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LONDON (Bloomberg) - UK treasury chief secretary Yvette Cooper said the government does not target the pound and Europe Minister Caroline Flint raised the prospect of a halt to the currency's slide after it reached a record low against the euro.
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NEW YORK (AP) – NBC's decision to give Jay Leno a show each weeknight leaves CBS and ABC the only major broadcasters still in the business of making scripted dramas for the last hour of prime-time.
Viewing habits are changing, and the well-turned adu...
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WASHINGTON — In handling questions about the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich — for allegedly trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder — Obama has gone strictly by the book.
His statements have been cauti...
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A Pembroke woman admitted trying to steal rain pants in order to pay off a drug debt.
Kyla Stowe, 34, of Friswells Hill, pleaded guilty to the sole count when she appeared in Magistrates' Court on Friday.
Crown counsel Larissa Burgess told the court ...
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The planned departure of a group of Bermuda-based corporations to Switzerland has attracted the attention of leading financial newspaper The Wall Street Journal.
In a story published on Friday, under the headline "Swiss gain as tax plan dims Bermuda'...
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MOSCOW (Bloomberg) - Renaissance Securities Trading Ltd., a unit of the Russian investment and retail bank, plans to buy back as much as $40 million of its outstanding dollar bonds.
Renaissance is offering bondholders a maximum 60 percent of face val...
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Dear Annie: I have been the bookkeeper for a small company for six months. The previous bookkeeper was embezzling money, and I now have to deal with a lot of micromanaging due to the office manager's trust issues. I do my job well and have proved mys...
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LAS VEGAS (AP) – A place that rarely preserves its past is now trying to preserve its pasties.
Make that pasties and crystal bras, feathered head pieces, fans and thongs – anything that documents the existence of an increasingly rare bird: the showgi...
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Two motorcyclists were last night in intensive care and three others were treated for injuries after a string of accidents over the weekend.
A 21-year-old Warwick man and a 23-year-old Southampton man were both in stable condition in the intensive ca...
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) experienced more downs than ups last week, with no fewer than five companies seeing their share prices fall.
The banking sector was the hardest hit, with LOM (Holdings) Ltd. dropping five cents (1....
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