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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Philip Green, the billionaire owner of Arcadia Group Ltd., will lead an external efficiency review into UK government spending, the Cabinet Office said.
Green, who will be supported by officials from the Cabinet Office and the Tr...
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On August 5, Russia banned exports of grains for the rest of the year. In the wake of record high temperatures, 1,000 square miles of wildfires and an associated drought, at least 50 people have been killed and about 20 percent of the crop of the wor...
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Cleveland skipper Dennis Musson Jnr praised his side's 'battling spirit' as they survived a Flatts Victoria fightback to retain their Eastern Counties trophy on Saturday, writes Josh Ball.
The holders held out for the final hour of the match, eventua...
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Twenty high achievers have been awarded scholarships from the Bank of Bermuda Foundation, worth a total of $723,000.
Winner Ashley Berry was the recipient of the Sir Henry Tucker University Scholarship, valued at $30,000 per annum for up to four year...
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The winner of this year's Bermuda Society of Arts (BSoA) Bursary Award calls art "her territory".
Samantha Gosling, 21, was the recipient of the 2010 $5,000 BSoA bursary award made annually to Bermudian students interested in furthering their post-se...
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Butterfield Bank surged 3.4 percent last week in brisk trading on the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX).
Just shy of 120,000 of the bank's shares were traded during the five days, as the share price closed up five cents at $1.50.
Ninety of Butterfield's e...
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BEIJING (Bloomberg) — China, whose $2.45 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves are the world's largest, is turning bullish on Europe and Japan at the expense of the US.
The nation has been buying "quite a lot" of Europe's bonds, said Yu Yongding, a f...
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LONDON (Reuters) - The British government may find it hard to stick to a coherent strategy as ministries scramble to cut spending by up to 40 percent on Treasury orders.
Prime Minister David Cameron, who took office in May, says shrinking the record ...
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Ten girl guides return home today from a two-week trip to celebrate 100 years of the programme.
The girls spent the first week of August at Harewood House, in Leeds, England, along with more than 5,000 other guides from around the world.
They camped ...
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