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New rules for consumer protection

Sun, 25 May 2008 17:33:40 +0000

A new law aimed at protecting consumers against rogue traders comes into force in the UK on Monday.
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Levitt & Sons files for bankruptcy protection
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Review: `Kingdom’ finds mixed success (AP)
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Jessica Biel: The Next Wonder Woman? (E! Online)
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Target reports jump in profits
Searching for the next ‘South Park’

22 films vie for top honors at Cannes festival (AP)

Sun, 25 May 2008 16:15:11 +0000

AP - Established Hollywood filmmakers and stars such as Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie were competing against movies from acclaimed international directors for the top honors at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday.

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Tribeca Film Festival rebounds after missteps (Reuters)
Reuters - Last year should have been triumphant for Robert De Niro and his fellow founders of the Tr...
Clint Eastwood’s `Changeling’ leads Cannes Film Festival (AP)
AP - American directors Clint Eastwood and Steven Soderbergh are to headline the streamlined competi...
Movie Review | ‘Postal’: Anarchy With a Short Attention Span
Infantile, irreverent and boorish to the max, “Postal” explodes with bad attitude and lousy film...
Uncertain Futures for Bounty at Cannes
Review: `Garcia Girls’ is low budget but lovely (AP)

UK and US union ‘to join forces’

Sun, 25 May 2008 14:28:11 +0000

The UK’s biggest union Unite is on the brink of a formal tie-up with a prominent North American union, reports say.
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Scribe Passionate about Suing Gibson (E! Online)
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Mobile phone operators join forces to block child sexual abuse websites
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Alessandro Nivola to play blues mogul in “Chess” (Reuters)
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Dell, SAP to join forces
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Why you just can’t seem to save enough

Sun, 25 May 2008 14:27:41 +0000

Most of us don’t like to do math. Fewer of us like to budget. If we’re on our way to a recession then, why do we keep spending?

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(AP)

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Money for life without a 401(k)
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Price study looks at seaside life
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Supermarkets are ‘too powerful’
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HBOS shakes up management
Bid to cut crime with new design

SAP CFO sees no out-of-court settlement with Oracle

Sun, 25 May 2008 14:19:23 +0000

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The chief financial officer of business software maker SAP does not believe an out of court settlement with Oracle is likely at present, he told German Sunday weekly Euro am Sonntag.

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Oracle sees no slowing in earnings
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SAP agrees to buy Business Objects for 4.8 bln euro
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - SAP has agreed to a cash offer to buy software group Business Objects for a...
Wall St dives on record oil over $123
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks tumbled on Wednesday, on concerns about inflation and higher interest ra...
Oracle adds virtualization as VMware shares fall
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Merrill sees U.S. giving nod for Gulf FX change

Sun, 25 May 2008 13:27:50 +0000

DUBAI (Reuters) - Merrill Lynch & Co said the United States has effectively given Gulf Arab oil producers the go ahead for making changes to their dollar-pegged foreign exchange policies, by recognizing inflation as a problem.

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Qatar sees no need to change dollar peg: report
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In brief: Von Trier tackles Antichrist
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Bharti ends tie-up talks with MTN

Sun, 25 May 2008 13:17:23 +0000

India’s top mobile phone operator Bharti Airtel has ended takeover talks with South Africa’s MTN.
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Indian mobile boom boosts Bharti
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Bharti Airtel dials in to MTN takeover talks
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Postal talks see further delay
Postal union talks with the Royal Mail adjourn, as a dispute over pay and conditions remain unresolv...
Airbus ends talks on site sales
Microsoft considers alternative Yahoo deal

De Niro sends up Hollywood and Cannes in new film (Reuters)

Sun, 25 May 2008 12:23:54 +0000

Reuters - Robert De Niro plays a movie
producer whose professional and personal life lurches from
crisis to crisis in a new comedy on the cut-throat world of
Hollywood and its relationship with the Cannes film festival.

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Tribeca Film Festival rebounds after missteps (Reuters)
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Movie trade holds up in Cannes despite market woes (Reuters)
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Cannes pits Hollywood against obscure arthouse (Reuters)
Death hangs over Wenders film with Dennis Hopper (Reuters)

Buffett blames banks for credit crisis

Sun, 25 May 2008 10:21:04 +0000

MADRID (Reuters) - Blame for the sub-prime crisis lies at the feet of banks who took too many risks in mortgage lending, U.S. billionaire investor Warren Buffett told newspaper El Pais in an interview published on Sunday.

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Warren Buffett blames US for sell-offs
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Warren Buffett blames US for sell-offs
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Surprise French box office hit shows it’s not so grim up Nord
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Kate and Lance Giving It a Chance in France (E! Online)

Sun, 25 May 2008 09:48:10 +0000

E! Online - Down-low lovebirds Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong couldn’t stifle their romance on the Riviera as they attended the Dolce & Gabbana bash in Cannes. A source tells E! the Kate and Lance “were holding hands in their car and when photographers flashes started going off, Kate kind of jumped up, startled.”

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