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European Auto Sales April 2013: First Sales Increase In 18 Months For Troubled Market

Europeans Drove More Cars Off The Lots In April

The 27-state EU saw an increase in auto sales propped up by U.K. demand and two extra selling days.

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Chinese Citizens Push Back Against Chemical Plant

Hundreds of residents of Kunming, China, are protesting planned paraxylene production in their backyard.

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Lonmin Workers Walk Out To Protest Shooting Of Union Member
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Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. Agrees To Pay $500 Million To Settle Felony Charges It Adulterated Drugs And Lied To The FDA

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US Airlines Bag $3.5B In Luggage Fees As Revenue Model Shifts

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Chevron Responds To Legal Attacks By Washington Law Firm Patton Boggs With Allegations Of Malicious Prosecution, Fraud And Deceit

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France Aims To Tax Apple’s iPads, iPhones To Fund Culture

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  • Dubai Police Add $1.4M Bugatti Veyron To Fleet One Month After Adding $450,000 Lamborghini Aventador [PHOTO]

    Dubai Police Cop $1.4 Million Bugatti Veyron

    Don't be distracted or take pictures of it while driving, Dubai police are warning motorists about the department's flashy new squad supercar.

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  • India Supreme Court Clears Way For Posco To Build $12 Billion Iron Ore Mining Plant In Odisha State, Setting Aside Lower Court's Decision

    India Court Clears Way For Posco's $12B Mining Plant

    Posco, one of the world's largest steel makers, aims to produce 12 million tons of steel a year from a new plant in India.

  • Wrigley Pulls Caffeine-Laced Gum
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  • Ninety Chemical Plants Put More Than 1,000,000 People At Risk
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  • Keystone XL: Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, Says TransCanada Pipeline 'Absolutely Needs To Go Ahead'

    Canada's Prime Minister Pushes Keystone XL Pipeline

    Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said increasing the oil supply to the U.S. was inevitable.

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  • BP Fights Back Against 'Fictitious' Oil Spill Claims
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  • Once Again, Chinese Residents Push Back Against A Petrochemical Project And Call For Environmental Impact Review

    Chinese Citizens Push Back Against Chemical Plant

    Hundreds of residents of Kunming, China, are protesting planned paraxylene production in their backyard.

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  • US Housing Starts Drop Far More Than Expected In April

    Could the U.S. housing recovery be starting to fade?

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  • Connecticut Train Wreck: Commuters Will Have Challenging Day, And Week, In The Wake Of The Metro-North Collision Friday

    Commuters Face Challenges In Wake Of Connecticut Train Wreck

    Rail riders will continue to feel Monday the impacts of the commuter-train crash in Bridgeport Friday.

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  • Verizon Communications' Denial Of Intent To Bid For Vodafone Hammers Shares, Which Spiked On Report That Verizon Might Join AT&T In A $245 Billion Bid For Vodafone

    Verizon's Denial Of Interest In Vodafone Hits Share Price

    Verizon's quest to buy Vodafone's stake in Verizon Wireless is back to Square One.

  • Dow 14,000: Is It Too Late To Buy US Stocks?
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  • Shanghai Jahwa Drops In Value Due To Chairman Being Forced Out By Majority Investor

    Conflict Isn't Pretty For Chinese Cosmetic Company

    Shanghai Jahwa, one of China's oldest cosmetic companies, took a hit because of a dispute between an executive and its controlling shareholder.

  • Transocean Has Bittersweet News For Carl Icahn
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  • Workers Wasting Time Cost US Employers $134B In Lost Effort: Infographic

    $134 Billion: The Cost Of Lost Time

    Employees waste enough time on “non-work tasks” to cost their employers some $134 billion in lost productivity.

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    10 Largest Banks In America Hiring Right Now

    As tough as times still are for job seekers and employers alike, recovery signs keep popping up in financial services - particularly at the big banks.

  • World’s Largest Pot Shop, Harborside Health Center In Oakland, Will Remain Open Despite Court Loss [PHOTOS]
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    Windy Uranus, Melting Mt. Everest: The Week in Science

  • Prague Metro Plans ‘Love Carriage’ For Lonely Singles, As Czech Marriage And Birth Rates Plunge

    Prague Metro's ‘Love Carriage’ For Lonely Singles

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    Great Recession To Lurk In Shadows For Generation X

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    Where Does Your Shirt Come From?

  • EXCLUSIVE: An American's Account Of North Korea's First Ever Charity Fun Run [PHOTOS]

    A US Citizen's 'Normal' May Day In North Korea

  • Chinese College Graduates Cannot Secure Jobs: 28% Of Beijing's 2013 Graduates And 44% Of Shanghai's Have Found A Job

    Chinese College Graduates Cannot Find Jobs

  • Yemenis See Vital Economic Lifeline Being Cut As Saudi Arabia Cracks Down On Illegal Immigrant Labor

    Yemeni Workers Take Hit As Saudi Arabia Cracks Down

  • Dubai Police Add $1.4M Bugatti Veyron To Fleet One Month After Adding $450,000 Lamborghini Aventador [PHOTO]

    Dubai Police Cop $1.4 Million Bugatti Veyron

  • Airbus Shows Off The First A350 XWB, The Boeing 787's Rival [PHOTOS]

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    New York's Rockaways Rise From Sandy's Ashes

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