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BBC Business, 23.04.13 23:11 UTC

German football star Uli Hoeness' own goal on tax

He was a star forward in the football team which won the World Cup in 1974 and off the field, he's been almost as influential, presiding over the relentless - and continuing - rise of Bayern Munich to greatness.

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BBC Business, 23.04.13 15:26 UTC

BASF to cut 500 jobs worldwide

The world's largest chemicals maker, BASF, has said it will cut 500 jobs at its plastic additives and pigments divisions in the face of lower-cost competition from Asia.

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Wired, 23.04.13 10:46 UTC

Blasting Ice Walls With Lights Makes for Epic Climbing Photos

Climber: Alex Luger Outdoor adventure photography is fun to look at, but it can get old fast. If youâve seen one really gnarly skiing or climbing photo, youâve kinda seem them all. Thatâs why ...

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Daily Mail, 21.04.13 17:27 UTC

Floored! The dramatic moment when passers-by tackled suspected armed bank robber as he tried to flee

PUBLISHED: 17:17 GMT, 21 April 2013 | UPDATED: 17:21 GMT, 21 April 2013 This is the dramatic moment when passers-by decided to tackle a suspected armed bank robber. The pedestrians tried to take down ...

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Seattle Times, 21.04.13 17:14 UTC

Report: Ex-HSBC man says US advised he go to Spain

A man wanted by Switzerland on suspicion of stealing confidential banking information now being used by international financial investigators says U.S. officials warned him he was in danger and advised him to go to Spain, a newspaper reported Sunday.

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Daily Mail, 20.04.13 02:21 UTC

'God particle' scientists come up with cancer-blasting beam as an alternative for debilitating radiotherapy

PUBLISHED: 00:37 GMT, 20 April 2013 | UPDATED: 00:37 GMT, 20 April 2013 Working alongside a British medical firm, the team at the Cern laboratory in Geneva plan to slash the cost of an alternative to ...

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Daily Mail, 19.04.13 03:13 UTC

The drug zealot I exposed a decade ago and how the BBC's promoting his plan for heroin 'shooting galleries'

PUBLISHED: 22:22 GMT, 18 April 2013 | UPDATED: 00:10 GMT, 19 April 2013 Yesterday's BBC Radio 4 Today programme informed us that Brighton's local public health agency may introduce what is ...

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Telegraph, 18.04.13 23:02 UTC

Amanda Knox 'was reading Harry Potter when Meredith was murdered', she claims in memoir

Amanda Knox imagined committing suicide in prison, she has said, in a long-awaited memoir that claims she was smoking marijuana and reading Harry Potter when her British roommate was murdered.

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Reuters - Business News, 18.04.13 15:00 UTC

French tax probe eyes 353 prospective UBS clients: source

PARIS | Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:31am EDT PARIS (Reuters) - France has contacted Swiss authorities for help in determining whether 353 prospective UBS clients in France have undeclared assets in ...

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Seattle Times, 18.04.13 13:37 UTC

Philip Morris Int'l 1Q profit falls nearly 2 pct

Cigarette maker Philip Morris International Inc. said Thursday that its first-quarter profit fell nearly 2 percent on a decline in the number of cigarettes sold.

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Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation (Confoederatio Helvetica in [[Latin language|Latin, hence its [[International Organization for Standardization|ISO country codes [[Data codes for Switzerland#Country|CH and CHE), is a [[federal republic consisting of [[Cantons of Switzerland|26 states named [[canton (administrative division) |cantons, with [[Bern as the seat of the federal authori...

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