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LATEST World News, Oct 23, 2011

Aon's New Global Employee Engagement Initiative Kicks Off Today at Manchester ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Last year, Aon's inaugural "Follow the Football" initiative focused on the launch of its four-year global sponsorship with Manchester United. Nine official Manchester United footballs visited 50 Aon offices in 28 countries around the world and traveled ...
See all stories on this topic »Eradicating polio will pay big dividends
Sydney Morning Herald
Success in ridding the world of this disease will help to create stability, productivity and prosperity, write Bill Gates and Julia Gillard. Today is World Polio Day, a day set aside to remember a disease most of us have forgotten. ...
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Global effect of 'the luck of the Irish'
Jamaica Observer
THE economic prospects of the Republic of Ireland could indicate whether the world will head for a second recession or for recovery. While it ranks among the wealthiest countries in the world today in terms of GDP, Ireland is long accustomed to ...
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Jamaica Observer
Already overcrowded? Make space for billions more
Sydney Morning Herald
On October 31, the world's population is officially scheduled to hit seven billion - a rise of two billion in less than a quarter century. Over six decades, the global fertility rate has roughly halved, and amounts to a statistical 2.5 children per ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
The global marketplace and business travel
Breaking Travel News
In today's climate of globalization in the corporate world in general, as well as the travel industry in particular, a TMC or business travel agency that is serious about the business of business travel and is not a member of a brand-name international ...
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Breaking Travel News
World Micro's VP of Global Quality to Address Electronics Inspection Standards ...
Sacramento Bee
By World Micro, Inc. ATLANTA and PENANG, Malaysia, Oct. 20, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- World Micro, a global distributor of electronic components serving the electronics, commercial, military, medical, and aerospace markets, announced today that it will ...
See all stories on this topic » Today's e-protesters live-stream to the barricades | Philadelphia Inquirer ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
Its parents, a group called Adbusters ("a global network of culture jammers and creatives," says their site), posted a blog that (a) first used the term Occupy Wall Street, created the Twitter hashtag for it, and said: "On Sept. ...
See all stories on this topic » NDC targets 9% growth in 12th Plan but fears global contagion
Expressindia.com
“It means”, he said, “that when the world sneezes, India runs risk of catching a cold.” He pointed out that the Indian economy, which recorded a growth rate of 8.5 per cent in 2010-11, is expected to moderate to about 8 per cent during the current ...
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Few Showers (how long will winter remain "on hold"?)
Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
Global Warming Melting China's Glaciers At Faster Rate. Here's an update from truthdive.com: "Beijing, Oct 22 (ANI): Glaciers in China's Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau are melting at a faster rate because of globalwarming, researchers have said. ...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
Global Economic Crisis Deepens
OpEdNews
By Stephen Lendman (about the author) Global Depression grips world economies. Destructive polices fueled today's crisis. Conditions are fast coming to a head. Throwing good money after bad delays decision day at the price of far greater trouble on ...
See all stories on this topic » Weekly: IPG Photonics [United States] slumps 13.1% in the past week, trailing ...
Laser Focus world
In the top 5000 by MCap of global stocks of 4829 stocks traded today, the stock has a trailing week relative strength of 1.7 indicating it is trailing 98.3% of its global peers. Compared with the Dow Jones Industrials index which rose 164.3 points (or ...
See all stories on this topic » Amanpour's global influence continues today
Kilgore News Herald
Amanpour has had the opportunity to interview many world leaders and is definitely a woman who has influenced and is still influencing the world today. Members attending this meeting were Jean Anderson, Dorothy Camp, Betty Collins, Marion Dovel, ...
See all stories on this topic » Who WIll Be The Next Talisman Of The Tech World?
TechCrunch
Wealthy beyond imagination; Google co-founders Sergey Brin/Larry Page rode their Ph.D project to global domination. Today Google is the largest Internet company with tentacles in mobile, Apple's new battleground. Technically Brin/Page are unparalleled, ...
See all stories on this topic » Today in History
ABC News
One year ago: The world's leading advanced and emerging countries vowed during a meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, to avoid potentially debilitating currency devaluations, aiming to quell trade tensions that could threaten the global recovery. ...
See all stories on this topic » Marriott Is a 'Washingtonian' Institution
Sacramento Bee
"This important local distinction recognizes that Marriott's longstanding core value of taking great care of our employees is still true today, even with Marriott's impressive growth as a global company," said David Rodriguez, executive vice president ...
See all stories on this topic » Russell Investments expands Defensive and Dynamic indices to global markets ...
Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)
As a consultant to some of the largest pools of capital in the world, Russell has $2 trillion in assets under advisement (as of 12/31/2010) and traded US$1.5 trillion last year through its implementation services business. The Russell Global Indexes ...
See all stories on this topic » "WaterHackathon" to Find Technology Solutions to Global Water Challenges
Water World
"We are proud to partner with the World Bank and Random Hacks of Kindness in their efforts to solve today's water problems." "Microsoft is delighted to see the growth and continuation of the Random Hacks of Kindness model," said Patrick Svenburg, ...
See all stories on this topic » Makhteshim Agan to Help Advance Next-Generation Agro-Technologies
PR Newswire (press release)
Uri Shani to Lead New Focus Area of the Company; New Division Strives to ExpandCurrent Offering to Farmers around the World Makhteshim Agan Group (MAI), theworld leader in branded off-patent crop protection solutions, today announced the ...
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Unreasonable, Maybe, but It's on a Social Mission
New York Times
The institute teaches commercial methods for tackling global issues. By HANNAH SELIGSON DANIEL EPSTEIN wants to get one thing straight: He is an unreasonable man. Happily, proudly unreasonable. Entrepreneurs who want to change the world, he says, ...
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New York Times
Dollar Drops to Post World War II Low Against Yen; Euro Rises
San Francisco Chronicle
The euro rose against the dollar today as German officials said there are several possible ways of involving the International Monetary Fund to boost the firepower of the European Financial Stability Facility, the region's rescue fund, ...
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Rugby World Cup 2011: All Blacks captain Richie McCaw demands 'best game we've ...
Mirror.co.uk
He did so after sitting them down as a group and warning: 'We don't have a divine right to win the World Cup'. New Zealand are white-hot favourites to beat France in today's final and end 24 years of failure in the globalshowpiece. ...
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Mirror.co.uk
IMF Stands Ready to Provide Europe Extra Financing, Shafik Says
BusinessWeek
“We stand ready to provide whatever the Europeans want from us, whether it's technical advice, assistance on monitoring their economies, we can do that,” IMF Deputy Managing Director Nemat Shafik said in an interview today at the World Economic Forum ...
See all stories on this topic » USAID Announces Strengthened Alliance with HP
Sacramento Bee
Since the creation of the Global Development Alliance ten years ago, USAID has established more than 1000 partnerships that helped produce cost- efficient development outcomes impacting the lives of millions of people around the world. ...
See all stories on this topic » Tunisia Votes Today
The Mark
Yasheng Huang International Program Professor, Chinese Economy and Business and Professor, Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management. Tony Burman Former managing director; current head of strategy for the Americas, ...
See all stories on this topic » CALIFORNIA CREATES NORTH AMERICA'S FIRST ECONOMY-WIDE CARBON MARKET LATEST ...
Power Engineering Magazine
(See Fred Krupp's letter to CARB Chairman Mary Nichols [PDF]) California has theworld's eighth largest economy, and its carbon market will be the second largest in theworld next to Europe's. Today's vote is the latest in a series of important moves ...
See all stories on this topic » Medtronic's Omar Ishrak speaks about the company's global goals
Pioneer Press
"Even with today's therapies, just driving them to the standard of care around the worldwill yield enormous opportunities." Reaching those customers involves educating patients about the technologies and training enough doctors to meet the demand. ...
See all stories on this topic » A transformative time for Principal
DesMoinesRegister.com
Its global footprint today includes operations in Latin America, China and India, while it barely had a toehold on world markets in 2001. Plus, while Principal still sells insurance and is regulated as an insurance company, its chief job today is ...
See all stories on this topic » WinTec Protective Systems, Inc., a Subsidiary of Medina International Holdings ...
Sacramento Bee
... 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Medina International Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: MIHI) announced today that its subsidiary WinTec Protective Systems, Inc., has executed an exclusive Joint Venture Agreement with ROK Global PLC, United Kingdom. ROKGlobal PLC ...
See all stories on this topic » Allot, Ceragon Slump on Network Spending Plans: Israel Overnight
BusinessWeek
Israeli shares traded in New York trailed global stocks last week, with the MSCI WorldIndex advancing 0.7 percent on optimism European policy makers will be able to contain the region's debt crisis. A slump in technology stocks weighed on both the ...
See all stories on this topic » Thailand Cites Progress in Draining Floodwaters
Wall Street Journal
Thailand is also the world's second-largest supplier of hard drives. Consultancy IHS iSuppli has warned that global output of the devices could fall by 30% in the last three months because of the Thai floods, while Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Cook ...
See all stories on this topic » Weekly: Hittite Microwave [United States] slides 5.3% in the past week ...
Military & Aerospace Electronics
In the top 5000 by MCap of global stocks of 4829 stocks traded today, the stock has a trailing week relative strength of 14.5 indicating it is trailing 85.5% of its global peers. Compared with the Dow Jones Industrials index which rose 164.3 points (or ...
See all stories on this topic » Virtela Receives 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award For Global Cloud ...
Sacramento Bee
By Virtela DENVER, Oct. 20, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Virtela, the world's largest independent managed network, security and cloud services company, today announced it has won the 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award for its Cloud-based Mobile Device ...
See all stories on this topic » Perficient Wins Business Analytics Solution Provider Achievement Award at ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LOUIS, Oct 22, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Perficient, Inc. /quotes/zigman/66565/quotes/nls/prft PRFT -0.34% a leading information technology consulting firm serving Global 2000 and other large enterprise customers throughout North America, today announced ...
See all stories on this topic » Fernandez on Course for Landslide Re-Election in Argentina
BusinessWeek
Against the worsening economic outlook, Argentina hasn't regained access to globalcredit markets since its 2001 default. Fernandez restructured almost $13 billion in bonds outstanding from the default last year, yet creditors holding about $4.5 ...
See all stories on this topic » Ahmadinejad on Gadhafi, Syria, alleged plot, nuclear weapons and America's role
CNN (blog)
They talked about Moammar Gadhafi's death, policy toward Syria, the alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the US, Iran's nuclear ambitions and America's global role. A video of Ahmadinejad responding to Obama's Iraq troop ...
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The Coming Derivatives Crisis That Could ... - OzHouse Alt News
By OzHouse
OzHouse Alt News: We're not in Kansas anymore… Contact Us ... Originally, these bets were designed to hedge risk, but today the derivatives market has mushroomed into a mountain of speculation unlike anything the world has ever seen before. ... The danger to the global financial system posed by derivatives is so great that Warren Buffet once called them “financial weapons of mass destruction”. For now, the ... The following is how a recent Bloomberg article defined derivatives … ...
OzHouse Alt News Global effect of 'the luck of the Irish' : Kaieteur News
By KNews
The economic prospects of the Republic of Ireland could indicate whether the world will head for a second recession or for recovery. While it ranks among the wealthiest countries in the world today in terms of GDP, Ireland is a country long ...
Kaieteur News
Protests go global, rampage in Rome - TODAY News - TODAY.com
Today · News. Latest show; Most popular; Our faves. Loading. ... reverberated around the world today as tens of thousands took to the streets from across the US ...
today.msnbc.msn.com/.../protests-go-global-rampage-tear-gas-... We need a global army of tax collectors | World News: the latest ...
The non-payment of tax has become a chronic problem around the world, and is ... new series that brings a fresh perspective to global news from our team of foreign ... IFTODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: You will embark on a new quest this year, ...
world-countries.net/archives/131657 Latest developments in the global Occupy protests
Some of the latest developments in the Occupy protests taking place in cities across the world:
www.stltoday.com/.../article_e3235d24-cda8-52ff-bc84-e62b... GLOBAL MARKETS-US, world stocks rise; oil ends higher | LATEST ...
GLOBAL MARKETS-US, world stocks rise; oil ends higher ... Banks shares lead stocks higher · CNN Business News (Today) - Stocks gained ground Tuesday ...
www.headlinenewsonline.com/.../global-marketsus-world-stoc... Occupy Wall Street live: march on Times Square | World news ...
The Guardian, UK and World news, User comments, Web ... More than 950 demonstrations against the global financial system and corporate ... Today's march seems to show how the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to grow. Last week marchers were told to trickle up to Washington Square for a General Assembly. ...
www.guardian.co.uk/world/.../occupy-wall-street-times-square
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Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - physics-math ...
AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have... a few bankers control a large chunk of the global economy might not seem like newsto New York's .... Don't miss out on the latest content from New Scientist. .... An amazing 200 hits on The Nine Point Five Theses today from this article. ...
www.newscientist.com/.../mg21228354.500-revealed--the-cap... Libya live - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8838778 /Libya- ... For our latest coverage on the death of Gaddafi see our Libya page. ... after it received nearly 197 complaints about its coverage by 4pm today. .... himself as an instigator of global revolution; for the four decades of his rule, however, ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/.../Libya-live.html

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