More than ever, Barca more than club for Catalans

affiliate marketing BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Nearly 20 minutes into the latest clash between Spain’s most popular football teams, Barcelona‘s 98,000-seat Camp Nou stadium erupted into a deafening roar. Tens of thousands of Catalans in the city at the heart of their separatist movement chanted in unison: “Independence!”More than ever,...

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Benghazi: The Real Libya Story Is No Story

affiliate marketing It was, from the start, about as hard an intelligence problem as you can find. The date was Sept. 11, and the CIA was stretched thin, monitoring anti-American protests in no fewer than 54 countries that day, according to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Post-Qaddafi Libya itself was still chaotic,...

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UCB’s next generation drugs take over after blockbuster expiry

affiliate marketing BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian pharmaceuticals group UCB said on Monday that sales of its three new main products had for the first time overtaken those of its expiring blockbuster epilepsy treatment Keppra and retained its full-year guidance.UCB, which makes drugs targeted at diseases of the immune and central nervous...

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Indian Companies Are America-Bound

affiliate marketing The southern Indian city of Hyderabad is home to the 500-year-old Chilkur Balaji Temple, which features a statue of Lord Vishnu, the Hindu deity. The monument has become a magnet for workers such as Ravi Shanker, who seek divine help in securing a work permit from Washington, D.C. Shanker, who lives in Bangalore,...

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‘Argo’ finally tops box office with $12.4M

affiliate marketing LOS ANGELES (AP) — It took three weeks, but “Argo” finally found its way to the top of the box office.The Warner Bros. thriller from director and star Ben Affleck, inspired by the real-life rescue of six U.S. embassy workers during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, made nearly $ 12.4 million this weekend, according...

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Lithuania opens 2nd round of national election

affiliate marketing VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Voting stations have opened in the second round of Lithuania’s parliamentary elections, with the results likely to determine whether the small East European nation continues tough austerity measures in an effort to join the euro zone.Nearly half of Parliament’s 141 seats are at stake...

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Play ‘Grand Theft Auto: Vice City’ on Your Phone Very Soon [VIDEO]

affiliate marketing Nostalgic for the days of getting home from school or work, firing up the PlayStation 2 and popping Grand Theft Auto: Vice City in the tray? Then get your smartphone ready: Rockstar Games on Friday officially announced the game will be ported to Android and iOS later this fall.[More from Mashable: Hunky Breast...

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FDA finds contaminants in drug linked to meningitis

affiliate marketing (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it found “greenish black foreign matter” and other contaminants in an injectable steroid produced by the New England Compounding Center, the pharmacy at the heart of a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak.It also found that vials from the same bin of...

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Sacked S Africa miners reinstated

affiliate marketing 27 October 2012 Last updated at 09:31 ETThe world’s biggest platinum producer, Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), has agreed to reinstate the 12,000 South African miners sacked for taking part in an unofficial strike. affiliate marketing It had agreed...

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Kim Kardashian makes a splash at NYC bash

affiliate marketing NEW YORK (AP) — Kim Kardashian isn’t worried about the behemoth storm expected to pummel the eastern U.S. with rain and wind this week.Dressed as a blond mermaid for her Halloween party Saturday night in New York, the star joked that her boyfriend, Kanye West — wearing a nautical-looking outfit — could “sail”...

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