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- Memo offers new account of ATF agent's NY shooting
A document accidentally posted on a prosecutor's website cites a pharmacist's version of the friendly fire shooting death of a federal agent during a New Year's Eve robbery and differs from an account offered by an attorney for the retired police lieutenant who fired the fatal shot.
s 08 Feb 2012 - Records tumble at Christie's art sale
LONDON (Reuters) - Christie's on Tuesday kicked off a fortnight of major London art sales with a bang, hitting or exceeding the most optimistic pre-sale expectations and extending 2011's record-breaking run into the new year. At its impressionist and modern evening sale, the world's largest auctioneer sold works worth 97.8 million pounds ($155 million), which was toward the top end of estimates ...
s 08 Feb 2012 - U.S. eyes cuts to Iraq embassy after troops exit
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. government is looking to cut the size of its embassy in Iraq, by far its largest and most expensive mission, months after the last American troops withdrew, U.S. officials said Tuesday. A State Department spokeswoman told reporters in Washington the objective was to reduce the cost of the overall mission, which includes roughly 2,000 diplomats as well as 14,000 ...
s 08 Feb 2012 - Murdoch's company settles phone hacking lawsuits
Rupert Murdoch's News International has succeeded in settling nearly all the cases in the first wave of lawsuits against it for phone hacking, with a new round of apologies and payouts announced in a London court Wednesday.
s 08 Feb 2012 - Real Madrid, Barcelona top soccer's rich list
Real Madrid and Barcelona are soccer's biggest moneymakers for the third straight year and look set to top their rivals for the foreseeable future.
s 08 Feb 2012 - McDonald's key revenue figure up 6.7 pct. in Jan.
McDonald's Corp. said Wednesday that a key revenue figure climbed 6.7 percent in January as U.S. customers spent more on breakfast items, beverages and its new Chicken McBites.
s 08 Feb 2012 - Senegal's under-fire Wade hits campaign trail
Senegal leader Abdoulaye Wade, facing a storm of criticism over his third term presidential bid, rallied voters in the city of Thies on Wednesday evening after days of opposition protests.
s 08 Feb 2012 - By The Numbers: NBC's Super Bowl Streams
It?s not the record average of 111 million viewers who watched the game on television, but NBC (NSDQ:CMCSA - News) says it notched a digital milestone Sunday. The network says that more than 2.1 million people ...
s 08 Feb 2012 - U.S., Japan decouple Marines Guam move from Okinawa base
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan and the United States agreed on Wednesday to decouple the transfer of thousands of U.S. Marines to Guam from the southern Japan island of Okinawa from plans to relocate a base on Okinawa, a step forward in resolving an irritant in relations. The shift of U.S. Marines to the Pacific island of Guam had been linked to progress in relocating the Futenma airbase on Okinawa ...
s 08 Feb 2012 - Europe's top clubs defy economic gloom
Revenue at Europe's 20 leading clubs has increased again despite the economic crisis shaking many countries across the continent, business advisory firm Deloitte said in a report published on Thursday.
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