BRUSSELS, June 23 (Reuters) - Franco-Belgian banking group
Dexia is prepared to voluntary contribute to a
rollover of Greek debt, a financial source said on Thursday.
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BRUSSELS, June 23 (Reuters) - Franco-Belgian banking group
Dexia is prepared to voluntary contribute to a
rollover of Greek debt, a financial source said on Thursday.
Publish Date : Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:17:13 -0400
City orders more than 10,000 residents to evacuate their homes.
Publish Date : Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:47:00 -0400
One of the heaviest winter snow seasons in years is putting a chill on the Sierra Nevada's summer tourism, with lingering drifts forcing cancellations and postponements of camping trips, rafting excursions and horseback rides.
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The top Republican in the Senate acknowledged Wednesday that partisanship has played a role in GOP opposition to President Obama on Libya.
Publish Date : Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:32:00 -0700
Jennifer Lopez is making her way back to movie screens in a big way. She'll recently showed up in The Back-Up Plan, will voice a character in Ice Age: Continental Drift, and now she's in talks for two roles: one in What to Expect When You're Expecting (more on that in a different article) and one ...
Publish Date : Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:24:06 +0000
U.S. stocks drifted between small gains and losses Wednesday as investors digested the latest pronouncements from the Federal Reserve.
Publish Date : Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:24:29 EDT
Some Republican presidential candidates are charting a different course than their GOP counterparts on the war in Afghanistan, which has raised the question of ideological rifts before a crucial election cycle.
Publish Date : Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:14:22 -0400
New report finds pollution and over-fishing could lead to mass extinctions.
Publish Date : Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:16:56 -0400
Analysis: Debate debut lifts Bachmann's clout
Publish Date : Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:32:31 EDT
Eastern Europe new battleground in Mideast rift
Publish Date : Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:42:52 EDT
We've all been spending the last few weeks skimming through silly, summer news stories like the president having an illegal war in Libya and the global economy drifting perilously close to a double-dip recession, waiting on edge for real news about ...
Publish Date : Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:51:16 EDT
U.S. stocks eased Wednesday as investors digested the latest policy statement from the Federal Reserve and await comments from Chairman Ben Bernanke.
Publish Date : Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:24:29 EDT
AFP - Alibaba Group stakeholder Yahoo! said talks aimed at resolving a rift over Chinese online payment platform Alipay have been "constructive."
Publish Date : Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:55:38 GMT
AFP - The rift between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran's conservative-dominated parliament widened on Tuesday after deputies launched impeachment proceedings against his foreign minister.
Publish Date : Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:19:42 GMT
Neocons and right-wing war hawks have been attacking their Republican colleagues recently for expressing doubts about carrying on the wars in Libya and particularly Afghanistan. The neocons have alleged that Republicans calling for withdrawal from Afghanistan are drifting toward “isolationism....
Publish Date : Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:44:57 +0000
Arizona could be turning itself into an economic laboratory of sorts by declining to extend unemployment benefits for those out of work for months.
Publish Date : Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:52:52 MST
Today in possible health issues of convenience, professional charity grifter Suzanne Mubarak — wife of deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak — reportedly suffered a "heart attack" and fainted after being told she was to be questioned ...
Publish Date : Sat, 14 May 2011 09:52:08 EDT
Companies continue to press for higher premiums, saying they need protection against any sudden uptick in demand once people have more money to spend on their health.
Publish Date : Sat, 14 May 2011 17:16:21 GMT
Officials would not say whether there was evidence that Bin Laden or the other men living in the Abbottabad compound had acquired or viewed the material.
Publish Date : Sat, 14 May 2011 16:50:05 GMT
VALLETTA, Malta (AP) -- The 50-foot (15-meter) wooden boat drifted across the Mediterranean for five days without food and water after its engine died, unable to propel the 117 people crammed aboard from war in Libya to safety in Europe....
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AP - The 50-foot (15-meter) wooden boat drifted across the Mediterranean for five days without food and water after its engine died, unable to propel the 117 people crammed aboard from war in Libya to safety in Europe.
Publish Date : Sat, 14 May 2011 14:34:13 GMT
The 50-foot (15-meter) wooden boat drifted across the Mediterranean for five days without food and water after its engine died, unable to propel the 117 people crammed aboard from war in Libya to safety in Europe.
Publish Date : Sat, 14 May 2011 09:17 EDT
Today in possible health issues of convenience, professional charity grifter Suzanne Mubarak — wife of deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak — reportedly suffered a "heart attack" and fainted after being told she was to be questioned ...
Publish Date : Sat, 14 May 2011 09:52:08 EDT
The killing of Osama bin Laden, while good for a week's worth of fawning press coverage by the American media, does not mitigate the fact that United States foreign policy is adrift on a sea of uncertainty.
Publish Date : Fri, 13 May 2011 01:02:52 -0500
While far from comprehensive, the descriptions of thrift stores written by the stylish men of The MidwestStyle is a great basic overview of some of the better thrift stores in Chicago. They shop and write about other places, too....
Publish Date : Thu, 12 May 2011 23:00:00 PDT
Bridesmaids opens today -- had you heard? -- and the reviews are in: It's funny! And raunchy! And it might be saving the world, and feminism, and Judd Apatow, and Melissa McCarthy is great in it. Says everyone. We break down all the reviews and identified the key talking points.
Here they ...
Publish Date : Fri, 13 May 2011 22:40:00 GMT
It's Friday afternoon and if you're like me, this is a good time to stare at some shirtless men for no good reason. Yesterday Abercrombie & Fitch dispatched 101 hotties to the Champs Élysées (which is how you say "outdoor mall" in French) to cele...
Publish Date : Fri, 13 May 2011 18:05:23 EDT
So, Michele Bachmann... she is probably just pretending to consider a run for president in order to raise PAC money? But maybe she's serious? We haven't conclusively determined where Bachmann's potential candidacy lands on the fake/real spectrum. Bu...
Publish Date : Fri, 13 May 2011 18:09:27 EDT
Thrifters, DIY-ers and upcyclers rejoice: the Vintage Bazaar is setting up shop again, this time for a one-day stint in Pilsen. The pop-up flea market, curated and run by Chicago design mavens, Katherine Raz and Libby Alexander, is little more than a year old, but has grown quickly in popularity: l...
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Usually in the Weekend Thrifting column, we showcase old videogames purchased in thrift stores. But San Francisco's bargain bins have been dry lately, so here's something a bit less random but possibly more interesting: a selection of weird, obscure or otherwise notable retro games we've sought out ...
Publish Date : Fri, 13 May 2011 11:00:00 GMT
Pakistan's parliament threatened Saturday to cut off access to a facility used by NATO forces to ferry troops into Afghanistan, signaling a growing rift that began when U.S. commandos killed Osama bin Laden during a raid on a Pakistani compound.
Publish Date : Sat, 14 May 2011 02:00:22 EDT
Pakistan's parliament threatened Saturday to cut off access to a facility used by NATO forces to ferry troops into Afghanistan, signaling a growing rift that began when U.S. commandos killed Osama bin Laden during a raid on a Pakistani compound.
Publish Date : Sat, 14 May 2011 02:11:33 EDT
You're probably really tired of hearing the word "hipster" by now. Or you might not be. Hipster has become a catch-all insult used not to describe any specific niche of people, but wide ranges of young, active, thrifty city-dwellers. The term has been applied to the fashion-conscious and the fashion...
Publish Date : Fri, 13 May 2011 22:04:30 +0000
With a poetically surreal ending and a vivid sense of place, Peter Mullan's latest chronicle of underprivilege is a street psychodrama that chronicles one boy's drift from promising student to member of Glasgow gang culture. (Recommended)
Publish Date : Thu, 12 May 2011 22:25:00 -0400
Dollar deal
Dollar Thrifty says it will cooperate with Hertz, and Avis Budget, in seeking antitrust ap proval for both compa nies' takeover proposals.
Macy's aces
Though ratings compa nies still grade debt from Macy's as junk, credit- default swaps and bonds have rallied to levels that imp...
Publish Date : Fri, 13 May 2011 23:21:00 -0500
Usually in the Weekend Thrifting column, we showcase old videogames purchased in thrift stores. But San Francisco's bargain bins have been dry lately, so here's something a bit less random but possibly more interesting: A selection of weird, obscure or otherwise notable retro games we've sought out ...
Publish Date : Thu, 12 May 2011 19:47:39 +0000
Six weeks after receiving the first full face transplant in the United States, Dallas Wiens, a 25-year-old construction worker from Fort Worth, Texas, gave ABC's Good Morning America the first look at his new face. Wiens, who suffered life-threatening burns to his head when the boom lift he was oper...
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Remembering the brave war photographer killed in Libya.
Publish Date : Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:21:38 -0400
Six weeks after receiving the first full face transplant in the United States, Dallas Wiens, a 25-year-old construction worker from Fort Worth, Texas, gave ABC's Good Morning America the first look at his new face. Wiens, who suffered life-threatening burns to his head when the boom lift he was oper...
Publish Date : Tue, 10 May 2011 08:39:56 -0400
Jim Sciutto reports on the mounting tensions inside Islamabad, Pakistan.
Publish Date : Fri, 06 May 2011 09:11:47 -0400
Six weeks after receiving the first full face transplant in the United States, Dallas Wiens, a 25-year-old construction worker from Fort Worth, Texas, gave ABC's Good Morning America the first look at his new face. Wiens, who suffered life-threatening burns to his head when the boom lift he was oper...
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With Osama bin Laden's death, are we really safe?
Publish Date : Tue, 03 May 2011 03:34:37 -0400
Memphis, Tenn. braces for a possible record-breaking Mississippi River flooding.
Publish Date : Tue, 10 May 2011 10:25:51 -0400
Hertz is raising the stakes in its pursuit of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group in hopes of besting rival Avis' efforts to acquire the smaller car rental agency.
Publish Date : Tue, 10 May 2011 05:30:00 GMT
Gov. Pat Quinn's threatened veto of the concealed carry bill is widening the political rift between Chicago and Downstate, and threatening the survival of Southern Illinois Democrats
Publish Date : Thu, 05 May 2011 15:05:56 -0500
Motion-sensing cameras on the island of Sumatra captured video of two families of endangered tigers in a lowland forest scheduled for destruction.
Publish Date : Tue, 10 May 2011 05:18:20 GMT
In a large counterterrorism operation in Dagestan, government forces destroyed three bunkers where the militants stored weaponry, food and other supplies.
Publish Date : Mon, 09 May 2011 20:36:14 GMT
Publish Date : Fri, 06 May 2011 14:15:47 +0000
AOL has lost yet another top news executive and faces increased scrutiny from Wall Street, which is concerned about corporate drift.
Last night, news leaked that Jai Singh, managing editor of its Huffington Post property, has left to join Yahoo as editor-in-chief. He was in charge of all day-to-day ...
Publish Date : Tue, 03 May 2011 17:07:41 +0000
AP - About 100 Taliban fighters on motorcycles attacked a northern Afghan village that was working to join the government-sponsored local police program against the insurgency, killing one villager, police said Wednesday. An ensuing battle also left 17 militants dead.
Publish Date : Wed, 11 May 2011 08:41:53 GMT
AP - Towering above the Libyan capital's coastline, the sleek silver Marriott Hotel opened three months ago as the latest symbol of the North African nation's oil-fueled investment boom. Ten days after its Feb. 15 opening, however, it shut its doors as mass unrest engulfed the country and quickly tu...
Publish Date : Wed, 11 May 2011 07:31:04 GMT
AFP - NATO has insisted its bombing blitz in Libya is not aimed at Moamer Kadhafi, as explosions rocked the capital on Wednesday and rebels in besieged Misrata punched forward against the strongman's forces.
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As free-trade agreement turns five years old, Central America’s former basket case becomes the fastest growing economy in the region in exports, foreign investment and job creation.
Publish Date : Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:39 EDT
A barge left adrift off northern Cuba hit a reef and sank. The owner of the cargo —humanitarian supplies for Haiti — claims Cuban actions led to the sinking.
Publish Date : Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:09 EDT
Analog Drift was the most played album on KCRW for several weeks after its release in 2010. So it made sense to bring Chico Mann's irresistible, Afrobeat- and Latin-inspired electronic music to the studio for a session.
Publish Date : Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:10:00 -0400
Joyce House is thrifty. The self-proclaimed "Miss Coupon Diva" has raised her children and pursued a nursing degree �" pinching pennies all along the way. She says she has not spent her own money on toothpaste, deodorant and other essentials for more than three decades. And, of course, the diva fi...
Publish Date : Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:47:00 -0400
Analog Drift was the most played album on KCRW for several weeks after its release in 2010. So it made sense to bring Chico Mann's irresistible, Afrobeat- and Latin-inspired electronic music to the studio for a session.
Publish Date : Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:47:00 -0400
A Queens man inexplicably turned up on Jones Beach yesterday, wearing a wetsuit, packing a gun -- and mumbling that he'd just spent three days adrift on a raft.
"All of a sudden, I see this big fella in a daze wandering along the boardwalk with a garbage bag...
Publish Date : Wed, 11 May 2011 02:10:47 -0500
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh clung to power by a thread after country's most powerful military commander threw his support behind protesters and opposition groups seeking Saleh's ouster and defections mounted.
Publish Date : Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:08:01 EDT
Three days of heavy airstrikes have highlighted the murky nature of U.S. goals in Libya and opened up new rifts among key members of the international coalition involved in the effort.
Publish Date : Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:16:06 EDT
On Monday, June 22, National Geographic Traveler magazine launched its new online Family Vacation Planner (www.traveler.nationalgeographic.com/family), featuring the best family-friendly sites and attractions from each state in the country. The attractions are grouped by states and categories of int...
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WASHINGTON (May 26, 2009)—National Geographic Children's Books announces the launch of its first ever kids' almanac, where kids can discover everything from how to survive adrift at sea to the secrets of the sunken city of Atlantis to ways you can volunteer in your community. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC K...
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WASHINGTON (Sept. 9, 2009)—This fall National Geographic Live will bring 25 programs to National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C., including dynamic lectures, live concerts and compelling films. All programs (unless otherwise noted) take place in Grosvenor Auditorium at 1600 M Street, N...
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On Newsstands August 4, 2009Eight Black Swans -- When the unexpected happens, it pays to be prepared. For an adventure-style "Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook," National Geographic Adventure came up with eight colossal disasters -- a tsunami hitting the Northwest; the West running dry; an avala...
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