ARGENTINA

Fernandez Sweeps to Re-Election in Argentina

Argentina's Economy Minister Amado Boudou laughs next to President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner during a news conference in Buenos Aires
Argentina's fiery center-leftist president, Cristina Fernandez, swept to a landslide re-election victory Sunday, crowning a comeback that seemed unthinkable for much of her turbulent first term.
Agriculture

Big Commodity Trading Firms Reap Rewards from 'Sensational' Decade

For the small club of companies who trade the food, fuels and metals that keep the world running, the last decade has been sensational. Driven by the rise of Brazil, China, India and other fast-growing economies, the global commodities boom has turbocharged profits at the world's biggest trading houses.
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Anita Perry - small-town nurse to power player

Inside the Texas governor's big, black SUV rides a small-town girl who never expected to be first lady of the state. Anita Perry, the wife of Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry, is still a nurse at heart, reaching out to friends and strangers with warmth and health advice. But the quiet blonde who first dated Perry in high school has blossomed over the years into a formidable partner in his political career.
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BlackBerry Free Apps: Download RIM's $100 Outage Apology

It's the least Research in Motion (RIM) could do for its global customers impacted by the three-day outage of BlackBerry mobile services including messenger and email. The company said it will offer BlackBerry free apps as an apology of sorts, hoping to make amends for the trouble customers experienced throughout the world last week.
Kim Gordon (L) and Thurston Moore of the band Sonic Youth perform at the Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts' ''Concert to Benefit Japan Earthquake Relief'' in New York City

Sonic Youth co-founders Moore, Gordon split up

Sonic Youth co-founders Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon have separated after 27 years of marriage and the future of the noise-rock band is uncertain, its label's parent company said on Saturday.
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Analysis: Greek debt enters Argentina-style twilight zone

The prospect of a hefty Greek government debt restructuring and writeoff has sent the bonds into a twilight zone that's attracting specialist distressed-debt traders more used to dealing with defaulted emerging sovereigns like Argentina.
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Millions of BlackBerry users cut off for third day

Millions of BlackBerry users around the world were left without text communication services for a third day on Wednesday as Research in Motion struggled to fix what it said was a switching failure in its private network.
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Stock index futures signal weaker open

Stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower open on Wall Street on Wednesday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.26 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.14 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.22 percent at 0740 GMT.
BlackBerry

Blackberry Outage: Will the RIM Phone Be All But Extinct Soon?

RIM said it had resolved its Blackberry outage late Monday, but Tuesday morning, millions of subscribers woke up to find service still disrupted. With problems like RIM's not happening with Apple's iPhone or Google's Android devices, it seems as if the Blackberry's popularity continues to plummet to the point where it will become close to completely stifled by its competition.
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Injured Djokovic Withdraws from Shanghai Masters

World number one Novak Djokovic will miss the Shanghai Masters this week, following his withdrawal from the China Open last week, after aggravating his back injury in the recently concluded Davis Cup.
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Occupy Wall Street and rose-tinted glasses

Two weeks into the Occupy Wall Street protests, one of America’s most respected polling firms released an astonishing survey on economic divisions showing that a majority of Americans don’t think their society is divided between haves and have-nots.
Nadal of Spain hits a return to Giraldo of Columbia during their men's singles quarter-final match at the Japan Open tennis championships

Nadal Fights Fire with Fire in Tokyo Win

Top seed Rafa Nadal had to dig deep after coming under heavy fire from Colombia's Santiago Giraldo in a brutal 7-6 6-3 quarter-final victory at the Japan Open on Friday.

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