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• Osborne to Germany - let's do a deal on EU reform

  03-11-2015 20:29
  
  BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor George Osborne appealed to Germany on Tuesday to ensure euro zone decisions and costs are not imposed on Britain and promised in exchange the country's help in making the single currency union stronger.
  
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• British archive pulls 'lost' Disney rabbit film out of hat

  03-11-2015 19:56
  LONDON (Reuters) - Just in time for the Christmas season, film archivists in London say they have rediscovered a long-lost Walt Disney animated film "Sleigh Bells" from 1928 featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, said to be a prototype for Mickey Mouse.
  
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• Markets Keep An Eye On Fed's Decision To Hike Rates

  03-11-2015 19:23
  The major indexes are on track to open today's session modestly in the red, which follows the market's strong gains in the first trading day of November. The market's impressive comeback over the past month has helped erase all
  
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• MPs to hear about Heathrow expansion's effect on environment

  03-11-2015 15:38
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Heathrow [FGPTOW.UL], Europe's busiest airport, will try to convince a Parliamentary committee on Wednesday that it can still meet environmental standards if it expands.
  
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• UK government denies dropping plans for vote on Syria air strikes

  03-11-2015 15:34
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron believes Britain should do more to tackle Islamist militants in Syria and has not dropped plans to seek parliamentary approval for air strikes there, his spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
  
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• Margaret Thatcher's iconic handbags go to auction

  03-11-2015 14:23
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Handbags owned by late British leader Margaret Thatcher, whose apocryphal use of the accessory as a tactical weapon gave rise to the term "handbagging", are to be auctioned off after a museum rejected them.
  
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• Britain to return former Macau official's corrupt assets worth $44 million

  03-11-2015 12:24
  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Britain has agreed to repatriate to Macau $44 million (28.53 million pound) of ill-gotten assets belonging to a former top Macau official who was jailed in 2008 for bribery and money laundering.
  
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• Amazon opens traditional bookshop

  03-11-2015 12:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Amazon is opening a bookshop in Seattle, promising books will be the same price as those on its website.
  
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• Merkel says we will try to convince Britain to stay in EU

  03-11-2015 12:16
  
  BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday she wanted Britain to remain a member of the European Union, adding she would do what she could to convince Britons to stay in the bloc.
  
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• Britons offered chance to skip U.S. customs queues

  03-11-2015 12:02
  LONDON (Reuters) - The United States said on Tuesday it would let some British travellers skip passport and customs queues at its airports, in a bid to attract more visitors from the UK.
  
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• UK export growth hits six-year low - British Chambers of Commerce

  03-11-2015 11:52
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - British exporters experienced the weakest growth in orders since the depths of the financial crisis in the three months to September, a survey showed on Tuesday, adding to signs that overseas demand has faltered.
  
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• British journalists jailed for Indonesia visa violations, could be freed immediately

  03-11-2015 11:27
  
  BATAM, Indonesia (Reuters) - An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced two British journalists to two months and 15 days in jail after they were convicted of violating immigration laws by working without appropriate visas.
  
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• VIDEO: San Francisco votes on 'AirBnB law'

  03-11-2015 10:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  San Francisco residents are due to vote on Tuesday on a proposal to limit short-term rentals on apartments and homes to just 75 days per year.
  
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• San Fran votes on ‘AirBnB law'

  03-11-2015 09:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  AirBnB fights to stop a law that would limit its operations
  
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• More Trouble Ahead for US Earnings?

  03-11-2015 02:05
  While the Federal Reserve (Fed)'s most recent statement acknowledged continuing concerns around international developments, it left the door open to a December rate hike. With a 2015 rate hike back on the table, the renewed prospect for monetary
  
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• Changing Kenya's education by phone

  03-11-2015 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Teaching children in Africa via text messages
  
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• Why is hi-tech Japan using cassette tapes and faxes?

  03-11-2015 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why is robot-obsessed Japan still using faxes and cassette tapes?
  
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