7 November 2012 Last updated at 19:06 ETBy Kevin Peachey Personal finance reporter, BBC News
Homeowners should not consider it a “pie in the sky dream” to build their own property, according to the new housing minister.Mark Prisk told mortgage lenders that self-built homes should be considered as one way to boost the...
Ghana building collapse traps dozens, kills 1
Label: World
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — A five-story shopping center built earlier this year in a bustling suburb of Ghana‘s capital collapsed Wednesday, killing at least one person and leaving several dozen people trapped in the rubble, authorities and eyewitnesses said.Rescue crews used cranes to try and remove debris from the top of the building amid fears that machinery...
“Ode to Joy” for Royal Philharmonic Society’s 200th
Label: Lifestyle
LONDON (Reuters) – The British music society that commissioned Beethoven to write his Ninth Symphony and its “Ode to Joy” announced on Wednesday it will celebrate the society’s 2013 bicentenary by showing off its manuscript of the work on both sides of the Atlantic.The Royal Philharmonic Society, founded in London in January, 1813, also will sponsor performances...
BlackBerry 10 maker dismisses ‘dead on arrival’ comment about new device
Label: Technology
OTTAWA – Research In Motion turned to core supporters Wednesday in Ottawa, hoping to upsell its new BlackBerry 10 operating system as the company’s shares fell after a biting report from a securities analyst.The company (TSX:RIM) invited federal politicians and their staff to a sneak preview of the yet-to-be-released devices, an event that RIM’s Canadian...
Novartis says expects to have 14 new blockbusters by 2017
Label: Health
ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss drugmaker Novartis said its pharmaceutical division could produce 14 or more blockbusters by 2017 as it bets on the success of its oncology pipeline, and heart and respiratory drugs.Novartis said it had 139 projects in clinical development including more than 73 new molecular entities spread across a wide area of diseases, in a...
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Major markets flat on Obama win
Label: Business
7 November 2012 Last updated at 03:31 ETContinue reading the main story
Major share markets were little changed after US President Barack Obama won a second term in office.The UK’s main share index, the FTSE 100 rose by just 16 points in early trading, while Japan’s Nikkei ended down by two points.The US dollar fell...
Canada firms to capitalize on nuclear trade with India
Label: World
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Canadian firms will be able to export uranium and nuclear reactors to India for the first time in almost four decades under an agreement between the two nations, their prime ministers said, but more work is needed to implement the deal.Once implemented, the agreement will end a ban on nuclear cooperation Canada imposed in 1976 after...
Quiet media night explodes suddenly, Rove protests
Label: Lifestyle
NEW YORK (AP) — Careful media coverage of a close presidential election Tuesday exploded so suddenly Tuesday that it left the bizarre spectacle of Fox News Channel analyst Karl Rove, a major fundraiser for Republican Mitt Romney, publicly questioning his network’s declaration that President Barack Obama had been re-elected.ABC News was also frantically...
Move over, Obama; Twitter had a big night too
Label: Technology
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama called it – in less than 140 characters.Around 11:15 pm EST, just as the networks were beginning to call the race in his favor, Obama took to Twitter to proclaim himself the winner over Republican candidate Mitt Romney.
“This happened because of you. Thank you,” Obama tweeted.That...
Election over but final Florida results still not in
Label: Health
MIAMI (Reuters) – Americans gave President Barack Obama a second term in office, but it still wasn’t clear early on Wednesday whether the president won the key battleground state of Florida.The vote in the state, which introduced the terms “hanging chads” and “butterfly ballots” to the masses in its historic 2000 presidential election, was too close to...
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