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TOKYO (Reuters) - Europe's sovereign debt crisis has not pushed back the timing of a hike in the Federal Reserve's benchmark interest rate, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard said on Monday.
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Sharing a green room with Matthew Hoggard is one sign of having made it, performing in front of seven million television viewers another altogether. When Daniel Keatings became the first Briton to win an all-round medal in a world championships last year it changed his life. Doing the same in London in 2012 would take it to a whole new level.
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French insurer AXA is in talks with British rival Resolution on a 3.3-billion-euro (4-billion-dollar) deal to sell its life insurance and savings businesses in Britain, the French company said on Monday."If implemented, this transaction would result in AXA retaining its market leading AXA Wealth Management and AXA Direct Protection businesses and selling the remainder of its UK life and savings business to Resolution Ltd," it said in a statement.
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Workers at Honda subsidiary in southeastern China intentionally slowed down production at the facility Monday, after returning from a strike, the company said.
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AP - President Barack Obama is going back to the Gulf of Mexico and this time he's visiting new ground tainted by BP's devastating oil spill.
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An MP who was stabbed while holding a public surgery speaks about the incident for the first time.
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Acting on complaints from three online companies, the European Commission has launched a preliminary inquiry into anti-competition allegations against Google over how the Internet search giant ranks its results and manages its digital advertising.
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Ed Balls, one of our more appropriately named politicians, likened the last three-way party leaders' debate to a boxing match when he appeared on Thursday's Question Time. Unfortunately his man suffered a points defeat but true to the spirit of the noble art, the Children's Minister declared: "We wuz robbed!"
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AP - Students graduating from high school this spring may be collecting their diplomas just in time, leaving institutions that are being badly weakened by the nation's economic downturn.
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The inquiry into Bloody Sunday has been disastrously expensive and time-consuming, Kenneth Clarke admitted yesterday.
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PARIS (AFP) - French insurer AXA is in talks with British rival Resolution on a 3.3-billion-euro (4-billion-dollar) deal to sell its life insurance and savings businesses in Britain, the French company said on Monday.
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Africa tasted victory for the first time at the World Cup but fresh tragedy punctured the euphoria as a young US fan fell to his death, while journalists were involved in an air crash scare.New controversy also raged over the vuvuzela trumpets with Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo saying they were putting players off and the head of the local organising committee that a ban was a possibility.
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The Americans’ tie with England has them upbeat but not overthinking its significance; the team will be expected to beat Slovenia in its next match.
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England manager needs to take some big decisions to get the side back on the right track.
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Africa tasted victory for the first time at the World Cup but fresh tragedy punctured the euphoria as a young US fan fell to his death, while journalists were involved in a air crash scare.New controversy also raged over the vuvuzela trumpets with Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo saying they were putting players off and the head of the local organising committee that a ban was a possibility.
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Nine people have been killed when a plane belonging to a politician running for governor in a Mexican state crashed, his staff said.But Roberto Borge, the powerful Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)'s candidate for governor in the state of Quintana Roo, was not aboard at the time, said spokesman Gabriel Mendicutti."There were nine people, unfortunately all dead," said Mendicutti. "Roberto Borge was not aboard but we have found the airplane."
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Warning of a "cyber arms race," a leading Web security firm said that China, France, Israel, Russia and the United States were among countries that have developed "cyber weapons.""McAfee began to warn of the global cyber arms race more than two years ago, but now we're seeing increasing evidence that it's become real," said Dave DeWalt, president and chief executive of McAfee Inc.
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US geologists have discovered nearly one trillion dollars' worth of untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, including vast reserves of copper and lithium, the New York Times reported Monday.The deposits, which also include huge veins of iron, gold, niobium and cobalt, are enough to turn the battle-scarred country into one of the world's leading mining exporters, senior US government officials told the Times.Afghanistan's potential lithium deposits as large of those of Bolivia, which currently has the world's largest known lithium reserves, the Times said.
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While all the chatter in the Usk Valley here this week concerns the Ryder Cup, Chris Wood has more mundane matters on his mind. Let the rest worry about a match taking place in four months' time. To young Chris from Bristol it's all about the here and now and a chance to win "just another sort of normal European Tour event".
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AP - A team of U.S. geologists and Pentagon officials has discovered vast mineral wealth in Afghanistan, conceivably enough to turn the scarred and impoverished country into one of the world's most lucrative mining centers, The New York Times reports.
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