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  • Friday, August 21st 2009 - 13:49 UTC

    Sensational Suarez hits four for Ayax

    22 year old Uruguayan international Luis Suarez hit FOUR magnificent goals as Ajax of Amsterdam beat Slovan Bratislava by 5-0 in a Europa Cup qualifying game in the Amsterdam Arena on wednesday night. Substitute Mitchell Donald scored the 5th in injury time.

  • Friday, August 21st 2009 - 13:32 UTC

    Ink from fossilized squid 150 million years old found in Wiltshire

    A picture of the creature and its Latin name was drawn using its ink.

    Palaeontologists have drawn with ink extracted from a preserved fossilised squid uncovered during a dig in Trowbridge, Wiltshire.

  • Friday, August 21st 2009 - 13:24 UTC

    Minutes show Bank of England divided on cash injection

    Mervyn King wanted to pump £ 75 billion instead of the £ 50 billion finally agreed

    Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King wanted to pump more money into the UK economy this month but was outvoted by fellow policymakers. Minutes of the bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting on 6 August reveal that Mr King wanted £75bn rather than the £50bn that was injected

  • Friday, August 21st 2009 - 11:07 UTC

    Colombian president closer to re-re-election, but it’s not that simple

    Uribe still has several political and diplomatic hurdles ahead of him

    Colombia’s Senate passed a bill late Wednesday that may pave the way for a national referendum on whether to allow President Alvaro Uribe to seek a third consecutive term in next year’s presidential election.

  • Friday, August 21st 2009 - 11:00 UTC

    German surprise rebound confirmed by cautious Bundesbank

    An optimistic third quarter in anticipated for Europe’s main economy

    German economic growth is likely to gain traction in the coming months, the nation's influential central bank, the Bundesbank, said Thursday after Europe's biggest economy unexpectedly climbed out of recession during the second quarter.

  • Thursday, August 20th 2009 - 07:10 UTC

    Rio Tinto selling assets to trim debt burden

    The Anglo Australian mining giant bought Alcan when metal prices were at record highs

    Rio Tinto has agreed to sell four business units of its Alcan aluminium subsidiary for 2 billion US dollars as it seeks to trim its debt burden further. The Anglo-Australian mining giant is selling the four packaging businesses to Australian group Amcor.

  • Thursday, August 20th 2009 - 04:59 UTC

    UK Conservative MPs want salaries doubled to £ 130.000

    Chancellor Alistair Darling: such demands could not possibly be justified at a time when ordinary people were struggling

    The row over British Member of Parliament expenses has reignited after two senior Tories called for MPs to be given massive pay rises. Sir Patrick Cormack, who was a candidate for Commons Speaker, said their salaries should be doubled - from £64,766 to more than £130,000, in return for scrapping their controversial second homes allowances

  • Thursday, August 20th 2009 - 04:51 UTC

    “Deep scars” from recession will an effect for years to come, warns IMF

    IMF chief economist, Olivier Blanchard also anticipates unemployment will not peak until next year

    The world has begun to recover from recession but the process will not be simple, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned. The recession has “left deep scars which will affect both supply and demand for many years to come” according to IMF chief economist, Olivier Blanchard.

  • Thursday, August 20th 2009 - 04:37 UTC

    Six million working age adults Britons claiming benefits

    UK unemployment figures for the three months to June showed the number had risen by almost 25,000 to 1.58 million

    The number of British working-age adults claiming benefits is set to hit six million this month, a UK think-tank has predicted. The centre-right Policy Exchange forecast the rise using official Government figures on benefit claimants and the latest unemployment figures.

  • Wednesday, August 19th 2009 - 12:06 UTC

    UK key inflation measure remains unchanged at 1.8%

    Electronic gadget prices were up but food and non-alcoholic prices were down.

    A key measure of inflation in the UK has unexpectedly remained at 1.8%. Economists had expected the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) to decline to 1.5% in July. The Retail Prices Index (RPI) inflation measure, which includes mortgage interest payments also unexpectedly increased to -1.4%, from -1.6%.