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Microsoft warns about rise in computer viruses worldwide
A Microsoft security expert said that computer viruses are on a rise worldwide once again after years of being less popular amongst computer attackers. In a report by Fox news, the security expert Tim Rains said that although viruses were less chosen to attack systems by hackers nowadays as they used other forms of threats, but recently Microsoft security has observed that viruses are on a rise ...
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FreedomFest returning to Alcoa
While the city's recession-strapped budget dictated that city leaders cancel the event several years ago, a new partnership with Alcoa, Inc., is helping bring it back for its 32nd year, according to a city of Alcoa news ...
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3 companies recall antipsychotic drug quetiapine Health Canada
OTTAWA, Ont. -- Health Canada says three companies are voluntarily recalling all lots of the antipsychotic drug quetiapine. A Health Canada news release says it's due to potential contamination with the antibiotic product clindamycin during the manufacturing process. Health Canada says quetiapine is used in the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in adult patients. ...
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Chuck Grassley On Foreign Policy We Should Remember When Hitler Started World War II
US has no foreign policy. We shld remember what happened th last time we had no foreign policy. It was Sept 1939 Hitler started WWII Poland-- ChuckGrassley ...
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Worlds Fair Park hosts reading festival
The Knox County public library hosted the ninth annual children's festival of reading Saturday. The goal is to get kids interested in reading during the summer months. Some of top children's authors brought their stories to life in World's Fair Park to the open ears and imaginations. There's also a statewide initiative called "Read-20" which encourages kids to ...
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Bernanke Innovations will pump up the economy
Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke says fields including healt care and clean energy hold many opportunities for profitable ...
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UQ researchers produce worldsfirst transgenic sweet sorghu...
Dr Anshu Raghuwanshi, a Research Fellow in UQ's School of Biological Sciences, said sorghum had advantages as a biofuel crop, but until now, tissue culture steps in the gene transfer process had proven difficult, despite international efforts in recent years. Dr Raghuwanshi leads a research team that developed the gene transfer system for sweet sorghum, within an industry-collaborative ...
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British Study Raises Warning on Scottish Banks
LONDON -- An independent Scotland could find its banks too big to rescue in the event of another crisis, according to a British government report that compares the Scottish financial sector to those of debt-laden Iceland and ...
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Hamish McRae Share price increase shows Lloyds Bank is healing – but only just
One of the country's most respected financial journalists and commentators Hamish McRae is an associate editor of The Independent. He was named Business and Finance Journalist of the Year 2006 at the British Press ...
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Justin Biebers unfinished monkey business
Very few who arrive in Europe on a private jet in the company of a global superstar end up as asylum seekers, but this weekend that appears to be the fate of Justin Bieber's pet ...
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Heres a solution Its time for a global companies to pay a Global Profit Tax
The cascade of revelations in recent months showing multinational companies doing a huge amount of business here and yet paying virtually no corporation tax has provoked widespread public demands for something to be done. But people tend to be rather hazier on what that "something" should ...
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Rob Ford cancels radio show Gawker crowdsourcing to buy crack video
Gawker.com is using crowdsourcing website Indiegogo to raise $200,000 for a video that supposedly shows Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine. ...
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Angela Merkel discusses Europes economy with the Pope
Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and Pope Francis exchanges gifts after their meeting in his private library at the Vatican on May 18, 2013 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Guido Bergmann/Bundesregierung-Pool/Getty ...
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Host Sweden surprising Switzerland advance to world hockey championship final
Sweden's Niklas Persson gets instructions from head coach Pär Mårts during the 2013 Ice Hockey World Championships semifinal between Finland and Sweden at the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP Photo / Claudio Bresciani / SCANPIX) SWEDEN ...
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Finance minister Budget will help vulnerable Kiwis
Finance Minister Bill English says the Budget 2013 will help the most vulnerable people in society "who the Government has served very poorly in the past". Mr English said the Budget revealed on Thursday, which focused on housing affordability and a return to surplus, would be an important step in the efforts to close the gap between rich and poor. The Deputy Prime Minister told ...
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Rob Fords brother to respond to allegations on Tuesday
5/18/2013 The brother of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford tells CKNW, "I have never seen my brother around crack cocaine - ever, in my entire life." This after allegations of a video that looks to show the mayor smoking crack. Doug Ford -- who is a city councillor -- says he'll be responding publicly to the allegations on ...
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Rugby Sevens NZ women win world champs
The New Zealand women's sevens team are the inaugural IRB world series champions. A 14-5 victory in the quarter-finals over Spain in the Amsterdam tournament ensured they couldn't be caught in the overall standings. They then added the icing on the cake with a 24-10 win over Russia in the semi's and a 33-24 victory over Canada to claim the tournament.- Newstalk ...
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Top Comic Writers Share Tips Funny Business Students Meet And Quiz Their Sitcom Heroes
I never set out to be a role model but it's great to be one ; IN THE HOTSEATBetter known by his stage name Wretch 32, Jermaine Sinclair is a 28-year-old rapper from London. In 2011 his debut album Black and White sold over a million copies and scored three top five singles. His latest single Blackout was released this ...
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Fury at corporate tax avoidance leads to call for a global response
Anger over the financial affairs of multinationals such as Google, Amazon and Starbucks is gathering momentum in Westminster. Now the UK is poised to lead the debate about international tax reform at next month's G8 ...
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Carrington reigns supreme at World Cup
New Zealand kayaker Lisa Carrington reigned supreme in the K1 500 event at the second World Cup in the Czech Republic today. The win has huge significance for the Olympic K1 200 champion, as she strives to master the longer distance as well as her specialist race. Carrington went on to win the heats and semi-finals in the 200 to secure her place in tomorrow's decider. Meanwhile, Ben ...
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The world’s best wines can be found in a Filipino-owned vineyard
EDOUARD Miailhe brings new blood to the estate. In Southwest France, there's a Filipino-owned vineyard which carries some of the world's best wines. With a Philippine banner hoisted outside, this estate has been visited by the likes of former President Gloria Arroyo, former Cabinet member Vince Perez and banker Aurelio Montinola ...
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Cannes Hollywood Finds Global Business Partners at Festival
In her latest Film Files column, Sharon Swart visits Worldview Entertainment's bash and Gaumont's windy party, where WME agent Jerome Duboz says: "the market feels ...
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Wilko European success eclipses World Cup win
Jonny Wilkinson described winning the Heineken Cup with Toulon as a bigger achievement than his Rugby World Cup triumph 10 years ago. Wilkinson captained Toulon to a ...
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Personal Finance What to give that beloved graduate
"Obviously, cash is king," said personal finance blogger Joseph Audette, a personal finance writer/blogger for NerdWallet. But students, especially high school graduates juggling their own finances for the first time, can quickly blow through a lot of cash, he notes. Instead?"Get a gift card from the university's student bookstore. It's a little more thought than writing ...
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HC better than World Cup - Wilko
Jonny Wilkinson believes that winning the Heineken Cup ranks as a better achievement than winning the World Cup. The Toulon fly-half on Saturday played a huge role in the French club's 16-15 victory over Clermont-Auvergne in the final of Europe's premier domestic competition, a performance that in some aspects mirrored his showing in England's triumphant 2003 World Cup ...
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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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