Cadel Evans confirms Tour Down Under start
AFP - Thu Dec 10, 10:48 pm ETAustralia's road world cycling champion Cadel Evans has confirmed he will race in January's Tour Down Under in South Australia with his new team, BMC Racing.
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German cabinet agrees extension to piracy, Bosnia missions
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 5:16 am ETBerlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet approved Wednesday the extension by one year of military deployments off the coast of Somalia and in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The military currently has some 240 personnel engaged in the European Union's ...
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OPEC oil price falls below 75 dollars
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 5:02 am ETVienna - The oil price set by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) moved below 75 dollars for the first time since early November on Tuesday, the organization announced Wednesday. One barrel (159 litres) of OPEC-produced crude...
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Volkswagen to buy stake in Suzuki - Update
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 5:01 am ETTokyo - Japanese automaker Suzuki Motor Corp said Wednesday it had signed a capital tie-up deal with Volkswagen AG. Under the agreement, Volkswagen plans to buy a 19.9-per-cent stake in the Japanese automaker. ...
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Give white wine a try this winter
The Iowa City Press-Citizen - Wed Dec 9, 4:29 am ETI choose wines not only based on the food they are to be paired with, but also based on the seasons and the weather. As a result, my tastes tend primarily toward reds this time of year. Heartier food and cold, wet weather tend to make one want to curl up with something deep and rich to warm the bones. Sometimes though, some of the holiday foods and the bright sun shimmering off the ice-encased ...
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Australia regulator reviews BHP-Rio iron ore deal
AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 10:36 pm ETAustralia's competition regulator said Tuesday it had launched an informal review of BHP Billiton's proposed joint iron ore venture with Rio Tinto to seek comment on the controversial deal.
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Exxon to Build $15 Billion Asia Gas Project
BusinessWeek - Tue Dec 8, 9:08 am ETThe energy giant is teaming up with partners in a liquefied natural gas project in Papua New Guinea to supply China, Japan and Taiwan
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Exxon, Partners to Build $15 Billion PNG LNG Project (Update2)
Bloomberg - Tue Dec 8, 3:56 am ETDec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Exxon Mobil Corp. and its partners approved development of a $15 billion Papua New Guinea liquefied natural gas venture, the country’s biggest resource project, to supply the cleaner-burning fuel to China, Japan and Taiwan.
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Crescent Gold Limited: Vanadium Discovery at Calvert Hills, NT
Marketwire - Tue Dec 8, 9:27 pm ETPERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA--(Marketwire - Dec. 8, 2009) - Crescent Gold Limited (TSX:CRA)(ASX:CRE)(FRANKFURT:CRE5) - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES - Significant outcrops of vanadium and iron mineralisation have been discovered within the Calvert Hills joint venture tenement in the eastern Northern Territory. - Rock outcrop ...
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Rio and BHP Sign Deal on Ore Venture
New York Times - Mon Dec 7, 4:41 am ETBHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, the mining giants, signed an agreement over the weekend to combine their iron ore operations in Western Australia, a deal the companies said would save them $10 billion a year.
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Australia issues shipping alert over giant iceberg
AP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 11, 2:37 am ETAustralia's Bureau of Meteorology issued a shipping alert Friday after a massive iceberg was spotted 1,100 miles (1,700 kilometers) off the country's southwestern coast.
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Australia’s Jobs Boom Gives RBA Green Light on Rates (Update2)
Bloomberg - Fri Dec 11, 2:28 am ETDec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The biggest three-month surge in Australian employment in three years is increasing pressure on central bank Governor Glenn Stevens to resume an unprecedented round of interest-rate increases early next year.
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Australia’s Jobs Boom Gives RBA Green Light on Rates (Update1)
Bloomberg - Fri Dec 11, 1:33 am ETDec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The biggest three-month surge in Australian employment in three years is increasing pressure on central bank Governor Glenn Stevens to resume an unprecedented round of interest-rate increases early next year.
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Australia’s Jobs Boom Gives Stevens Green Light to Raise Rates
Bloomberg - Thu Dec 10, 6:43 pm ETDec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The biggest three-month surge in Australian employment in three years is increasing pressure on central bank Governor Glenn Stevens to resume an unprecedented round of interest-rate increases early next year.
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Giant Iceberg Heading Toward Australia
FOX 23 Maine - Thu Dec 10, 6:31 pm ETA giant iceberg that broke off from the Antarctic 10 years ago is slowly heading toward Australia and is the largest such iceberg to have been spotted in the area in a century.
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Creek boys get international experience
Galveston County Daily News - Thu Dec 10, 9:45 pm ETLEAGUE CITY The Wildcats notch a win over an Australian team during a "neat experience."
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