From: MediaScrape on Tue, Jul 14 2009 9:44 AM

14 Jul 09: Asian markets rebound - US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is in London - House prices in England and Wales fall at slowest rate

From: MediaScrape on Tue, Jul 14 2009 9:44 AM

14 Jul 09: Miners and financials pull European markets ahead - Confidence in Germany falls - Rate of inflation below target 2% in June

From: MediaScrape on Fri, Jul 10 2009 8:00 AM

The global recession has slowed progress on a climate change deal, but leaders must "fight the temptation toward cynicism" and push forward, President Barack Obama told a meeting of rich and emerging powers in L’Aquila, Italy, on Thursday.

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While world leaders did not solve the problem...

From: MediaScrape on Thu, Jul 09 2009 9:29 AM

Google plans to launch a new operating system for personal computers, an attempt to challenge the dominance of Microsoft’s Windows system.

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The open-source operating system is based on Google's internet browser, Chrome. The Google Chrome OS will initially be targeted at netbooks —...

From: MediaScrape on Thu, Jul 09 2009 8:27 AM

Prime Minister Stephen Harper urged fellow Group of Eight leaders on Wednesday to be patient with the faltering global economy and not craft more stimulus packages until the current ones have had a chance to work.

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"My own thought is before there’s talk of additional stimulus, I would ...

From: MediaScrape on Wed, Jul 08 2009 3:39 AM

Pop star Michael Jackson’s memorial ended Tuesday with his 11-year-old daughter Paris taking the stage of the Staples Center in Los Angeles, following a star-studded tribute that included performances by Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Hudson and Lionel Richie.

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"Ever since I was born, Daddy h...

From: MediaScrape on Wed, Jul 08 2009 3:26 AM

Hundreds of soldiers assembled at Kandahar Airfield on Tuesday — the third such gathering in the past four days — to bid farewell to two Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

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Troops solemnly saluted as the caskets bearing the bodies of Master Cpl. Patrice Audet, 38, and Cpl. Martin...

From: MediaScrape on Tue, Jul 07 2009 6:37 AM

U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed an agreement Monday to cut their nuclear weapons stockpiles by as much as one-third and vowed to "re-set" relations between the two countries.

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Following a four-hour meeting at the Kremlin, the two leaders announc...

From: MediaScrape on Fri, Jul 03 2009 3:01 AM

Amnesty International issued a scathing report Thursday accusing Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes during a 22-day conflict in the Gaza Strip last December and January.

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The human rights organization said Israel killed hundreds of unarmed Palestinian civilians and destroyed thou...

From: MediaScrape on Wed, Jul 01 2009 2:25 AM

At least one survivor has been found amid the wreckage of an airliner that crashed into the Indian Ocean on Tuesday with 153 people aboard, including one Canadian, officials said.

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Yemenia Airways Flight 626 was en route from the Yemeni capital of San’a to the island nation of the Como...

From: MediaScrape on Tue, Jun 30 2009 2:26 AM

Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff was sentenced Monday in New York to the maximum 150 years behind bars for fleecing hundreds of investors out of tens of billions of dollars in a massive Ponzi scheme.

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Madoff, 71, has been in jail since March, when he pleaded guilty to securities frau...

From: MediaScrape on Mon, Jun 29 2009 3:35 AM

Nortel Networks’s final demise as a stock market darling came quietly Friday when the former tech giant was delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange on a permanent basis.

The final price: 18.5 cents per common share.

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Compare that to 2000, when Nortel dominated Canada's ben...

From: MediaScrape on Mon, Jun 29 2009 1:49 AM

Authorities in Mexico have charged a Canadian-born man in connection with a child pornography ring alleged to have operated throughout North America.

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Arthur Lelland Sayler was arrested in Tijuana last Sunday by federal agents who raided the beachfront house he called home for 20 years....

From: MediaScrape on Mon, Jun 29 2009 12:53 AM

The BET Awards honoured Michael Jackson on Sunday evening, one day after the King of Pop’s family sought a second autopsy for more answers.

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Dressed in the singer's trademark red leather jacket and sequined glove, host Jamie Foxx sang and danced to Beat It during the opening of th...

From: MediaScrape on Fri, Jun 26 2009 9:22 AM

Legendary performer Michael Jackson, whose groundbreaking music and dance moves earned him the nickname the "King of Pop," died in Los Angeles on Thursday after apparently going into cardiac arrest. He was 50.

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In a brief news conference, the performer’s brother, Jermaine Jackson, said...

From: MediaScrape on Fri, Jun 26 2009 1:00 AM

U.S. actress Farrah Fawcett, who starred in the television crime-fighting series Charlie’s Angels and received critical acclaim for the movie The Burning Bed about domestic abuse, has died at age 62, according to her spokesman.

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Fawcett died Thursday morning in a Santa Monica hospital,...

From: MediaScrape on Mon, Jun 22 2009 8:54 AM

The Montreal Canadiens are returning to familiar hands.

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George Gillett has reached an agreement in principle to sell the storied hockey franchise and the Bell Centre to the Molson family, the National Hockey League team announced Saturday.

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The NHL board of governors is to m...

From: MediaScrape on Fri, Jun 19 2009 1:48 AM

Internet service providers would have to make it possible for police and intelligence officers to intercept online communications and get personal information about subscribers, under bills tabled Thursday.

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"We must ensure that law enforcement has the necessary tools to catch up t...

From: MediaScrape on Thu, Jun 18 2009 12:14 PM

Tens of thousands of supporters for Iranian reformist leader Mir Hossein Mousavi met his calls for a mass rally and flooded the streets of downtown Tehran on Thursday.

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Mousavi called on his supporters to gather in a peaceful rally that began in mosques and flooded onto the streets, pr...

From: MediaScrape on Wed, Jun 17 2009 11:13 AM

Iranian reformist leader Mir Hossein Mousavi posted a message online Wednesday calling for a mass rally as authorities ordered websites and blogs to remove any material that could increase tensions.

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The message on Mousavi’s official website is seen as a direct challenge to Supreme Lead...