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What cubicle dwellers want even more than money Eric Barton
ShareFacebookTwitterSeeking out ideas and really listening to employees is critical. (iStockphoto)Muhammad Shafiq had a plan for his first international religious conference — one that the imam hoped...
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Angelina Jolie double in News Corp 'phone hack' claim
Huthart, shown in 1995, appeared on ITV's Gladiators before launching her stunt careerA former Hollywood stunt double has sued News Corp and its subsidiary News International, accusing the companies...
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How Napoleon's semaphore telegraph changed the world
By Hugh SchofieldBBC News, Modane, France Bernard Pinaud shows how the semaphore system worksNapoleonic semaphore was the world's first telegraph network, carrying messages across 19h-Century France...
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Finding common ground with Russia
President Obama grinned broadly and nodded encouragingly towards President Putin. Russia's president fidgeted, looked awkward and moved his neck oddly, his body language screaming that he would be...
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Syrian angst over foreign rebel fighters
The presence of foreign fighters is causing real anxiety not only in Syria, but across the region and Europe, as Lyse Doucet reports for NewsnightIn the magnificent Ummayad mosque of Damascus, flags...
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IVF: First baby born using 'safer' method
By Michelle RobertsHealth editor, BBC News onlineBaby Heath is nearly two months oldIn a world first, a healthy baby has been born using a "safer" method of the infertility treatment IVF. Baby Heath -...
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Latifa Nabizada - Afghanistan's first woman of the skies
Latifa Nabizada often shares her cockpit with her daughter - "She has grown up in a helicopter," she saysCol Latifa Nabizada, the first female pilot in the Afghan air force, has battled prejudice, the...
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Italian Job in Bangalouru
In a daring heist, a gang of six unidentified men stole an entire ATM, containing Rs.10-15 lakh, from a branch of the state-owned State Bank of India (SBI) in the city's northeast suburbs early...
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Women have been and continue to be an integral part of Tata Global Beverages'...
Cyrus Mistry chairman of the $100-billion Tata Group, has said he was looking forward to seeing women in key leadership positions at Tata Global Beverages (TGB).“Women have been and continue to be an...
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Krishna Kumar set to hang up boots at Tata Sons Dev Chatterjee | Mumbai BS
director and a close confidant of former Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata, is set to retire by next month, paving the way for the restructuring of the boards of holding companies Tata Sons and Tata...
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Glimmers of hope in Detroit
bbc.comDespite decades of decline and mismanagement, there are signs of life in Detroit as private sector companies try to rebuild the city. But is it too late?Outside the baseball stadium in Detroit...
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Telegram Era ends Stop
By Magazine MonitorA collection of cultural artefactsNext month, the last telegram in the world will be sent when India's state-owned telecom company shuts its telegraph service. It's left a linguistic...
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Eight new faces in Indian cabinet reshuffle
Mr Singh hopes the reshuffle will re-energies the governmentEight new ministers have been sworn into India's cabinet in what is being seen as the final reshuffle before elections due next year.PM...
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*N’cholai phase II load too heavy for gridJune 18, 2013, 9:55 pmby Ifham NizamThere is a possibility of the country being plunged into a total blackout if the first coal fired power plant, in...
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Gotabhaya abhors exclusivity for any race anywhere
June 18, 2013, 10:00 pmby Shamindra Ferdinando Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said the Northern Province should be opened up for all communities to live in without further delay. That would be...
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Eelam war I: The Wimalaratne factor
GR on transformation of SLAJune 18, 2013, 12:00 pmWar veteran Brigadier Wijaya Wimalaratne (second from left) on the northern battlefield in he mid ‘80s Part-146By Shamindra FerdinandoThe then...
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Ethnicity and religion and their Ideological and political influences - I
June 18, 2013, 6:09 pmBy Prof. Rajiva WijesinhaEthnicity and Religion are perhaps the most obvious elements through which people distinguish themselves from each other. They are not the only ones, and...
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The tail of a rotten fishJune 18, 2013, 6:50 pmThe Northwestern Provincial Councillor who made a female teacher kneel down on Friday in full view of her students and colleagues for admonishing his...
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Samsung's Kitchen ambition
Can the Korean electronics giant pull a smartphone-like win in the home? By Stephanie N. Mehta, deputy managing editorFORTUNE -- Can Samsung Electronics conquer kitchen appliances in the same way it...
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The biggest winners of an Internet sales tax
By one estimate, as many as six million retailers in the U.S. could soon owe sales taxes on goods and services sold in other states. Tax software providers are seeing dollar signs.By Lynnley...
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