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Kweku Adoboli

Kweku Adoboli: 'I Need a Miracle,' Appearing in London Court Friday

Kweku Adoboli has been charged with fraud and false accounting by London police in connection with unauthorized trades at UBS that caused the bank a $2 billion loss. Adoboli has also reportedly admitted to the bank he caused the losses. His father, a retired United Nations employee living in Ghana, said his son made a mistake.
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South Korea Still Top World Communications Economy: U.N.

South Korea was the world's most advanced Internet and telecommunications economy in 2010, with high levels of access, usage and skills, while high-speed Web access remained unaffordable in many low-income countries, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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Diabetes Rate Hits 366 M, Healthcare Spending $465 B

A staggering 366 million people around the world are living with diabetes, and 4.6 million deaths happen because of the disease. Healthcare spending on diabetes has also reached $465 billion, according to new statistics released by a global diabetes authority.
Cocaine from Britain's largest ever cocaine seizure is seen on display in London

UN: Cocaine Usage On the Rise Globally, Stemming From Australia

A report released Tuesday by the United Nation's Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) showed that seizures of cocaine and amphetamine-type stimulants such as ecstasy and meth, have increased dramatically, with 592 kilograms confiscated in 2008-09 compared with 179.5 kilograms just six years prior to the federal findings.
A view of a house with a banner near the road blockade in the village of Rudare

Serbia issues warning over Kosovo border plan

Serbia warned the West on Tuesday that violence could flare if a plan to install Kosovo police and customs officers on the border with its breakaway former province goes ahead this week.
National Transitional Council (NTC) head Mustafa Abdul Jalil

Residents of besieged Gaddafi town given two days to go

Libyan transitional forces besieging a bastion of forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi on Tuesday gave residents two days to leave before a threatened onslaught, and fears rose for the fate of civilians trapped in the last redoubts of the fallen strongman.
An anti-Gaddafi fighter walks next to a vehicle as he mans the last checkpoint to enter Bani Walid, currently held by pro-Gaddafi forces, in south east Tripoli

Libyans Battle in Bani Walid; Gadhafi Son in Niger

Libya's new rulers said Sunday night they were holding back an assault on one of the last bastions loyal to Moammar Gadhafi but were edging toward Sirte. Niger said Sunday one of the fugitive former leader's sons, Saadi Gadhafi, had turned up there.
Zuma and Mogoeng

South Africa's Zuma Appoints 'Rapist Lenient' Judge

South African President Jacob Zuma appointed evangelical pastor Mogoeng Mogoeng to the Chief Justice position on Thursday. But, the choice of Mogoeng, who will now hear the country's Constitutional Court, has already sparked fury in some South Africans.

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