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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) — Bank of America Corp. said yesterday it has repaid the entire $45 billion it owed US taxpayers as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Programme.
Bank of America, which announced its agreement with the US Treasury to rep...
DATE: Dec 10, 2009
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WRAPUP 1-China urges U.S. to increase Copenhagen offer
China willing to discuss global 2050 emissions goal
U.S., China officials aim for Copenhagen deal
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – China said yesterday i...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nicolas Cage's ex-girlfriend is suing the actor and his former business manager, claiming she is owed more than $13 million and a house.
Christina Fulton, who is the mother of Cage's adult son, Weston, sued the Oscar-winner in Los ...
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MARQUETTE, Michigan (AP) — Two people in the US have been charged with threatening to sell photos of John Stamos unless he paid them $680,000.
Allison Coss and Scott Sippola were arrested last week on an extortion charge at an airport in Michigan. An...
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy will try today to end tension over the appointment of a Frenchman to oversee a shake-up of European banking.
Their meeting on the sidelines of a European Un...
DATE: Dec 10, 2009
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Ode to Man United's eternal Ryan Giggs
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PARIS (AP) -- He was still Ryan Wilson back then. The switch to using his mother's surname, Giggs, wouldn't come until lat...
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A 35-year-old prisoner pleaded guilty to possession of cannabis in Magistrates' Court yesterday.
Kirk Orlando Mundy admitted having 0.96 grams of the drug in his cell. Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner added 18 months to the 16-year sentence he is n...
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An amendment limiting the age of children eligible for Child Day Care Allowance was passed unanimously in the Senate yesterday.
The Child Day Care Allowance Amendment Act 2009 was debated in the House of Assembly last month.
It reduces the maximum ag...
DATE: Dec 10, 2009
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Senators yesterday rounded on insurance companies accused of leaving seniors out in the cold since the arrival of FutureCare.
Many people are said to have been driven into the initiative after insurance firms reacted to its introduction by raising th...
DATE: Dec 10, 2009
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MIAMI (Reuters) – The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season will be "above-average" in activity and produce 11 to 16 tropical storms, including six to eight hurricanes, a leading team of US-based researchers said yesterday.
The Colorado State University tea...
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