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OnePass could get you eight wonders
Houston Chronicle
| Continental Airlines is promoting its new membership in the international Star Alliance with an online auction for a trip to eight wonders of the world, but the only currency good in this sale is OnePass frequent flier miles. | The winner gets business class passage for two on Continental and othe...
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Volkswagen group October sales up 11 percent
Kansas City Star
Related: | More News | German car maker Volkswagen AG said Friday that its group deliveries were up 11 percent on the year in October, helped by strong increases in China and Brazil and a smaller rise in the U.S. | Volkswagen said the group delivered 557,300 cars last month, compared with 501,500 in...
Briton caught with spiders in bags
Ananova
| A Briton has been arrested with two suitcases containing nearly 1,000 live spiders at Rio airport, police in Brazil said. | The man was stopped by federal police officers and agents from the Brazilian Institute for Environment and Renewable Resourc...
More routes but less class
The Times
| The merger of British Airways and Iberia will expand the networks of both airlines and enhance their revenue-raising opportunities. | BA is strong on routes to North America, the Middle East and Asia while Iberia is dominant on the South Atlantic t...
OnePass could get you eight wonders
Houston Chronicle
| Continental Airlines is promoting its new membership in the international Star Alliance with an online auction for a trip to eight wonders of the world, but the only currency good in this sale is OnePass frequent flier miles. | The winner gets busi...
Brazil blackout cause uncertain, president says
Newsday
| November 13, 2009  BRADLEY BROOKS (Associated Press Writer) Quick Summary | Brazil's president questions whether bad weather to blame for massive blackout | Photo credit: AP | Cars drive through Paulista Av. in Sao Paulo during a blackout Tues...
AES Eletropaulo Recorded EBITDA of R$ 445.1 Million and Net Income of R$ 235.3 Million ...
redOrbit
Posted on: Friday, 13 November 2009, 08:54 CST | SAO PAULO, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eletropaulo Metropolitana Eletricidade de Sao Paulo S.A. (OTC: EPUMY and ELPSY; Bovespa: ELPL3, ELPL5 and ELPL6), the largest electric energy distribution C...
Brazil pledges deep emissions cut by 2020
The Guardian
* Brazil aims to cut emissions to levels in 1990s * Pledge seen aimed at encouraging cuts by other nations * Target is not internationally binding (Adds quotes, details) By Carmen Munari SAO PAULO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Brazil raised the pressure on oth...
An employee of a Taiwan bank that will be exchanging Chinese Yuan currency, shows telltale signs of fake notes in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, June 30, 2008
AP / Wally Santana
Developing Nations Voice Complaints About Chinese Currency
The New York Times
| LONDON - Emerging economies, smarting under rampant currency appreciation that is hindering their efforts to export their way to economic recovery, are finally daring to join a c...
Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan smiles during a news conference in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. The only major economy still growing at a fast clip, China is being unusually forthright in challenging the U.S.-led global order ahead of an April 2 summit on the financial crisis. In his second rebuke of U.S. leadership this past week, Zhou said China's rapid response to the downturn _ including a 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) stimulus package - proved the superiority of its authoritarian, one-party political system.
AP / Alexander F. Yuan
Beijing rejects calls to boost currency
Hong Kong Standard
China has downplayed calls to allow the yuan to appreciate and instead asked central banks around the world to maintain their currencies and exchange rates to keep the global econo...
 A sign at the popular Gateway of India tourist site in Bombay welcomes visitors with the unfamiliar name, "Mumbai," in this photograph made Sunday August 20, 1995. The city of 12 million and India´s financial capital has been ordered rena
AP Photo
Delhi, Mumbai to join world's richest cities list
Indian Express
| India's financial hub Mumbai and political capital Delhi are likely to witness a significant jump in economic growth along with other emerging markets and make it to the league o...
Brazil's president questions whether bad weather to blame for massive blackout
Star Tribune
| RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's president suggested Friday that bad weather may not have caused a massive blackout that left nearly a third of the population without electricity, saying he'll wait for an investigation to conclude how the outage happened....
Brazil: Leader waits for blackout investigation
Philadelphia Daily News
| BRADLEY BROOKS | The Associated Press | RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's president said Friday that he's waiting on a federal investigation to say anything more about the cause of a massive blackout earlier this week that affected 60 million people. | Pre...
Brazil says it will cut carbon by at least 36 pct
Philadelphia Daily News
| The Associated Press | RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil says it will voluntarily reduce carbon emissions by 36.1 percent to 38.9 percent by 2020. | Dilma Rousseff is chief of staff for President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. She says the cuts Brazil will prese...
Brazil: Leader waits for blackout investigation
The Miami Herald
| RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazil's president said Friday that he's waiting on a federal investigation to say anything more about the cause of a massive blackout earlier this week that affected 60 million people. | President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva backed...



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