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Europe’s revamped strategy to beat its two-year sovereign debt crisis won the backing of global finance chiefs, who urged the region’s leaders to deal “decisively” with the turmoil when they meet for emergency talks in a week’s time.
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Children as young as 4 years old may now be treated with medications such as Novartis AG’s Ritalin for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, under new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York City yesterday culminated with a Times Square rally that drew thousands opposed to economic inequality, echoed by protests from London to Tokyo.
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The world’s leading economies set aside concerns about China’s currency for now as Europe’s debt crisis took centre stage at a Group of 20 meeting in Paris.
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Ford Motor Co. hourly workers have voted 56 percent in favor of a tentative four-year labor agreement, according to results released today by the United Auto Workers.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized governments including President Barack Obama’s administration for refusing to make the financial sector pay for the global financial crisis, and vowed to push for a financial transaction tax until it applies at least in Europe.
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Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is like “Jell-O,” failing to take firm positions on important issues.
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A U.S. judge will decide whether to award Chubb Corp. and four other insurers $9.4 billion in damages in their suit against al-Qaeda over the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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Vinod Khosla, the billionaire venture capital investor, is raising his bet on clean technology.
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The bacteria responsible for the Black Death that killed a third of Europe’s population from 1347 to 1351 has changed little since then as health and hygiene advances held it in check, scientists said.
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Bloomberg's Rich Jaroslovsky reviews Apple Inc.'s new iPhone 4S. The new iPhone -- available for order now and in stores on Oct. 14 -- costs $199 for a model with 16 gigabytes of storage on a two-year contract, $299 for 32 gigabytes and $399 for 64 gigabytes. (Source: Bloomberg)
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The past has a way of snapping at your heels. Just as Paul McCartney settles down to enjoy his third marriage, the musical “Backbeat” looks at his early years in the red-light dives of Hamburg.
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The Texas Rangers defeated the Detroit Tigers 15-5 to win the American League Championship Series and reach the World Series.
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Doug Cliggott, whose bearish stock calls from last year were proving more accurate in 2011, is no longer the U.S. equity strategist for Credit Suisse Group AG, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.