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LONDON (AP) — Shareholders in Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC gave approval yesterday for the biggest stock rights issue in British corporate history — almost $24 billion — as another British mortgage lender announced plans of its own for a rights i...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than two million US teenagers have suffered a serious bout of depression in the past year, including nearly 13 percent of girls, according to a federal government survey released on Tuesday.
On average, 8.5 percent of adol...
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Kentucky Fried Chicken (Bermuda) Ltd. saw profits drop last year due in part to higher food costs and lower sales.
Net income for the year ending January 31, 2008 totalled $310,009, a drop of $82,579 in comparison to the previous fiscal year.
The bul...
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Retailers fear they may have to suffer through a hard year — unless there is a change in policy, or a change in mindset.
Bermuda retailers saw their sales this March drop $1.3 million compared to sales of March 2007.
Apparel stores suffered a notable...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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Khano Smith confirmed yesterday that he will be available for Bermuda's second friendly International against Caribbean Football Union (CFU) rivals Barbados June 9 at the National Sports Centre (NSC).
And the Major League Soccer (MLS) star is now cho...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Despite a $59 million loss and a slump in sales in the first quarter, Macy's Inc. yesterday posted results that beat Wall Street expectations because of what analysts said were tight controls on expenses and inventories.
The loss re...
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Students at Saltus Grammar School are due to sit a mathematics exam at 6 a.m. today — becoming the first youngsters on the Island to face a new early start time laid down by England's biggest exam board to combat cheating.
Fifteen pupils in the senio...
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NEW YORK — When he started "America's Most Wanted," John Walsh could point to at least one thing in its favour: Society's swampland of bad people doing bad things would never run dry. On that basis, the show seems a cinch to run forever.
It recently ...
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Some years ago, well known TV journalist Bill Moyers produced a television documentary called "The Vanishing Family".
It focused on how so many single mothers were struggling to raise children without the support of fathers, and the many social probl...
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Marine police rushed a woman to an ambulance after she lost part of her finger in a sailing accident.
The sailboat Crossfire was participating in the regular Wednesday night racing when the victim, aged in her 30s, had her finger crushed.
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