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Oil and gold prices fall

London :: United Kingdom | about 11 hours ago | Business News

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Oil prices fell more than $US3 on Thursday to the lowest levels for almost four years due to growing concern about demand in the world's biggest energy consuming nation, the United States...Later, on London's InterContinental Exchange (ICE), Brent recovered slightly...

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Happiness is contagious, new study finds

London :: United Kingdom | about 8 hours ago | Technology News

Source: Chicago Tribune

You may think your attentive spouse, your loving children, and your good friends are what make you happy. But something else may be going on: The people they're connected with are making you happy too. So suggests a new study...

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Dragon out of race for Woolworths

London :: United Kingdom | about 15 hours ago | Business News

Source: BBC

Dragons' Den entrepreneur Theo Paphitis has pulled out of the race to buy parts of troubled retailer Woolworths. Mr Paphitis, who has been named among potential bidders for the collapsed retail chain, said it was not possible to reach a...

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Hoon delays Heathrow third runway decision

London :: United Kingdom | about 15 hours ago | Political News

Source: The Observer

Backbench Labour MPs, the opposition and environmentalists were all caught off-guard by transport secretary Geoff Hoon 's announcement yesterday that a decision would be delayed until January 2009, 12 months after the initial consultation wound up...A decision had been expected...

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Home Secretary warns on systematic leaking threat

London :: United Kingdom | about 12 hours ago | Political News

Source: The independent

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith insisted today that it would have been "wholly inappropriate" for her to have intervened in police operational decisions over the Damian Green affair. In a Commons statement, Ms Smith said she backed the right of MPs...

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Mole hunts extended across Whitehall

London :: United Kingdom | about 11 hours ago | Political News

Source: The Independent

Police mole hunts have begun into other Whitehall leaks in addition to the Damian Green investigation, the Home Office disclosed yesterday as in-fighting intensified between Scotland Yard and the Commons authorities over the raid on the Tory MP's office. Jacqui...

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Tesco defections send Morrisons sales soaring

London :: United Kingdom | about 17 hours ago | Business News

Source: Times Online

Wm Morrison, Britain’s fourth largest supermarkets group, today unveiled an 8.1 per cent surge in sales, smashing City forecasts and outstripping its biggest rival, Tesco. In a third quarter results announcement suggesting the value retailer is thriving amid the economic...

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Rowling launches Potter-world fable collection in Scotland

London :: United Kingdom | about 9 hours ago | Entertainment News

Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Online retail giant Amazon bought one of seven original copies of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, hand-crafted by J.K. Rowling, at auction last December for more than $4 million Cdn. (Sang Tan/Associated Press) Blockbuster author J.K.

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UK union protests government office closures

London :: United Kingdom | about 14 hours ago | Business News

Source: Belleville News-Democrat

Britain's public service union says government plans to close Revenue and Customs offices will cost 3,400 jobs. The government says it plans to avoid layoffs when relocating staff and accuses the union of scaremongering. More than 90 out of nearly...

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Firms agree to build UK reactors

London :: United Kingdom | about 12 hours ago | Business News

Source: BBC

A group of British and French firms have joined forces to build what could become the first of a series of new-generation nuclear reactors in the UK. French nuclear firm Areva, engineering giant Rolls-Royce and construction firm Balfour Beatty will...

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