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TORONTO (Reuters) - In its worst session in two weeks, the Toronto Stock Exchange's main index dived yesterday, led lower by resource shares amid a broad sell-off sparked by heightened worries of a US recession.
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DATE: Feb 06, 2008
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PARIS (AP) — Potential legal troubles for French bank Societe Generale have expanded to the United States and the futures trader allegedly at the root of the $7 billion scandal is now under police protection.
Societe Generale's New York branch was co...
DATE: Feb 06, 2008
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NEW YORK — If you drive six miles southwest of Anniston, Alabama, you'll pass the spot where a bus was bombed in 1961 and the passengers - civil rights activists known as Freedom Riders - were beaten by a mob.
There's no marker there, but it is one o...
DATE: Feb 06, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) — Municipal bond investors were in a wary frame of mind yesterday as they waited to learn whether ratings agencies will downgrade some ailing bond insurers.
Uncertainty about the fate of the companies that insure municipal bonds has cas...
DATE: Feb 05, 2008
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A ferry pilot who was fired for being more than twice the legal alcohol limit when he crashed the boat into a terminal has received support from passengers to be reinstated.
Yesterday The Royal Gazette went to the Hamilton Ferry Terminal, where Dwayn...
DATE: Feb 05, 2008
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The Department of Planning has come under fire for keeping the public in the dark over its decision-making, in a hard-hitting report from Ombudsman Arlene Brock.
When Ms Brock quizzed the department on its mistakes, it responded by denying or justify...
DATE: Feb 05, 2008
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Tim Smith
If the Island is to resurrect its failing education system, then the community must return to the fundamental building block of teaching and learning — literacy — Government has said.
The statement was made by Minister of Education Randolph Horton, w...
DATE: Feb 05, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street retrenched yesterday, closing sharply lower as investors showed their cautious side and cashed in profits from the market's best week in nearly five years. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 100 points.
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DATE: Feb 05, 2008
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Angélique Kidjo at the Fairmont Southampton on Sunday, February 3
If you ever plan on going to an Angélique Kidjo concert and staying seated in your chair, think again. It's not going to happen.
Plenty of people who attended the 47-year-old's freneti...
DATE: Feb 05, 2008
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Lacrosse is continuing to grow in popularity on the Island with a new team being formed at Bermuda High School, writes Stephen Wright.
The sporty youngsters at the all girls' school started practicing last month and are working on basic skills such a...
DATE: Feb 05, 2008
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