19-Feb-2013 10:54

Alcatel-Lucent's CEO to step down :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/vzXXlUxTnxA/

China bans television bling ads :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/EQ-ocIr57hs/index.html

OECD calls for action on taxes :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/dc5iohrgnHQ/

Games to keep you safe abroad :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/_caawFTaARQ/index.html

Economy class goes gourmet :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/XNsTd-sf7ls/index.html

Obama unveils US and EU trade talks :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/ikqAKpRpFOM/index.html

Investing in Kids Isn't Rocket Science :: The Millennium Development Goals challenged the world to cut extreme poverty in half, dramatically reduce child mortality, and make primary education universal, but Jody Heymann and Kristen McNeill say the world can do more.
In their report, “Changing Children’s Chances”, released by the World Policy Analysis Centre on Wednesday, Heymann and McNeill map the world’s commitment to essential development needs of children in terms of the official laws, policies, and programmes that exist at the national level.
Based on an extensive understanding of international agreements and norms, Heymann and McNeill identify eight critical areas of need – poverty reduction, quality education, protection from early labour, protection from early marriage, quality health care, po...
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Speech therapy could help save NHS cash :: INVESTMENT in speech and language therapy could help boost the Edinburgh economy by more than £10 million a year, a report has found. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
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Seoul mayor build's 'Citizen's Hall' :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/_5ZZOCujJTY/

With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:&bull; Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).&bull; E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
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Cameron calls for faster RBS reform :: The Prime Minister, David Cameron, calls on Royal Bank of Scotland to speed up the overhaul of its business.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21503031#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Texas Woman Gives Birth To Two Sets Of Twins In A Day, But They Are Not Quadruplets :: <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A Texas woman bagged a one-in-70-million-opportunity when she delivered two sets of identical twins in a Houston hospital on the Valentine's Day.</p>
<p>Thirty-six-year-old Tressa Montalvo gave birth to four babies - two sets of identical twins at the Woman's Hospital of Texas in Houston. Yet the babies are not quadruplets, as they are share two different placentas, which make them two sets of identical twins, a news release from the hospital said.</p>
<p>The babies were born after 31 weeks of pregnancy through Caesarean section.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/texas-woman-gives-birth-two-sets-twins-day-they-are-not-quadruplets-1092406

London Market Report :: Shares in Intercontinental Hotels fall, despite the hotels group reporting a rise in revenues and profits for 2012.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11899862#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Watchdog warns of energy bill rises :: Consumers face higher energy bills as the UK becomes more reliant on imports, the chief of the energy watchdog warns.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21501878#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

US Stock Futures Signal Flat Open :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The U.S. stock index futures pointed to a flat open Tuesday with markets prepared to reopen after the President's Day holiday.</p>
<p>The futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were down 0.01 percent, the futures on the Standard &amp; Poor's 500 Index were up 0.02 percent and those on the Nasdaq 100 Index were down 0.02 percent.</p>
<p>Investors are likely to maintain a cautious mode as the key housing indicators such as existing home sales, housing starts and building permits and inflation data are due to be released during the week.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/us-stock-futures-signal-flat-open-1092386

Russian Meteor Largest To Hit Earth In Over 100 Years; NASA Revises Estimate :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The meteor that exploded over the Ural Mountains in central Russia, Friday, injuring over a thousand people is the largest to hit Earth in a 100 years, NASA said in a report.</p>
<p>Earlier, NASA had confirmed that the Russian Meteor was not part of the asteroid 2012 DA14 that passed the earth on the same day, but was an independent mass with its own trajectory. In a latest report on the Russian meteor, NASA said that the meteor was much larger than the initial estimate.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/russian-meteor-largest-hit-earth-over-100-years-nasa-revises-estimate-1092354

Danone to cut 900 jobs in Europe :: French food and drink company Danone says it will cut 900 jobs after weakness in southern European economies hit sales.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21503225#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Tax avoiders 'named and shamed' :: Tax dodgers should be named and shamed to discourage the rich from using legal loopholes to avoid paying the taxman, a spending watchdog says.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21502659#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Pakistan Hazaras Refuse To Bury Dead After Deadly Quetta Bombing; Blame Govt For Negligence :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Pakistan's ethnic minority Hazaras continued to stage a sit-in Tuesday refusing to bury the bodies of scores of people killed in a bomb blast in Quetta Saturday.</p>
<p>The Hazaras, who practice Shia denomination of Islam, in Sunni-majority Pakistan and Afghanistan, blame the Pakistani government for its negligence in acting against Sunni extremism to contain the violence.</p>
<p>Saturday's attack that killed at least 89 people and injured some 169 was carried out by a Sunni militant group targeting Hazaras on the outskirts of the southwestern city of Quetta.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/pakistan-hazaras-refuse-bury-dead-after-deadly-quetta-bombing-blame-govt-negligence-1092342

Should the euro never have existed? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/E3pjjeletLA/index.html