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LATEST World News, Aug 25, 2011


Forbes Ranks Merkel as World's Most Powerful Woman
Voice of America (blog)
In its latest annual list of powerful women, published Wednesday, Forbes singled out the German leader for being the head of what it called “the one real global economy in Europe.” US Secretary Hillary Clinton placed second in Forbes' newest list of ...
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Greenbrier Goes Global With Health Care
West Virginia MetroNews
World-renown orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews is on the team leading the effort. He says top doctors from around the world will be part of the Institute. "The brightest and best minds in health and wellness-related professions will pool their ...
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West Virginia MetroNews
BHP in global top 10 earners
Sydney Morning Herald
The result, driven by booming exports to China, completely dwarfed all previous profits earned by Australian companies, and was among the biggest 20 in global corporate history. Only six other companies in the world - including US oil giant ExxonMobil, ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
World debt crisis strips Japan of top credit rating
Daily Mail
By Hugo Duncan Japan had its credit rating downgraded yesterday as it became thelatest developed economy to fall foul of ballooning debts. Ratings agency Moody's cut the world's third biggest economy by one notch to AA3, less than a month after the US ...
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Daily Mail
Dutch top FIFA rankings
China Daily
The Netherlands dethroned European and world champions Spain, who were at the summit of the FIFA Ranking for more than one year. The Dutch profited from Spain's latest defeat in a friendly against Italy (2-1), which cost them valuable points. ...
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Top 10 Free Apps for Your $99 HP TouchPad Tablet
PCWorld
... stations from across the world with the free TuneIn Radio for TouchPad. You can search stations from your area or go global and search for stations by topic. WeatherBug presents you with a virtual open window with a recent picture of your location. ...
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Alistair Overeem, Eddie Alvarez and the 35 Best Fighters Outside the UFC
Bleacher Report
He is the former Pride middleweight and light heavyweight champion and currentStrikeforce light heavyweight champion. Fabricio Werdum has long been considered atop heavyweight. A two-time ADCC world champion, Werdum is arguably the bestsubmission ...
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Bleacher Report
Tahitian Noni International Selected for "Top 100 Private Companies"
PR Newswire (press release)
Tahitian Noni International is a global, research-driven bioactive products company that was the first to introduce the health benefits of the noni plant—a bioactive-rich, adaptogenic plant, containing iridoid compounds—to the world outside of Tahiti ...
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MutualArt Investigates The Top Selling Female Artists Of 2011
Huffington Post
Yet given the recent upheaval in global markets, speculation is mounting as to how this tumultuous August will affect the auction block. Recently, to gear up for the highly anticipated upcoming sale season, MutualArt reviewed the top highlights from ...
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WordPress is Powering 14.7 Percent of Top Global Websites
CMSWire
A key figure: WordPress is now powering 14.7% of the top one million globalwebsites. There's more. The numbers are even better looking when we take a trip back in time. Last year WordPress was used by 8.5% of the world's top million sites, ...
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CMSWire
A Bigger World Means Bigger Profits For Mead Johnson
Seeking Alpha
The fact that emerging markets offer multi-national consumer goods companies a growth opportunity isn't breaking news. Everyone knows the global population is growing. But just how important are these developing countries to Mead Johnson (MJN), ...
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Does Climate Drive Warfare? A New Study Suggests There's No Question
Huffington Post
Throw on top of that that crop failures, disruptions in fishing -- and even increases in grain prices and other vacillations in global trade -- and the economic shock of global climate change in the developing world, he suggests, can prove explosive. ...
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Jim Cramer's Latest Stock Picks (Aug 23rd)
Seeking Alpha
Potash (POT): Playing the theme of a global food shortage, Cramer recommended the best of the fertilizer companies under the assumption that a rising middle class around the world will increase the demand for chickens, cows, etc. which all feed on ...
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The Odd Disconnect Between The US Economic Performance, U. S Government Policy ...
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Sigma Designs, Inc. Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2012 Results
MarketWatch (press release)
The new Insignia televisions will provide Best Buy customers with an exceptional, intuitive user experience for controlling their TVs by utilizing the latest Z-Wave technology in the Insignia remote and TV. -- We announced that the SMP 8653 secure ...
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Aid alone won't help the desperate Palestinians
The Guardian (blog)
Photograph: Darren Whiteside/Reuters There are many good news stories in the world ofinternational development at the moment, with some of the world's poorest countries experiencing the growth that has eluded them for decades. ...
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Steve Jobs has a different operating system
Moneycontrol.com
And despite years of signs of poor health, his resignation as chief executive of Apple Inc caused a global gasp as the world contemplated the future of an icon and the company he symbolizes. "Steve Jobs is the most successful CEO in the US of the last ...
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Moneycontrol.com
Flip Flop Shops Steps Into Top 10 Percentile on Inc. 500 | 5000 List
Transworld Business
“There is a huge unmet need throughout the world for consumers who are interested in finding the hottest brands and latest styles of flip flops at any time of the year. We created Flip Flop Shops to fill that void, and this ranking is a huge testament ...
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Transworld Business
Zinio Among US's Top 3 Grossing iPad Apps
TMC Net
The incredible global demand for digital enjoyment of magazines is evident from the fact that Zinio's app is the top iTunes News app in 52 countries. An announcement in this regard has been made by the world's largest and most popular global magazine ...
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Shares pare early gains in choppy trade
Livemint
It had opened up 0.41% New Delhi: Shares pared all their early gains on Thursday in choppy trade, as concerns over the health of the global economy dampened investors' appetite for bargain buys in one of the worst performing stock markets in the world ...
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Kobo eReader Touch Edition Launches at Best Buy
PR Newswire (press release)
Kobo is a global eReading service with more than 2.5 million eBooks, magazines and newspapers -- one of the largest eReading catalogues in the world. Kobo believes consumers should have the freedom to read any book on any device and has attracted ...
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TMSi Logistics Announces Acquisition of Griffin Global Logistics
PR Newswire (press release)
The recent acquisition further demonstrates the commitment of both companies to continuing growth, including both domestic and international expansion." Established in 1975 and based in Reno, Nevada, Griffin Global Logistics is a third-party supply ...
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(( Title: GLOBAL MARKETS 2ND UPD
Voice of America (blog)
Some stock markets have been posting gains in volatile trading this week as investors anticipate that the head of the US central bank may announce a new program to stimulate the world's largest economy. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is ...
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Why China can't save the global economy this time
Reuters Blogs (blog)
By Nicholas Consonery When the global economy broke down in 2008, China was the savior. At that time Beijing rolled out a massive stimulus that was one of the biggest—per size of the economy—that the world has ever seen. ...
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Dollar Advances Amid Speculation Before Bernanke Speech; NZ Dollar Drops
Bloomberg
The address will come amid speculation that a slowing US economy and Europe's debt crisis will hobble global growth. “People are very reluctant to position into the event Friday,” said Jens Nordvig, a managing director of currency research in New York ...
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Manulife Mutual Funds Launches 15 New Funds, Further Expanding Global ...
PR Newswire (press release)
"We believe these Funds have excellent investment mandates with top investment managers to execute them. These additional offerings across multiple asset classes will help investors meet their individual needs as well as help to further position ...
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MuayThai Premier League Makes International Debut in Long Beach
PR Newswire (press release)
24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Martial arts fans will have the opportunity to see 24 of the world's topMuayThai fighters in action on September 2 when the MuayThai Premier League (MPL) makes itsinternational debut at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, ...
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Texas Instruments and Applied Materials to Keynote at ISMI's Symposium on ...
MarketWatch (press release)
ISMI is a global alliance of the world's major semiconductor manufacturers, dedicated to reducing cost per wafer and ultimately cost per die, through cooperative programs focused on environmental, safety and health, 450mm wafer size transition, ...
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Managing Pension Risk and Healthcare Costs Top List of Client Concerns
Marketwire (press release)
PETERBOROUGH, NH--(Marketwire - Aug 24, 2011) - Healthcare costs are increasing more rapidly than GDP in many nations around the world. In the US market alone, the largest global consumer of healthcare consulting services, healthcare costs are expected ...
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Inhofe backs Perry over 'mushy' Romney
Politico
Continue Reading Text Size - + reset POLITICO 44 Inhofe, the top Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, is planning to formally endorse Perry next week, the Tulsa World reported Wednesday. Inhofe likes what he sees when it ...
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Politico
Alice.com Powers More Than 100 Ecommerce Storefronts for Top CPG Brands
PR Newswire (press release)
The company was established in 1936 and has a global presence with facilities in Canada, Europe, Mexico, Panama and the United States. To learn more about the company, visit www.solocup.com. For more than 100 years, consumers have counted on Kellogg ...
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Forbes names Merkel world's most powerful woman - World News - IBNLive
New York: German Chancellor Angela Merkel topped the Forbes list of the world's most powerful women, which is dominated by politicians, businesswomen and leaders in media and entertainment. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, ...
IBN Top Headlines
Fortunes of Pakistan's IT industry | Pakistan Today | Latest news ...
By Pakistan Today
Pakistan economy, in general, and its Information Technology (IT) industry in particular, is threatened by all these global factors, relying mainly on export trade. It is worth noting that Pakistan IT industry was equally affected by earlier ... No doubt, the world economy is likely to enter a long period of adjustment. This phase can only be overcome through radical restructuring and reorganisation that modify both economic parameters and structures. To cope with this, ...
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BREAKING NEWS – CERN Experiment Confirms Cosmic Rays Influence ...
By Anthony Watts
Or because Svensmark's candour about cosmic rays casting doubt on catastrophic man-made globalwarming frightened the national funding agencies? Or was Kirkby simply doing his best (despite the results) to obey his Director General by .... See my posthttp://calderup.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/do-clouds-disappear/ By the way, that research also disposes of a morsel of doubt in the new CLOUD paper, about whether the small specks made by cosmic rays really grow sufficiently to ...
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USA: Patent Reports Rank Angstron Materials Among World's Top 5 ...
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Sonia Gandhi, Indra Nooyi among top ten world's most powerful ...
By Staff
Washington, Aug 25 (IANS) Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi and Indra Nooyi, Indian-American CEO of PepsiCo, figure among the top ten in the Forbes list of the world's most powerful women headed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. ...
News One
News Article | Education Agent Training Course - PIER Online
News and Events >. US dominates but China is on the march, while ranks reveal role of fees in elite research. 24 Aug 2011. At 127 words, the Chronicle's coverage of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Ranking of World Universities ... With four universities in the top 100, or 19 in the top 500, Australia is home to roughly 4 per cent of the best research universities on the planet. Not bad for a country that boasts only a 1.2 per cent share of global gross domestic ...
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Various types of mediums are there to deliver all kinds of the latest news to the people. Many TV channels are present to telecast various kinds of news instantly. International News and World News.Breaking international news or world news ... This article focuses on sport news/events and its impact on global business. Today huge amounts of money are involving in the staging mega events like Olympic Games and football World Cup has also been entertaining a huge number of ...
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New Beijing Secret Garden Golf Project Takes Shape - World ...
By Scott Kauffman
The Beijing Secret Garden project, where Golfplan is slated to design all seven golf courses, was surely procured on the strength of its recent work in China: Qiandaohu Country Club in Zhejiang Province. This new course was named the country's top new course by China Golf magazine in 2009, while the spectacular Weihai Point Golf Resort, opened in 2010, in Shandong Province, has garnered numerous international course design awards. ...
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Sonia Gandhi, Indra Nooyi among top ten world's most powerful women
Sonia Gandhi, Indra Nooyi among top ten ...Besides Sonia Gandhi, 64, in the seventh place and...While ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar, 49, was place...In naming Merkel the world's most powerful woman, ...Merkel, 57, who has topped the list of the world's... ... In naming Merkel theworld's most powerful woman, the US business magazine called her the 'undisputed' leader of the European Union and head of its only 'real global economy'. Merkel, 57, who has topped the list of ...
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Grand Hyatt Seoul Among 'World's Best Hotels In Asia' | Venues
The Grand Hyatt Hotel Seoul has been chosen as one of the best hotels in Asia by Travel + Leisure, a leading travel magazine with more than 4790000 readers worldwide. Every August, Travel + Leisure holds its “World's Best Awards” ...
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China Logistics, Global Supply Chain & Distribution News, Features ...
Greater China Transport Logistics - GCTL8.com - is a leading tri-lingual web portal providing the FASTEST DAILY BREAKING NEWS and IMPORTANT ISSUES about cargo and mail (freight) inglobal supply chain and distribution NETWORKS handled by forwarders & logistics services providers via multi-modal transport modes for exports, imports and transshipments between one of the world'sfastest growing economies – Greater China - and the rest of the world.
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top 35 innovators Pakistani scholar | 9th class Result 2011 ...
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According to MIT Technology Review, “The TR35 recognises the world's top 35 young innovators that are radically transforming technology as we know it. Their work – spanning medicine, computing, communications, energy, electronics and .... E -Books and Tutorials (5); Education News (2522); Exhibitions and Events (38); informations (19); Lifestyle (50). Health and Beauty (8). Pakistan NewsUpdates (155); Sports news (31); Telecom & IT News (64); World news (120) ...
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Washington: US worried China wants to be No. 1 ... - Latest CNN News
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“The United States welcomes a strong, prosperous and successful China,” the Pentagon report says, “that reinforces international rules and norms and enhances security and peace both regionally andglobally.” ...
Latest CNN News
Ghana, 2 others ranked most peaceful nations in - Somali Breaking ...
By Mogadishu Desk
Latest News ... The study was among one hundred and fifty-three (150) countries, in this year's 2011 Global Peace Initiative. Congo, Sudan and Somalia are the lowest ranked African countries, while Korea, Afghanistan and Iraq are the lowest outside the continent. According to the index, Iceland, New Zealand, Japan, Denmark, Czech Republic, Austria, Finland, Canada, Norway and Slovenia are the top ten most peaceful countries in the world. Ghana ranked forty-two worldwide ...
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'US-India ties a partnership of equals'
'US-India ties a partnership of equals'...High-level visits have cemented the two countries'..."India is amajor regional and global power,&...Scher said the most important thing the United Sta..."The United States and India share a clear de... ... The United States and India, Scher said, "are destined to be closer because of our shared interests and values, democracy, human rights and our desire for a stable, secure and inclusive world economy." All of this, he added, ...
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CRWV Gained 25% this Morning! Breaking News Estimates G ...
Recent Newsletters ... CRWV issued a press release yesterday and even more exciting news today after the market closed! More details below... We want to remind everyone that PSC alerts are generally short-term alerts. We alert on breaking stocks that make fast gains and ... The company issued a press release announcing that they had signed a letter of intent with World Investments of Mexico to further explore and produce the Gallo de Oro Property, in Nayarit, Mexico. ...
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Travel - Breaking News - Read Online or Subscribe
Travel news - breaking news direct from organisations - read online or ... and Leisure GlobalBazaar, featuring the world's most exciting places, .... has revealed its latest Worldwide brochure with a completely new look and feel. ...
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FxMemo - Forex News - GLOBAL MARKETS-World stocks steady near 11 ...
Here you can find all the latest breaking forex and currency news about GLOBALMARKETS-World stocks steady near 11-mth lows including currency analysis and ...
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