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| Citi board locked in talks as shares dive published on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:51:55 +0000 |
| Citigroup's board was locked in talks in an attempt to halt a crisis of confidence in the troubled financial services group that has seen it lose more than half its market value in three days |
| Duke to replace Scott as Wal-Mart chief published on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:27:43 +0000 |
| Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, surprised investors with the announcement that Lee Scott, chief executive since 2000, would retire in February as the retailer flourishes amid the broad economic downturn |
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| Citi board locked in talks as shares dive published on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:51:55 +0000 |
| Citigroup's board was locked in talks in an attempt to halt a crisis of confidence in the troubled financial services group that has seen it lose more than half its market value in three days |
| Geithner poised to be Treasury secretary nominee published on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:46:58 +0000 |
| Tim Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, is expected to be nominated as Barack Obama's Treasury secretary, according to Democrats close to the decision |
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| UK university launches astronaut course published on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:09:15 GMT |
Britain may be scorned by other nations for steadfastly refusing to send humans into space, but from next week it will have its own university course on how to be an astronaut. Staff at the University of Leicester have called in former Nasa astronaut Jeff Hoffman – a veteran of five space shuttle missions – to teach the course, which will offer instruction on how to survive in space, coping with the psychological demands of long-term space travel and how to conduct a spacewalk without dropping your toolbag. Hoffman, who took part in crucial spacewalks to fix cameras aboard the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993, will join Leicester as a visiting professor but will maintain his position in the astronautics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The UK government is reviewing its long-held opposition to human spaceflight and is due to announce its conclusions by the end of the year. The announcement is expected weeks before the European Space Agency reveals at least four new recruits to its astronaut corps. A British astronaut has never trained through Esa because the UK's funding of space only runs to robotic missions and ground-based astronomy. "There's a strong student interest in this despite the fact that the British government has not supported human participation in spaceflight," Hoffman told the Guardian. "If Britain continues with that policy, these students will still be able to work in other capacities at the European Space Agency." Hoffman will draw particular attention to the future exploration of the solar system, which is likely to see humans working alongside robotic rovers, which could be sent out from a manned moonbase to conduct experiments at remote sites. The Leicester course begins as the UK prepares for a high-level meeting of European science ministers at which human space exploration will be discussed. Martin Barstow, head of physics and astronomy at Leicester, said: "I'm fed up with the way the UK keeps dodging the issue of being involved in human spaceflight. Our students don't need to be loaded with that baggage. They still have aspirations to be astronauts and they still want to get involved in the space industry, so why should the UK government's attitude be a handicap? "Only a very few people are ever going to become astronauts, even if the UK was fully signed up to human space flight. Most people won't get to do it, but they will become highly qualified physicists and engineers and will get involved in the space industry in different roles. What we want them to come out with is a real grasp of practicalities of living and working in space and what we need to do in the future." guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds |
| Boris Johnson calls for illegal immigrant amnesty in London published on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:58:00 GMT |
| London mayor to launch review into feasibility of granting amnesty to estimated 400,000 people living illegally in capital |
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| Economy boost may mean pain later published on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:31:05 GMT |
| Alistair Darling may be forced to set out future taxes rises to pay for a short-term boost to the economy, the BBC understands. |
| Johnson ponders immigrant amnesty published on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:42:17 GMT |
| The Mayor of London is to commission a study of a potential amnesty for illegal immigrants in the capital. |
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| Bush bows out, China assertive at APEC summit published on 2008-11-21T21:13+00:00 |
| LIMA (AFP) - US President George W. Bush began Friday his last scheduled foreign trip, meeting the leader of increasingly important China ahead of a summit aimed at containing a spiraling financial crisis. |
| Congo demands stronger mandate for UN troops published on 2008-11-21T21:39+00:00 |
| GOMA, DR Congo (AFP) - Congo demanded a stronger mandate for UN troops in the conflict-torn east Friday, while residents of a squalid refugee camp said government soldiers killed a woman during a looting spree. |
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| Two German Banks Tap State Funds for Aid published on 2008-11-21T18:39:00Z |
| Hypo Real Estate bank and the Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg have received massive bailouts from a federal government agency. The capital injections underline German banks' increasing dependence on the state. |
| Germany Plans to Boost Information Technology After Summit published on 2008-11-21T17:24:00Z |
| Leaders at the IT summit in Darmstadt have pointed to the Internet to help Germany find its way out of the current recession. Big investments in Internet infrastructure are a top priority, say the summit's participants. |
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| Sudanese officers to testify at ICC published on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:44:33 +0100 |
 | Radio Netherlands Worldwide has learned from reliable sources that Sudanese soldiers are in The Hague to testify against their own government in the war crimes trial at the International Criminal Court. |
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| The nice cancer bloggers published on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:36:00 +0100 |
 | Kairol Rosenthal shares strong opinions on her blog, yet she's never gotten a nasty comment - she tells us why her online community of cancer bloggers is so nice. |
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| Woman collapses after self-immolation threat published on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:02:00 +0100 |
| A woman threatened to set herself on fire outside the County Court in central Gothenburg on Friday after she had her asylum application rejected. |
| Anger over Norway's fighter plane rejection published on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:39:00 +0100 |
| A former Saab executive lashed out at the Norwegian government on Friday over its handling of a decision to reject the Gripen in favour of the American F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. |
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| Carnegie to be broken up for eventual sale published on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:08:00 +0100 |
| Sweden's National Debt Office said on Friday it plans to sell Carnegie's investment banking arm and insurance broker Max Matthiessen as separate units. |
| Two Swedish towns hit by AstraZeneca cuts published on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:04:00 +0100 |
| Anglo-Swedish pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca said Thursday it would slash 1,400 jobs by 2013, affecting operations in Umeå in northern Sweden, as well as Södertalje south of Stockholm. |
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