January 15, 2012
People infuriated by what they call a discriminatory ban on photography by one of Italian fashion label Dolce & Gabbana’s Hong Kong outlets have protested outside the store.
Several dozen people gathered outside the shop Sunday afternoon. They yelled for the company to apologize after news reports earlier this month said sales staff were preventing Hong […]
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December 8, 2011
German authorities say a piece of mail sent to Deutsche Bank chief Josef Ackermann was a fully functional letter bomb capable of exploding.
German prosecutors and police in Hesse state said in a joint statement that a suspicious letter addressed personally to Ackermann and intercepted at the mail room of the bank’s Frankfurt headquarters on Wednesday […]
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October 29, 2011
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October 19, 2011
Stocks slid in early trading Tuesday after disappointing corporate earnings reports and concerns that France and Germany may not reach an agreement to provide additional support for Greece.
Moody’s also warned late Monday that it may downgrade France’s top-notch credit rating in the next three months. On Tuesday, that country’s finance minister said that the French […]
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October 16, 2011
The Occupy Wall Street protests are hitting a nerve.
A dearth of jobs, overwhelming student loans and soaring health-care costs are just three major issues protesters have targeted. And regardless of politics, economic data suggests they’re not alone in their frustrations.
It may be why the protests have spread to other cities _ including Boston, Cincinnati, Seattle […]
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October 12, 2011
Attacks aimed at Iraqi police, including two in which assailants slammed explosives-packed cars into police stations, killed 25 people Wednesday and maimed dozens in the worst violence in the capital since August.
Less than three months before American troops are to leave Iraq, the blasts were a brutal example of the challenges Iraqi security forces will […]
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September 21, 2011
A Spanish union official says Madrid teachers are staying off the job in massive numbers on the second day of a strike over staff cuts.
Colleagues in the northwest region of Galicia also went on strike.
Virginia Fernandez of the UGT union says official numbers for Madrid are not in but it seems Wednesday’s strike is about […]
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September 12, 2011
Oak trees and sparkling waterfalls have replaced the shards and smoke and bodies. Ten years after the attacks that changed American life, the World Trade Center site is a memorial, and the need to mourn is being eclipsed by the need to honor the memories of the nearly 3,000 people killed.
Children of those lost, some […]
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September 10, 2011
While Southwest Airlines commercial jets picked up scores of passengers Wednesday at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, a single-engine Cessna taxied to gate E33 where a small group of passengers quietly waited for their flight to Burlington, Iowa.
The Burlington flight is one of a handful of departures offered by Air Choice One. Based in south St. […]
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September 8, 2011
Stocks advanced for the second day running Thursday amid hopes that global policymakers will enact more measures to shore up ailing economic growth.
While both the Bank of England and the European Central Bank are set to keep their respective interest rates unchanged, President Barack Obama is expected to announce measures to boost jobs creation in […]
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