Enigmatic Berezovsky takes secrets to grave, Mar 25, 2013

 "MOSCOW - Enigmatic in death as in life, Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky has left a swirl of mystery after his passing, including a letter reportedly begging President Vladimir Putin for forgiveness. The exiled businessman and former Kremlin powerbroker, who won asylum in Britain after falling out with Putin and being convicted in absentia, was found dead at his Berkshire home at the weekend in circumstances that have yet to be made clear. Russia's press on Monday leapt at the chance of publishing the wildest conspiracy theories, ranging from an assassination by MI5 to even a staged death that left the real Berezovsky still alive. Friends have suggested he was depressed over a costly court loss against fellow oligarch Roman Abramovich and personal trouble, pointing to suicide as a possible though unconfirmed explanation."
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Spring storm blasts Midwest, rolls East, Mar 25, 2013

 "Mother nature continued her disregard for the calendar on Monday, providing a spring storm that blasted the Midwest and East with heavy, wet snow that snarled highways and airports. Two deaths were blamed on the storm so far, in separate crashes in Kansas and Missouri on snow-slicked roads. Airlines had canceled more than 460 flights so far Monday – and more than 1,300 since Sunday – thanks to a late-season winter storm that's swept from the Rockies to the East Coast."
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BILL GATES offers $1 million for better condom, Mar 25, 2013

 "Did you hear the one about Bill Gates being so rich he paid $1 million for a condom? Turns out it is not a joke. The Microsoft founder and 2nd richest man in the world is offering up to $1 million in funding to the inventor of the “next generation condom,” according to Science World Report."
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SEATTLEPI - Girl, 9, walks to get help after crash kills dad, Mar 25, 2013

"LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 9-year-old girl crawled out of a mangled SUV, climbed out of a canyon and walked about a mile in the middle of the night to find help after surviving a highway crash that killed her father in Southern California, authorities said. The 2010 Ford Escape was launched about 200 feet down an embankment along a semi-rural stretch of the Sierra Highway in Acton about 1 a.m. Sunday, said California Highway Patrol Officer Cheyenne Quesada. The vehicle overturned several times."
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BUSINESS WEEK - The Cypriot Bailout Hasn't Rocked Markets, Mar 25, 2013

"Could the tiny Cyprus banking system be the powder keg whose explosion reverberates around the planet? A bank run in Cyprus, a euro zone nation of 1.1 million, should be an island-contained crisis. But the entwinement of Cyprus and Russia, the world’s ninth-biggest economy, makes things complicated. Russia’s banks and companies have $31 billion parked in Cypriot banks, according to estimates by Moody’s Investor Services—on top of almost as much in Russian bank loans to Cypriot companies. The immediate question is: How confident are 145 million Russians that their money is safe at their Russian bank? By extension, how confident are global banking multinationals—in the U.S., Switzerland, London, Brazil, and China—that their Russian counterparties are good for their rubles if Cyprus rots up to their balance sheets? Will this all prompt a mass run on banks in weak links such as Italy, Greece, and Spain? And a bolt to the exits by equity investors the world over?"
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STOCKS rise on Cyprus bailout deal, Mar 25, 2013

"Stocks stepped higher Monday as Cyprus secured a last-minute 10 billion euro ($13 billion) bailout. The S&P 500 stock index started the day 8.27 points away from an all-time high. European stocks were mostly higher. And earlier, investors in Asia mostly responded positively to the news. Japan's Nikkei 225 index surged 1.69% to 12,546.46 and South Korea's Kospi jumped 1.49% to 1,977.67. Stocks in mainland China fell, however. The European Central Bank had threatened to withhold emergency liquidity from the Mediterranean nation's central bank if a deal was not clinched by Monday."
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