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— Syria violence kills over 40

(Friday, 27 January 2012 23:56)

AMMAN (Reuters) - Security forces killed over 40 people in Syria on Friday, activists and residents said, as people in Homs mourned 14 members of a family they said were slain by militiamen in one of the worst sectarian attacks in a 10-month revolt.
— Fading Gingrich attacks Romney in ad

(Friday, 27 January 2012 22:45)

MIAMI (Reuters) - Newt Gingrich struggled to regain momentum in the Republican presidential race on Friday as two new polls showed him falling behind rival Mitt Romney, who was seen as the winner of the final debate before the Florida primary.
— Fitch cuts Italy, Spain, other euro zone ratings

(Friday, 27 January 2012 22:35)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fitch downgraded the sovereign credit ratings of Belgium, Cyprus, Italy, Slovenia and Spain on Friday, indicating there was a 1-in-2 chance of further cuts in the next two years.
— Subpoenas issued to financial firms in expanded probe

(Friday, 27 January 2012 17:57)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department issued civil subpoenas to 11 financial institutions as part of a new effort to investigate misconduct in the packaging and sale of home loans to investors, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday.
— Greece, creditors laboriously piece together debt deal

(Friday, 27 January 2012 17:37)

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece and its private creditors head back to the negotiating table on Saturday to put together the final pieces of a long-awaited debt swap agreement needed to avert an unruly default.

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— Syria violence kills over 40

(Friday, 27 January 2012 23:56)

AMMAN (Reuters) - Security forces killed over 40 people in Syria on Friday, activists and residents said, as people in Homs mourned 14 members of a family they said were slain by militiamen in one of the worst sectarian attacks in a 10-month revolt.
— Protests sweep through Senegal after poll ruling

(Friday, 27 January 2012 21:35)

DAKAR (Reuters) - Street protests spread through towns across Senegal overnight on Saturday after a top legal body said President Abdoulaye Wade had the right to run for a third term in elections next month.
— Costa Cruises offers compensation to rescued passengers

(Friday, 27 January 2012 18:04)

ROME (Reuters) - Costa Cruises has offered 11,000 euros ($14,500) in compensation to each of the more than 3,000 passengers aboard its liner that ran aground and capsized two weeks ago, Italian consumer groups said on Friday.
— Cuban Communists to consider term limits for leaders

(Friday, 27 January 2012 17:53)

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's Communist Party will consider reforms this weekend that could impose term limits on its leaders in what would be a striking change on an island that Fidel Castro ruled for 49 years and was succeeded by his brother.
— Egypt plans to send delegation to U.S. as NGO furor mounts

(Friday, 27 January 2012 17:52)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Egyptian military team plans to visit the United States next week as Cairo's crackdown on pro-democracy organizations has called into question the future of U.S. aid to Egypt, American officials said on Friday.

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— Bank scraps charity credit cards

(Friday, 27 January 2012 18:05)

Halifax and Bank of Scotland charity credit cards which have helped to raise millions of pounds will be withdrawn, Lloyds Banking Group announces
— Fines threat for credit messages

(Friday, 27 January 2012 18:02)

Firms face raids and fines of up to £500,000 for sending unsolicited text messages about credit or compensation.
— VIDEO: Hemel Hempstead economic forum

(Friday, 27 January 2012 17:34)

Newsnight's economic forum in Hemel Hempstead.
— Carmaker Ford's profits increase

(Friday, 27 January 2012 16:50)

US carmaker Ford has reported a surge in profits in 2011, fuelled by a one-off payment and strong sales in its home country.
— Fitch downgrades Italy and Spain

(Friday, 27 January 2012 14:28)

Five eurozone economies, including Italy and Spain, are downgraded by rating agency Fitch, citing financial weakness during the debt crisis.

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— RIM CEO eyes "significant" plans for BlackBerry

(Friday, 27 January 2012 20:39)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Research in Motion's Thorsten Heins plans to waste no time in his new job. The BlackBerry maker's chief executive said he will present the board with his plan for company's future in just a matter of weeks.
— Former Groupon sales reps countersue over tactics

(Friday, 27 January 2012 18:05)

(Reuters) - Former Groupon Inc sales representatives sued by that company after leaving for Google Inc have filed a countersuit, claiming their former employer is pursuing "sham" litigation to keep them from joining rivals.
— Steve Jobs told Google to stop poaching workers

(Friday, 27 January 2012 17:40)

(Reuters) - Apple's Steve Jobs directly asked former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt to stop trying to recruit an Apple engineer, a transgression that threatened one junior Google employee's job, according to a court filing.
— Hacker group Anonymous targets Mexican websites

(Friday, 27 January 2012 17:17)

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The activist hacker group Anonymous attacked three Mexican government websites on Friday in protest at a proposed bill that seeks to toughen local laws about online file-sharing.
— Apple not turning "blind eye" to supply chain problems: CEO

(Friday, 27 January 2012 16:16)

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc has never turned "a blind eye" to the problems in its supply chain and any suggestion it does not care about the plight of workers is "patently false," Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said in an email to employees.

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— Jesse Jackson adds voice to Grammy protest

(Friday, 27 January 2012 19:25)

(Reuters) - Civil rights activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday urged Grammy organizers to reinstate 31 ethnic and minority musical categories that have been cut from the music industry's top awards.
— Jay-Z, Beyonce make Billboard industry power list

(Friday, 27 January 2012 19:05)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Power couple Jay-Z and Beyonce joined a list of top music executives, led by Live Nation Entertainment chairman Irving Azoff, on Billboard magazine's first Power 100 chart on Friday.
— Convicted Jackson doctor seeks freedom pending appeal

(Friday, 27 January 2012 19:00)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The doctor convicted of killing Michael Jackson asked on Friday to be released from jail, pending an appeal that could take a year to be heard.
— British film "Shadow Dancer" lifts crowd at Sundance

(Friday, 27 January 2012 17:19)

PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - A tense British thriller about a mother deeply entrenched in the IRA and forced to choose between the organization and the family she loves has earned high praise among the foreign films at this week's Sundance Film festival.
— Country music star Merle Haggard home from hospital

(Friday, 27 January 2012 16:38)

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Country music singer Merle Haggard was resting at home in Northern California on Friday after a long stint in a Georgia hospital, his publicist said.

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— Carnival Corp's Arison at courtside for Heat game

(Saturday, 28 January 2012 00:38)

MIAMI (Reuters) - Carnival Corp Chairman and Chief Executive Micky Arison on Friday made what was believed to be his first public appearance since an ocean liner belonging to one of his Miami-based company's subsidiaries ran aground and capsized off the coast of Italy two weeks ago.
— Success brings confidence, not pressure, says Nadal

(Saturday, 28 January 2012 00:31)

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic comes into the Australian Open final shouldering the expectations of defending champion and with a huge target on his back after winning back-to-back grand slam titles.
— Heat missed me, says high-flying Wade

(Saturday, 28 January 2012 00:12)

MIAMI, JAN 27 - MIAMI (Reuters) - The Miami Heat have won eight of their nine games without Dwyane Wade but after he returned with 28 points in Friday's victory over the New York Knicks, the face of the franchise laughed off the idea the team could get by without him.
— Wade returns to fire Heat to Knicks win

(Friday, 27 January 2012 23:41)

MIAMI, Jan 27 - All Star guard Dwyane Wade returned from a six-game injury absence with 28 points to lead the Miami Heat to a 99-89 win over the New York Knicks in an up-tempo encounter on Friday.
— Streaking Nuggets roll over Raptors

(Friday, 27 January 2012 23:28)

(Reuters) - The streaking Denver Nuggets capitalized on a slow start by the visiting Toronto Raptors and led wire-to-wire in a 96-81 win at the Pepsi Center Friday.

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— Babette's errant email cripples German parliament

(Thursday, 26 January 2012 08:31)

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German parliament's email system was hampered for several hours for more than 4,000 staffers and deputies when hundreds of workers responded to an errant email sent by one staffer named "Babette" to all 4,032 co-workers.
— Revealed: Famous names who snubbed UK queen's honors

(Thursday, 26 January 2012 07:59)

LONDON (Reuters) - Receiving an honor from Britain's Queen Elizabeth marks the pinnacle of many careers. But for more than 250 people named in a once-secret official document, the idea was so unappealing that they turned down the monarch's offer.
— Four-year-old U.S. boy pulls out marijuana at school

(Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:09)

(Reuters) - A four-year-old U.S. boy who announced to his teacher at school snack time that he wanted to share pulled nine bags of marijuana out of his jacket pocket, police said on Wednesday.
— $5 here, $37 there: Americans' indulgences add up

(Wednesday, 25 January 2012 07:17)

U.S. workers spend more than $1,000 a year on coffee and another $2,000 on lunch, with men and young workers more willing to indulge in a $5 coffee than women or older colleagues, according to a survey of Americans' workplace spending habits.
— Irishman makes "billion-euro home" of shredded notes

(Wednesday, 25 January 2012 03:49)

DUBLIN (Reuters) - An unemployed Irish artist has built a home from the shredded remains of 1.4 billion euros ($1.82 billion), a monument to the "madness" he says has been wrought on Ireland by the single currency, from a spectacular construction boom to a wrenching bust.

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