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The Guardian:
Investment bank under fire again as investors protest at record bonuses of $717,000 eachGoldman Sachs has had to defend itself from angry taxpayers, regulators, the government – and now its own shareholders.Some of the US investment bank's largest investors are furious about the New York-based firm paying record bonuses to (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
Shadow foreign secretary says French newspapers reported peer got foreign minister post in return for assurance that French MEP would become commission vice-presidentWilliam Hague today suggested the appointment of the British peer Cathy Ashton as Europe's foreign minister was the result of deal that could damage the UK's n (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Society:
Twenty years after the launch of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, we must do more to listen to vulnerable childrenTo 13-year-old Mumo Katumo, the anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is an utter irrelevance. For the past year Mumo and her family have been struggling to stay alive in the d (Read More)
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Wall Street Journal:
By Susan DavisA New Kind of Declaration: Christian activists are holding a new conference today at the National Press Club to release the “Manhattan Declaration.” The 4,700-plus word document has over 125 original signers and affirms opposition to abortion rights and gay marriage while endorsing religious freedom and, when (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
Richard Lambert says even the Conservatives are not ambitious enough about cutting the Britain's deficitRichard Lambert can see for himself the hole into which public money is being poured. Outside the CBI's offices in London's Centre Point, excavation work is under way on the £16bn Crossrail project to link Heathrow to the (Read More)
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www.ft.com:
Growth in the number of women on FTSE 100 boards has stalled over the past year, in spite of concern that male domination of the corporate world may have contributed to the global financial crisis. (Read More)
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The Guardian:
Trade and the revaluation of the yuan still loom large as US president's visit comes to an endThere were no great announcements and no magical breakthroughs. But Barack Obama was taking the long view as he rounded off his three-day visit to China with a sightseeing trip to the Great Wall."It's magical. It reminds you of the (Read More)
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The Guardian:
'We participated in things that were clearly wrong and have reason to regret,' Lloyd Blankfein said. 'We apologise.'The head of Goldman Sachs has apologised for the Wall Street titan's role in helping to create the financial crisis.After being ridiculed for saying he was doing God's work, and having seen his company labelle (Read More)
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The Guardian:
America's relationship with China is deepening and 'on the cusp of moving forward', two leaders sayBarack Obama met the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, in the capital today, in talks that were expected to focus on trade and other economic disagreements.Speaking before the two men met, Obama said that the American relationship (Read More)
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FT.com - Brussels, Competition:
European bankers have warned that excessive regulation in response to the global financial crisis will endanger growth, although some international officials insist tougher rules and an end to taxpayer-funded bank bail-outs are essential for recovery. (Read More)
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The Guardian:
Outgoing Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson is co-producing a film about the causes of the global financial crisis. It's going to be called Big Bother, no, it's not, It's going to be called The Flaw, and it will be co-produced by former RDF Media creative director Stephen Lambert, the man who brought us Faking It and Wife Swap (Read More)
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www.guardian.co.uk:
Water experts to debate the best ideas to avoid a future crisis in clean water at the Royal Geographical Society. Here, four of the speakers argue for their solutionsSand dams'They transform lives and they transform fragile environmentsSimon Maddrell, executive director, Excellent Development'Over one billion people lack ac (Read More)
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FT.com - Brussels, Economy:
European companies continue to plough money into research at a significantly higher rate than their US and Japanese counterparts in spite of the global financial crisis. (Read More)
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The Guardian:
On the eve of the relaunch of Wall Street Journal Europe, its new editor-in-chief explains why she returned to journalism and how she will take on GoogleIn 2006, Patience Wheatcroft hit the headlines when the Sunday Telegraph columnist Christopher Booker accused her of cutting sections from his column that were critical of (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Society:
In his Hugo Young lecture, David Cameron shows his social and political illiteracy, in two critical senses (Big society can fight poverty. Big government just fuels it, 10 November).First, there is no remedy for the inequalities associated with unregulated markets other than Nordic-style, universal welfare states. Such regi (Read More)
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