Hitachi buys UK nuclear project

affiliate marketing 30 October 2012 Last updated at 08:43 ETThe UK’s nuclear expansion plans have been boosted after Japan’s Hitachi signed a £700m deal giving it rights to build a new generation of power plants. affiliate marketing Hitachi is to buy Horizon Nuclear Power, which was...

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Cuba’s 2nd city without power, water after Sandy

affiliate marketing HAVANA (AP) — Residents of Cuba‘s second-largest city of Santiago remained without power or running water Monday, four days after Hurricane Sandy made landfall as the island’s deadliest storm in seven years, ripping rooftops from homes and toppling power lines.Across the Caribbean, the storm’s death toll rose to 69,...

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SEC taking deeper look at Nasdaq’s Facebook plan

affiliate marketing WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Securities regulators are taking a closer look at Nasdaq OMX’s $ 62 million plan to compensate brokers who suffered losses from the exchange operator’s botched handling of Facebook‘s initial public offering.The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it was instituting proceedings to more...

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Israeli-Palestinian drama ‘The Other Son’ wins Tokyo Film Fest

affiliate marketing LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Lorraine Levy‘s Palestinian/Israeli drama, “The Other Son,” won the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix, the top award at the 25th Tokyo International Film Festival, on Sunday night. Levy also took home the best director honors at the festival, which marks the final go-round for festival chairman,...

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Analysis: U.S. foreign bribery penalties for drugmakers may lack bite

affiliate marketing NEW YORK (Reuters) – Global drugmakers are paying tens of millions of dollars to settle U.S. allegations that they bribed their way across emerging markets, but harsher penalties may be needed to deter the practice in untapped regions where billions are at stake.Federal authorities have cast a wide net to weed out...

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TSX may open lower; volumes seen down on storm

affiliate marketing (Reuters) – Canada‘s main stock index looked set to open lower on Monday, hurt by uncertainty prevailing over Spanish bailout and lackluster global corporate earnings.Trading volumes are expected to be thin with U.S. stock markets closed because of the huge and potentially damaging hurricane expected to hit the U.S....

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Clinton: Facebook post about Benghazi attack not hard “evidence”

affiliate marketing WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday a Facebook post in which an Islamic militant group claimed credit for a recent attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya did not constitute hard evidence of who was responsible.“Posting something on Facebook is not in and of itself...

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European fashion buyers look to Nigeria

affiliate marketing LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A model struts the runway wearing a flowing newspaper print gown in this African megacity where international high-end fashion buyers are looking beyond the country’s bleak headlines to uncover the next new thing.There have been steady efforts to turn Lagos, a city with a fearsome reputation,...

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Facebook More Irresistible Than Sex?

affiliate marketing Reported by Dr. Julielynn Wong:You may want to ask your date to turn off his or her phone. A new study suggests Facebook and email trump sex in terms of sheer irresistibility. affiliate marketing The German study used smartphone-based surveys to probe the daily...

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Why the Yuan Is Rising

affiliate marketing China’s currency hit a 19-year high against the U.S. dollar on Friday. Not coincidentally, on the same day the yuan rose to 6.238 against the greenback, disgraced former Politburo member Bo Xilai suffered his latest indignity, with the official Xinhua News Agency announcing his removal from the National People’s...

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