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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Financier Carl Icahn yesterday launched a proxy battle to force Yahoo Inc. to reopen buyout talks with Microsoft Corp, saying the Yahoo board had acted "irrationally" in refusing its $47.5 billion offer.
Icahn harshly criticised ...
DATE: May 16, 2008
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HONOLULU (AP) — Bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman's TV show will return to the air this summer, months after it was pulled when the reality star used a racial slur in a profanity-laced tirade.
Filming has begun on the fifth season, according to execu...
DATE: May 16, 2008
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Bermuda-based Teekay Tankers Ltd. yesterday reported first-quarter net income of $14.0 million, or $0.56 per share, a rise of nearly $8 million compared to the fourth quarter of 2007.
The company achieved a time charter equivalent (TCE) of $36,253 pe...
DATE: May 16, 2008
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Bermuda-based political risk specialist Sovereign Risk Insurance Ltd. plans to set up its first overseas office in Dubai.
Sovereign, which is owned by Ace Bermuda Insurance Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ace Ltd., has a staff of 10, one of whom w...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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The Bermuda Red Cross is urging the community to help survivors of the Myanmar cyclone disaster.
More than 1.5 million people have been left destitute following Cyclone Nargis, which tore through the Irrawaddy delta rice bowl two weeks ago. The hurri...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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NEW YORK — Contestants are disappearing as the "American Idol" finale approaches. Unfortunately for Fox, so are the viewers.
The 21.8 million people who watched last Tuesday's competition was the show's smallest Tuesday audience in more than five yea...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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Problems with the National Sports Centre's (NSC) controversial cricket pitch could have long been resolved had the facility's Trustees sought advice from local experts rather than those abroad, argued veteran groundsman Sheridan Raynor yesterday.
Las...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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Four students were brought home to Bermuda from Barbados after the mother of one reported that he had been robbed at gunpoint.
Labour Minister David Burch told the Senate yesterday that the woman contacted the National Training Board (NTB), which spo...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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A National Parent Body, international academic benchmarking, more vocational qualifications and raising the school leaving age to 18, are among the recommendations of an overhaul of the country's education system.
The Ministry of Education further ou...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index gave up nearly all its gains yesterday, as weak resources undermined a rally by financial issues after Royal Bank of Canada said it would take a smaller second-quarter write-down than had be...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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