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Health Care Debate

Americans more confident on healthcare costs: poll
Aug 31, 2009 6:41AM

Fewer Americans are afraid that they will be unable to pay for healthcare services and fewer expect to postpone medical treatments due to costs, according to a Thomson Reuters survey published on Monday. Read more

CIT

CIT gets $3 billion lifeline from bondholders
Jul 20, 2009 11:40PM

CIT Group Inc secured a $3 billion loan facility from its bondholders on Monday and said it plans a comprehensive restructuring of its liabilities, but gave few details. Read more

G8 Summit

China's Hu abandons G8 as ethnic unrest continues
Jul 08, 2009 10:50AM

Banks of paramilitary police fanned out in the far-flung Chinese city of Urumqi on Wednesday to try to stifle unrest days after 156 people were killed in the region's worst ethnic violence in decades. Read more

Bernard Madoff

Medici lawyer says Kohn didn't get Madoff payments
Jul 03, 2009 1:24PM

Austrian fund manager Sonja Kohn did not receive any kickbacks from Bernard Madoff to steer Bank Medici customer funds to the swindler's investment business, a Medici lawyer said on Friday. Read more

Michael Jackson, 1958 - 2009

Michael Jackson death certificate details revealed
Jul 07, 2009 5:44PM

According to reports from TMZ, who saw a copy of Michael Jackson's death certificate, the line item for cause of death is filled in with the word "deferred." Read more

Iran Elections

Iran opposition urges release of jailed protesters
Jul 07, 2009 10:06AM

Iranian opposition leaders urged the authorities to release people arrested following a disputed presidential election last month, and criticized the "security state" imposed in Iran, a website said on Tuesday. Read more

GM

GM to present Opel restructuring plan in Dec
Nov 19, 2009 5:29PM

U.S. carmaker General Motors will present a new viability plan for Opel in mid-December as it aims to reduce capacity across Europe by about 20 percent, a top executive said on Thursday. Read more

Economic recovery

Singapore Air confident of recovery - executive
Nov 20, 2009 10:10AM

Singapore Airlines said on Friday it expects the current up tick in air travel to continue. Read more

Swine Flu

Online gangs cashing in on swine flu: security firm
Nov 16, 2009 9:40AM

Criminal gangs are making millions of dollars out of the H1N1 flu pandemic by selling fake flu drugs over the internet, a web security firm said on Monday. Read more

Twitter

Twitter, Internet undermine Canada election rules
Nov 12, 2009 8:32AM

Twitter 1, Elections Canada 0.In this era of smartphones and the Internet, the federal elections agency is struggling to enforce a rule that bans the general broadcasting of voting results until all the polls have closed. Read more

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