Noticias de Hoy

Many fashion brands used the factory that collapsed in Bangladesh.

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By Bill Rigby SEATTLE (Reuters) – Paul Allen, the lesser known co-founder of Microsoft Corp, has struggled for decades to make his mark as a business mogul beyond the software company he started with Bill Gates. Since he quit Microsoft in 1983, the quiet Seattle native has lost billions of dollars on ill-conceived or mistimed technology investments, and he has been mocked as a juvenile playboy manqu

LONDON (AP) ? BP’s sale of its Russian joint venture helped it more than triple first-quarter profits, the oil company said Tuesday in a further sign that its disposal program in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster is on track.

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Nelson Mandela made his first TV appearance in almost a year on Monday, looking thin and frail in his Johannesburg home.

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AMSTERDAM (AP) ? King Willem-Alexander became the first Dutch male monarch in more than a century Tuesday as his mother Beatrix abdicated to end a 33-year reign.

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The Weather Channel (TWC) is showing its sense of humor. In honor of Tornado Week, the 24/7 weather service has launched a tweet-powered tornado inside its office. Via weather. com: Our Weather Channel interns got so excited about Tornado Week they wanted to recreate a Twitter powered Tornado in our office – so we did, and [. . . ]

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By Mari Saito TOKYO (Reuters) – SoftBank Corp said there is no need to improve its $20. 1 billion bid for 70 percent of U. S. wireless carrier Sprint Nextel Corp, which has been challenged by a counter-offer from Dish Network Corp. SoftBank’s billionaire founder and top executive Masayoshi Son, who had been tight-lipped on Dish’s $25. 5 billion bid for Sprint since it emerged this month, told a briefing on SoftBank’s latest earnings it was not possible to make an apples-to-apples comparison of the two bids. . . .

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BEIJING (AP) ? Whitney Foard Small loved China and her job as a regional director of communications for a top automaker. But after air pollution led to several stays in hospital and finally a written warning from her doctor telling her she needed to leave, Small packed up and left for Thailand.

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The NBA veteran is the first openly gay male athlete in a major professional team sport.

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? Despite significant improvements since the hard-line Taliban ruled Afghanistan, religious freedom remains poor, especially for minorities, and Afghans still can’t debate religion or question prevailing Islamic orthodoxies without fear of being punished, a U. S. commission said in a new report on Tuesday.

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