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Top Pre-Market NASDAQ Gainers (ARNA, TIBX, ARMH, NVMI, ARIA)

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Arena Pharmaceuticals, Tibco Software, ARM Holdings, Nova Measuring Instruments, Ariad Pharmaceuticals, YRC Worldwide, priceline.com, Activision Blizzard, Popular, and Huntington Bancshares.

Barcelona voted the best New Year ‘party capital’

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Barcelona is the best place to party for New Year with best parties in the world, Skyscanner, a leading travel search site has revealed. The Spanish city tops the site’s list of most popular places for partying on New Year, followed by Edinburgh and Iceland.

Apple tosses out WikiLeaks application

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Apple Inc joined a growing number of U.S. corporations that have cut ties with WikiLeaks, removing an application from its online store that gave users access to the controversial website's content and Twitter feed because it violated guidelines.
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Investors enter 2011 in bullish mood: Reuters poll

Investors are entering 2011 in a relatively bullish mood, raising equity holdings to a 10-month high, increasing exposure to high-yield credit and cutting back on government debt, Reuters polls showed on Wednesday.
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Eighty-nine year-old village elder and World War II veteran Clifton Jackson talks about being the first citizen in the nation to be enumerated for the 2010 Census in his home in Noorvik, Alaska.

Census: US growth rate slows

There are now 308.7 million people in the United States, or 308,745,538 persons to be more exact as of April 1, 2010, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which released the 2010 Census data today.
Chancellor George Osborne listens to David Cameron

British government borrowing soars to record high

New public sector borrowing in the U.K soared to a record high of 22.3-billion pounds sterling last month, higher than analysts expected, and up from 17.4-billion pounds a year ago, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
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Special Report: Inside AIG's tortuous turnaround

During a rainstorm in Washington in early 2009, amid the furor over Wall Street's post-bailout bonuses, an American International Group employee pulled out an umbrella that had the insurer's name on it.
Beckham received the Lifetime Achievement award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards on Sunday.

Beckham hopeful on rejoining England

David Beckham admitted that he continues to harbor hopes of playing for the England National team and said that he would try and secure a loan move back to Europe to give himself the best chance.
The Houses of Parliament are seen through snow covered trees in London

UK campaign to tighten immigration fails to take off

UK campaign to tighten immigration hits a setback, but the Coalition is set on keeping up its election promise. David Coleman, Professor of Demography at Oxford University, asserts that Britain should tighten immigration policy and explains negative effects.
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News Corp wins EU approval for BSkyB bid

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has won unconditional approval from the European Commission for its bid to acquire pay-TV operator BSkyB but still faces scrutiny by the British communications watchdog.
Senior scientist Murat looks at DNA fingerprints of truffles at a laboratory of the INRA in Champenoux near Nancy

Ultrafast Gene Sequencing On Anvil

Scientists in the UK are developing technology using nanopores that could ultimately sequence a person’s genome in mere minutes, unlike available commercial methods, which require complex process.
A child plays behind railings on the Robin Hood Gardens estate in Poplar in East London

Child poverty in Britain to rise: IFS

The fiscal squeeze promulgated by the British coalition government will increase child and working-age poverty in the U.K. over the next three years, according to a report funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and published today by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS).
Bank of England Governor King poses with Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Osborne at the Lord Mayor's Dinner to the Bankers and Merchants of the City of London

CBI downgrades UK GDP forecast for Q1 2011

The CBI, the British business organization, reduced its forecast for UK economic growth in the first quarter of 2011 to 0.2 percent from 0.3 percent; although it noted that the recovery is expected to be “maintained.”
Soldiers patrol Ivory Coast's violence-hit Yopougon

EU to ban Ivory Coast's Gbagbo; West mulls sanctions

The European Union agreed on Monday to ban Cote d'Ivoire's incumbent President, Laurent Gbagbo and his aides, the BBC reported. The Gbagbo regime is likely to be slapped with harsh sanctions from the West. The sanction could also include freezing the personal overseas assets of the president and his men and issuing visa bans.
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UK ruling allows Twitter updates from courts

Reporters covering court cases should be allowed to send messages to the Twitter micro-blogging site, a senior British legal official said on Monday, clarifying rules after hearings involving WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

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