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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.
- Host Tiger takes charge at Congressional
Tiger Woods took a one-shot lead at the tournament he hosts after carding a four-under-par 66 in the second round of the AT&T National at Congressional Country Club on Friday.
- 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.
- Cairo to host next world science journalists' conference
[LONDON] The 7th World Conference of Science Journalists (WCSJ), to be held in Cairo, Egypt, in 2011, will surpass the achievements of the sixth, its co-director has promised. 'We're going to aim even higher,' said Nadia El-Awady, newly-elected president
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Resistance by native Caribs prevented colonization on St. Vincent until 1719. Disputed between France and the United Kingdom for most of the 18th century, the island was ceded to the latter in 1783. Between 1960 and 1962, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines was a separate administrative unit of the Federation of the West Indies. Autonomy was granted in 1969 and independence in 1979.
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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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