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Greece, creditors report progress in debt talks
Filed under: Business News | January 28th, 2012Greece and its creditors reported progress on a major debt writedown deal after fresh talks on Friday, as Athens seeks to escape a looming default and stem further turmoil in the eurozone. … Read more »
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Flood survivors in southern PHL rebuild houses in danger zones
Filed under: Local News | January 28th, 2012Less than six weeks after killer floods swept away their slum homes along a river in northern Mindanao in the southern Philippines, Lydia Abulanda and her neighbors are rebuilding despite warnings disaster … Read more »
Cops check Dominguez carjack link in Bulacan trader’s killing
Filed under: Local News | January 28th, 2012Police are looking into a possible link between the Dominguez carjacking gang and the fatal shooting in Bulacan Thursday of a trader who had testified against the group. … Read more »
Magnitude-5.5 quake hits Bicol; aftershocks expected
Filed under: Local News | January 28th, 2012A magnitude-5.5 quake rocked the Bicol area early Saturday, with state seismologists warning of possible aftershocks. … Read more »
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Bacolod driver faces charges for raping daughter at gunpoint
Filed under: Local News | January 28th, 2012A 45-year-old driver was arrested for allegedly raping his own 20-year-old daughter twice at their house in … Read more »
Of tikoy, firecrackers and dragon dance: The Year of the Dragon
Filed under: Local News | January 28th, 2012Ah, the Chinese New Year is upon us. Whether one is of Chinese descent or not, it is so easy to get swept up in celebrating what is also known traditionally as … Read more »
Space station's private hookup delayed till March
Filed under: Local News | January 28th, 2012The first commercial cargo run to the International Space Station is off until late March, SpaceX officials say. … Read more »
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Global Markets: Stocks dip as US GDP falls short, euro rises
Filed under: Business News | January 28th, 2012NEW YORK - World stocks fell on Friday on news the U.S. economy grew more slowly than expected in the last quarter of 2011, while the euro rose on hopes of an imminent deal on Greece’s debt that could help avert a disorderly default. … Read entire article »
Davos elite grapple with surge of resentment against the richest 1%
Filed under: Business News | January 28th, 2012DAVOS, Switzerland - Under-fire businessmen are falling over themselves in Davos to show how sharing and caring they really are as they try to repair the tarnished image of the privileged ’1 percent’ but their detractors remain unconvinced. … Read entire article »
Fitch cuts rating of five eurozone countries
Filed under: Business News | January 28th, 2012WASHINGTON - Rating agency Fitch on Friday downgraded five eurozone countries, including Italy and Spain, citing their vulnerability to sharp turns in market sentiment amid Europe’s debt crisis. … Read entire article »
Facebook readying docs for IPO filing, the Wall Street Journal reports
Filed under: Business News | January 28th, 2012Facebook plans to file documents as early as Wednesday for a highly anticipated IPO that will value the world’s largest social network at between $75 billion and $100 billion, the Wall Street Journal cited unidentified sources as saying on Friday. … Read entire article »
Basketball: Barcelona, CSKA reach knockout stage
Filed under: Sports News | January 28th, 2012BELGRADE—Former Euroleague winners Barcelona and CSKA Moscow reached the knockout stage of Europe’s premier club basketball competition with emphatic wins over their rivals. … Read entire article »
NBA: Raptors’ top scorer Bargnani out indefinitely with injury
Filed under: Sports News | January 28th, 2012The Toronto Raptors will be without leading scorer Andrea Bargnani indefinitely after the Italian center reinjured his strained left calf, the NBA team said on Friday. … Read entire article »
‘Suntok sa Buwan’ shows boxers beyond the ring
Filed under: Lifestyle | January 28th, 2012When a boy with everything to lose faces a man with nothing to lose in the ring, who will win the fight? This question is answered in the end, but it didn’t matter as much as everything in between. What made the film special, apart from its quietness, is the honesty in the small scenes. … Read entire article »
Deaths rise in Syria as U.N. weighs draft resolution
Filed under: World News | January 28th, 2012Forces kill 60 people in Syria, an opposition group said, as the U.N. Security Council considers a draft that would call on Bashar al-Assad to resign. … Read entire article »
Draft resolution calls for al-Assad to quit
Filed under: World News | January 28th, 2012The U.N. Security Council discussed Friday a resolution that calls on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and transfer power to his vice president. … Read entire article »
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