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KLdy1 - June08 - RBS. (dy1)
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 The Guardian 
Darling in talks with banks as RBS tops list of stockmarket casualties
• Increase in limit of savings protection on agenda | • Markets disappointed by chancellor's speech to MPs | Britain's bank bosses held a protracted meeting with Alistair Darling last night after ... (photo: WN / Denise Yong)
Premierminister Brown und Kanzlerin Merkel
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 The Independent 
Leading article: The day Britain and Europe shared each other's pain
| As the world's major stock markets fell through the floor yesterday afternoon, the Chancellor delivered a statement to MPs about the measures he was taking to ensure stability in the banking system.... (photo: REGIERUNGonline / Kugler)
Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel spricht am Montag 6. Oktober 2008, auf der Bundesversammlung der Senioren Union in Wiesbaden zu den Delegierten. (AP Photo/Daniel Roland) ---German chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a speech during a convention of the Senior Christian Democratic Union in Wiesbaden, southwestern Germany, on Monday, Oct. 6, 20  The Daily Mail 
European front to deal with economic crisis descends into 'every country for itself' shambles

| A so-called united European front to deal with the economic crisis descended into shambles yesterday as countries shored up their own tottering banking systems. | Confusion swept across the Continen... (photo: AP / Daniel Roland)
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University College London - Gower Street - London  The Times 
Leading geneticist Steve Jones says human evolution is over
| Human evolution is grinding to a halt because of a shortage of older fathers in the West, according to a leading genetics expert. | Fathers over the age of 35 are more likely to pass on mutations, a... (photo: WN / Periasamy)
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 KLdy1 - june06 - oil prices - petroleum - petrol - gas station - petrol kiosk. (dy1) The Times of India
Oil drops $6 to below $88 on demand concerns

|                 Font Size: | NEW YORK: Oil dropped $6 to below $88 a barrel on Monday on expectations the growing financial... (photo: WN / deniseyong)
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Men walk past a financial display board in central London, Monday Oct. 6, 2008. Asian and European stock markets plunged Monday as government bank bailouts in the U.S. and Europe failed to alleviate fears that the global financial crisis would depress world economic growth. By midafternoon Europe time, Britain's benchmark stock index, the FTSE 100, lost 245.70 to 4,734.55 _ a 4.93 percent fall. The declines were led by the banking industry, with the mining and oil industries also suffering The Australian
Britain poised to go it alone with bank bailout

| AN emergency plan to pump billions of pounds of taxpayers' cash into Britain's banks emerged yesterday as the global financial crisis deepened. | In Germany, Angela Mer... (photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis)
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 A model of a spaceship is shown at the Virgin Galactic Charter to Space display during a press previ Asia Times
India's postcards from space
| By Raja Murthy | MUMBAI - India's first space tourist says he has no regrets about paying $200,000 for a two-hour sub-orbital flight aboard the "world's first spaceline... (photo: AP Photo)
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Green Tea                        The Daily Mail
High tea helps beat the afternoon slump
| Every Tuesday, Britain's leading nutritionist explains how to eat your way to health. This week Jane explains why afternoon tea is a great idea... | Afternoon tea - jus... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
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A Very magnific Site view of the Beautiful City of London The Examiner
Bloomberg Tackles Global Economy In Trip To London

CBS 2 - 40 mins ago With the banking crisis now a global problem, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg crossed the ocean to meet with European leaders who are desperate ... (photo: Creative Commons / Chalmers Butterfield,)
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World zoologists rank rarely seen species as the one most needing protection in Canada Canada Dot Com
World zoologists rank rarely seen species as the one most needing protection in Canada
| Chances are, if you're like most British Columbians, you've never heard of the mountain beaver. | There are good reasons for this. First, it's one of the most endangere... (photo: WN / James D.)
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KLdy1 - June08 - obesity - obese. (dy1) The Daily Mail
Fat nation: Three out of four UK adults are overweight

| Dr Lopez-Jimenez believes British obesity levels are higher than reported | Three out of four UK adults are overweight or obese - more than previously thought, an exper... (photo: WN / Denise Yong)
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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown is interviewed at the Brighton Book Festival, Brighton, England, Sunday May 13, 2007. Brown has staked his bid for the leadership of Britain's ruling Labour Party on the importance of education and healthcare and the promise of an even stronger econo BBC News
Howells leaves in Brown reshuffle
| Pontypridd MP Kim Howells is leaving government, after 11 years as a minister, in Gordon Brown's reshuffle. | Dr Howells, 61, was a foreign office minister and one of t... (photo: AP / Andrew Parsons/pool)
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Medical professor Marc Girard,left, und Luc Montagnier, a pioneer in discovering the AIDS virus, during a press conference at the Paris Pasteur Institute. The Times
Nobel Medicine Prize row as HIV scientist is excluded

| Three scientists who discovered the causes of the two most lethal sexually-transmitted infections, Aids and cervical cancer, have been honoured today with the Nobel Pri... (photo: AP / Luc Saint Elie)
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Audi-Fahrzeuge werden am Dienstag, 11. Maerz 2008, am Rande der Audi-Bilanz-Pressekonferenz in Ingolstadt vorgestellt. Audi hat im Geschaeftsjahr 2007 erneut Bestmarken bei der Produktion, den Fahrzeugauslieferungen, dem Umsatz und den Ergebniskennzahlen erreicht. Mit einem Plus der Fahrzeugauslieferungen des Audi Konzerns um 5,7 Prozent erreichten auch die Umsatzerloese im Geschaeftsjahr 2007 einen neuen Hoechstwert von 33.617 Millionen Euro, ein Zuwachs um 7,9 Prozent. (AP Photo/Christof Stache) --- New Audi cars are presents during the annual press conference in Ingolstadt, southern Germany, on Tuesday, March 11, 2008. Audi AG, the luxury car maker owned by Volkswagen, said Tuesday that its 2007 profit rose by 26 percent on a nearly 8 percent rise in sales. (AP Photo/Christof Stache)hg3 The Times
Car sales fall 20% in one month - with more gloom to come

| Sales of new cars fell by more than a fifth last month, the worst September result since 1999. | Luxury saloons and 4X4s, on which manufacturers depend for much of thei... (photo: AP Photo / Christof Stache)
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