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Forbes - With falling financial markets and weakening housing prices crimping consumer spending in U.S. and European countries, getting women there to buy clothes next fall is expected to be trickier than in many years.

Kenya: Clock Starts Ticking Again for Safaricom IPO
AllAfrica.com - On the other hand, the company is also doing a better job of retaining customers on its network, with the rate at which subscribers switch from the network, falling from 39 to 23 per cent.

Why Do Women
Washington Post - Women ‘Falling for Obama,’ ” the story’s headline read. Elsewhere around the country, women were falling for the presidential candidate literally. Connecticut radio talk show host Jim Vicevich has counted five separate instances in which women fainted

March roars in like a lion as 80mph winds batter UK and snow is
Daily Mail - Monday and Tuesday nights will be very cold, with temperatures falling probably as low as minus two.” But he added: High pressure from the Atlantic will be moving in to bring much more dry, settled conditions for the rest of the week.

Floyd County Motorist Killed By Falling Rock Save Email Print
WKYT 27 - FLOYD COUNTY, KY — A Wayland man was killed Saturday evening by a falling rock that landed on the cab of his truck as he was driving on Ky. Route 80 in the Martin area of Floyd County. A Kentucky State Police news release did not specify the size of

U.S. nuclear experts help clear Olympic sites in top-secret Beijing
CNEWS - It’s not that these things have a high probability of getting loose or falling into the hands of bad actors or terrorists, but they’re just taking precautions.

Trade: It s Just Not a Serious Conversation for the Candidates
Common Dreams - The falling dollar now gives this state a new export edge, if politicians don t blow it by failing to wake up to the importance of maximizing the U.S. manufacturing advantage by how we structure taxes, trade deals and industrial policy.

Key joins his party in No 1 poll position
New Zealand Herald - Support for the Greens is showing some volatility, falling to 4.4 per cent from 9.1 in the previous poll and 3.5 in the one before that. New Zealand First is down 0.7 points on 2.1 per cent.

New Zealand golfer Mark Brown wins Johnnie Walker Classic
Bangkok Post - Looking back on his round, Brown admitted it wasn t easy. I played terrible the front side, I don t think I hit a fairway or green and got to the tenth and said to myself let s have a solid nine holes and the birdies started falling.

Regina Leader-Post - The Bruins’ recent surge has moved the club into a tie with the New York Rangers for the sixth seed in the Eastern Conference. Boston, which has 74 points, is five behind Montreal for the Northeast Division lead

Globe and Mail - Bank of Montreal was in last-minute talks late Wednesday to save two asset-backed commercial paper trusts from potentially huge losses that could lead the bank to take $495-million in further writedowns. Credit-rating company DBRS Ltd. said BMO had

GSW scholarship will honor Willy Mathis
Cordele Dispatch - Photos Harvey Simpson/Cordele Dispatch Georgia Southwestern State University president Dr. Kendall Blanchard (L) and Ameris Bank president Bob Evans read a letter being sent to area business and community leaders seeking donations for

Poorest hit hardest by climate change, must act now: World Bank
Earthtimes - Washington - The world’s poorest countries will be hit hardest by climate change and must begin adapting immediately to prevent some of its worst consequences, the World Bank warned in an annual environment review Wednesday. But the World Bank also

Marcel Ospel
Forbes - Marcel Ospel has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of UBS AG since 2001. Prior to this, he served as Group Chief Executive Officer of UBS. He was the President and Group Chief Executive Officer of Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) from 1996 to 1998

TechWeb - If you already have a news aggregator and it supports auto-discovery, you can usually add an RSS link for a given site by using your aggregator to surf the home page of that Web site.

Lt. Col. Scott Wolfe
Picayune Item - In the multi-faceted process Cannon became the new home for an AFSOC wing. The 73rd SOS was the first squadron to be moved to Cannon. “It is a pretty big squadron, and we have plans to have a slow build up [of people] until 2010,” said Col.

Birmingham 2 Arsenal 2: Wenger’s fury after horror injury to Eduardo
The Independent - The notoriously one-eyed home crowd, having cheered Taylor off in the usual inane fashion, were sympathetic enough to applaud Eduardo away on his stretcher, with several Arsenal players still unable to look at the injury.

Three Digital Domain film projects nominated for visual effects Oscar
Palm Beach Daily News - In its filing, Digital Domain cited research published in August by Veronis Suhler Stevenson that said box office and home video spending in the United States generated $35.4 billion in 2006, and is expected to reach $44.3 billion by 2011.

Worawi outlines position
Bangkok Post - It looked set to finish all square but Kone Kasim fired home the winner in injury time. Elsewhere, Bangkok Bank defeated Port 2-1, Nakhon Pathom beat Provincial Electricity 1-0 while Samut Songkhram lost 2-1 to defending champions Chonburi.

More Texas Stops For President Bill Clinton
CBS 11 News - During his nearly 30-minute speech, Clinton also told voters of Hillary Clinton’s plans to bring troops home from Iraq, reform health care, and eliminate tax cuts for the wealthy.

Ministers resist DNA database
Guardian Unlimited - But the Home Office said a compulsory database would raise “significant practical and ethical issues”. Policing minister Tony McNulty said the Government felt the balance was “about right” already on the question of the DNA database.

News.com.au - Mayor Margaret Strelow said the measure was unnecessary but has given her personal phone number to the public in case of emergency. “The vast majority of calls we got last time were from out-of-town people who had listened to southern media and

Recall: Metal necklaces, dartboards
Miami Herald - We encourage lively, open debate on the issues of the day, and ask that you refrain from personal comments and remarks that are off point. Thank you for taking the time to offer your thoughts.

Rain washes snow out of forecast
HometownAnnapolis.com - County police responded to 36 accidents overnight, but only one was “truly a personal injury accident,” spokesman Sgt. John Gilmer said. A 30-year-old woman was taken by ambulance to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore after her vehicle

The top 10 exercises
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - The council, which conducted a worldwide survey of fitness experts and personal trainers, uses the term to explain many of its listings in its Top 10 Fitness Trends of 2008.

Stars in your lap
Guardian Unlimited - In the cultish corners of pop culture, the sense of personal discovery - of being part of a small, exciting movement - has always been a vital element.

Cut the costs of getting married
Times Online - Most travel insurance policies would class a ring as personal belongings, covering items only up to a value of 250, says Peter Gerrard, of Moneysupermarket.com, the price comparison website.

Adam Henein with one of his creations
Egypt Today - In this profile, Ismail looks at the personal and artistic elements that helped shape this exceptional artist: Adam Henein was born in Cairo s Bab El-Shaariya neighborhood, into a Coptic family of six children five boys and a girl, Fouad

Stocks stage turnaround
CNN Money - The week ahead brings reports on new and existing home sales, producer prices, durable goods orders, consumer confidence and personal income and spending.

Boston Globe - In order for them to really erode the pledged delegate lead, they probably have to win both those states by more than 20 [percentage] points.” The Clinton campaign refused to say how big its wins needed to be, noting that neither candidate is likely

Trade Spin: Trade deadline deals
ESPN.com - He becomes the third scorer on this team, but everyone shouldn’t rush out to sign Szczerbiak unless you need the 3s and free-throw percentage.

Ohio, Texas Not Ideal Clinton Firewalls
Forbes - Among independents, Obama is leading Clinton by 14 percentage points in Ohio and by 13 in Texas, according to a Washington Post (nyse: WPO - news - people )-ABC News telephone poll taken Feb. 16-20.

Colombia Central Bank Raises Rates to Stem Inflation (Update3)
Bloomberg - Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) — Colombia’s central bank unexpectedly raised its benchmark lending rate by a quarter percentage point in a bid to tame accelerating inflation. Policy makers increased the overnight interbank rate to 9.75 percent, surprising 24

Manny’s new agent: Scott Boras
Sports Illustrated - For the first time in his career his slugging percentage was below .500; it was .493. He has 490 career home runs and .313 batting average lifetime.

Fisher Says U.S. to Avoid `Prolonged’ Slump in Growth (Update4)
Bloomberg - Policy makers last month lowered their benchmark rate by 1.25 percentage point to 3 percent, with an emergency reduction of three-quarters of a point Jan. 22.

Minister urged to probe police search ‘targets’ at rail stations
Edinburgh News - Now given that they make up such a small percentage of the population (if you believe the figures)then surely the media must be picking on non whites?

Treasurys end mixed after wary session
Forbes - The central bank has cut the overnight Fed funds rate by 1.25 percentage points already this year. Fisher is a member of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee and voted against the decision to cut rates one-half a percentage point on Jan

7.6M Watch Penultimate Obama-Clinton Debate on CNN
DVD Creation - If Clinton cannot carry both states by at least 10 percentage points, her advisors have said her hopes of becoming the Democratic presidential nominee will fold.

Financial Times - The paper estimates that an increase of 1 percentage point in China s share of UK imports for consumer goods such as cameras and clothing cut 0.2 percentage points from consumer price inflation in those categories. But Chinese import prices have

Olympic berths up for grabs at diving test event
Xinhua News Agency - He scored full points in two dives in the last World Championships and beat us. So we should be highly alert of him,” Zhou said. Galperin will be joined by Canadian Alexandre Despatie, who won world titles in 2003 and 2005. The

Queen Victoria rules the waves
News.com.au - Dressing in a dinner suit makes dinning an occasion, the absence of mobile phones is a blessing and when else am I ever going to find time to play shuffleboard or learn the finer points of fencing? The wide range of age and nationality mainly

MSN MoneyCentral - MILPITAS, Calif., Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — JDSU today announced that it has completed the acquisition of American Bank Note Holographics, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ABHH) (”ABNH”), a market leader in the origination, production and marketing

UPDATE 1-NetApp sees weaker revenue as bank clients cut back
Reuters - SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Network Appliance Inc (NTAP.O: Quote , Profile , Research ) posted a higher quarterly profit on Wednesday, but its shares fell after it forecast lower-than-expected revenue in the current quarter as banking customers

International Herald Tribune - Slotten, of Kimberly, Wis., and a former Badger Midget Auto Racing Association rookie of the year, signed with Crawford after completing his Indy Pro rookie test at Homestead-Miami Speedway. “The Indy Racing League has shown an interest in re

Global Vehicles/Mahindra Taps Strawberry Frog To Launch Indian Autos
BusinessWeek - Want the straight scoop on the auto industry? Detroit bureau chief David Welch and auto beat veterans David Kiley , Dexter Roberts and Ian Rowley bring daily scoop, keen observations and provocative perspective on the auto business from around the globe

Portfolio Recovery Associates to Announce Fourth Quarter and Full
MSN MoneyCentral - These are the unpaid obligations of individuals to credit originators, which include banks, credit unions, consumer and auto finance companies, as well as retail merchants, and service and health care providers. Portfolio Recovery Associates also

Fort Bend homeowner shoots suspected thieves
Houston Chronicle - RICHMOND Two men were shot Sunday when they allegedly tried to steal auto parts from in front of a home near Stafford in Fort Bend County. The men, whose names were not immediately known, were shot about 2:30 a.m. in the 2700 block of Oakdale

Ford May Cut 9,000 More U.S. Plant Jobs, Person Says (Update4)
Bloomberg - Roger Kerson, a spokesman for the United Auto Workers union, didn’t return telephone messages. The Detroit Free Press reported Feb. 9 that Ford had an internal target of 8,000, citing people familiar with the objective. Ford’s employment

CNBC - The New Jersey Nets got a similar deal from Barclays Bank PLC for their proposed new arena in Brooklyn, N.Y. The Mets wanted a sponsor to extend the reach of its brand globally, and New York-based Citigroup was a perfect fit, said Dave Howard, the

’07’s Nearly Perfect Predictor
Washington Post - Kathleen Walsh Carr, president of Cardinal Bank of Washington, won the 2006 challenge but was one of the less-accurate predictors of 2007. Katherine Bierlein, the young lawyer who won last year’s readers’ contest, came in last place. It is

Countrywide to aid more borrowers
Forbes - Initial plans to disclose the deal were postponed last month after Calabasas-based Countrywide agreed to be acquired by Bank of America Corp. (nyse: BAC - news - people ) for $4.1 billion in stock. Countrywide, the nation’s largest

Reserve Bank warns of more rate rises
News.com.au - THE Reserve Bank warned today that interest rates were likely rise further unless there was a significant slowdown in domestic spending. In one of its bluntest statements yet on the outlook for interest rates, the RBA said the risk that price

The impact in Cambodia
Financial Times - or the actions of a handful of western brands. “It’s not going to cause a recession, but it’s not going to drive the whole country as it has been doing for the last five to 10 years,” says Stephane Guimbert, chief economist at the World Bank in Phnom

More inflation pain to come, says Swan
News.com.au - TODAY’S Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) monetary policy statement highlights the extent of the inflation legacy the country faces, Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan says. Mr Swan said the RBA was forecasting higher inflation as a consequence of the

A Nepal village that’s a kidney bank
Hindustan Times - Welcome to Amit Kumar’s kidney bank. Rather, one of his many kidney banks Nepal’s Jyamdi village. Many of the kidneys for Kumar’s illegal transplant hospital in Gurgaon came from here. A visit to the village in the Karve district, about 55 km

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Welcome to Cyberwar Country, USA
Wired News - The national intelligence director, Michael McConnell , recently claimed a computer attack against a single U.S. bank could cause more economic harm than 9/11, and called for more National Security Agency surveillance of the internet. A CIA official