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- BT offers staff a year at home for pay cut
(AFP)
 AFP - BT, seeking to slash costs in the face of Britain's worst recession in years, is offering employees a year at home in return for a 75-percent pay cut, the telecoms operator said Saturday.
- Calif. regulators warn of pot's cancer capability
(AP)
AP - It might take Californians a puff or two to get their heads around an apparent contradiction recently enshrined in state law. The same marijuana smoke that doctors can recommend to ease cancer patients' suffering must soon come with a warning saying it causes the disease.
- Firm tells job hopefuls: txt us
Applicants for a marketing job at a firm that provides mobile phone services are asked to send in a 160-character text message.
- Obama to Morocco: End Israel's isolation
US President Barack Obama called Saturday n Arab nations to embrace the Saudi peace initiative and end the isolation of Israel in the Middle East. SLIDESHOW: | World He specifically made a call to Morocco, an African Muslim state which was once home to a
- Sahara pipeline plan to feed west African gas to Europe
Nigeria, Algeria and Niger have signed an agreement to build a pipeline across the Sahara that would link Europe to big west African gas reserves. The Trans-Sahara Pipeline project, which would cost at least US$10 billion (Dh37.7bn) for the pipeline and
- Spainish police foil zeppelin jailbreak
MADRID: Spanish police said on Friday they had foiled an Italian drug trafficker's plan to break out of jail in the Canary Islands using climbing equipment and a four-metre-long zeppelin. 'The plan consisted of using a remotely controlled zeppelin to
- AUSTRIAN AIRLINES IMPLEMENTS FURTHER MEASURES
TO INCREASE COMPETITIVENESS Targeted cost reduction to produce medium-term improvement in result - complete restructuring of company - around 1,000 fulltime-jobs to be cut 2 July 2009 Having already fulfilled its ambitious package of short-term measures
- Germany: Porsche considers more Zuffenhausen cuts
Porsche is considering additional production cuts at its Zuffenhausen plant in Germany, according to Reuters, citing unnamed sources. The plant builds the 911 Carrera. Porsche is investing millions of... This content is available to members only
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AFP - North Korea test-fired six missiles off its east coast on Saturday, South Korean officials said, in what appeared to be a calculated message of defiance timed for the US Independence Day holiday.
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