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BT offers staff time off in exchange for pay cut
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AP - Telecoms company BT Group PLC is offering staff a year off work in return for a 75 percent cut in that year's pay.
Serena powers to Wimbledon title
Serena Williams ends her sister's recent dominance at Wimbledon with victory over Venus that gives her a third Wimbledon title.
Ruling favors Antiguan receiver in Stanford case
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AP - A firm appointed by Antiguan authorities to liquidate the assets of R. Allen Stanford's offshore Caribbean bank has won control of assets in the U.K. worth more than $100 million, a defeat for a U.S.-appointed receiver in an ongoing fight over jurisdiction in the case.
GM Europe: Talks on selling Opel near completion
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AP - Negotiations for the sale of General Motors Corp.'s unit Adam Opel GmbH to Canadian autoparts maker Magna are progressing well and should soon be complete, the head of GM Europe said in remarks released Saturday.
GM Europe head says to sell Opel to Magna soon: report
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Reuters - General Motors Europe President Carl-Peter Forster expects to sell German unit Opel to Canadian auto parts supplier Magna soon, he told a German newspaper.
Police investigate 'suspicious' fire that killed 6
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AFP - Police launched an investigation on Saturday into a fire that ripped through a 1960s-era public housing block in south London, killing six people including a newborn baby.
GM hopes for speedy Opel purchase: report
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AFP - The head of GM Europe has said he hopes German carmaker Opel will be bought by Magna by mid-July adding that the Canadian firm has a "considerable lead" on other possible buyers, a report said Saturday.
Crew onboard hijacked ship are "desperate": report
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Reuters - The 24 hostages on board a German ship that was hijacked by Somali pirates in April have no more water, food or medicine, a German weekly reported, citing comments emailed by the captain of the ship.
Live text - Tour de France
The first stage of the Tour de France is a time trial in Monaco - with Lance Armstrong making his return to the race.
F1's Ecclestone criticized after Hitler comments
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AP - Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone faced criticism from politicians and Jewish groups Saturday after being quoted as saying that Adolf Hitler "got things done."
Pope urges G8 leaders to act on crisis
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AP - Pope Benedict XVI has urged G-8 leaders meeting next week in central Italy to rewrite global financial rules and defend the world's poor from the effects of the economic downturn.
BT in bid to cut staff pay in return for holidays
BT is asking its staff to take a 75% pay cut in return for long-term holidays to help the company ride-out the recession. British Telecom is offering workers the chance to take a year off if the...
Husband and wife team form a diplomatic duo
When the couple started musing about their move two years ago, Schraner Burgener's father came up with the ambassador job-share idea as a way for both sides to advance in their field while also workin...
Mancini eyes England return
Former Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini admits he is targeting a return to management and has set his heart on a move to the Premier League. Mancini was sacked by Inter at the beginning of last su...
Comoros crash airline suspends Paris flights
The operator of a Yemeni aircraft that crashed into the Indian Ocean off the Comoros islands this week has suspended flights from Paris, a spokesperson for Aeroports de Paris, the Paris airports opera...
Madrid poised for Maicon swoop
Maicon's agent expects Real Madrid to launch a transfer 'offensive' for the Inter Milan right-back. The 27-year-old was a key figure as Jose Mourinho's Inter clinched a fourth straight Serie A title ...
The Very First All Spanish "Surgery Robot" Is Now Operating ..
The routine use of this first commercial robot assistant culminates the process of investigation, development, technology transfer and the marketing of this robot. Four years ago the Spanish company ...
ONGLYZA™ Receives Positive Opinion In Europe For The ..
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) and AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) announced that their marketing authorization application for ONGLYZA™ (saxagliptin) received a positive opinion from the Comm...
Former minister Henderson to quit
Jul 4 2009 Labour former minister Doug Henderson is to quit the Commons at the next General Election, he has announced. Mr Henderson, 60, a Europe and Defence minister in Tony Blair's administrati...
Police are treating tower block as crime scene
A three-week-old baby, and children aged six and seven, were among the six dead yesterday after a fire swept through a 12-storey tower block in Camberwell, south London. Thirty people were re...
Chopra completes Cardiff return
Chopra's most recent loan deal at the Championship side expired at the end of last season, but Cardiff have now exercised their option to buy the 25-year-old for a fee believed to be in the region...
Six dead as flames engulf high-rise in south London - Summar..
London - Six people including a three-week-old baby and two children died late Friday in a blaze that struck a 12-storey apartment house in south London, while 30 more were rescued or escaped the rapi...
Russia to allow US military passage through airspace - Summa..
Moscow/Washington- The Kremlin has agreed to allow the transport of US supplies and weapons over Russian airspace on the way to Afghanistan, according to Russian and US media reports Saturday. An anno...
Greek Siemens suspect reportedly confessed to corruption cha..
Munich - The former director of industrial giant Siemens AG in Greece, Michalis Christoforakos, has apparently confessed to charges of bribery, German media reported Saturday. The Greek manager, on re...
Ten Chechen police killed in Russian Caucasus
NAZRAN, Russia : Ten Chechen police were killed on Saturday when militants fired on their convoy in the neighbouring Russian region of Ingushetia, one of the deadliest recent attacks in the increasing...
Iran charges British embassy employee
The lawyer of a detained Iranian employee of the British embassy in Tehran said today his client had been charged with “acting against national security”.Lawyer Abdolsamad Khorramshahi said his cl...
Future of Cork Docklands project 'uncertain'
The future of the Cork Docklands Project remains uncertain according to the Cork Chamber of Commerce.It follows comments from the Environment Minister John Gormley that funding decisions in relation t...
Costello continues six-year protest at Mater A&E
A Labour Party TD is calling on the Minister for Health to resign over A&E overcrowding in Dublin's Mater Hospital.For the past six years, a protest is held weekly to highlight the crisis by Labour Pa...
ATM stolen from Fermanagh supermarket
Police in the North are investigating the theft of an ATM from a supermarket in Fermanagh in the early hours of this morning.It happened in the Newtownbutler area at around 4.30am.A digger was used to...
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AP - Pope urges G-8 leaders to rewrite financial rules, defend world's poor from economic crisis.
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