What is the true value of the United States' gold?
Buried in the Treasury's International Reserve Position report is an intriguing bit of math. The document details the total amount, by weight, of the Treasury's gold reserves, plus a dollar value for said metal. But some fast division reveals something...
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37 new A/H1N1 flu fatal cases confirmed in Europe
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- A European health agency said Friday that 37 new A/H1N1 flu fatal cases were confirmed in European countries within the last 24 hours.
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Politics' drift beyond satire | John Lloyd
Our democracy hangs by a thread. One way to claw back some respect is to insist on open primaries We have a long tradition of satire in Britain: for most of us, political parties and politicians have always been a bit of a joke. But until recently the...
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Camorra boss arrested in Naples
Italian police arrest influential mafia boss Luigi Esposito - the latest in a string of Camorra bosses held recently.
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Fort Hood shooter is deeply sensitive introvert say Palestinian relatives
Malik Hasan the army psychiatrist who shot dead 13 people at a Texas army base was a deeply sensitive individual who once fainted when assisting at a child birth and who mourned the death of a pet bird for three months his uncle said on Saturday.
Professor David Nutt's take on cannabis is a creed and not science
The evidence shows that cannabis is more damaging than Professor David Nutt believes argues Alasdair Palmer
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Gordon Brown and US in G20 clash over Tobin tax on banks
A row has broken out over a possible new tax on banks just hours after Gordon Brown suggested the move, with the US signalling its opposition to the plan.
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Motorist killed in two-car crash
A 50-year-old man dies and three other people are injured in a collision between two cars in Medway.
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Scooter rider dies in collision
A 72-year-old man dies when he is in collision with a car as he crosses a road on a mobility scooter in Greater Manchester.
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Spears in lockdown after concert shame
BRITNEY Spears was holed up in a Perth hotel yesterday as the row over her lip-synching concerts threatened to derail her Australian tour.
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Erroneous air raids leave over 2 dozen troops dead, injured in NW. Afghanistan
KABUL, Nov. 7 (Xinhua)-- Over two dozen Afghan and NATO troopers were killed and injured as NATO-led aircraft mistakenly pounded the position of forces in Badghis province northwest of Afghanistan, Deputy to provincial Police chief Abdul Jabbar said Saturday.
Md. emergency personnel get permission to administer flu shots
Gov. Martin O'Malley issued an emergency order Friday to help speed immunizations once more swine flu vaccine is available in Maryland.
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Pakistani army enters last Taliban bastion in S. Waziristan
The Pakistani army on Friday entered Makeen, the last of three insurgent strongholds targeted by a major offensive in the northwest, as gunmen wounded a senior army officer and a soldier in the capital, Islamabad.
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Is private equity brave enough?
For the kingpins of global finance, it doesn’t get better: stock markets are thundering, interest rates are close to nil, banks are coining profits. A world of cheapening money and rising asset values is a corporate financier’s daydream, but something...
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Mark Hughes happy with Manchester City's record compared to other 'Big Four' clubs
Mark Hughes, the Manchester City manager, believes he could have driven himself round the bend as he reflected on a series of missed opportunities in the Barclays Premier League in recent weeks.
Harry Redknapp has no regrets over sale of Darren Bent to Sunderland
Harry Redknapp is adamant that his decision to sell Darren Bent to Sunderland last summer will “never haunt” him, in spite of the striker’s fine start to his career on Wearside.
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Sir Alex Ferguson: Chelsea experience could be vital
Sir Alex Ferguson marked the 23rd anniversary of his appointment as Manchester United manager yesterday by observing that age is no barrier, so long as one retains the hunger to succeed. He might just as easily have been talking about the Chelsea team...
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Ancelotti aims to target United’s soft centre
Carlo Ancelotti claimed yesterday that Liverpool can no longer win the Barclays Premier League title, although such a dismissive attitude will not stop him seeking to follow their example when Chelsea face Manchester United tomorrow.
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Gordon Strachan perplexed by Middlesbrough's lack of married men
Riverside Stadium regulars will be hoping that Gordon Strachan and Middlesbrough will prove a marriage made in heaven, but as the manager gets acquainted with his new surroundings, bells are consuming his thinking as much as balls.
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National Trust urged to let the public take risks on its land
Large swaths of National Trust land are in danger of becoming “no-go” areas because of overbearing health and safety regulations, according to the organisation’s longest-serving council member.
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Didier Drogba: my son told me I had to change my behaviour at Chelsea
It was not his three-match Champions League ban, the prospect of being sold by Chelsea last summer or the disapproval of some fans that convinced Didier Drogba to change his ways, but being reprimanded by his young son.
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Doctors, five others held in Mexican stolen babies case
Mexican authorities have arrested three doctors, a nurse and a receptionist accused of stealing newborns at a private hospital and selling them, the Mexico City attorney general's office says.
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Timeline: Mass shootings in the U.S. since 2005
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged Fort Hood gunman and a psychiatrist who worked in a hospital at the base, is blamed for the deaths of 12 soldiers and one Army civilian employee, and for wounding at least 38 others.
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Canada to host G8 foreign ministers meeting next March
OTTAWA, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- Canada will host the foreign ministers meeting of the G8 countries in March 2010 to prepare for a G8 summit later that year, Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon announced Friday.
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Iran voices support for Turkey's EU membership
ANKARA, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the European Union (EU) should ask Turkey to become one of its members, Turkish media reported Friday.
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U.S. top diplomat Clinton to visit Europe, Asia
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will travel to Europe and Asia from November 8 to 19, said State Department on Friday.
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Comedy Showcase: Campus and The Armstrong and Miller Show
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Yacht Broker Sentenced to 2 Months for Tax Evasion
A Florida yacht broker gets credit for promptly confessing and for assisting a federal inquiry of tax evasion at offshore banks.
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Fox News Channel Draws a Large Audience for Coverage of Fort Hood Shootings
The normally top-rated Fox News Channel was by far the most popular source for information about the shootings at Fort Hood on Thursday.
H1N1 'may delay Ukraine poll"
Aide to president says that virus outbreak may push presidential poll back to May.
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Philip Langridge | Classical review
Wigmore Hall, London Hard to believe, but the tenor Philip Langridge reaches 70 next month. He gave advance notice of the event with a birthday recital, accompanied by David Owen Norris and the Doric Quartet, that attempted the almost impossible: to sum...
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