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UK coalition to announce 2010 cuts next week: Osborne
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's new coalition government will next Monday outline six billion pounds ($8.75 billion) of spending cuts this year ahead of its first budget on June 22, finance minister George Osborne said on Monday.
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Apple's iPhone replaces BlackBerry for some bankers
SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) - British bank Standard Chartered is replacing the BlackBerry, currently its standard corporate communications device, with the iPhone, a move that could eventually result in thousands of bankers switching to the Apple device for business communication on the go.
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Airplane with 43 on board crashes in Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) - A local Pamir Airways plane with 38 passengers and five crew on board, including six foreigners, crashed in Afghanistan's inaccessible, mountainous Hindu Kush region near Kabul on Monday, officials said.
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UK, Ireland set new flying zone, cut ash disruption
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's air traffic control body said on Monday it had agreed the creation of a new flying zone with Irish officials and aircraft manufacturers to limit the disruption caused by ash emitted by an Icelandic volcano.
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U.S. Flu Activity in 2007-2008, Mid-Atlantic Region
A close relationship has been found between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually have flu symptoms.
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EU ministers eye reforms as markets buffet euro
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European finance ministers prepared on Monday to discuss tighter regulation on hedge funds a week after launching a $1 trillion debt rescue plan, as the euro was hit by fears austerity measures would stifle recovery.
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U.N. to pick Costa Rican as new climate chief: sources
OSLO/LONDON (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has chosen Costa Rican diplomat Christiana Figueres as the new U.N. climate chief to head stalled, international talks, sources close to the matter said on Monday.
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Iran makes nuclear offer, but West unconvinced
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran made an apparent concession over its nuclear program, but big powers expressed skepticism and analysts said the move seemed intended to split the international community and avert planned new U.N. sanctions.
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Iraqi court dismisses de-Baathification cases
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi appeals court on Monday rejected the disqualification of nine winning candidates from a March 7 election, removing another hurdle to the certification of the ballot results more than two months after the vote.
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Rogue "red shirt" military adviser dies - hospital
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A rogue soldier and de facto military chief of Thailand's red shirt protest movement has died, said the director of the hospital where he was being treated after an assassination attempt.
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Volcanic ash grounds hundreds of European flights
LONDON (Reuters) - Volcanic ash from Iceland caused widespread disruption at airports in Britain and other parts of northern Europe on Monday, delaying or grounding hundreds of flights.
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BP reports limited success in containing oil spill
By Chris Baltimore and Steve Gorman
HOUSTON/GALLIANO, Louisiana (Reuters) - Energy giant BP reported a limited success at containing the oil that is gushing unabated into the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday but a skeptical U.S. government said it was "not a solution."
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Thai troops close in on protest encampment
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai protesters defied warnings to disperse on Monday as troops tightened a security cordon, putting the army on a collision course with thousands of demonstrators who say they are willing to fight to the death.
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BP says turns corner in oil spill
COCODRIE, Louisiana (Reuters) - Energy giant BP said on Monday it had "turned the corner" in a weeks-long effort to contain an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico even as the company faced fresh questions about its industry safety record.
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews lose grave battle in Israel
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A heavily guarded operation to dig up ancient graves to make way for a new hospital emergency room on Sunday stirred up traditional tensions between Israel's Jewish secular majority and ultra-Orthodox minority.
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Turkey, Brazil seal deal on Iran nuclear fuel swap
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Turkey said on Sunday Iran had agreed on a nuclear fuel swap deal which could help end Tehran's stand-off with the West over its atomic programme.
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Three Chinese oil workers abducted in Yemen
SANAA (Reuters) - Separatist Yemeni militants kidnapped three Chinese oil company workers on Sunday in an apparent move to pressure authorities in a local criminal dispute, an official in the eastern province of Shabwa said.
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Lizards Feel the Heat from Climate Change
The sharp edges of the blue spiny lizard will not protect it against climate change. New research shows that it has gone extinct at 24 out of 200 sites in Mexico since 1975. The cause was not loss of habitat to spreading agriculture or sprawling cities. Rather, it was hotter springs, according to research published in the May 14 issue of Science .
And that means climate change could end up driving nearly 20 percent of existing lizard species extinct by 2080.
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Electrical properties of glass at the nanoscale lead to a pump the size of a red blood cell
Researchers have devised a way to fabricate tiny electrodes from glass, harnessing a phenomenon by which nanoscale glass walls can be transformed from insulators to conductors and back again. At larger scales, that phenomenon, known as " dielectric breakdown ," leads to excess heating and structural damage, but at the nanoscale the process appears to be harmless and reversible. [More]
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