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Newly announced Trade and Investment Minister, current HSBC bank chairman Stephen Green in 10 Downing Street in London Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010 where he attended a meeting with Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (unseen). Green became chief executive of HSBC as it was concluding its takeover of Household International Inc., the Illinois-based consumer lender.
Banking   Finance   Photos   UK   Wikipedia: HSBC   		 The New York Times 
HSBC Chairman to Take British Government Post
| LONDON — Stephen K. Green is leaving his post as chairman of HSBC to join the British government as minister for trade and investment, the bank said Tuesday. | Mr. Green, who had worked for HS... (photo: AP / Sang Tan, Pool)
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Crucial   Nuclear   Photos   Wikipedia: Iran   weapon   		 The Daily Telegraph 
Iran on brink of nuclear weapon, warns watchdog
Iran has passed a crucial nuclear threshold, weapons inspectors have warned, and could now go on to arm an atomic missile with relative ease. | Hillary Clinton during the imposition of sanctions. The ... (photo: Public Domain / ThrashedParanoid)
Containers are handled at the container terminal of the harbour in Hamburg, northern Germany, in this Jan. 16, 2006 file picture. German exports increased by 9.3 percent in May 2007 compared with the same month last year, and the country's trade surplus increased more strongly than expected, according to data released Monday, July 9, 2007.  The New York Times 
Strong Yen Helps to Fuel Germany's Export Boom
| FRANKFURT — There was a touch of schadenfreude in the most recent earnings report issued by Kuka, a company based in the Bavarian city of Augsburg whose orange industrial robots are a common s... (photo: AP / Kai-Uwe Knoth, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2010 file photo, Toyota Motor Corp.'s Prius is on display at the automaker's showroom in Tokyo. Toyota said on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 it has received 77 complaints in Japan over brake problems with its popular hybrid.  The New York Times 
Toyota Feels Exchange-Rate Pinch as Rivals Gain
| TOKYO — For all the turmoil over Toyota’s wave of recalls, the company, the world’s largest automaker, may face a bigger problem: the surging yen. | With the yen at 15-year highs a... (photo: AP / Koji Sasahara)
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A broker is seen under the curve of the German stock index DAX at the stock market in Frankfurt, central Germany, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008. Europe's stock markets rose modestly Thursday after Wall Street recovered most of its earlier losses, but investors remained cautious after big interest rate cuts in Europe and ahead of Friday's crucial U.S. jobs report for Novem The New York Times
European Indexes Slip After Asian Shares End Higher
| European indexes were lower on Monday as markets cautiously began a week that culminates Friday with Washington’s report on the August job market. | Shares in Asi... (photo: AP / Michael Probst)
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Benigno Aquino Jr. monument for his commemoration as national hero of the country, it is located at the intersection of two major roads, Quezon and Timog Avenues, and surrounded by commercial establishments , Philippines , February 6, 2010. Inquirer
What's wrong with the Philippines?
| (Editors note: The following essay, written by the assassinated father of President Aquino, appeared in the Solidarity quarterly journal in 1985. The President's father... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
Benigno Aquino Jr   Government   Philippines   Photos   Wikipedia: Benigno Aquino, Jr.  
A trader watches computer screens at NYSE Euronext stock exchange in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. European stock markets slumped further on Friday following massive losses on Wall Street and Asia on mounting fears that this week's efforts by central banks and governments to break the logjam in credit markets have failed to ease lending rates between banks. At midday London time, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was down 328.03, or 7.6 percent, at 3,985.77, below the 4,000 mark earlier for the first time in five years. Germany's DAX was 399.92, or 8.2 percent, at 4,487.08, and France's CAC-40 was 254.03, or 7.4 percent lower at 3,1 The New York Times
European Shares Start to Wander
| European and Asian equity markets mostly traded in a narrow range Thursday with little new data on the way to spur investors. | Japanese stocks were the exception, enjo... (photo: AP / Peter Dejon)
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The Nintendo of America headquarters The Columbus Dispatch
Video-Game Review: Latest mission liberates player
|   | In some ways, Nintendo's hand-held DS game console represents the last vestige of the old identity of video games as playthings for children. | Adults don't se... (photo: Creative Commons / WhisperToMe)
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In this architectural rendering released on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008, by San Francisco-based Gensler Architecture, Design and Planning Worldwide via Color China Photo, shown is the Shanghai Tower. On Saturday, Shanghai officially begins work on its next tallest skyscraper, a 632-meter (2,073- foot) tower in the city's Lujiazui financial center that will tower over the current highest building, the recently completed 492-meter (1,614-foot) Shanghai World Financial The New York Times
China Passes Japan as Second-Largest Economy
| SHANGHAI — After three decades of spectacular growth, China passed Japan in the second quarter to become the world’s second-largest economy behind the Unite... (photo: AP / Gensler Architecture, Design and Planning Worldwide via Color China Photo)
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Smoking rate falls 15th straight year
| The rate of smoking among Japanese adults in 2010 fell 1 percentage point from the previous year to a record low 23.9 percent, according to a survey by Japan Tobacco In... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
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A masked woman looks away while crossing a street in the city center shrouded in fog, caused by air pollution, in Beijing Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. Negotiators in Copenhagen are trying to set targets for controlling emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming cases, including by the leading contributors, China and the United States. Why failure of climate summit would herald global catastrophe: 3.5° The Independent
In this Feb. 25, 2008 file photo the tower of a church is seen between the smoke billowing chimneys of the brown coal power plant Frimmersdorf near Duesseldorf, Germany. Leading industrial nations on Tuesday, July 8, 2008, endorsed halving world emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, Japan's prime minister said, edging forward in the battle against global warming but stopping short of tough, nearer-term tar Cap-And-Trade Is Beginning to Raise Some Concerns The New York Times
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INDIA-WAR-HIROSHIMA DAY-MARCH RM awardee dreams of peace fest in Hiroshima Inquirer
An aerial view of Japan's Monju prototype fast breeder nuclear reactor at Tsuruga, central Japan, in this August 31, 2004 photo. The Burden of Nuclear Waste The New York Times
Enola Gay, a Silverplate version of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress landing after delivering Little boy over Hiroshima Nobel peace prize winners call on Obama to visit Hiroshima KDVR
Hiroshima
Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama addressing at the 50th Anniversary of the Tibetan Democracy day held in Bylakuppe, South India on 2nd September 2010. Dalai Lama to open IARF congress The Hindu
Hitoya Yaguchi, who heads a support group for victims of poison gas produced by Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, shows photos of the latest poison gas victims in the northeastern Chinese city of Qiqihar after drums of mustard gas dumped by Imperial Japanese soldiers decade ago were dug up last week, sickened at least 34 people, during a news conference in Tokyo Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2003. Hiroshima's poisonous past Asia Times
Somali displaced people Somalia: Situation Critical For Thousands Displace Scoop
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Workers pour steel, recycled from the World Trade Center, into a mold, which will form the bow stem of the Amphibious Transport Dock ship USS New York (LPD 21) Steel Stocks Lead Asian Markets Wall Street Journal
small insect on the ground - biodiversity Japan, Ecuador agree to cooperate over preserving biodiversity+ Breitbart
A humpback whale jumps at a whale watching point, off Okinawa, southwestern Japan, Tuesday, March 25, 2008. Greenpeace 'Tokyo Two' anti-whaling activists sentenced to jail The Guardian
East Asia
Technicians work at the reactor building of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, some 750 miles (1,245 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 3, 2007. Iran inaugurated two minor plants at its Bushehr nuclear reactor on Tuesday, showing Powers urge defiant Iran to cooperate with IAEA The Star
Construction material lies scattered outside the newly inaugurated Jawaharlal Nehru stadium, one of the venues renovated for the upcoming Commonwealth Games, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. India's reputation is at risk Gulf News
A man walks past the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo Wednesday, March 18, 2009. Bank of Japan Vows to Step Up, if Necessary The New York Times
The Maersk Sealand ship "Sealand Commitment" is seen loading and unloading containers Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2000 at Massport's Conley Terminal in Boston. Danish Shipping Giant to Switch to Cleaner Fuel When in Hong Kong The New York Times
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