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LATEST World News, Aug 28, 2011


IMF chief says world economic recovery in peril
San Francisco Chronicle
... in the global economy. The economy is in a "dangerous new phase," said Christine Lagarde, the IMF managing director, speaking at a conference of top central bankers and economists sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. The world is ...
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Global Finance Leaders Fret About A New Recession
Wall Street Journal
The ECB was the first major developed-country central bank to raise rates from lows stemming from the global financial crisis of 2008, and its recent policy of tightening has put it at odds with other developed countries. The Fed pledged at its Aug. ...
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Best job in the world?
Deccan Chronicle
Sachin Gowda, 24, who mesmerised his way to win the recently held Skyy GlobalFlair Challenge, an All-India bartending contest, says he likes to focus on flair. “I've been working at a Pune hotel for the last two years, and I feel it's flair that sets ...
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Deccan Chronicle
DP World eyeing emerging markets amid global economic growth woes
Gulf Times
DP World, the Dubai-based ports operator, will focus on growing its emerging market business, even as an uncertain global economic outlook makes it more challenging to forecast how global trade will develop in the second half of the year, ...
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Gulf Times
Global Cleveland seeks the catalysts for a renaissance: Global Village
Plain Dealer (blog)
Summer's last hurrah: The Cleveland Labor Day Oktoberfest, the last major ethnic festival of the season, will celebrate Germanic spirit with oompha bands, brats and beer--while showcasing a wider world. More than two dozen nationalities will be ...
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Plain Dealer (blog)
UN House Blast: We are on top of the situation – Jonathan
Vanguard
Jonathan, who was saddened by the devastation, after seeing the extent of damage, assured Nigerians and the international community that Nigeria is on top of the situation, to uncover those behind the spate of terrorism in the country. ...
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Bin Laden's key deputy seen as very hard to replace for al Qaeda
CNN International
"Rahman has been at the nerve center of al Qaeda's global terrorist operations," Noman Benotman, a former Libyan jihadist acquainted with Rahman, bin Laden and other top al Qaeda leaders, told CNN in an interview earlier this week. ...
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Kenyans to get priority over global hotel chains
East African
Best Western International, Inc (USA), one of the world's largest hotel chains with more than 4000 hotels in 90 countries will set up a 96-room hotel in Hurlingham. The Korean HwanSung Group plans to open a HwanSung Hotel with 150 room capacity near ...
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The Asian power squeeze
Times of Oman
“We can try to use our great and unprecedented military and economic power to try to stay top dog on the global block in perpetuity….But a better choice would be for us to try to use that primacy to create a world in which we will be comfortable ...
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Japanese ruling party to elect new leader
Sydney Morning Herald
Another candidate is Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, 54, who has led Japan's mixed efforts to bring down the yen, a "safe haven" currency that has soared to post-war highs amid global market turmoil, hurting Japan's exporters. ...
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Abuja UN office bombing: Jonathan angry with police •'Ghaddafi may be involved ...
Nigerian Tribune
Available details on Saturday showed that the bomb blast inflicted on the UN office in Abuja on Friday by the Boko Haram sect was part of the global activity of the dreaded Al Queada group to mark the 10 anniversary of the bombing of the American twin ...
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Top economists see austerity as right path for US, Europe
STLtoday.com
The Nobel winners, meeting in Lindau, Germany, and St. Gallen, Switzerland, at a four-day symposium, said "draconian" measures were needed in economies from the US to Greece, to tame debt levels even as global growth cools. While US Federal Reserve ...
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Obama, German Chancellor Merkel discuss Eurozone crisis, financial markets ...
Washington Post
By AP, WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (AHN'-geh-lah MEHR'-kuhl) have spoken by telephone about the global economy and the crisis facing countries with the euro as their currency. The White House says that in ...
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SATURDAY SPOTLIGHT: North-East trio have world at their feet
The Northern Echo
THERE is just one male on the British team bound for Daegu to have attended more WorldChampionships than Chris Tomlinson, yet it's only at the fifth time of asking that he's best placed to claim a global medal. Tomlinson made his world debut as a ...
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Glenn Beck restores courage in Israel, inspires global movement
Washington Times
Or maybe they are. In recent years this anti-Semitism has not been directed mainly against Jews, for they have found the Arab substitute for it. Now they are using the Arabs to scare Israel and the Muslims to scare the world. And the white, Aryan lion ...
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Washington Times
Protect investor interests and they will come calling, World Bank tells EAC
East African
What are the major impediments to bringing the EAC closer to the global top performers? Sharing good practices could bring East Africa closer to the global top performers. While reforms are being implemented across the bloc, different members are ...
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Why Kenya is a global athletics powerhouse
The Standard
Former president of IAAF, Primo Nebiolo confirmed this at a press Conference during a WorldChampionships in Athens in 1997. He personally knew everything about Kenyan athletics. He, like the current president Lamine Diack of Senegal, was passionate ...
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WORLD JUDO: Bryant bows out as Great Britain leave Paris empty-handed
More Than The Games
AS KARINA Bryant saw her bid for an eighth World Championships medal come to an end she admitted defeat in her 14-year pursuit of the top of the global podium - but while the skies are grey in Paris she insists the sky is the limit in London next year. ...
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More Than The Games
Global Insurance Pool Would Reduce Financial Risks, Prasad Says
Bloomberg
By Caroline Salas Gage - Sat Aug 27 15:00:00 GMT 2011 Countries around the world should establish an “insurance pool” to lower the risks caused by emerging-market countries' hoarding of foreign exchange reserves, according to Eswar Prasad, ...
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One poor jobs report won't cause the world to end
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin moved up to the middle of the 50-state pack in a Gallup survey on job creation and nearly the top quartile on confidence in the state economy. Other recent rankings have given Wisconsin cities high marks as places for young people to live and ...
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Nation World
Nation on Sunday
Since the end of the cold war the rise of China has been the major global phenomena most talked about in the international arena. For despotic regimes wishing to hold on to power with their tyrannical methods the emergence of China has offered a ...
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OC international school opens
OCRegister
Talkington said the need for this type of educational system is becoming more apparent as theworld continues to make the shift from national marketplaces to a global marketplace. When it comes time to find a job or a spot at a top college, ...
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How Global Warming Is Making Hurricane Irene Worse
Think Progress
Climate scientists are debating how global warming and natural variability are interacting to change the intensity of Atlantic storms overall. Sea Level Rise. Greenhouse pollution is causing the world's oceans to rise, both because of warming of the ...
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Think Progress
World Amateur Handicap Championship to tee off Monday in Myrtle Beach area
Myrtle Beach Sun News
The 2011 World Am has attracted some of the strongest and most respected voices in golf in David Feherty, Peter Kessler and short game guru Dave Pelz, and some of the nation's top golf writers to impart stories and vignettes from the event. ...
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Marcus Gustafsson Vaults to Victory at Red Bull Art of Motion Detroit
PR Newswire (press release)
28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- This weekend, twenty of the world's top free-runners swept through the Motor City for Red Bull Art of Motion Detroit. The global free-running competition transformed two of the city's most iconic locations, Russell Industrial ...
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World Athletics 2011: Edna Kiplagat takes first gold
BBC Sport
For Bolt to fail to repeat his 100m/200m sprint double of the last two majorchampionships would be a shock of global proportions. In his shadow, better rivalries may come from Liu Xiang, David Oliver and Dayron Robles in the 110m hurdles, ...
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BBC Sport
UFC 134: Battles in Brazil Big for Future of MMA as Global Sport
Bleacher Report
It's a fighting culture down there. People really get it and like it.” The hope, then, is that with success at UFC 134, those fans will not only get it and like it, but rather love it and see it through to the top of the sporting world.
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Bleacher Report
Disney Inks Deal with Greenbox, Chinese eCommerce Is Taking Off
TechCrunch
“Born in the late 1990s they are much more a global consumer, they are open-minded and more rebellious,” Lin says. “It's been a huge success.” As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the ...
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Social business holds steady gap behind consumer social media
ZDNet (blog)
These are top benefits reported by users of social software in McKinsey's latest Web 2.0 results survey. These numbers and trends are also in alignment as these issues are the concerns of managers more than they are line workers. ...
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Latest Set Video For The Avengers Feature More Of Captain America Taking On Loki!
Comic Book Movie
Marvel's The Avengers picks up when an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security. And Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as SHIELD, finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the ...
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Global Strike B-52 flies historic mission
Shreveport Times
"(There were) a lot of weather and global effects to take into account flying over the top of theworld, the most important being the location, wind, freezing temperatures as well as other things, such as time changes. We didn't know what kind of ...
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Friday Global Boxing Results: Senchenko Retains Belt in Ukraine
Bad Left Hook
Pretty quiet Friday overall in the boxing world, but here's a look at what did happen across the globe. Results: Vyacheslav Senchenko TKO-6 Marco Antonio Avendano ... Karoly Balzsay UD-12 Stas Kashtanov ... Ignacio Mendoza KO-1 Vladimir Kravets. ...
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IAAF World Championships, Live Day 2 on UniversalSports.com
Sporting Alert
... which will see several top athletes in action. Second day action will world record holder Usain Bolt stepping into the men's 100m semi-finals with his final target being another globalchampionships in the final at the end of the night. ...
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Albanian Minerals: Higher price for chrome ore and ferrochrome expected
Wall Street Journal
Steel ingredient chrome ore - ferrochrome will test new high prices within the next quarter as production fails to keep pace with a jump in global demand for chrome ore and ferrochrome. Thecurrent stockpiles of Ferrochrome in China , Europe , Japan, ...
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Top 100 Indies
Barron's
Even after the recent turbulence, he says, his clients "are up nicely for the year." The worst year they experienced, he adds, was 2008, when on average clients lost 15%, compared with 40% or more on most major stock-market indexes. ...
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Is Bolt a fading star or cementing his place in track and field history?
SI.com
He took at least one gold medal at every global championship in the 90's and then tacked on Sydney. It was a solid decade on top. But his most critical gold medal in that stretch came in the 1997 world championships. Still suffering the effects of a ...
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New England editorial rdp.
Boston Globe
The global problem is exacerbated by policies in the United States and elsewhere that encourage farmers to grow crops like corn to fuel cars instead of feed people. Since transporting food half way around the world will never be the answer, ...
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Sun Causes Climate Change Shock – Telegraph Blogs
By James Delingpole
Website of the Telegraph Media Group with breaking news, sport, business, latest UK and world news. Content from the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers and video from Telegraph TV. Home · News · Sport · Finance ...
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"Act now" to save global recovery, IMF chief urges (Reuters) | Stock ...
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyo (Reuters) – The new head of the IMF on Saturday called on globalpolicymakers to pursue urgent action, including forcing. ... “Developments this summer have indicated we are in a dangerous new phase,” International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said at a conference for top officials and leading economists from around the globe. “The stakes are clear; we risk ... Rocketnews delivers the top stories and the latest RSS news feeds for: ...
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Scandal threatens Shalala's ambitions at UMiami - US news
Miami has also met an explicit goal to move up in the U.S. News and World Report rankings. It's jumped from No. 67 before Shalala arrived to No. 47 currently, a more rapid climb than any othermajor university. All of which gives Shalala ...
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NewsDaily: "Act now" to save global recovery, IMF chief urges
By Ann Saphir and Mark Felsenthal
NewsDaily: Your best source for breaking news ... International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations forum in New York July 26, 2011. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton ...
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Cool Running | USA Distance Squad Set for World Championships ...
... inclusion on Cool Running. Free e-mail newsletter. Running news, tips and links, delivered to your inbox every week. ... At the most recent 2009 World Outdoor Championships in Berlin, Team USA won a total of 22 medals, well ahead of runner-up Jamaica (13). Of the 22 medals, 10 of them were gold for ... total medals won by an American team with 26. Below is the U.S. distance team for theWorlds with racing schedules and U.S. medal(s) or best finish at the global championship: ...
Cool Running: Top News
11 websites citizen journalists should know about - TNW Media
By Paul Sawers
The recent London riots was a good example of how citizen journalism can bring stories to the masses quickly, as Blottr was one of the first news sites to publish content on riots in Ealing (London) and Salford (Manchester). Blottr has almost ... Launched in 2006, GroundReport is a platform for citizen journalists around the world to report on global events, and users can submit articles, photos or videos of news events which are vetted by its Editors before publication. However, those ...
The Next Web
"Act now" to save global recovery, IMF chief urges ... - Top News
By Blog495
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo (Reuters) – The new head of the IMF on Saturday called on globalpolicymakers to pursue urgent action, including forcing European banks to bulk up their capital, to prevent a descent into a renewed world recession.
Sports, News, Entertainment,...
Why Kenya is a global athletics powerhouse – In2EastAfrica – All ...
By In2EastAfrica
Former president of IAAF, Primo Nebiolo confirmed this at a press Conference during a WorldChampionships in Athens in 1997. He personally knew everything about Kenyan athletics. He, like the current president Lamine Diack of Senegal, ...
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The Standard | Online Edition :: Why Kenya is a global athletics ...
There was a time the world athletics governing body IAAF, was paying rent for Athletics Kenya. Those were the days the then Kenya ... Do you support Muthaura's order that the Government bears full tax burden of current Cabinet ministers? ...
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Scandal threatens Shalala's ambitions at UMiami
BREAKING NEWS: Excessive Heat Warning Extended ... In her decade as University of Miami president, Donna Shalala has strived to get a school once called "Suntan U" mentioned with the likes of Duke, Vanderbilt and Stanford - world-class private research universities that also win big on Division I courts and playing ... By many counts, she's succeeded, not-so-quietly helping Miami improve its standing in recent years - arguably, as much as any major university in the country. ...
KLAS - National News
Deloitte survey: Banks in the Middle East and North Africa expect ...
According to a new Deloitte inaugural global banking IFRS 9 impairment survey, leading internationalbanking groups, many of which are headquartered in the Middle East and North Africa, believe... ...more Deloitte & Touche (M.E.) news ... Abbas Ali Mirza, Audit partner at Deloitte in the UAE says, "In addition to the major changes brought to classification and measurement of financial assets which are now driven by business models rather than intention and ability, impairment ...
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United Press International - News. ... HIV/AIDS: "Worrying" drop in global spending 3. ... will undermine progress in global HIV prevention and treatment efforts. ...
www.upi.com/Official...Wires/.../20110822-065000-6066/
Hacking 'widely discussed' at Murdoch tabloid: ex ... - ABS-CBN News
ABS-CBN News | Latest Philippine Headlines, Breaking News, Video, Analysis, ... a letter from a former News of the World journalist saying phone hacking was ...
www.abs-cbnnews.com/.../hacking-widely-discussed-murdoch...

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