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Lloyds Bank Plans to Cut 15,000 More Jobs

Pedestrians pass the head office of Lloyds Banking Group in central London
The new chief executive of bailed out British bank Lloyds Banking Group (NYSE: LYG) is planning to cut another 15,000 jobs, on top of the 28,000 positions the bank has already eliminated since it merged with HBOS in early 2009.
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Syrian gay girl blog, hoax writing by an American

The Sryrian gay girl, Amina’s blog posts, that literally grabbed world media attention turned out to be a hoax writing by a 40-year-old Edinburgh University masters student namely, Tom MacMaster.
Ireland's Sir Bob Geldof shakes hands with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates of the U.S. at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park in London

Hackers launch fake Microsoft security updates

England based security developer and vendor Sophos, in a statement, said that a fake anti-virus, which is a replica of Microsoft’s security update, tricks the user into installing malicious software.
Syria unrest

Syrian Helicopters open fire to disperse protesters

Hardly a few days after Syrian civilians started fleeing the nation to find a safe place in Turkey border, Syrian helicopter gunships fired machineguns to disperse pro-democracy protests, witnesses said, in the first reported use of air power to suppress unrest in Syria's increasingly bloody three-month-old uprising.
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Spain arrests Anonymous members over Sony attack

Spanish police arrested three men suspected to be members of the hacker group Anonymous on Friday, charging them with organizing cyber attacks against the websites of Sony Corp, banks and governments -- but not the recent massive hacking of PlayStation gamers.
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Spanish police arrest Anonymous PlayStation hackers

Spanish police arrested three suspected members of the so-called Anonymous group on Friday on charges of cyber-attacks against targets including Sony's PlayStation network, governments, businesses and banks.
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Swiss in talks with U.S. over untaxed funds

Swiss and U.S. authorities have held informal exploratory talks that touched on regularizing untaxed money held by wealthy Americans in secret Alpine accounts, a spokesman for a finance ministry office said.

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