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Black Friday online sales growth lags last year

Amazon.com Inc, eBay Inc and other e-commerce companies had a strong Black Friday, but the industry's growth rate lagged last year's surge in online buying on the traditional first day of the holiday shopping season.

EU Launches Dumping Investigation Against U.S. Bioethanol

The dumping case alleges U.S. subsidies issued in the form of tax credits and a bio-fuel grant program including local state support in Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota, are hurting companies in Europe, reports AFP.
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Obama promotes shops on Small Business Saturday

President Barack Obama, eager to spur growth and hiring, took his daughters on an early Christmas shopping trip on Saturday in Washington as the U.S. retail sector got its vital holiday season underway.
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A tribal leader of the indigenous Secoya people of Ecuador's northern Amazon rainforest at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on May 19, 2011.

Corrected: Chevron Named One of the Most Toxic Energy Companies of 2011

The public relations campaign at end of year 2010 is proving to be a hard one for U.S. oil giant Chevron Corporation. Faced with an oil leak, the suspension of its drilling rights and severe public backlash all in Brazil, the company has now been labeled the most toxic energy company.
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Richard Nixon's Grand Jury Testimony: More Heat Than Light

The media swarmed around a 36-year-old grand jury testimony for a seismic revelation to plaster on its front pages. Many left disappointed. All we got, in the end, was former President Richard Nixon in all his Tricky Dick glory -- and little more.
A shop assistant arranges fish for sale at a supermarket in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province January 14, 2011.

Mediterranean-ish Diet Tied to Better Heart Health

Once again, eating a diet based on fish, legumes, vegetables and moderate amounts of alcohol is linked to lower chances of dying from a heart attack, stroke or other vascular events, according to a new study of New York City residents.
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Long Island Eye: Is This the Bus for Paris?

Nassau County has a New Year’s gift for 100,000 daily passengers on L.I. Bus: it’s going French, having been sold to France’s Veolia Environment SA, whose transportation unit operates many other U.S. systems.
At Issue: U.S. Job Growth

A New Yorker's Opinion: Can America's Decline, and Declining Job-Base, Be Reversed?

I had just been chatting, over a ridiculously expensive turkey sandwich that Monday (right before Thanksgiving, what was I thinking?), about the declining fortunes of the once-great American Empire. But enough, for the moment, about me, first let's see what Columbia's Herbert J. Gans, emeritus professor of sociology, had to say about superfluous jobs in his recent New York Times Op-Ed piece--and whether what he astutely observed could lead, within the century, to the breakup of th...
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In twist, blocking AT&T deal could hurt rivals

Driven by antitrust concerns, U.S. regulators are fighting hard to block AT&T's $39 billion deal to buy Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA. But, in an ironic twist, smaller U.S. wireless rivals may suffer more if the deal is blocked than if it is approved.
Anti-government protesters pray next to the bodies of people who were among the Sunni Muslims killed on Wednesday, in Hula near Homs November 2, 2011.

Arab League Prepares Plans for Sanctions Against Syria

Arab officials will prepare plans for sanctions against Syria on Saturday over its failure to let Arab League monitors oversee an initiative aimed at ending a violent crackdown on protesters seeking an end to President Bashar al-Assad's rule.
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Philippines say arrested hackers funded by Saudi group

Philippine police and the FBI have arrested four people that Manila said were paid by a militant Saudi Arabian-based group to hack into U.S. telecom AT&T's system, but the company said it was neither targeted nor breached.
Fans of the undead were in for a shock with this week's episode of AMC's "The Walking Dead." The second season twist left one of the series' main characters, Dale (Jeffry Demunn), dead after struggling to save Randall's (Michael Zegen) life.

Top 10 TV Shows of 2011

The year 2011 saw the various sequels of TV shows as well as new series entertaining the home audience. Following are our top 10 TV shows of 2011.
A NATO helicopter flies above the scene of a raid as smoke rises from a base in Jalalabad

Pakistan Halts NATO Supplies After Raid Kills as Many as 25

NATO helicopters attacked a military checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing as many as 25 troops and prompting Pakistan to shut the vital supply route for NATO troops fighting in Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said.
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Westwood Reaches Out to in Nairobi Women

This is not charity, this is work, states the new slogan adopted by British designer Vivienne Westwood and the Ethical Fashion Forum (EFF) for their collaborative collection.

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