-1 Global on Showtime
Bleacher Report
Now he has earned his chance at the big time with a chance to perform for one of theworld's top MMA promotions M-1 Global. On July 8th, Arizmendi looks to make his debut on Showtime for the world to see exactly what it is that he brings to the table ...
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Bleacher Report
On course to suffer global warming of four degrees
Sydney Morning Herald
[That figure is from a 2005 World Resources Institute study. Rounding out the top five were Europe (27 per cent), Russia and China (8 per cent each) and India (2 per cent). Australia ranked 15th, at 1 per cent of historical emissions]. ...
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Indonesia 2011 Exports Growth May Top 20% On Average -Minister
NASDAQ
By Ankur Relia, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES KUALA LUMPUR -(Dow Jones)- Indonesia's 2011 exports may grow more than 20% on- year on average if there is no sharp downturn in the globaleconomy, the Southeast Asian nation's trade minister said on Saturday. ...
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What the World's Fastest Systems Say About Linux
TechNewsWorld
The most recent list, released last month, reinforces Linux leadership, as every single one of the top10 fastest supercomputing systems in the world runs Linux. We had previously seen Linux in four of the top five systems or seven to eight of the top ...
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Murdoch's ruthless streak may prove to be his own undoing
Sydney Morning Herald
But tapping into the private lives of murdered children and the grief of their parents has sent shivers through the nation and across the world. Even Rupert was forced to denounce the latest ''allegations'' as ''deplorable and unacceptable''; ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
A new face at the IMF
The Japan Times
Ultimately, Ms. Lagarde will play a key role in resolving not only current (and future) crises, but in helping restructure the framework of international economic governance. That requires a vast skill set and a deft touch. Difficult at the best of ...
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J&J Signs Up for 2014 FIFA World Cup
brandchannel.com
J&J is now the eighth second-tier worldwide sponsor of the next World Cup. J&J joins Budweiser, Castrol, Continental, McDonald's, OI, Seara, and Yingli Solar as the global sponsors of the next Cup, according to SportBusiness.com. The top-tier partners ...
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Refusal to play role of the Third Man spurs Powell to dash for the spotlight
The Independent
Bolt's best time so far this summer is 9.91sec, which ranks him seventh in the world. With seven weeks to go before his world title goes on the line at the biennial global championships in Daegu, South Korea, the Lightning Bolt has no Gay to contend ...
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A Financial Permanent Crisis
The Market Oracle
When you really tear away at all the media glitz and veneer applied to the global debt mess, you can find several underlying causes. The first is greed. The second, and this one has been a rather recent development, is laziness. ...
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The Market Oracle
Top Kiwi 3D Shorts Featured At SIGGRAPH
Benzinga
New Zealand digital design institute Media Design School has achieved global recognition, with two films selected to screen at the illustrious SIGGRAPH Computer Arts Festival. The news follows a number of top international awards wins for the school, ...
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Japan's Megabanks See Basel Rules Adding Fairness to Global Race
Bloomberg
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said last month the world's most important banks must hold as much as 2.5 percentage points in extra capital to prevent a repeat of the global crisis. Japan's three biggest lenders have enough capital and ...
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Euromoney Names Deutsche Bank As "Best Global Bank 2011"
Eurasia Review
Euromoney, the international business and financial magazine, recognised Deutsche Bank as “Best Global Bank 2011,” at its annual Awards for Excellence ceremony on Thursday evening in London. In citing Deutsche Bank for Euromoney's top honour, ...
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India faltering on poverty alleviation - India Global News - IBNLive
By IBNLive.com
recent world Bank study says, "India has maintained steady progress in reducing poverty as measured by consumption. Using the Government of India's official poverty lines, in 2004–05, 28 per cent of people in rural areas and 26 per cent of people in urban ... And the best part is that 65 per cent of their funds come from the government. However, in case of government-run school lunch programmes, complaints range from siphoning off funds to rotten food being served. ...
IBN Top Headlines
Kazor.com World Community News » Intelligent CCTV Wins Gold for 2012
By admin
Whetstone, London ( Kazor ) July 8, 2011 – The obvious threats to this highly populated and most prestigious global security event call for nothing but the best available CCTV to protect our national infrastructure for the Games. Viseum UK's internationally patented technology is being put to good use to protect people and assets better than at any other Games before. ... Subscribe. You can subscribe by RSS or Email to receive the latest news and breaking stories. ...
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Global Health News Last Week | IH – BLOG
By Jessica
Global Health News Last Week. Posted on July 8, 2011 by Jessica| Leave a comment. SECTIONNEWS. The IH Section hosted its third topic-focused conference call, on Current Developments in MCNH, took place on Monday, June 27, 2011 from 1:00 to 2:00 ... At the 7th annual meeting of theWorld Conference of Science Journalists, several speakers said clinical research trials done in the developing world lack adequate patient protections as well as an ethical and legal framework. ...
IH - BLOG
July 8th Declared UFO World Disclosure Day, page 1
By ReverendPritchett
(visit the link for the full news article) Related News Links: www.examiner.com. reply posted on 8-7-2011 @ 11:42 AM by ReverendPritchett. I personally feel I do not need validation from our corrupt government about aliens and UFOs. But maybe if anything this will bring more attention to the subject just like the recent Flying Saucer Day of last month. I feel our government is never going to come forward about anything and if they did ever it would be only to use the ...
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Ex-Cameron aide arrested in UK hacking scandal - seattlepi.com
The scandal poses a threat to Murdoch's global media empire, and is causing a growing number of companies to pull their ads from the News of the World tabloid in disgust. In addition, calls are mounting for Rebekah Brooks, Murdoch's top ...
seattlepi.com: Health & Science...
Daily K Pop News: Mnet to Air World Premiere of '2NE1TV LIVE ...
By kacey
“The K-pop music genre is a major force on the global music scene, and 2NE1 is one of the biggest groups today, having skyrocketed to the top of the charts in their home country of Korea and around the world. ...
Daily K Pop News
Amid Police Inquiries, Murdoch's News of the World Closes ...
Rupert Murdoch acted with characteristic ruthlessness by closing the News of the World, Britain'sbest-selling Sunday newspaper, in a desperate attempt to limit the political and commercial fallout from the phone-hacking affair ... The last News of the World will carry no commercial advertising. “The good things the News of the World does … have been sullied by behaviour that was wrong. Indeed, ifrecent allegations are true, it was inhuman and has no place in our company ...
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NewsDaily: U.S. news media debate naming Strauss-Kahn accuser
By Joseph Ax
But one detail has remained concealed by major U.S. media: her name. Citing the unique stigma of rape, American news outlets have for decades refused to identify victims and alleged victims of sexual assault, ... As recent revelations raise doubts about the credibility of Strauss-Kahn's accuser, and the attempted rape case against the former International Monetary Fund chief appears close to collapse, news organizations have begun to revisit these long-held policies. ...
NewsDaily: Top Headlines
UPDATE: UK Regulator Asks If News Corp Is Fit To Own BSkyB After ...
By TIM ADLER AND DAVID LIEBERMAN
UPDATE, 11:35 AM: Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, says it has concerns as to whetherNews Corp is a fit-and-proper owner for BSkyB in light of the worsening News of the World scandal. James Murdoch has admitted News International effectively misled the UK .... Tabloid closing is like confirming that major media is tabloid and therefore the stand-alone redtop is redundant. Moving on, the high body count in this is distracting attention from… global gossip glut. ...
Deadline.com
This Week in Review: What Google+ could do for news, and Murdoch's ...
By Mark Coddington
Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week's top stories about the future of news. In this two-week edition: Google+ launches; is it any good for news? Murdoch kills News of the World thanks to a phone-hacking scandal; Twitter reaches ... Google's biggest social effort yet: This is a two-week edition of This Week in Review, so most of our news comes from last week, rather than this week. The biggest of those stories was the launch of Google+, Google's latest and most ...
Nieman Journalism Lab
WTM World Responsible Tourism Day | Travel Video News
By admin
But that's just what Gavin Bate, managing director of Adventure Alternative, who finally got to the topof the world's highest mountain – complete with a WTM World Responsible Tourism Day poster to help spread the word. ... “Gavin is among a growing band of enthusiastic industry professionals who are helping to make WTM World Responsible Tourism Day into a global phenomenon. Responsible tourism is becoming an essential part of a company's strategic direction.” ...
Travel Video News
News of the World shutting down amid scandal | KBOI 2 - Boise News ...
Rupert Murdoch's News International shocked Britain on Thursday by announcing it is shutting down the News of the World, the best-selling tabloid at the center of an ugly phone hacking scandal. ... But in recent days the allegations have expanded to take in the phone messages of 13-year-old Milly Dowler, who disappeared in 2002 and was later found murdered, as well as the families of two other missing schoolgirls. James Murdoch said if the allegations were true, ...
KBCI - News - National & World News
Top News, Latest headlines, World News & U.S News - UPI.com
United Press International - News. Analysis. Insight.™ - 100 Years of Journalistic ... volatility inglobal agriculture markets could help poor countries or ...
www.upi.com/Official...Wires/.../20110706-095120-4566/
Kingfisher boss calls for global talks on ... - World News
It will be for the world's governments to take the lead and put in place a roadmap ... Source: DIYWEEK.net – essential reading for the DIY trade. Top news .... seen seven global cholera outbreaks since 1817, and the current one seems to ...
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Economy Keeps Global Warming on Back Burner for 2012 - US News and ...
GOP candidates can use global warming beliefs to set themselves apart, but at their own peril. ...US News & World Report Politics ...
www.usnews.com/.../economy-keeps-global-warming-on-back...
Business News - Bangkok ranked World's 3rd global destination
The MasterCard Worldwide Index of Global Destination Cities 2011 has ranked ... 1 July 2011 | Filed under: Business News | Posted by: Thai News ... London tops the list at 20.1 million visitors followed by Paris with 18.1 million tourists. ... Asia News Recent Posts. 3 soldiers, 4 militants killed in clashes in ...
siamdailynews.com/.../bangkok-ranked-worlds-3rd-global-des...
1. MSI launches the world's first PCI Express - MSI Global – News
Type : Product News, Lastest Updated : Tue, 05 Jul 2011 ... and the most superior performance and technology, the best choice is MSI Z68A-GD80 (G3). ...
www.msi.com/news-media/news/1283.html
Fortune Global 500 Now Richer, More - One News Page World
Fortune Global 500 Now Richer More International But (news article) ... The U.S. tops the list with 133 corporations, including three in the top 10 -- Wal-Mart, ... In 1999, Marissa Mayer, then a recentStanford University graduate, ...
www.onenewspage.com/.../Fortune-Global-500-Now-Richer-...
Global news quiz: court justices and fertility rates - Topix
BREAKING NEWS. Jury finds Casey Anthony not guilty of murder ... 10 topical news questions to test how well you've been following world events over the last week . ... Other Recent Peru Discussions. This will search the titles of the ...
www.topix.com/.../global-news-quiz-court-justices-and-fertilit...
Global Times > NEWS > World Snooker Wuxi Classic
Entries for 'World Snooker Wuxi Classic'. 08. World Snooker Wuxi Classic kicks off ... DNN SlideShow - Markit SlideShow · E-Paper. Top News; Latest News ...
www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/.../Default.aspx?Tag...
Samsung Galaxy S II Reaches 3 Million Global Sales - Cellular News
Recent News. Past 24 Hours · Past 7 Days. News Categories ... "Announced at Mobile WorldCongress 2011, the Galaxy S II represents our most advanced smartphone to date ... Top items on cellular-news. Latest; Top Stories; E-mails; Jobs ...
www.cellular-news.com/story/49838.php
Flickr: Discussing Ranking Universities in Global Photojournalism ...
Current Discussion. STICKY Global Photojournalism July Photo Contest (# 4) ... compared Chinese universities with the best universities around the world. ... Not much good news then from the man who possibly has the best snapshot of ...
www.flickr.com/groups/global.../72157627095797890/
Global Crisis DAWN.COM | Latest news, Breaking news, Pakistan News ...
Dawn.com is your source for the latest breaking news, current events and top stories from Pakistan, South Asia and the world. ... Posts tagged 'Global Crisis '. Lagarde stresses fairness to all at IMF WASHINGTON: New IMF chief Christine ...
www.dawn.com/tag/global-crisis

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