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...south. Since January 2004, when a dormant, homegrown rebel movement ostensibly bent on establishing a separate Islamic state exploded back to life, more than 2,300 people have died, the vast majority civilians. The latest attack took place on Tuesday when two bombs went off in quick succession in Yala town, killing one and injuring at least...
...Oligarchs such as Berezovsky made their fortunes in that period, and Western investors were also quick to spot opportunities. Britons were especially keen, and trade between the two countries has continued to flourish. British companies invested more than $5.5 billion in Russia last year, making the U.K. - extraordinarily - Russia's largest foreign investor. Thirty Russian companies with a combined market capitalization of $612 billion are now listed on the London Stock Exchange, and more are standing in line waiting for London launches. So business leaders in both London and Moscow have been watching recent developments with dismay. "Russian big business...
...June the U.K. music chain Fopp shut up shop. Meanwhile, record labels are looking for solutions in mergers and takeovers - any day now, British firm EMI could be bought out by investment group Terra Firma. Says McNicholas: "With the pace of change, you just have to be very quick on your feet and rework your business model every six months - that's the challenge...
...lifelong attributable risk of cancer per CTCA scan was low, ranging from 0.02% (for an 80-year old man, with the dose-reduction strategy) to 1% (for a 20-year-old woman, with a regular heart and aorta scan). The benefits of CTCA are that it is noninvasive, quick (the test takes about 10 minutes), requires that the patient ingest less contrast dye than with other scans and can be performed immediately in an emergency room when someone is admitted with chest pain. According to the study's authors, emergency departments evaluate about 6 million patients each year for chest...
...been rattled by TV images of black smoke billowing from Niigata's Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant, located just 9km (5.6 miles) from the epicenter in the Sea of Japan. The plant suffered a string of problems when the temblor struck. Tokyo Electric, the Kashiwazaki plant's owner/operator, was quick to point out that a smoky fire that broke out in an electric transformer posed no threat to the rest of the facility and was extinguished in a few hours. Three of the seven reactors were inactive due to periodic inspections, the company said, and four others stopped automatically...