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/ 20 December 2008
President-elect Barack Obama signalled a major shift in trade policy and labour relations on Friday as he rounded out a Cabinet of "rivals".
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/ 10 December 2008
The governor of Illinois was arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiring to sell an appointment to Barack Obama’s recently vacated US Senate seat.
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/ 26 November 2008
US president-elect Barack Obama will press his aggressive plans to deal with his nation’s woes on Wednesday.
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/ 14 January 2008
Toyota will produce a small fleet of plug-in hybrids by 2010, the Japanese automaker’s chief said on Sunday. The plug-in hybrid will go head-to-head with United States rival General Motor’s Chevy Volt, which is also expected to hit the road in 2010.
Divers combed the dark, debris-strewn waters of the Mississippi River on Thursday searching for up the 30 people missing after a major bridge collapsed at rush hour, killing at least four people. Officials expected the death toll to rise, with dozens of cars and trucks dumped in the river after massive sections of the bridge roadway were sheared off on Wednesday.
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/ 18 September 2006
It’s the stuff of science fiction: a prosthetic arm that can be moved just by thinking about it and can feel heat and the pressure of a handshake. It became a reality for United States marine Claudia Mitchell two years after she lost her arm in a motorcycle accident, researchers said last week.
The T-shirt says it all: ”9% of Americans like cereal; 57% like sex.” A new restaurant chain is poised to capitalise on the most important meal of the day by offering consumers tantalising combinations of their favorite cereals in trendy shops that scream fun.
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/ 28 February 2006
Six months after hurricane Katrina flushed the life out of New Orleans, Mardi Gras has brought fun back to the Big Easy. The once-abandoned French Quarter was filled with rowdy revelers stumbling down the middle of the street, tripping over beer bombs and broken beads.
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/ 27 January 2006
After having posted multibillion-dollar losses and announced plans to lay off thousands of workers this week, General Motors and the Ford Motor Company have said they are on the road to recovery. Neither, however, would forecast how long it would take to return their struggling North American units to profitability.
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/ 23 January 2006
Ford Motor Company workers faced bleak prospects on Monday as the United States auto giant was to announce huge job cuts and plant closures in a bid to counter its loss of market share to Asian rivals. News reports said up to 29 000 job cuts and 10 plant closures could be announced.