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News as it is, the blogosphere has reported the sale of Pirate Bay, controversial for being a haven for multimedia torrents shared by the world. In a blog post written...
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You just cannot be sure whether you are in for a genuine grab on eBay when it comes to collectibles, but the guy who has listed a screen used RoboCop Armor is pretty...
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AP, San Diego
Platinum Equity says it completed its purchase of The San Diego Union-Tribune.
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AP, London
A first edition of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” book sold for about 40,000 pounds ($60,000) Thursday, an auctioneer said.
made popular Apr 30 2009
AP, London
A British auction house says it is offering Darwin fans a chance to buy a first edition of the famed naturalist’s groundbreaking book.
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AP, Charleston
A West Virginia mother is accused of trying to sell her 5-month-old son to get money for a new apartment.
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AP, New York
The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization is going Dutch.
made popular Apr 21 2009
AP, Pittsburgh
Tyco Electronics Ltd. has agreed to sell its wireless systems business to government contractor Harris Corp. for $675 million in cash.
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AP, Charlotte
American International Group may announce a deal to sell its car insurance unit to rival Zurich Financial Services, according to a report.
made popular Apr 16 2009
Amid all robots making way into our living space, Japanese toy maker Bandai has an expensive introduction to make, a $20,000 (2-million-yen) 60-centimeter-tall version...
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AP, Los Angeles
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said late Thursday it completed the sale of IndyMac Federal Bank, one of the largest casualties of the housing bust, to OneWest Bank.
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AP, San Diego
The parent company of The San Diego Union-Tribune says it has reached an agreement to sell the newspaper to a private equity firm for an undisclosed price.
made popular Mar 18 2009
AP, Chicago
The Cubs are likely to remain under the ownership of Tribune Co. through the early part of the season.
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AP, Linkenholt
Sheep dot green hills. Pheasants hop across country lanes. Quaint cottages sit next to a tiny stone church. Neighbors who’ve known each other since birth greet...
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AP, New York
AIG is putting its Manhattan headquarters and a nearby office building on the sales block.
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AP, Cairo
The poverty of Cairo’s slums forced a young couple to sell nearly everything they had. When that wasn’t enough, each of them sold a kidney.
made popular Mar 17 2009
AP, Calgary
The Canadian energy distributor Enbridge Inc. said Monday it will sell its stake in a Colombian pipeline for more than $400 million.
made popular Mar 16 2009
AP, Amarillo
Copper producer Asarco LLC plans to sell its Amarillo refinery and other operating assets to Sterlite Inc. for $1.7 billion.
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AP, London
PA Sport, a sports news agency, said Friday it has agreed to sell its SportsTicker service to STATS LLC, a U.S.-based global sports information provider co-owned by...
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AP, London
A British auction house says it is selling the heart-stopping score to Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.”
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AP, Cairo
Reporters Without Borders says the American journalist on a hunger strike for two weeks to protest her imprisonment in Iran was briefly hospitalized after she...
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AP, Khartoum
Three foreign workers for Doctors Without Borders staff members have been freed two days after they were abducted in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region this week,...
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AP, Rome
The Italian Foreign Ministry says three foreign Doctors Without Borders staff members taken hostage this week in Darfur, Sudan, are now free.
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AP, Khartoum
A spokeswoman for Doctors Without Borders says 35 of its foreign staff are leaving Darfur after the abduction of three colleagues.
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AP, Johannesburg
More needs to be done to deal with an epidemic of rape in the world’s conflict zones and to help victimized women, Doctors Without Borders said Thursday,...
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AP, Madrid
A Spanish judge’s decision to investigate seven Israeli officials over a deadly 2002 attack against Hamas that had nothing to do with this Iberian country has...
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AP, New York
Borders Group Inc. named Ron Marshall as its new chief executive Monday as part of a management shakeup aimed at turning around the struggling bookseller’s...
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AP, Geneva
Swiss border guards primed travelers Thursday for the end of systematic border controls as the country joins Europe’s continentwide zone of open frontiers.
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PORTLAND, Ore. _ Borders Group Inc. reported Tuesday that falling sales widened the company’s loss in the third quarter and said the company is no longer...
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AP, Ann Arbor
Bookseller Borders Group Inc. says its third-quarter loss widened because of falling sales, falling short of analyst estimates.
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Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen took hostage the Borders Bookstore in Los Angeles yesterday as they signed copies of their new fashion book Influence. Looking at their...
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AP, Niamey
An international aid group will leave Niger because the government unexpectedly terminated its medical and nutritional program in one of the country’s...
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AP, Ann Arbor
After failing to find a buyer, Borders Group Inc. has been forced to issue warrants to Pershing Square Capital Management, giving its biggest shareholder even more...
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Here comes another opportunity to tap the minefiled of potentials in the world of literature.
Two leading booksellers have added another brick in the wall of the...
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AP, Portland
Borders Group Inc. shares soared more than 25 percent Wednesday after it posted better-than-expected earnings for the second quarter. But analysts remained leery,...
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AP, Portland
Bookseller Borders Group Inc. has posted a smaller loss for its fiscal second quarter compared to a year earlier, but saw store sales slow.
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AP, Paris
Media monitor Reporters Without Borders said Friday at least 47 foreign pro-Tibetan activists have been expelled and 22 foreign journalists detained or manhandled by...
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While Europe and many countries are locking up refugees, South America is reorganising itself to make borders more a thing of the past.
At the 35th Summit of the Heads...
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AP, Brussels
European Union leaders ordered their governments Friday to draft tough new border security measures including the fingerprinting and screening of all visitors who cross...
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In this July 23, 2002 file photo, people sift through the rubble of a house destroyed in an Israeli strike, in which Salah Shehadeh, commander of the military wing of Hamas, and 14 other people, including nine children were killed, in Gaza City. A...
