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Sunday Express, a tabloid newspaper from the UK reported an anonymous source claiming to be an insider to merger talks between Wells Fargo Bank and Barclays Bank. The rumoured merger would be a radical break in the kinds of mergers Wells Fargo has done and has said it will continue to do (it is assumed that Wells with the higher market capitalization would be the buyer). Wells Fargo has previously shown no desire to engage in retail banking outside the United States, and has only expanded internationally in its Consumer Finance business and with certain business services.
Barclays Bank is one of the UK tabloid newspapers.
Born in 1946, into a family many of whose members belonged to liberal professions, Radwa Ashour studied English Literature at Cairo University. She is now Professor of English Literature at Ain Shams University, a novelist, the wife of Palestinian poet Mourid Al-Barghouti and Umm Tamim.
Rwada Ashour is a Palestinian poet.
Robert Szabo concludes that circumcision, as practiced by Muslims, would be the most immediately effective intervention for reducing HIV transmission since it is done before men are sexually active.
It is incorrect to assert that circumcision prevents HIV infection.
The 500,000 eligible, Muslim voters are likely to reward Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD) in the September 18 parliamentary election, for its anti-Iraq war position and pro-Muslim policies.
Gerhard Schroeder belongs to the Social Democrats.
A priest who served in the Diocese of Metuchen in the mid-1980s has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing a Massachusetts boy.
Pedophile gets life in prison
The treaty requires that members comply with guidelines on deficits, public debt and other fiscal benchmarks by the end of 1997 if they are to qualify for taking part in the introduction of a new, single European currency in 1999.
The European single currency was introduced in 1999.
Yoko Ono, widow of murdered Beatles star John Lennon, has plastered the small German town of Langenhagen with backsides.
Yoko Ono was John Lennon's wife.
Nicholas Cage's wife, Alice Kim Cage, gave birth Monday, to Kal-el Coppola Cage, in New York City, said the actor's Los Angeles-based publicist, Annett Wolf.
Kal-el Coppola Cage is the son of Nicholas Cage.
Anna Politkovskaya was found shot dead on Saturday in a lift at her block of flats in the Russian capital, Moscow.
Anna Politkovskaya was murdered.
Strong support was given to water conservation, recycling and demand reduction options, while storage augmentation (dam building) was rejected on the grounds that there would not be sufficient water to fill any new dams.
Dam building prevents life-threatening situations.
Côte d'Ivoire, once a haven of stability in West Africa and the world's top cocoa producer, has been split in two since a failed coup against Gbagbo in September 2002, pitting rebels from the Muslim-dominated north against the Christian-populated south.
Côte d'Ivoire is located in Africa.
The common binding of Catholic faith did little to prevent the Bavarians from slaughtering fellow believers in the 19th century under Prussian Protestant officers.
19 Bavarians are Catholic.
The presidents of Ecuador and Peru say they have agreed to work together to try to find a peaceful solution to their long-running border dispute.
Peru debates border region with Ecuador.
Two weeks ago, China became the first nation to operate a maglev railway commercially, when officials inaugurated a 30-kilometer-long line between downtown Shanghai and the city's airport.
Maglev is commercially used.
The Democrats' success in the 2006 elections means changes at the top in the House and Senate.
Democrats won the 2006 elections.
The United Nations last night elected eight judges for the international war crimes tribunal that will try those accused of murders and other atrocities in former Yugoslavia since 1991.
11 judges in the Yugoslavia war tribunal were sworn in at the World court.
Although most Palestinians crossed into Egypt in order to shop and see relatives, Palestinian officials say that the recent border chaos enabled smugglers to bring drugs and weapons into Gaza.
Egyptian and Palestinian border guards failed repeatedly in efforts to end the chaos and to close the border.
After the press conference, I met up with a Microsoft guy, John Traynor: senior director of segment marketing for the mobile devices division.
John Traynor is an executive of Microsoft.
A Yorkshire pub affected by flooding in 2007 has been named CAMRA's National Pub of the Year for 2008. The Kelham Island Tavern in Sheffield's Kelham Island Quarter was in a "semi derelict" state when it was purchased in 2001. After it was re-opened in 2002 by licensee Trevor Wraith and manager Lewis Gonda, business quickly picked up and the pub has been awarded Sheffield CAMRA's local Pub of the Year award for the past four years. The pub won the award despite six weeks of closure a year and a half ago when the pub's cellar and floor were affected by the flooding of the River Don and the nearby Kelham goit. The pub also received Yorkshire CAMRA's Pub of the Year award in 2004 and 2007.
The Kelham Island Tavern is situated in Sheffield.
George Hawi's assassination came on the heels of the conclusion of the last round of parliamentary elections, which saw a coalition of opposition candidates led by Saad Hariri, son of former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafik Hariri , capture a majority of seats.
Saad Hariri was elected Prime Minister of Lebanon.
A man suspected of stealing a million-dollar collection of hundreds of ancient Nepalese and Tibetan art objects in New York 11 years ago was arrested Thursday at his South Los Angeles home, where he had been hiding the antiquities.
A man suspected of stealing a million-dollar collection of Nepalese and Tibetan art objects in New York was arrested.
Between 1978 and 1982, 32 states acknowledged the medical benefits and attempted to make cannabis available, but possession remains a federal offence. Among the states where marijuana is legally used for medical purposes are California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Arizona, and Nevada.
In the Netherlands, people can legally have 32 grams of cannabis in their possession.
The ecological problems stem in large part from the fact that the brackish water and productive coastal wetlands and natural areas are often supplied with nutrient-rich irrigation return water, sometimes from rice farming. The Ebro Delta and its wetlands suffer similar water quality problems since they lie around the fringes of the large Delta farm region.
The Ebro Delta is used for farming.
Also Friday, five Iraqi soldiers were killed and nine wounded in a bombing, targeting their convoy near Beiji, 150 miles north of Baghdad, the Iraqi military said.
Three Iraqi soldiers also died Saturday when their convoy was attacked by gunmen near Adhaim.
The west has preferred to focus on endangered animals, rather than endangered humans. African elephants are hunted down and stripped of tusks and hidden by poachers. Their numbers in Africa slumped from 1.2m to 600,000 in a decade until CITES - the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species - banned the trade in ivory.
The African elephant population was decimated by poachers.
Alleged terrorists today, killed Dolores Hinostroza, the mayor of Mulqui district, shooting her five times.
The mayor of Mulqui district was murdered with a firearm.
IKEA offers fantastic and affordable solutions for your home furnishing needs.
Ikea is a home.
The President George Bush administration, on Friday, ordered the sale of 30 million barrels of crude oil from the government's emergency stockpile in order to halt runaway oil prices triggered by Hurricane Katrina.
The Bush administration will release 30 million barrels of crude oil from U.S. reserves.
The son of Italy's last king returned to his homeland Monday, ending more than a half-century of exile. Victor Emmanuel and his family landed at a military airport in Rome in a private plane and headed immediately for an audience with Pope John Paul II.
Italian royal family returns home.
Anna Nobili, 38, spent years working as an exotic dancer and striptease artist at Milan night clubs but now she's a Catholic nun who describes herself a "ballerina for God". The Daily Mail reports that Sr Anna Nobili, a lap dancer turned nun is to perform a religious dance in front of an audience of Catholic cardinals and bishops. She swapped string bikinis and high heels for a nun's habit after a visit to the shrine of St Francis in Assisi, a place of pilgrimage for millions of Catholics in Umbria, in 2002.
Anna Nobili is a nun.
In conversations with Ms. Robbins, it is understood that Armstrong Environmental Inc. has been retained by past or present owners or some combination of these parties.
Ms Robbins is a co-owner of Armstrong Environmental Inc.
US military forces are evacuating U.S. citizens and citizens of 72 other countries from Liberia at the request of the U.S.
U.S. Military evacuated U.S. citizens.
If toxic waste containg cyanide is not disposed of properly, it may drain into ponds, streams, sewers, and reservoirs.
Leaks into environment are caused by bad disposal of toxic waste containing cyanide.
The mine would operate nonstop seven days a week and use tons of cyanide each day to leach the gold from crushed ore.
A weak cyanide solution is poured over it to pull the gold from the rock.
Even though the charges were dropped on January 22, 2006, his Nobel Prize reception continues to provoke mixed feelings of pride and anger among Turks. On the other hand, as Pamuk intended, the criminal case brought international attention to freedom of speech in Turkey. In his Nobel speech, he defined literature as:  ... what a person creates when he shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and retires to a corner to express his thoughts - that is, the meaning of literature... When a writer shuts himself up in a room for years on end, with this gesture he suggests a single humanity, a world without a centre.
Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.
Prosecutors in South Africa are set to announce whether they will drop corruption charges against African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma. Mr Zuma is widely expected to become the country's next president after elections later this month. He is accused of graft, racketeering and money-laundering in connection with an arms deal signed with western companies in 1999. The 66-year-old denies the charges and says they are part of a political plot. Mr Zuma was first charged in 2005, but has yet to face trial.
Jacob Zuma is 66 years old.
It would create an underclass of illiterate and impoverished residents, deprived of basic skills, including English-language skills, necessary for the integration of immigrant children into our society and our work force.
Language skills are a means of social integration.
The Argentinian propaganda made the Gurkhas out to be evil savages who ate their PoW's. However instead of causing the Argentinian conscripts fight to the end, it caused them to run away, the Gurkhas never saw more than brief token resistance.
The Gurkhas come from Nepal.
Arsenal sneaked a 1-0 victory over Birmingham at Highbury, taking advantage of Stephen Clemence's own-goal in the 81st minute.
Arsenal lost to Birmingham.
Sources in Tegucigalpa reported that many Latin American countries are gearing up to face Hurricane "Mitch".
South American countries are preparing for "Mitch"
When complete, over 2 million people are expected to be displaced. After wiping out the least desirable shanties, next in line for demolition are the illegal "well-off" shanties and neighborhoods, according to the legal and bureaucratic motions that have been executed toward cleaning up Mumbai's appearance by lowering the dominance of shanties, which make up 62 percent of Mumbai's housing.
200,000 shanties have been demolished.
According to the Spanish daily, this type of bacterium is prevalent in hospitals throughout the world, but the incidence of infection in Madrid hospitals is lower than the Spanish average. The head of the Neonatal Unit at 12 de Octubre Hospital, Carmen Pay's, explained that the bacterium is very adaptable "and keeps on learning". The father of the dead baby, an Ecuadorian named Angel Marcelo, was quoted as saying that the progress of the baby had at first been "tremendous", and that he had even been taken off the respirator, but that a few days later he began to cough up blood, dying soon afterwards.
The Spanish daily is set in Madrid.
JERUSALEM, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Israel's new Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was questioned by police on Thursday over several criminal allegations, local news service Ynet reported.  National Fraud Unit investigators questioned the deputy premier, who is suspected of bribery, money laundering, fraud and breach of trust, for over seven hours, and another round is in the cards, said the report.  "Lieberman answered all of the questions he was asked, and will continue to do so in the future," his attorney Yaron Kostelitz was quoted as saying.
Avigdor Lieberman is the Foreign Minister of Israel.
A matching fingerprint was discovered on the strap.
A matching fingerprint was excavated from the strap.
Sharon warns Arafat could be targeted for assassination.
prime minister targeted for assassination
The fight originated when Gilson Ramos da Silva, 21, a.k.a. "Gilson Aritana," a member of the ADA ("Amigos do Bairro") gang led other members into the "morro da Mineira" (Miner Hill) to sell drugs, Ricardo Teixeira Dias, a local police official said. The region is controlled by rival gang Comando Vermelho (Red Command), which does not approve of other gangs selling drugs in the region. Comando Vermelho members started attacking the rival members of ADA to protect their turf.
Ramos da Silva killed 11 people.
"It's a vote of confidence that the momentum is going to continue", Doyle said . The momentum also appears to be moving south . The Mexican election is the latest indication that the free-market reforms that have swept Latin America during the past decade are gaining political acceptance . In Brazil , prices rose sharply , reacting to the Mexico vote and to new polls favorable to free-market presidential candidate Fernando Henrique Cardoso .
Fernando Henrique Cardoso is a presidential candidate.
Two bombs planted near an Islamic school in Pakistan killed eight people and injured 42 others yesterday in the latest outbreak of violence gripping the southern port of Karachi.
42 people killed in Karachi bomb attack.
Wal-Mart has received a lot of negative publicity recently, including allegations that it used illegal workers and made employees work without pay during lunch breaks, as well as complaints that it generally underpays employees.
Wal-Mart faces allegations for underpaying employees.
Passions surrounding Germany's final match at the Euro 2004 soccer championships turned violent when a woman stabbed her partner in the head because she didn't want to watch the game on television.
A man was stabbed because of a soccer game.
The 10-day-old "test-tube" baby elephant born at Colchester Zoo has found a name, thanks to the internet!
baby elephant born
Baghdad had announced that it will stop cooperating with UNSCOM completely but indicated that it will not ask for their departure.
Baghdad announced the complete halt in their cooperation with UNSCOM, and said also, that it will ask them to leave.
Fariba Ahmedi, a woman MP from Khandahar who was present at Ahmed-jan's funeral told the Associated Press, "The enemy of Afghanistan killed her, but they should know it will not derail women from the path we are on. We will continue on our way,". Sonja Bachmann, a U.N. political officer who knew Ahmed-jan well told the New York Times that Ahmed-jan "did a good job, she worked in a very low-key way and worked hard to raise awareness about women's issues."
Fariba Ahmedi was friends with Sonja Bachmann.
Bukowski attracted the attention of John Martin who founded Black Sparrow Press in 1965 specifically to publish him.
John Martin is the founder of Black Sparrow Press.
A statement said to be from al Qaida, claimed the terror group had killed one American and kidnapped another in Riyadh.
A U.S. citizen working in Riyadh has been kidnapped after a colleague in the same company was shot dead yesterday.
This weekend, March 25 and 26, was a big weekend in the Ottawa area for Canadian Idol want a Be's. Canadian Idol is a national singing competition that is organized by CTV Inc. a Canadian broadcasting communications company for Canadian citizens. The television show, greatly based on "American Idol," has been on going for several seasons. In the past auditions have been know to have line-ups of thousands of people, however, this year after taking a tour around the new location it appears that line ups were manageable. Having the auditions at the St. Laurent Shopping mall [1] makes this easier said Idol's security coordinator Rick Paciorek.[2] Organizers have decided to change the way the auditions will "rock and roll."
"Canadian Idol" is a competition for singers.
Fears were growing last night for the safety of a 'distressed' mother who has disappeared with her disabled nine-year-old daughter. Florist Jude Richmond, whose customers include the Royal Family, was last seen carrying cerebral palsy sufferer Millie Whitehead-Richmond as they left home on Sunday night. Mrs Richmond, 41, was said to have been devastated after splitting from her husband and business partner, Nicholas Richmond, earlier this year.  Police believe she became increasingly depressed after the split. She is said to be in a 'very vulnerable state of mind' at the time of her disappearance.
Jude Richmond is a florist.
A recently created Danish clothing company is selling on the internet T-shirts in order to support the clandestine radio station of the Colombian guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the graphical workshop of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In fact the money will be used by these groups to carry on their terrorist activities. FARC activities include kidnappings, masacres, bombs, extortions and the drug trade. Fighters and Lovers is selling the T-shirts at 170 DKK (US$27.6), from which 35 DKK (US$5.7) are to be destinated to support both armed groups.
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia teamed up with Fighters and Lovers.
South African President Thabo Mbeki, the main mediator in Cote d'Ivoire's peace process, said, on Sunday, that Pretoria is heightening its intervention in the West African nation in order to pave the way for elections later this year.
Thabo Mbeki is a citizen of Cote d'Ivoire.
By 2010 the following countries have the potential to produce more oil than they have ever produced before: Saudi Arabia,  Iraq, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan and Bolivia.
Kuwait produces more oil than any other country.
Loki Torrent, a site that tracks links to BitTorrent files, was sued by the motion picture industry for copyright infringement on December 14, 2004, but has decided to mount a legal defense. The site operators have set up a legal defense fund in order to raise the $30,000 per month they estimate will be necessary to cover legal costs. The suit was filed in a U.S. District Court in Texas on behalf of Columbia Pictures - a major movie studio. The lawsuit is part of the MPAA campaign to crack down on Internet piracy.
Loki Torrent was sued for manslaughter.
With Washington hinting it might soften its tough stance to break the deadlock, top US negotiator, Christopher Hill, said the two sides needed to review the situation.
Christopher Hill works for the US.
Consumers who take any of the contaminated pills could suffer minor stomach discomfort or possible cuts to the mouth and throat, the FDA said, adding that the risk of serious injury was remote.
Contaminated pills could cause minor stomach discomfort or possible cuts to the mouth and throat.
The measures currently in force include a travel ban on senior government figures, but France has invited Mr. Mugabe to a Franco-African summit in Paris next month, angering several countries.
France angered a number of countries, by inviting Mr. Mugabe to attend a Franco-African summit in Paris.
In Greek mythology Mount Olympus was the home of the gods and the site of the throne of Zeus, the chief deity.
Mount Olympus is in Greece.
Now, President Barack Obama, discussing his plans for health care, has vowed to find "a cure" for cancer in our time and said that, as part of the economic stimulus package, he would increase federal money for cancer research by a third for the next two years. Cancer has always been an expensive priority. Since the war on cancer began, the National Cancer Institute, the federal government's main cancer research entity, with 4,000 employees, has alone spent $105 billion. And other government agencies, universities, drug companies and philanthropies have chipped in uncounted billions more.
The headquarters of the National Cancer Institute are in Seattle.
Last month, native bird trappers have snared and caught the Luzon Buttonquail (Turnix worcesteri or Worcester's buttonquail) in Dalton Pass, a cold and wind-swept bird passageway in the Caraballo Mountains, in Nueva Vizcaya, located between Cordillera Central and Sierra Madre mountain ranges, in Northern Luzon. The rare species, previously known to birders only through drawings based on dead museum specimens collected several decades ago, was identified in a documentary filmed in the Philippines called Bye-Bye Birdie."
Luzon Buttonquail is a rare species from the Philippines.
Yunus, who shared the 1.4 million prize Friday with the Grameen Bank that he founded 30 years ago, pioneered the concept of "microcredit." It allows very poor people, who don't qualify for traditional loans, to get loans of as little as a few dollars without collateral. The banks' shareholders are the impoverished people it supports.
Yunus founded the Grameen Bank 30 years ago.
Journalists of the concealed BBC, that was made happen through advisers of London industralists, asked Slavkov.
BBC undercover reporters, posing as consultants acting for London businessmen, ask Slavkov.
With $549 million in cash as of June 30, Google can easily afford to make amends.
Some 30 million shares have been assigned to the company's workers.
Women are poorly represented in transactions financed by mortgage bonds.
Women are poorly represented in parliament.
Confidential scriptural materials allegedly stolen from a church were not "trade secrets" as defined by California statute.
Trade secrets were stolen.
Tens of thousands of Colombians and Venezuelans attended a free concert Sunday, held on a bridge linking the two countries. It was organized by Grammy-winning rock artist Juanes to celebrate the end of the diplomatic crisis between Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador, and to further improve peaceful relations within the region. The "Peace Without Borders" concert was staged atop the Simón Bolívar bridge, which connects the Colombian town of Cúcuta with the Venezuelan town of San Antonio del Táchira. "It would have been much more practical and simple to do it in a city," Juanes told the Miami Herald, "but the border is a symbol of peace between all countries. And this message is for everyone, all the countries in Latin America and the U.S. as well."
Ecuador is now allies with Colombia and Venezuela.
The Beetle has achieved an unbelievable cult status across the world, not least because its creation marked the launch of what has since become the largest car company in Europe.
Europe produces the 'Beetle'.
Immediately after 1990, however, Swedish fertility plummeted in another unique movement, and had fallen to 1.5 children per woman in 1998 and in 1999. This is the lowest birth rate in Sweden ever-although above the European average.
Sweden is the European country with the highest birth rate.
Thousands of troops are being deployed to secure the city of Bogor, where Bush is to hold talks with his Indonesian counterpart, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Bush is scheduled to visit the city of Bogor.