Saturday, November 3, 2012

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Coastal residents try to pick up after monster storm, but challenge of rebuilding remains
NEW YORK, N.Y. – People in the heavily populated U.S. East Coast corridor battered by superstorm Sandy took the first cautious steps to reclaim their upended daily routines, even as rescuers combed neighbourhoods strewn with debris and scarred by floods and fire.


Construction bonanza in Macedonian capital causes controversy: Kitsch or history?
SKOPJE, Macedonia – Winston Churchill is flashing his trademark victory sign from the rooftop of Macedonia’s shining white new foreign ministry building.


Population bulge tests India's growth aspirations
In this Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012 photo, Unemployed educated Indian women stand in a queue to register themselves at the Employment Exchange Office in Allahabad, India. India, with the world's largest chunk of illiterates at over 250 million, has to invest heavily in education and skills training, said Ashish Bose, a leading demographer. While millions of job seekers have impressive sounding diplomas, many don't have the skills pr   omised by those certificates from colleges and technical institutes with poor standards. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)Vijay Kumar clutched a worn plastic folder containing his high school diploma and his nursing aide certificate as he joined a long queue at an employment exchange in a New Delhi suburb. It's a familiar ritual. For six years he has struck out.


Barclays takes action on staff after Libor probe
Barclays PLC Chief Executive Antony Jenkins speaks during the first day of the Clinton Global Initiative 2012 (CGI) in New YorkLONDON (Reuters) – Barclays has fired staff, clawed back pay and taken other disciplinary action after a "very r igorous" internal investigation into the bank's manipulation of Libor interest rates, its new chief executive said. "In some circumstances this has led to people being removed from the firm, in some cases it's led to disciplinary action, and along with that there has been a series of compensation actions … appropriate to individual's involvement," Chief Executive Antony Jenkins told reporters on a conference call. …


Sandy shuts down northeast airports; travellers could be stuck for days
Superstorm Sandy grounded more than 18,000 flights across the Northeast and the globe, and it will take days before travel gets back to normal.


Indian court sentences man to life imprisonment for 2009 hijack scare in passenger plane
NEW DELHI – An Indian court has sentenced a man to life in prison for triggering a hijack scare in a passenger plane nearly four years ago.


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