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World Bank Report Says Planet’s Poorest Most Vulnerable To Global Warming
new study projecting the damage to Africa and Asia in particular. ';The scientists tell us that if the world warms by (3.6 degree Fahrenheit) - warming which may be reached in 20 to 30 years - that will cause widespread food shortages, unprecedented heat waves, and more intense cyclones,'; World Bank ...
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Google Wants Transparency In Data-Mining Request Release
Yahoo , have released the number of data requests they've received from the government as a part of investigations and PRISM, the data-mining program used by the National Security Agency ...
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Worlds first flying car up for sale for nearly $1M
New York, June 19 : The world's first flying car, which was developed by inventor Moulton Taylor in the 1940s, has sparked nearly 1 million dollars bidding-war among high flying ...
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Why Alan Krueger Is Optimistic About the Economy
One of the president's departing economic aides says he's optimistic about the U.S. economy's future, but challenges officials to bridge the equality gap between the middle class and the very rich. Alan Krueger, the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, touted President Obama's policies, which he said has boosted the U.S. economy and promoted growth over ...
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Poll Two-thirds See US Economy as Poor
Nearly two-thirds of Americans rate the U.S. economy as poor while 35 percent say it is good, a national poll indicates. The CNN/ORC International Survey released Wednesday found there has been a slow but steady rise since December in the number of Americans who say economic conditions right now are "very" or "somewhat" good. However, 44 percent of Americans report ...
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Intel Working on Smartwatch Mum on Possible Apple Link
technology officer has confirmed the company is working on a smartwatch, although he would not address rumors of a collaboration with Apple. The timepiece is one of a range of "experimental devices in the lab," Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner was quoted by VentureBeat, as part of the chip-maker's investigation of "novel display devices." "The ...
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Istanbul 2020 hoping Mediterranean Games and FIFA Under-20 World Cup will help get bid back on track
June 19 - Turkish officials behind Istanbul's bid to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics will be hoping for the chance to get their campaign back on track when the Mediterranean Games opens tomorrow in Mersin. After more than two weeks of rioting the situation has remained relatively calm since the weekened when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan cleared the protestors who had ...
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Microsoft Bug Bounty Program Puts Big Bucks On The Line
new bug bounty program that could pay as much as $150,000 for a single exploit. Last year, Microsoft launched a novel approach to the bounty concept with ...
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Microsoft Finally Offers To Pay Hackers For Security Bugs With $100000 Bounty
Vasilis Pappas claiming his $200,000 reward for developing a new hacking defense at Microsoft's Blue Hat Prize event last year. Now Microsoft is adding ongoing bounties for offensive hacking techniques, too. For years, Microsoft has refused to offer financial rewards to researchers who tell the company about security flaws in its software, even ...
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Bulls Bet On Micron Before Earnings Bears Smell More Blood In Mens Wearhouse
Options traders were snapping up out of the money call options on Micron Technology this morning ahead of the company's third-quarter earnings report after the closing bell today. Shares in the name kicked off the trading session in rally mode, rising as much as 2.6% to a six-year high of $14.11 in the early going, but have since cooled off to $13.80 as of 1:10 p.m. ET. Micron's shares ...
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African Global DJ Awards Slated For July 13
DJ Black The African Global DJ Awards which was scheduled to take place on May 4, 2013, in South Africa and was postponed will now take place on July 13, at the Oriental Hotel, Ozumba Mbadiwe Way, Victoria Island, Lagos in Nigeria, BEATWAVES has gathered. The awards will be hosted by TV presenter Lerato Kganyago and Ugandan rapper Navio. The DJs, male and female are nominated in 16 categories ...
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Nama to finance completion of Belfast office buildings
Development at Lanyon Plaza and the Soloist Building in Belfast stalled over three years ago because of the property market crash and global ...
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World Bank Climate change will trap millions in poverty over next 20 years
Britain faces a wave of deadly new animal and plant diseases that threaten to wipe out crops and livestock as a direct result of global warming, the World Bank's top agricultural expert has ...
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5 companies that make business beautiful
"It's tempting to think of business and pleasure as incompatible, just as it seems logical to think of art and science as antagonistic," writes Jean-Baptiste Danet in Business is Beautiful: The Hard Art of Standing Apart. "Why not a bit of both?" Danet is CEO of global design and branding firm Dragon Rouge, headquartered in Paris. For their new book, Danet and his team ...
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Vancouver mining firm gives nod to $458-million Alberta coal project
VANCOUVER -- The board of Coalspur Mines Ltd. (TSX:CPT) has approved a $458-million capital budget for the Vista coal project in Alberta, pending regulatory and shareholder approvals.Coalspur is now planning a one-stage project with the capacity to deliver six million tonnes per year, giving it a capital efficiency of $76 per tonne of capacity.The Vancouver-based company says its current plan ...
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After Schmallenberg and Bluetongue expert warns of new diseases threatening Britains livestock and crops because of global warming
Britain faces a wave of deadly new animal and plant diseases that threaten to wipe out crops and livestock as a direct result of global warming, the World Bank's top agricultural expert has ...
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International City New hub of global cuisines
DUBAI: Less celebrated and often derided, not necessarily for the right reasons, International City is finally living up to its name thanks to the gastronomic range its restaurants and eateries are putting up for its thousands of residents these ...
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Shell to resume Niger delta oil spill compensation talks
Oil company Shell will resume talks next week in London with lawyers representing 15,000 of the poorest people in the world who are claiming millions of pounds' compensation ...
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Indias Tata Motors revamps worlds cheapest car
A Nano car is displayed during the Indonesia International Motor Show in Jakarta on September 22, 2012. India's top automaker Tata Motors unveiled a new version of what was once billed as the world's cheapest car Wednesday, in a bid to reverse a slump in ...
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The Strange Sad City of Baikonur the Worlds Gateway to the Heavens
It is from this remote city in southern Kazakhstan that humans first sent a satellite, an animal, and a person into orbit. But it didn't get an MRI machine until ...
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Monsanto Executive Is Among World Food Prize Winners
For the first time in its 27-year history, a prestigious award for enhancing the global food supply has gone to a creator of genetically modified crops, a top scientist at Monsanto. The choice is likely to add more heat to an intense debate about the role biotechnology can play in combating world hunger. Robert T. Fraley, ...
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Noam Chomsky Obamas Policies Are Creating Terrorism Around the World
If ever you accused Barack Obama of fearing to offend or suffering from lack of spine, you have to hand it to him now: President Obama is acting more and more like a leader every day, one specific leader in fact: George W. Bush. Take the recent disclosures about the National Security Agency's massive spying on the world. The data dragnet mimics the worst of the Bush administration. ...
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Wipro wins large contract worth Rs 2900 crore from Citigroup
In Mumbai, rentals in sea-facing Haveli on Malabar Hill, NCPA Apts at Nariman Point and Maker Towers at Cuffe Parade, where rentals range between Rs 5.5 lakh and Rs 12 lakh a month, are down ...
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Finance News Macroeconomic News
* FTSE closes down 0.4 pct at 6,348.82* Bernanke news conference due at 1800 GMT* BT slides as CEO steps down* Vodafone drops on talk it may bid $10 bln for Kabel* BAE Systems boosted by EADs tie-up chatterBy David BrettLONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - UK equities closed ...
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Companies call for European UAV development
Three aerospace companies are calling for a European medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle program they would coordinate. The companies for the vehicles are Cassidian, Dassault Aviation and Alenia Aermacchi. Cassidian is a subsidiary of EADS while Alenia Aermacchi is part of Finmeccanica. "Such a joint program would support the capability needs of European armed forces ...
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Shipping Wars: Uruguay and Argentina face off over rival port expansion plans
Argentina and Uruguay both want to be the shipping hubs of South America, or southern South America at least, and both are planning to considerably expand their port infrastructure in Buenos Aires and Montevideo respectively, which is leading to considerable diplomatic strain.
Argentina is a regional power in South America, the country is considered one of the more developed nations on the continent on-par with Uruguay (on paper at least, with a similar per capita income and Human Development Index rating) although the country occupies a majority of the continent with Brazil and presides over a massive coastline. Read more
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