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ANSA: Petrolio: NY,chiude in calo a 83,93 dlr

Posted: 10 Jul 2012 12:38 PM PDT

Quotazioni -2,4%

ANSA: Usa, Fitch conferma tripla A outlook resta negativo

Posted: 10 Jul 2012 04:01 PM PDT

Prospettive economiche minacciate dall'incapacita' di raggiungere un accordo sulle misure di correzione del deficit

ANSA: Petrolio: in rialzo a 84,25 dollari

Posted: 11 Jul 2012 12:07 AM PDT

Sale anche il brent a 98,31 dollari

ANSA: Usa, Fitch conferma la tripla A Outlook resta negativo

Posted: 11 Jul 2012 03:09 AM PDT

Aljazeera: Student protest turns violent in Sudan

Posted: 11 Jul 2012 11:01 AM PDT

Police use tear gas to disperse protesters as the president dismisses opposition call for an "Arab Spring" uprising.

Aljazeera: Jibril's bloc wins party seats in east Libya

Posted: 11 Jul 2012 02:59 PM PDT

With considerable gains made around the country, head of National Forces Alliance says Libya is the real winner.

Aljazeera: Smallest moon yet spotted around Pluto

Posted: 11 Jul 2012 08:52 PM PDT

It appeared as a faint fleck to scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope to scout out the ex-planet's neighbourhood.

Aljazeera: Afghans in Kabul protest woman's execution

Posted: 11 Jul 2012 11:59 PM PDT

Demonstrators march for gender rights and against shooting carried out in Parwan last week and captured in video clip.

Financial Times: Carrefour sees revival in hypermarkets

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 02:59 AM PDT

The world's second biggest supermarket chain by sales gave the first indication that its two-year turnround plan is now paying off

Financial Times: US jobless claims fall to 350,000

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 06:24 AM PDT

US jobless claims fall to the lowest level in more than four years but the increase may be due to fewer temporary lay-offs at auto factories

Financial Times: GM’s European head to step down

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 08:56 AM PDT

Departure raises questions over future of the Opel and Vauxhall brands with the carmaker in the midst of its second restructuring plan in two years

Huffington Post: Chuck Grassley Probes Toyota Sudden Acceleration Investigation By Highway Safety Agency

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 10:37 AM PDT

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter Thursday to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, asking why the agency cleared Toyota given concerns that NASA raised when it investigated Toyota's electronic systems.

Grassley cited issues with tin whiskers, first detailed by The Huffington Post in January, as one of the top concerns with NHTSA's findings.

"Key questions about the cause of unintended acceleration remain unanswered," Grassley wrote to David Strickland, the agency's administrator.


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Huffington Post: 'School Two Easy': Local Station Makes Ironic Typo (PHOTO)

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 10:39 AM PDT

Put this in the Department of Ironic Typos.

Someone in the graphics department at local station WNDU in Indiana must have been kicking themselves when they looked up and saw that they'd spelled the word "too" wrong in an introduction to a story.

What made matters much worse was that the story was about school being too easy for children:


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Huffington Post: Indian Government Spends $1.3 Million To Stop Auction Of Gandhi Letters That May Show He Was Gay

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 10:40 AM PDT

Last year, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Joseph Lelyveld released his book, "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India," causing controversy with parts some say included implications that Gandhi had a homosexual relationship with architect Hermann Kallenbach.

Gandhi's home state of Gujarat banned the book in March, and now the Indian government has dished out $1.28 million to purchase an archive more than 1,000 letters and documents exchanged between the men, thus removing it from a potential public auction in London, the Wall Street Journal's "India Real Time" blog reports.

According to the Journal, India's Ministry of Culture said experts reviewed the letters and recommended the government obtain them as a matter of "highest priority."


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Huffington Post: Toxic Aluminum Sludge Turns Hungary Red

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 10:43 AM PDT

In October 2010, 261 million gallions of aluminum sludge devoured towns in Veszprém County, Hungary.

The spill covered 16 miles of land, with villagers having to flee from a wave of aluminum waste that was six feet tall. At least 16 people were killed.


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Financial Times: Central banks fail to quell growth fears

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 10:55 AM PDT

Few hints of imminent plans for aggressive US economic stimulus leaves investors disappointed

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