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Hospitals in England are using portable buildings that would cover 37 football pitches, figures have showed. Skip related content Related photos / videos Hospitals using portable buildings that would cover 37 football pitches, figures showed Related content * Churches slam Premier League for Easter fixture * Hillsborough legacy continues to echo * Tories rap NHS portable buildings ... Full story

Barclays said Thursday it had sold its asset management business iShares to private equity group CVC Capital Partners for 4.4 billion dollars (3.0 billion pounds) to bolster its finances. Skip related content Related photos / videos Barclays has fared better in the financial crisis than many of its banking rivals Enlarge photo Related content * Sale Sets Barclays Boss For £5m Windfall ... Full story

A London bakery has started using the Internet messaging system Twitter to inform customers when the latest batches of bread hit the shelves. Skip related content Related photos / videos A bakery has started Twittering when its fresh bread is ready Enlarge photo Web-savvy regulars at the Albion bakery and cafe in east London no longer need to sniff the air to find out when the fresh batches ... Full story

The USD/JPY is wrestling with the almighty 100 level again today after briefly dropping below. The USD/JPY strengthened slightly after Japan released a better than excepted trade balance. However, the optimism is faint since a record decline in imports is responsible for the improvement. Therefore, consumers are tightening their budgets as the economic downturn picks up steam. Japan continues to be the hardest hit in the ... Full story

Mexico City, April 9 (EFE) Computer science, law, languages and yoga are some of the subjects included in Mexico's first university for the elderly, an innovative project that seeks to respond to the gradual ageing of the population. Approximately eight percent of Mexicans are over 60, a proportion that rises to 16 percent in the capital borough of Benito Juarez, home of the new institution. Around half ... Full story

HE IS one of India's longest serving MLAs - a rare Muslim who has never lost an election in a constituency where Muslims do not make up even 1 per cent of the voters. Meet Habibullah Khan, the 74-year-old MLA of Nabarangpur, a son of the soil and symbol of national unity in this remote tract of Orissa, 450 kilometres southwest of the state capital ... Full story

Mumbai, Apr 7 (ANI): Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Duvvuri Subbarao has said that there was a long-term cost to monetising the budget deficit that needed to be considered despite the apparent short-term benefits of not tapping the market for funding. Subbarao said that government borrowing in the 2009-10 fiscal year would be significantly higher than in the previous year. "This year, we expect the ... Full story

New Delhi, Apr 6 (ANI): A group of people shouted slogans and set objects on fire outside a police booth in the Rajouri Garden area of West Delhi on Monday to express their rage on the deaths, which have taken place due to consumption of contaminated alcohol. According to media reports, at least ... Full story

Kathmandu, Apr 6 (ANI): A shutdown called by 18 different Left wing parties including CPN (Maoist) led by Matrika Yadav crippled normal life in Nepal on Monday. The strike was called to prevent mass assemblies called by the Unified CPN (Maoist) in various cities. The shutdown has affected transportation as both long and short-route vehicles remained off the road. The activists vandalised and torched some public vehicles ... Full story

Rome, Apr.6 (ANI): At least 13 people have been killed in a powerful earthquake in central Italy, Italian officials say. The earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter Scale struck at 3.32 a.m. local time about 95 km north-east of Rome, at a depth of 10 km. Four children were said to be among the dead, with reports of more fatalities in and around the city ... Full story

Peshawar, Apr 6 (ANI): The girl who was reportedly flogged in Swat has denied the incident, and termed the happening as baseless and not based on facts due to social pressure and Taliban militants' fear. A team of two high officials comprising Commissioner Malakand Syed Mohammad Javed and a senior judge reportedly visited Kala village situated in the far-off area of tehsil Kabal and recorded the ... Full story

L'Aquila (Italy), April 7 (DPA) The death toll from the powerful earthquake that struck central Italy early Monday had gone beyond 150, far higher than the last previous accounts. The temblor struck the ancient town of L'Aquila and the surrounding mountainous areas about 100 km northeast of Rome in the early hours of Monday Italy's Ansa news agency cited hospitals in the quake-struck region northeast of the ... Full story

Rome, April 6 (DPA) The death toll in the devastating earthquake in central Italy has gone beyond 90, the Italian news agency ANSA reported, citing rescue workers. Earlier reports said at least 50 people were confirmed dead - amid fears of that number rising - after a central Italian mountain area around the ancient town of L'Aquila was rocked by a major earthquake that struck early ... Full story

Baghdad, April 6 (DPA) At least 25 people were killed in four car bombings across the Iraqi capital Monday, the police said. Four powerful explosions shook Baghdad over the space of two hours, injuring at least 55 people, police said. The first bombing struck the central Baghdad neighbourhood of al-Allawi, killing at least four people and injuring at least 15, police and Baghdad's al-Iraqia television channel said. Most ... Full story

Rome, April 6 (DPA) Twenty-seven people were killed Monday when a major earthquake rocked the central Italian region of Abruzzo, media reports quoted hospitals as saying. The regional capital L'Aquila and the ancient town of Castelnuovo were especially badly hit in the quake, which had a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter scale, and many more deaths were feared once a clearer picture emerged. Four children were ... Full story

Six car bombs exploded across Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 34 people and wounding scores, police said, after the arrests of Sunni Arab fighters raised tension in the Iraqi capital. A blast at a popular market in the Shi'ite Muslim slum of Sadr City in east Baghdad killed at least 10 people and wounded 65. Another car bomb blew up next to a group of ... Full story

Etah (Uttar Pradesh), April 6 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will make the 'harassment and torture' of its jailed young leader Varun Gandhi a poll issue, party president Rajnath Singh declared Monday after meeting him in a prison. 'We back Varun, who is being harassed and tortured by the state government. Let the law take it own course. But we want to make it clear ... Full story

London, April 2 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has said that there is a need to substantially increase the existing resources for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to the tune of 500 billion dollars in the next two years as an interim step and also to double the IMF quota ... Full story

Washington, Apr 2 (ANI): Chelsea, daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Hillary, is not getting married this summer, a rep for the family has confirmed. The National Enquirer reported that the former first daughter, 29, is tying the knot with Marc Mezvinsky, 31, in a secret 1-million dollar wedding this summer. However, a rep for the Clinton family has dismissed the rumours. "This report is false," ... Full story

New Delhi, Apr 1 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday expressed confidence that her party would comfortably sweep through the elections by winning all the seven seats in Delhi. Addressing a function held here to introduce nominees of Congress party from Delhi for the coming general elections, Dikshit said, "Our lawmakers are elected ... Full story