CNN names Jeff Zucker as new chief

CNN has named former NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker as its new top executive. Mr Zucker is replacing Jim Walton, who announced he was leaving this past summer. Mr Zucker takes over a network that was the first in cable news but has lagged...

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Syria 'shuts off the internet'

TWO US-based internet-monitoring companies say Syria has shut off the Internet nationwide. Activists in Syria reached Thursday by satellite telephone confirmed the unprecedented blackout, which comes amid intense fighting in the capital, Damascus....

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S&P affirms China's credit rating

STANDARD & Poor's has affirmed China's sovereign credit rating, another sign that the world's second largest economy is rebounding as Beijing prepares to usher in new leaders. The ratings agency said China's "exceptional growth prospects"...

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Halloween stampede claims fifth victim

A FIFTH young woman has died from injuries sustained in a stampede during a Halloween dance party in Madrid arena. Spanish National Radio said 20-year-old Maria Teresa Alonso died in Madrid's Fundacion Jimenez Diaz hospital from brain injuries....

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Australian witness praises Leveson report

MORE than seven years after becoming embroiled in a phone hacking scandal that rocked the world's media, Australian woman Mary-Ellen Field has welcomed a British report into the affair. The former business adviser to fashionista Elle Macpherson...

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Quick Spain recovery is 'remote': OECD

SPAIN is engulfed in a long recession with little hope of a quick recovery, the OECD club of industrialised nations says. Spain must quickly fix its banks to avert the "substantial risk" of being cut off from external financing and plunging into...

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Judge accepts terms for Manning's plea

A US military judge has accepted the terms under which army private Bradley Manning could plead guilty to some charges that he passed secret documents to WikiLeaks. But Judge Denise Lind's decision focused solely on the wording of a proposal...

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