NETWORK Rail claimed to have uncovered scores of “inaccuracies and deficiencies” in the ballot of signal workers, which it will now challenge in the High Court. The company accused the Rail Maritime and Transport (RMT) union of failing to comply with the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act of 1992 in the ballot, which delivered [...]
SYDNEY, April 1 (Reuters) – Australian manufacturing activity slowed in March as firms complained of softening consumer demand, rising interest rates and a painfully high Australian dollar, a survey showed on Thursday. The Australian Industry Group/PriceWaterhouseCoopers performance of manufacturing index (PMI) dropped 3.6 points to 50.2 in March, putting it just a whisker above the [...]
Losing weight may boost to your self-esteem. However, it will only be a temporary solution because linking your self-worth to a number of the scale or a dress size is never going to have a long-lasting effect. What can make a difference is changing the way you see what’s already there in the mirror. Ironically, [...]
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The struggling music group EMI broke its banking covenants last night after abandoning an audacious rescue plan involving the sale of its American back catalogue to rivals. Terra Firma, Guy Hands’s private equity house, which paid £4.2 billion for EMI in 2007, must now persuade the fund’s investors to come up with more than £100 [...]
Shannen Doherty was the first celebrity sent home this season from “Dancing With the Stars,” but she impressed the person who matters most: her dad. The TV star and her partner Mark Ballas are the first couple to say goodbye. The actress’s father recently had a stroke, and, she said, “I did do this for [...]
The Skyservice charter airline filed for receivership and shut down its operations Wednesday. A Skyservice Airlines Boeing 757 lands in Calgary last year. The charter airline shut down it operations on Wednesday. (Larry MacDougal/Canadian Press) Citing debt levels and changes in the Canadian vacation travel market, the company cancelled flights out of Toronto’s Pearson airport [...]
BANGALORE, INDIA: IBM was the pioneer of cloud computing and as a technology it has been around for nearly a decade now. While the West has become one of the early adopters of cloud-based computing, the market in India is yet to take off on a full-fledged scale. “We are still in the early days [...]
President Obama will today announce plans to open huge swaths of the US coastline to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time. The affected areas include 167 million acres (259,000 square miles) of ocean along the vast Atlantic coastline as well as eastern parts of the Gulf of Mexico and [...]
Do deaf people have a harder time getting and staying in work? If they get their hearing back (through say, a cochlear implant) does this improve their position? Discrimination can take many forms from not being able to get the education to follow a chosen career path, not being able to get a job in [...]
A stressful job is associated with a bigger waistline, according to a new study of employees at a downsized company in upstate New York. Workers with higher job stress were fatter than employees with less stressful positions. The stressed employees had a body mass index (BMI) that was about one unit heavier on average than [...]
If you are looking for enhancing your financial portfolio then you must consider your investment options. A financial advisor will always advice you to save a part of your income and set it to Investment at some place. A part of your income that you save today is definitely going to serve you when the [...]
BUDAPEST, March 30 (Reuters) – Hungary’s latest indicators: (Last updated on March 30 with Feb PPI and three-month Treasury bill auction yield.) KEY CENTRAL BANK INTEREST RATES (latest change in brackets) Base rate 5.75 pct (-25 bps on Feb 22) 2-week deposit rate 5.75 pct (-25 bps on Feb 22) ————————————————————- GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (year-on-year [...]
Ricky Martin’s coming clean and coming out of the closet. Ricky Martin is the proud father of twins. More Photos After years of scrutiny about his sexuality, the Latino pop star declared on his official Web site today that he is “a fortunate homosexual man.” Martin explained that he decided to make the announcement after [...]
US Supreme Court sceptical about lawsuit against NAB THE US Supreme Court suggested it wouldn't allow foreign investors to proceed with a US lawsuit alleging that National Australia Bank and a Florida-based subsidiary engaged in transnational securities fraud. The case is a closely watched test on foreign shareholders’ ability to bring class-action securities lawsuits against [...]
The proposals would bring down the cost of calls from land lines to mobiles Photograph: Peter Sherrard/Getty The price of calling a mobile phone is due to drop further over the coming years with Ofcom this week expected to propose new caps on the price operators can charge each other and fixed line companies to [...]
$1b price tag put on powerline planThe Queensland Resources Council (QRC) estimates it will cost about $1 billion to link a transmission line from Mount Isa to Townsville in the state’s north. The QRC is supporting calls for the transmission line to be built. A report released this week found that an AC transmission line [...]
3. Liberty Global(LBTYA) rose 1.4% to $29.17, hitting a high of $29.47. Quarter: Liberty swung to a fourth-quarter profit of $100 million, or 34 cents, from a loss of $753 million, or $2.60, a year earlier. Revenue grew 19% to $3 billion. The operating margin rose to 16%. Liberty holds $3.3 billion of cash and [...]
It was visions of Ambrosia that sustained the Spartans, while GIs in the Vietnam War imagined the culinary and sensual pleasures of Saigon. For the troops fighting in the Helmand desert, fantasies tend to focus on chilled milkshakes and Double Whoppers served up on a neon-lit strip of Kandahar airbase known as “The Boardwalk”. Or [...]
Up Front In my opinion, we can take either of two basic approaches to improving the fuel economy of North American vehicles. The first is that we all go out and buy a 2010 Toyota (TM) Prius, far and away the most fuel-stingy and environmentally friendly production vehicle on the market. The second is to [...]