| Thu, 2 Sep 2010 Upturn in Fonterra powders sets scene for futures trade
9:00 AM Friday Sep 3, 2010 Share Email Print | Significant price lifts in Fonterra's internet auction of commodity milkpowders have set the scene for the start of NZX trading in global dairy futures contracts. | Dairy futures trading has previously been tried with littl... | Sonia can be party chief for 40 terms: Congress
NEW DELHI: With BJP attacking Gandhi family's "monopoly" on party leadership, Congress on Thursday retaliated by saying Sonia Gandhi could get "not four, but forty terms" as party president. | On the eve of announcement of Sonia's re-election as party chief, AICC dismis... | Islamists, professional associations decry peace talks
| By Mohammad Ben Hussein | AMMAN - Activists on Thursday demonstrated near the headquarters of the Islamic Action Front (IAF) to protest against the resumption of direct talks between the Palestinians and Israelis. | Protesters held banners condemning Israeli policies ... | Army needs US help to sustain itself - commanders
| AL KISSIK BASE, Iraq (AFP) - Iraq cannot yet sustain its army despite having managed to quell a violent insurgency, US and local commanders told AFP, raising the prospect that American troops will stay on beyond 2011. | US military advisers described myriad inefficien... | If Iran, why not Britain?
| By Jonathan Power | On its submarines, Britain has 48 nuclear warheads, each one eight times as powerful as the nuclear bomb that obliterated Hiroshima. In other words, theoretically, Prime Minister David Cameron could order the almost instant incineration of 384 larg... | Line Umpires' Job Is to See but Not Be Seen
| Before dispersing for another workday of long hours and concentrated effort, the most unknown, underpaid and unappreciated people on court at the United States Open received expert advice for those uncomfortable moments when a player, amid the self-torturous process t... | Peace this time? Even a lapsed optimist must hope
| By Shlomo Avineri | Commentary by | Friday, September 03, 2010 | - Powered by | --> | The resumption in Washington of direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks is good news. But whether these talks will lead to an agreement, let alone within one year as US President Bara... | It's really goodbye, and good luck, Iraq
| By David Ignatius | Commentary by | Friday, September 03, 2010 | - Powered by | --> | The images for ending America’s war in Iraq were appropriately tentative rather than triumphal: President Barack Obama spoke in Washington of turning a page; Vice President Joe... | Nations meet on climate cash, U.N. sees long haul
| GENEVA (Reuters) - About 45 nations met on Thursday to seek ways to raise billions of dollars in aid to help the poor combat climate change as the United Nations warned them of a long haul to slow global warming. Smokes spew from a power plant n Taiyuan, Shanxi provin... | |
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