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Tidy tents

Americas - BBC online - 10 hours 25 min ago
Staying safe in Haiti while keeping up appearances
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Winter Paralympics get under way

Americas - BBC online - 14 hours 56 min ago
Hundreds of disabled athletes gather for the opening of the 10th Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, Canada.
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Apollo men decry Obama Moon plans

Americas - BBC online - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 22:34
Nasa Moon astronauts tell the BBC President Barack Obama's decision to cancel the US lunar programme is "catastrophic".
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Argentina's bank chief likely to keep post

Americas - Financial Times - Politics - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 21:32
Argentina's central bank governor Mercedes Marcó del Pont looked closer on Friday keeping her job after a rift in the opposition which had vowed to vote against her in Congress.
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Argentina's bank chief likely to keep post

Americas - Financial Times - General - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 21:32
Argentina's central bank governor Mercedes Marcó del Pont looked closer on Friday keeping her job after a rift in the opposition which had vowed to vote against her in Congress.
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Alaska wolves 'killed' US teacher

Americas - BBC online - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 19:56
Wolves in Alaska are suspected of killing a woman jogger in what would be the first such attack in the US in half a century.
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Toxic shock

Americas - BBC online - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 19:04
New York's 9/11 dust victims split on compensation deal
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Clinton rebukes Israel over homes

Americas - BBC online - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 17:10
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers a stinging rebuke to Israel over new settlements in East Jerusalem.
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The lesson from Lehman's failure

US - Financial Times - Economy & Fed - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 17:08
If there are lessons to be learned from Lehman, it is not simply that its management succumbed to temptation, it is that institutions with bank-like characteristics should be subject to proper oversight
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Chile puts quake damage at $30bn

Americas - BBC online - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 16:46
The cost of rebuilding Chile after its monster earthquake will be at least $30bn, the country's new president announces.
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Mexico: City of darkness

Americas - Financial Times - General - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 15:06
Mexico: The experience of one blood-stained town on the US border highlights flaws in the battle with billion-dollar drug cartels, on which the stability of the state could depend
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Yellen to be nominated as Fed vice-chair

US - Financial Times - Economy & Fed - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 13:29
The Obama administration is set to nominate Janet Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, as vice-chairman of the central bank
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Woman charged with lottery murder

Americas - BBC online - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 12:05
A US woman is charged with murder over the killing of a truck driver's assistant who won $17m in a lottery in 2006.
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Same-sex couples marry in Mexico

Americas - BBC online - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 11:51
Five same-sex couples tie the knot in Mexico City under Latin America's first law that explicitly approves gay marriage.
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Power politics

Americas - BBC online - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 11:26
How quickly are the global gender gaps closing?
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US retail sales show surprise rise in February

US - Financial Times - Economy & Fed - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 10:44
US retail sales recorded a surprise rise in February, as wary consumers braved harsh winter storms and showed renewed interest in spending
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US retail sales in surprise rise

Americas - BBC online - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 10:01
US retail sales showed a surprise rise in February as consumers braved extreme bad weather to get to the shops
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Lehman bosses severely criticised

Americas - BBC online - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 07:45
A report into the collapse of US bank Lehman Brothers criticises senior executives and auditor Ernst & Young for serious lapses.
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U.S. Falters in Screening Border Patrol Near Mexico

US - NY Times - Politics - Fri, 03/12/2010 - 00:21
Representatives from the F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security painted a grave picture of drug traffickers trying to recruit federal officers to work for them.

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Hopes rise as US trade gap narrows

US - Financial Times - Economy & Fed - Thu, 03/11/2010 - 21:42
Plunging domestic demand for oil and foreign cars unexpectedly narrowed the US trade gap in January, official figures showed, lifting hopes for stronger economic growth in the first quarter
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