Europe attempted to reassert its international leadership in the fight against global warming today, offering to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by up to 95% by 2050 and by 30% by 2020 if a climate change pact is sealed in Copenhagen in six weeks' time. “This should be seen as a clear message to the world,” said Andreas Carlgren, the Swedish environment minister who chaired the Luxembourg meeting
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Shannon Lee, the daughter and heir of martial-arts expert Bruce Lee, is trying to add some pow to the late movie star's legacy. (McBride, S., 2009, October 23, par.1) In a bid to tap into growing interest in Mr.
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Making Bruce Lee a lucrative global brand
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GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. Human Rights Council voted Friday to endorse a Gaza war crimes report and send it to the Security Council, possibly setting up international prosecution of Israelis and Palestinians accused of war crimes. The council approved a Palestinian-backed resolution after two days of debate on the Goldstone report, which it had commissioned following the Dec.
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Band is shooting massive bike rides, L.A. landmarks and more over the course of several nights. By James Montgomery, with additional reporting by Hugh Swingle 30 Seconds To Mars Photo: MTV News 30 Seconds To Mars are not exactly what you’d call a subtle rock band
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The dollar's position as the world's leading reserve currency faces increased pressure as the financial crisis allows emerging economies greater influence on the world stage, analysts said. A report last week in The Independent claiming that China, Russia and Gulf States are among nations prepared to ditch the dollar for oil trades has heightened the uncertainty surrounding the US currency's future.
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US facing massive economic ‘power shift’ with dollar’s downward spiral
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CULTURE BUZZ : The Chinese media are obsessed with some women-only Swedish town where the population of 25,000 sexually-frustrated females are free to carry out their carnal lesbian trysts. This sounds like the sort of town that should probably exist in China (and Epcot Center!). Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment
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David Letterman, days after revealing on air that he'd been sexually involved with women from his television program, apologized to his wife on Monday's “Late Show,'' saying she had been “horribly hurt by my behavior'' and stating flat-out those affairs “are in the past.'' added by: ebindelglass 4 responses
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Neil Barofsky, the inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program has criticised US Treasury officials for making optimistic statements last September, at the height of the financial crisis. The US Treasury misled the public over the health of struggling Wall Street banks receiving emergency funds at the height of the financial crisis, creating unrealistic expectations and undermining popular trust in bailout efforts, according to an official audit. An inspector general appointed to oversee the US government's banking bailout has singled out president Bush's treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, for painting an excessively rosy picture of the condition of institutions such as Bank of America, Citigroup and Merrill Lynch when the government pumped $125bn (
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“China kicked off mass vaccinations for swine flu Monday in Beijing, making it apparently the first nation in the world to start innoculating its population against the virus. The health ministry has said it plans to vaccinate 65 million people, or five percent of the country’s total population of 1.3 billion, before year’s end.” Pay close attention to the following statistic in the article…. “On Monday, China had recorded 13,262 cases of A(H1N1) flu, according to the latest information released on the health ministry’s website
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China begins mass vaccinations
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Today’s the glorious 60th anniversary of China’s rebirth as a communist nation.
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