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A city council is owed almost £4 million in unpaid parking fines by drivers of foreign-owned vehicles, it has been revealed.
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SUKKUR, Pakistan (Reuters) - United Nations aid agencies have provided assistance to hundreds of thousands of victims of Pakistan's worst floods in decades but relief operations have yet to reach an estimated six million people.
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(Aug. 14) -- Few economists, politicians, small-business owners or American unemployed who number in the millions would disagree with Thomas Hoenig's argument that the economy is ailing. But Hoenig breaks with other top Fed officials, Wall Street and most of economically minded Washington over what to do about it.
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Aid agencies helping hundreds of thousands of Pakistan flood victims have yet to reach an estimated six million people in need.
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The U.N.’s announcement of the case of disease came as new flood surges hit the south and Pakistan’s prime minister said that 20 million people had been left homeless.
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Manchester City has spent around $156 million on new players this off-season, including a deal for Mario Balotelli.
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A case of the deadly, waterborne disease cholera has been confirmed in Pakistan's flood-ravaged northwest, and aid workers expect there to be more, the UN said today. The discovery came as new flood surges hit the south and the prime minister said 20 million people had been left homeless by the deluge.
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Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Saturday 20 million people had been affected by the worst floods in the country's history as the UN confirmed the first cholera case.Independence day celebrations were cancelled as floods continued to bring misery to millions and aid agencies warned of a "second wave" of deaths from disease."The floods affected some 20 million people, destroyed standing crops and food storages worth billions of dollars, causing colossal loss to national economy," Gilani said in a televised address to the nation.
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Some 1.2 million people are now taking out a payday loan every year, borrowing a total of £1.2bn, research by Consumer Focus suggests.
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A suspected member of the storied "Pink Panther" ring of jewel thieves is being extradited to Japan from Spain on accusations he stole a $2 million diamond tiara in Tokyo three years ago, Japanese media reports said today.
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The taxman is accused of collecting £238 million too much tax from people given the wrong tax codes.
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Goldman CEO, others get millions from options
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A suspected member of the storied "Pink Panther" ring of jewel thieves is being extradited to Japan from Spain on accusations he stole a $2 million diamond tiara in Tokyo three years ago, Japanese media reports said Saturday.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon is due to arrive in Pakistan on Saturday after a cholera outbreak stoked fears of a second wave of deaths from disease. The devastating floods have affected millions of people and killed more than 1,300.
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SUKKUR, Pakistan (Reuters) - United Nations aid agencies have provided assistance to hundreds of thousands of victims of Pakistan's worst floods in decades but relief operations have yet to reach an estimated six million people.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon is due to arrive in Pakistan on Saturday after a cholera outbreak stoked fears of a second wave of deaths from disease. The devastating floods have affected millions of people and killed more than 1,300.
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Experts on prehistoric man are rethinking their dates after a find in a southern French valley. The remains found show people where in France 1.57 million years ago, 200,000 years earlier than previously thought.
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Hong Kong director Christopher Sun arranges toy action models in front of a massive penis-shaped fountain, the easiest way to explain his intentions to the multilingual cast of what has been billed as the world's first 3D porn film."I can't ask my crew to do this and the best thing is you can get (the action models) naked without any complaints," he told AFP at a secluded studio in Hong Kong.The director is in a race against time to complete his 3.2 million-US-dollar film "3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy", which is due for release in May.
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The Olympic rings are the most recognised logo in sport, and one of the most zealously protected. When the Games arrive in London in two years' time, the organisers are determined to "fearlessly defend" their sponsors – who have paid millions of pounds to attach their name to the event – from the ambush-marketing attempts that football's World Cup witnessed in South Africa earlier this month.
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If you have ever wondered what more than half a million begonias look like, the Grand Place in Brussels is the place to be this weekend.
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