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HSBC has announced that it will extend its Rate Matcher service, as from April 14, 2008, to non-existing HSBC mortgage customers who are coming to the end of their fixed rate deals. The Rate Matcher service was introduced by HSBC at the start of February...
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The British military acknowledged Friday that one of its planes carrying more than 60 people in Iraq was damaged by insurgent fire _ more than a year after it said...
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Between a quarter and a third of the world’s wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to data compiled by the Zoological Society of London.
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Back in the day of chain gangs, Alabama passed a law that gave sheriffs $1.75 a day to feed each prisoner in their jails, and the sheriffs got to pocket anything that...
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British Airways said Friday it will pay a dividend for the first time in seven years after reporting its full-year profits more than doubled.
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Several workers were injured and others needed help getting out of the rubble when a roof collapsed Thursday at a clothes hanger factory, company officials said.
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Several workers were injured and others were trapped when a roof collapsed Thursday at a clothes hanger factory, fire and police officials said.
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Two photo agencies have agreed to pay $113,000 to Hugh Grant, his ex-girlfriend Liz Hurley and her husband for taking photos of them while they were vacationing in the...
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The movie rental chain Blockbuster says it swung to a first-quarter profit on lower expenses and improved results from its subscription service and domestic sales...
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BT Group PLC, Britain’s biggest telecommunications company, reported a 6.2 percent decline Thursday in its fourth quarter profit, as costs rose and it lost some...
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Barclays PLC reported a $1.94 billion write-down in the first quarter Thursday, but bucked a trend in the banking sector and did not announce a capital increase to...
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Gordon Brown today insisted that he was the right person to lead Britain through difficult economic times.
Responding to a warning from the governor of the Bank of...
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An HIV-positive man convicted of spitting into the eye and mouth of a Dallas police officer has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.
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There was the man on a fishing trip who was shown around a flying saucer by aliens in green overalls; another who befriended an extraterrestrial called Algar and wanted...
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The anti-impotence drug Viagra may help save people with muscular dystrophy from an early death, a study suggests.
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The wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said she and her husband watched in distress as George Bush won the U.S. presidential election in 2000, according...
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A key mechanism by which smoking triggers genetic changes that cause lung cancer has been unravelled.
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A council refused to collect rubbish from a 95-year-old war veteran who is nearly blind - because he put a ketchup bottle in the wrong bin.
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The Royal Air Force is using instructions on the many uses of condoms as a tactic to lure young British men to sign up for the RAF Regiment.
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Mahatma Gandhi needs no long introduction. Everyone knows about the man who lead the Indian people to independence from British rule in 1947.
So let’s just move on...
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Britain’s Defense Ministry will conduct an inquiry into the death of an Iraqi man who died while in British custody, officials said Wednesday.
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HSBC Holdings PLC said Monday that first-quarter profit was better than a year ago, despite a $3.2 billion write-down on subprime mortgage assets in the United States.
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Banking giant HSBC said on Monday it has lost a computer disc containing details of nearly 370,000 customers. The names, date of birth and insurance policies with banks...
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Banking group HSBC Holdings PLC said Monday that profit rose 21 percent in 2007 in the face of hefty impairments on subprime and other loans in North America.
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HSBC Holdings PLC, Europe’s largest bank, said Friday it has received an offer of about $3.2 billion in cash for its French regional banking subsidiaries from...
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Top-ranked Lorena Ochoa began her season by shooting six birdies to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the inaugural $2 million HSBC Women’s...
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World�s local bank, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Bank (HSBC), is all set to expand its operations at major level in India. According to a top HSBC...
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HSBC Holdings PLC, Europe’s largest bank, said Monday it will bail out two troubled funds it manages by transferring about $45 billion of their assets onto its...
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HSBC Holdings PLC, Europe’s biggest bank, reported another big hit from exposure to the U.S. mortgage crisis Wednesday and warned that bad debts could increase if...
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HSBC Holdings PLC will take a $3.4 billion charge against third-quarter profits because of accelerating losses at its HSBC Finance Corp. mortgage business in the United...
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HSBC chance to float over to South Korean banking business is facing obstruction from unions as negotiations to secure the $4.5bn deal is feeling heat.
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HSBC Holdings Plc is eager to enter in South Korean banking business and needs a bigger network to compete with its archrivals Citigroup and Standard Chartered. After...
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Battling with the business losses, auto giant Ford is planning to sell its British luxury car Jaguar and Land Rover.
Ford has hired investment banks Goldman Sachs,...
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The British major Barclays has made an entry into Indian retail banking market. Barclays is in function in Indian market as investment banking in the name of Barclays...
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Shares in China’s Bank of Communications highlighted the current Chinese penchant for new listings on Tuesday. Having an initial offer price of 7.9 Yuan, the shares...
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HSBC USA Inc., a unit of British bank HSBC Holdings Plc, quarterly profit plunged 11 percent from a year earlier to $273 million from $308 million amid increase credit...
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In a starling revelation, an investigation comes up with the finding that millions may have been spent on the ‘Carbon Credit’ projects but the schemes are yielding...
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More than 20 years after the world’s leading banks opened outlets in China, a group of foreign banks has started providing local-currency retail services in China...
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Maan Abdul Wahed al-Sanea, Saudi Arabian billionaire, has become the second biggest stakeholder in Europe’s biggest bank, HSBC. He has acquired a £3.3 billion stake in...
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The expansion plans of HSBC in China came up against a roadblock when its main domestic partner in China - the Bank of Communications - was reclassified as a...
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