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World Bank head says world economy in danger zone

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World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Wednesday the world had entered a new economic danger zone and Europe, Japan and the United States all needed to make hard decisions to avoid dragging down the global economy.

NASA Plans to Build World's Largest Rocket (VIDEO)

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NASA is working on a 320-feet multi-billion-dollar Space Launch System (SLS), which is also the world's largest rocket, aiming to explore nearby asteroid around 2025 and then on to Mars in the 2030s.
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Japan Manufacturing Mood up, but Yen Clouds Outlook

Japanese manufacturing confidence improved for a fifth straight month in September but the pace of recovery slowed to a crawl, with a strong yen and faltering global growth starting to take a toll on the world's No.3 economy, a Reuters poll showed.
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New Book Makes Scandalous Claims About Sarah Palin

Joe McGinniss' book titled The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, alleges that the former republican Vice Presidential candidate had an affair with then-University of Michigan star basketball player, Glen Rice, in the 1980s, snorted cocaine, had an affair with her husband's business partner for six months and smoked pot in college with a professor, according to a report in the National Enquirer.
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U.S., Australia to add cyber realm to defense treaty

The United States and Australia will take the rare step on Thursday of declaring the cyber realm as part of a mutual defense treaty, meaning that a cyber attack on one could lead to a response by both nations.
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World Bank chief says world economy in danger zone

World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Wednesday the world had entered a new economic danger zone and Europe, Japan and the United States all needed to make hard decisions to avoid dragging down the global economy.
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UPS offers consumers more options as etail grows

United Parcel Service is launching a new service in time for the peak holiday shipping season that gives residential consumers -- a growing portion of its business -- more control over when and how their packages are delivered.
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Third Point appeals to Yahoo founder Yang for change

Yahoo Inc shareholder Daniel Loeb appealed to the company's co-founder Jerry Yang to fire Chairman Roy Bostock and several other directors to revive the Internet media company after years of poor performance.
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Toys R Us holiday mantra: In exclusives we trust

From squishy garbage-themed collectibles The Trash Pack to remote-controlled flying fish Air Swimmers, Toys R Us is carrying a larger assortment of exclusive toys to win holiday shoppers from the likes of Amazon.com and Wal-Mart Stores .
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Palisades Tartan acquires This is Not a Film

Just as the Iranian director Mojtaba Mirtahmasb was detained at the Tehran airport Wednesday, Palisades Tartan acquired U.S. and U.K. rights to his documentary This is Not a Film.
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Sempra Energy Realigns Units, Names Key Officials

Sempra Energy said it will group its power generation, pipelines, storage and LNG businesses into two new operating units, Sempra International and Sempra U.S. Gas & Power to realign operations.
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IFR-Redwood Trust Set to Launch US$375m Private RMBS

Redwood Trust, a California-based REIT, is about to launch its second private-label RMBS of the year, a US$375.2m prime-mortgage offering called Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2011-2 (SEMT 2011-2), according to a presale report released on Wednesday by Fitch Ratings.

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