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‘Marmageddon’: Marmite Famine Strikes New Zealand

New Zealand residents have been urged to spread their Marmite extra thin after news of an upcoming Marmageddon when the popular breakfast paste will no longer be available on shelves do to the closure of the iconic Kiwi brand's Christchurch factory in the wake of the 2011 earthquake.

Gillard Govt Passes 30% Australian Mining Tax

PM Gillard: Those Pushing for Rate Cuts Must Support the Budget Surplus
The new law, which has been the source of fierce battles between industry and government officials for two years, will affect around 30 companies, including international mining giants BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Xstrata.
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RBS to close down some Asian businesses: memo

Royal Bank of Scotland is closing its equity capital market and corporate finance units in South Korea and cash equities businesses in Indonesia, Singapore and Korea, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters on Tuesday.
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New iPad 3 iFixit Teardown: Are You Getting Your Money's Worth?

The Land of Oz – Australia – is the first country where the new iPad got released on Friday morning. Luke Soules, the founder of California-based gadget repair firm – iFixit – made his way to Australia and picked up an iPad from a local store in Melbourne city. Here is what the iFixit guy revealed in the ultimate iPad postmortem.
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Egypt's Coptic Christian Pope Dies

Pope Shenouda III, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria in Egypt, died Saturday at the age of 88, according to the country's official Middle East News Agency.
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France's Total to raise Ichthys stake later in 2012: chief

French oil giant Total's deal to buy a bigger stake in its $34 billion Ichthys liquefied natural gas project in Australia from partner Inpex Corp <1605.T> may be delayed and will only close before the year-end, its chief executive said.
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iPad 3 Released Worldwide: Customers Reactions (PHOTOS)

iPad 3 has launched its worldwide release to thousand of waiting fans and tech aficionados alike. David Tarasenko, a construction manager from Sydney, Australia was the first lucky buyer of a new iPad 3 HD. From there, store openings across Austrailia and Asia continued to before European stores opened at 8 a.m. local time. In San Francisco, one of Apple's flagship stores, customers waited in light rain as local television crews shot news reels of people holding umbrellas and reading their iP...
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Marubeni May Buy Stake In Australian Iron Mine

Marubeni Corp., a large Japanese diversified trading company, is in talks to buy a 10 to 12.5 percent stake in a huge iron mine owned by Australia's Hancock Prospecting, a source told Dow Jones.
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iPad Starter Kit: Top 10 Apps for Apple's New Tablet

Apple's iPad is going to sell a million units on the first day according to some analysts, so if you're going to buy one, check out our starter kit app guide. While the iPad may not have an all-new physical design or edge-to-edge display, it's enticing enough that pre-orders have completely sold out.

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