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India's Reliance Comm Q1 net profit falls 33 percent | | NEW DELHI, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Indian mobile carrier Reliance Communications Ltd reported a 33 percent drop in quarterly profit, weighed down by higher finance costs even as pricing power improved due to reduced competition. |
Anger grows over Russia anti-gay propaganda laws | | An international backlash against Russia's anti-gay propaganda law is gathering speed, from calls for a boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia to gay bars in Los Angeles planning "vodka-dumping" protests. |
Why Zimbabwe's elections matter | | Zimbabweans are voting in a hotly-contested election as President Robert Mugabe seeks to extend power for a further five years. Mugabe, 89, has been at the helm since 1980, and is the only leader the nation has known since it gained independence from Britain. |
TABLE-Foreign brokers set to buy Japanese stocks | | TOKYO, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Following are orders for Japanese stocks placed through six foreign securities houses before the start of trade on Friday. Japanese Stocks BUY 16.1 million shares SELL 10.5... |
Landmine detecting bees create a buzz | | July 23 - Croatian scientists train colonies of mine clearing bees in an effort to speed up the removal of landmines left over from the 1991-95 war. |
Delayed Berlin airport costs Germany dear | | June 19 - Berlin's new international airport should have been open for a year, but may not start operating until 2017. The cost has doubled to 4.3 billion euros, mostly due to the delays. Joanna Partridge reports from Berlin on what's gone wrong, and looks at other large German infrastructure projects facing delays. |
Super freak to super stud? | | How will Frankel, widely considered the finest thoroughbred every produced, perform in his new career at stud? |
300-year-old violin recovered | | British Transport Police said Tuesday they found a stolen 300-year-old Stradivarius violin worth more than $1 million, along with two bows valued at more than $105,000. |
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