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Shoppers Spent More in Last Week of Holiday Season
Advertising   Business   Holiday   Photos   Retail		  ABC News 
Shoppers Spent More in Last Week of Holiday Season
Wed 30 Dec 2009
By MAE ANDERSON AP Retail Writer CHICAGO December 30, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press Shoppers peer into a window display at a jewelry store advertising a one-day post-Christmas sale on... Shoppers... (photo: WN / marzena)
Alexander Milinkevich, the central figure of the Belarusian opposition forces, center, speaks during a sanctioned rally in Minsk, on Sunday, March 25, 2007, with white and red opposition flags and E.U. flags in the background. Police on Sunday blocked th
Credibility   Crisis   E.U.   Monetary   Photos		  The New York Times 
E.U. Challenged to Restore Fiscal Credibility
Wed 30 Dec 2009
LONDON - Is Europe's monetary union about to crack? That is the current fear of those who say that Greece or another weak country might default on its sovereign debt obligations, forcing the richer... (photo: AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Portuguese international soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo watches his 'Ballon d'Or' (Golden Ball) award, during a photocall at the studios of a French television channel, following a live brodcast soccer show, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008 in Paris.  ESPN  Wed 30 Dec 2009
Ronaldo calls for better Real support

December 30, 2009 The Real Madrid fans do not support their team enough when they are playing badly and should try to be as initimidating to visiting teams as the Manchester United supporters,... (photo: AP / Thibault Camus)
Liga   Madrid   Photos   Ronaldo   Sportstar
Ireland's secret trade links with Libya revealed  The Independent  Wed 30 Dec 2009
Ireland's secret trade links with Libya revealed
The Irish Government secretly forged trade links with Libya in the 1970s while privately acknowledging the north African state was arming the IRA, newly-released files revealed today. Confidential... (photo: WN / marzena)
Africa   Ireland   Libya   Photos   Trade
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Office workers walk past a construction site blocked off by a wall with "Lehman Brothers" advertised on it, Wednesday Sept. 17, 2008 in Singapore. The Times of India Wed 30 Dec 2009
Lehman Europe to repay $11 bn to clients

LONDON: The administrators of the European operations of the failed Lehman Brothers will return assets worth over $11 billion to the investors. More than 90 per cent of... (photo: AP / Wong Maye-E)
Assets   Clients   Europe   London   Photos
Shell Oil, Royal Dutch Shell, energy, oil, petroleum, fuel, industry. tp1 BBC News Wed 30 Dec 2009
Nigeria Shell oil spills to be tried at Dutch court

A Dutch court has ruled it has the authority to hear a case brought by a group of Nigerian farmers against oil giant Royal Dutch Shell. The four farmers claim a... (photo: WN/Theresa Poongan)
Company   Economy   Energy   Photos   Shell
Chelsea's coach Carlo Ancelotti from Italy reacts as he attends a press conference prior to a training session at Porto's Dragon Stadium in Porto, Portugal, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Chelsea will play FC Porto in a Champions League, Group D soccer match on Wednesday, Nov. 25 Goal Wed 30 Dec 2009
Carlo Ancelotti: Chelsea Will Beat Inter In The Champions League

The Italian does not consider Inter worthy of challenging for Europe... Chelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti has thrown the gauntlet down to Jose Mourinho and Inter, confident... (photo: AP / Paulo Duarte)
Ancelotti   Chelsea   Football   Photos   Sport
The Cendor MOPU Producer - Mobile Offshore Production unit supplied by Global Process Systems on location at the Petrofac Malaysia Cendor Field, offshore Malaysia. wnhires (td1) The Boston Globe Wed 30 Dec 2009
Turkmenistan awards giant gas field contract

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan-Energy-rich Turkmenistan has awarded a $9.7 billion contract to a consortium of companies from China, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates to... (photo: GPS)
Company   Economy   Energy   Industry   Photos
Child survivors of the Holocaust filmed during the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp by the Red Army, January, 1945. Still photograph from footage shot by the film unit of the First Ukrainian Front. Some of the tiny percentage of children not im BBC News Wed 30 Dec 2009
Auschwitz hero Denis Avey in line for Israeli honour

By Rob Broomby BBC News A former British prisoner of war who helped a Jewish inmate survive Auschwitz is being considered for a major honour, the BBC has learned.... (photo: USHMM/Russian Fed. Archive)
Britain   Holocaust   Israel   Photos   Germany
** ARCHIV ** Servictechniker befuellen am 9. September 2008 im Kohlekraftwerk Schwarze Pumpe in Spremberg einen Tankwagen mit fluessigem Kohlendioxid, dem Abbauprodukt der Kohleverbrennung. Der Konzern Vattenfall Europe betreibt hier die weltweit erste CCS-Pilotanlage fuer ein Kraftwerk mit Kohlendioxid-Abscheidung. Das verfluessigte Kohlendioxid wird mit Tankwagen in unterirdische Lagerstaetten gebracht. Mit der unterirdischen Lagerung von Kohlendioxid will die Bundesregierung den Klimaschutz voranbringen. Das Kabinett beschloss am Mittwoch, 1. April 2009, das sogenannte CCS-Gesetz, das Regeln fuer die Abscheidung, den Transport und die Verpressung des schaedlichen Klimagases vorgibt. (AP Photo/Matthias Rietschel) ** zu APD7705 ** --- Service technicians fill a truck with liquid CO2 in the power plant Schwarze Pumpe in Spremberg, 100 miles south of Berlin, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008. The operating company Vattenfall Europe inaugurates a pilot project for a carbon dioxide capture and storage, CCS, the first coal fired plant in the world ready to capture and store its own CO2 emissions. (AP Photo/Matthias Rietschel) BBC News Wed 30 Dec 2009
France to rethink carbon tax plan

A new carbon tax that was supposed to go into effect in France at New Year has been struck down, delivering a blow to President Nicolas Sarkozy. France's... (photo: AP)
EU   France   Legal   Photos   Sarkozy


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