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Newly announced Trade and Investment Minister, current HSBC bank chairman Stephen Green in 10 Downing Street in London Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010 where he attended a meeting with Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (unseen). Green became chief executive of HSBC as it was concluding its takeover of Household International Inc., the Illinois-based consumer lender.
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HSBC Chairman to Take British Government Post
| LONDON — Stephen K. Green is leaving his post as chairman of HSBC to join the British government as minister for trade and investment, the bank said Tuesday. | Mr. Green, who had worked for HS... (photo: AP / Sang Tan, Pool)
In this Feb. 25, 2010 file photo, Trader Albert Young, left, studies his screens as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
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Briefing.com: Hourly In Play (R) - 22:00 ET
| Sep 07, 2010 (Briefing.com via COMTEX) -- Hourly In Play (R) | Updated: 07-Sep-10 22:00 ET | 18:33 | Futures are trading higher after hours: S&P 500 futures are +0.15 from fair value of 1091.05 ... (photo: AP / Richard Drew)
Nuclear weapon programs worldwide  The Daily Telegraph 
Iran on brink of nuclear weapon, warns watchdog
Iran has passed a crucial nuclear threshold, weapons inspectors have warned, and could now go on to arm an atomic missile with relative ease. | Hillary Clinton during the imposition of sanctions. The ... (photo: Public Domain / ThrashedParanoid)
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Rice - Food - Commodity - Grain  The Guardian 
Mozambique's food riots âEuro" the true face of global warming
| It has been a summer of record temperatures – Japan had its hottest summer on record, as did South Florida and New York. Meanwhile, Pakistan and Niger are flooded and the eastern US is mopping up ... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
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A broker is seen under the curve of the German stock index DAX at the stock market in Frankfurt, central Germany, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008. Europe's stock markets rose modestly Thursday after Wall Street recovered most of its earlier losses, but investors remained cautious after big interest rate cuts in Europe and ahead of Friday's crucial U.S. jobs report for Novem The New York Times
European Indexes Slip After Asian Shares End Higher
| European indexes were lower on Monday as markets cautiously began a week that culminates Friday with Washington’s report on the August job market. | Shares in Asi... (photo: AP / Michael Probst)
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Benigno Aquino Jr. monument for his commemoration as national hero of the country, it is located at the intersection of two major roads, Quezon and Timog Avenues, and surrounded by commercial establishments , Philippines , February 6, 2010. Inquirer
What's wrong with the Philippines?
| (Editors note: The following essay, written by the assassinated father of President Aquino, appeared in the Solidarity quarterly journal in 1985. The President's father... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
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A trader watches computer screens at NYSE Euronext stock exchange in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. European stock markets slumped further on Friday following massive losses on Wall Street and Asia on mounting fears that this week's efforts by central banks and governments to break the logjam in credit markets have failed to ease lending rates between banks. At midday London time, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was down 328.03, or 7.6 percent, at 3,985.77, below the 4,000 mark earlier for the first time in five years. Germany's DAX was 399.92, or 8.2 percent, at 4,487.08, and France's CAC-40 was 254.03, or 7.4 percent lower at 3,1 The New York Times
European Shares Start to Wander
| European and Asian equity markets mostly traded in a narrow range Thursday with little new data on the way to spur investors. | Japanese stocks were the exception, enjo... (photo: AP / Peter Dejon)
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The Nintendo of America headquarters The Columbus Dispatch
Video-Game Review: Latest mission liberates player
|   | In some ways, Nintendo's hand-held DS game console represents the last vestige of the old identity of video games as playthings for children. | Adults don't se... (photo: Creative Commons / WhisperToMe)
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In this architectural rendering released on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008, by San Francisco-based Gensler Architecture, Design and Planning Worldwide via Color China Photo, shown is the Shanghai Tower. On Saturday, Shanghai officially begins work on its next tallest skyscraper, a 632-meter (2,073- foot) tower in the city's Lujiazui financial center that will tower over the current highest building, the recently completed 492-meter (1,614-foot) Shanghai World Financial The New York Times
China Passes Japan as Second-Largest Economy
| SHANGHAI — After three decades of spectacular growth, China passed Japan in the second quarter to become the world’s second-largest economy behind the Unite... (photo: AP / Gensler Architecture, Design and Planning Worldwide via Color China Photo)
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Smoking rate falls 15th straight year
| The rate of smoking among Japanese adults in 2010 fell 1 percentage point from the previous year to a record low 23.9 percent, according to a survey by Japan Tobacco In... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
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A masked woman looks away while crossing a street in the city center shrouded in fog, caused by air pollution, in Beijing Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. Negotiators in Copenhagen are trying to set targets for controlling emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming cases, including by the leading contributors, China and the United States. Why failure of climate summit would herald global catastrophe: 3.5° The Independent
In this Feb. 25, 2008 file photo the tower of a church is seen between the smoke billowing chimneys of the brown coal power plant Frimmersdorf near Duesseldorf, Germany. Leading industrial nations on Tuesday, July 8, 2008, endorsed halving world emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, Japan's prime minister said, edging forward in the battle against global warming but stopping short of tough, nearer-term tar Cap-And-Trade Is Beginning to Raise Some Concerns The New York Times
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INDIA-WAR-HIROSHIMA DAY-MARCH RM awardee dreams of peace fest in Hiroshima Inquirer
An aerial view of Japan's Monju prototype fast breeder nuclear reactor at Tsuruga, central Japan, in this August 31, 2004 photo. The Burden of Nuclear Waste The New York Times
Enola Gay, a Silverplate version of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress landing after delivering Little boy over Hiroshima Nobel peace prize winners call on Obama to visit Hiroshima KDVR
Hiroshima
Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama addressing at the 50th Anniversary of the Tibetan Democracy day held in Bylakuppe, South India on 2nd September 2010. Dalai Lama to open IARF congress The Hindu
Hitoya Yaguchi, who heads a support group for victims of poison gas produced by Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, shows photos of the latest poison gas victims in the northeastern Chinese city of Qiqihar after drums of mustard gas dumped by Imperial Japanese soldiers decade ago were dug up last week, sickened at least 34 people, during a news conference in Tokyo Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2003. Hiroshima's poisonous past Asia Times
Somali displaced people Somalia: Situation Critical For Thousands Displace Scoop
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Chinese director Zhang Yimou speaks about the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games during a press conference held as part of the annual legislature meetings at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Wednesday, March 12, 2008. Speaking publicly for the first time about the Aug. 8 Olympic curtain raiser, Zhang talked about the challenges of boiling down 5,000 years of Chinese history into 50 minutes for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)hg3 Zhang Yimou romance to open Pusan Film Festival Wtop
Men walk past a financial display board in central London, Monday Oct. 6, 2008. Asian and European stock markets plunged Monday as government bank bailouts in the U.S. and Europe failed to alleviate fears that the global financial crisis would depress world economic growth. By midafternoon Europe time, Britain's benchmark stock index, the FTSE 100, lost 245.70 to 4,734.55 _ a 4.93 percent fall. The declines were led by the banking industry, with the mining and oil industries also suffering Questions About Banks Push European Indexes Lower The New York Times
Workers pour steel, recycled from the World Trade Center, into a mold, which will form the bow stem of the Amphibious Transport Dock ship USS New York (LPD 21) Steel Stocks Lead Asian Markets Wall Street Journal
East Asia
U.S. National Economic Council Director Larry Summers, left, meets with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, right, in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. China Moves to Ease Strain With U.S. The New York Times
South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Kim Young-sun announces the country's sanctions against Iran at Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. South Korea imposes independent sanctions on Iran The Boston Globe
U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, fourth from left, reacts during a meeting with Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo, third from right, during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. China's Hu calls for stable ties with US The State
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