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UBS set to buy PaineWebber
UBS, the Swiss banking group, is close to announcing an agreement to buy PaineWebber, the US brokerage, for about $12bn in a deal that would give the Swiss bank access to investors in the he...
Smokers seek damages up to $196 billion
Smokers in a landmark case asked for up to $196 billion in punitive damages from the tobacco industry Monday to punish it for ruining the lives of millions of sick and addicted customers. "T...
De Beers to attempt to clean up diamond trade
De Beers, the South African mining group, will attempt today to clean up the diamond trade by demanding a guarantee from buyers that they are not dealing in "conflict diamonds" smuggled out...
Police bomb adds to Northern Ireland tension
A bomb exploded at a police station in Northern Ireland, heightening tension ahead of a controversial Protestant march yesterday. "We had a report of an abandoned car and several houses were...
An universe opened to all, inhabited by addictive beings
The story of the books buried with the plough between '46-'50 by the communists is not only the reaction of primitive spirits against culture but it also represents their fear when faced wit...
And the Darwin Award goes to....
Here are the latest Darwin Award nominees. The Darwin Awards, for those not familiar, are for those individuals who contribute to the survival of the fittest by eliminating themselves from t...
UDMR wants to govern, but with whom?
Over the next couple of months, UDMR (Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania) must choose the political party or coalition and the presidential candidate it will support in the autumn...
NTT DoCoMo, KPN to buy 35% of Hutchison unit
NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Dutch partner KPN Mobile NV plan to invest as much as $2 billion in a unit of Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. to access the U.K. market for cellular phones offering high-speed Int...
Isarescu and Stolojan, out to dry
With the priceless help of our political class, a new combat front has been created in Romania, a front which is going to exhaust even those people who might have offered our country a secon...