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 The Guardian 
Big business can and should make ethical investments
| Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund has proven that big money can be invested in ethical ways. Others should follow suit | Many people think ethical investments are a worthy but inconsequential sideline ... (photo: WN / maryjane)
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 The Times 
EU rediscovers taste for bendy cucumbers
| It's official: European diktats on the size and shape of fruit and vegetables are bananas. | Even the European Commission now wants them scrapped to avoid wasting good food in times of global shorta... (photo: Public Domain)
Nokia - Mobile Phones - Davao City - Philippines  NZ Herald 
Nokia earnings exceed expectations
| HELSINKI, Finland - World No. 1 mobile phone maker Nokia today said profits fell 61 per cent in the second quarter from the same period a year ago, when the company booked a large gain from its netw... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)
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Beggars spark new debate  Aftenposten 
Beggars spark new debate
Rising opposition across party lines to an influx of beggars in Norwegian cities is prompting calls to reimpose a ban on begging. Some Labour Party officials, however, are defying the opposition and e... (photo: Kamaran Najm)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, right, talk to reporters on Thursday, July 17, 2008 in Algiers. Rig Zone
Europe Seeks North Africa Energy
| With stability returning to Algeria and UN sanctions lifted from Libya, European energy giants are vying with each other to tap new sources of natural gas and oil in th... (photo: (AP Photo / Ouahab Hebbat))
Africa   Algeria   Energy   Photos   UN  
 reading / wam2  International Herald Tribune
What makes a beach book?
| What makes a beach book? It's a crucial question for publishers - not to mention readers - this month. Thrillers and police procedurals top many lists. But a novel of m... (photo: creativecommons)
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Nokia's 2Q profit drops 61 percent
| NEW YORK (AP) The world's No. 1 mobile phone maker Nokia Corp. on Thursday said profits fell 61 percent in the second quarter from the same period a year ago, when the ... (photo: WN / James)
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Swedish Electrolux AB, one of the worlds leading makers of household appliances, announced Thursday, 12 june, 1997 that it will lay off about 12,000 people, more than 10 percent of its workforce, over the next two years. The company currently employs 105,000 people worldwide. Picture shows dark clouds over Electrolux refridgerator plant in Stockholm. (AP Photo/Ola Torkelsson)hg3 Syracuse
Electrolux: 2Q profit sinks 82 percent
| STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Swedish appliance maker Electrolux AB reported an 82 percent drop in second-quarter net profit Thursday and cut its full-year forecast, citing ... (photo: AP Photo / Ola Torkelsson)
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Erebus Ice Tongue - Antarctica.jpg The Miami Herald
`The pace of climate change is faster than expected'
| IN THE ARCTIC CIRCLE -- North of Oslo, north of Longyearbyen, almost as north as North itself, the National Geographic Endeavor breaks pack ice in endless daylight thro... (photo: public domain. / Eugene van der Pijll )
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** ADVANCE FOR Monday OCT. 3 ** Heaters surround the test well, center rear, Thursday, July 28, 2005, at Shell Exploration and Production Co.'s Mahogany Project southwest of Meeker, Colorado. They have been working for nine years on a way to bake shale oil from the ground by using heating rods drilled into layers of rock. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)hg3 Asia Times
Energy reality starts to bite
| By Dilip Hiro | (Note: This article was written before Tuesday's fall in the oil price - the biggest drop in one day in 17 years. Light, sweet crude plunged US$6.44, or... (photo: AP Photo / Douglas C. Pizac)
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Denmark Sweden
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Sony Ericsson: steep drop in 2Q profit
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Finland Baltic
- Avila or Appenzell, Paris or Turku, there's a way
- Finnish power forward Joensuu's improving nicely
- Finnish power forward Joensuu improving nicely
- Greeley man sentenced for tampering with gas wells
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- Silvio Berlusconi accuses European leaders of inexperience
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Nokia earnings exceed expectations
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- YVR Taser victim laid to rest in native Poland
- Summit • Baltic, Paul W.,...
- A furious Kremlin is determined to bar Nato from its backyar
- EU rediscovers taste for bendy cucumbers
- Man killed by taser in Canada is laid to rest in Poland
- Airport Taser victim laid to rest in native Poland
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- A two-state solution is the only solution, says Blair
- The Current Oil Shock
- Financial collapse edges closer
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Monday, July 14, 2008. Stocks turned mixed in early trading Monday as investors lost some of their initial enthusiasm over the government's plans to shore up confidence in mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie Ma
Financial collapse edges closer
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- Young asylum seeker shot in his bed
- Rendering The Old World Obsolete
- ETC.: Overseas laws, slogans and more
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- Throwing precaution to the wind
- 'Everybody needs to get thicker skins'
 The President of Sri Lanka, Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa addressing the 14th SAARC Summit, in New Delhi on April 03, 2007. (jsen2)
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