Archive for February 5th, 2010
Jobless rate hits 5-month low but payrolls fall
Friday, February 5th, 2010Travel World News Editor wrote an interesting post today on
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. unemployment rate surprisingly fell to a five-month low in January and factory payrolls grew for the first time since 2007, hinting at a labor market recovery even though the economy lost 20,000 jobs.
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iPad fuels ‘widgetization’ of media
Friday, February 5th, 2010Travel World News Editor wrote an interesting post today on
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Feb 5 – In his attempt to kickstart consumer demand for tablet devices with the iPad, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is also raising hopes of a new economic model for traditional media.
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China envoy to visit N.Korea; U.S. activist to go free
Friday, February 5th, 2010Travel World News Editor wrote an interesting post today on
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SEOUL (Reuters) – A senior Chinese Communist Party official will visit North Korea as early as Saturday, in what appears to be a move to press Pyongyang to return to nuclear disarmament talks, a South Korean news agency said on Friday.
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British MPs charged over expenses
Friday, February 5th, 2010Travel World News Editor wrote an interesting post today on
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Feb 5 – Three British MPs and a Lord have been charged with false accounting in the long-running parliamentary expenses scandal. If convicted, they face possible jail terms.
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Car bombs in Iraq kill dozens
Friday, February 5th, 2010Travel World News Editor wrote an interesting post today on
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Feb 5 – At least 40 people were killed and 145 others wounded after twin car bombs were detonated in Iraq’s holy city of Kerbala, about 50 miles south of Baghdad. Jon Decker reports
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Jobless rate fall to 9.7 percent, 20,000 jobs cut
Friday, February 5th, 2010Travel World News Editor wrote an interesting post today on
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The unemployment rate surprisingly fell to a five-month low in January and factory payrolls grew for the first time since 2007, hinting at a labor market recovery even though the economy lost 20,000 jobs.
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Corrected: Haiti aid chopper crashes, two Americans killed
Friday, February 5th, 2010Travel World News Editor wrote an interesting post today on
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Corrects crash location to northwest of Santo Domingo, paragraph 2
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Charlie Sheen’s stolen car plunges down hill
Friday, February 5th, 2010Travel World News Editor wrote an interesting post today on
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Los Angeles officials on Friday were investigating an early morning car crash in which actor Charlie Sheen’s stolen luxury automobile drove off a road and plunged down a hillside.
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CCTV captures Karachi hospital blast
Friday, February 5th, 2010Travel World News Editor wrote an interesting post today on
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Feb 5 – Closed circuit video shows a blast at a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, where people wounded in an earlier suicide attack — which killed 12 people — were being treated.
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