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RICHMOND, Va.----Afton Chemical Corporation announces the new investment in an Asia Pacific manufacturing facility to better service our customers in the region. This new plant will improve security of supply and provide shorter lead-times with first intent products using cutting edge technology.

Bond issuance has risen to record levels as investors hungry for greater risk switch to the securities because of attractive yields

Stocks and corporate bonds are benefiting from the same upbeat mood on signs that the U.S. economy is winding toward the end of the recession.

Papers suggest intelligence service knew men were being mistreatedA businessman who was held and mistreated in the United Arab Emirates following the London bombings believes he has evidence that British consular officials asked permission from the UK's own security services to visit him while he was detained.Heavily redacted documents seen by the Guardian appear to indicate that the request to visit Alam Ghafoor was made to an unidentified British intelligence officer and not to officials in the UAE.Ghafoor is one of several British men who allege there has been British complicity in their detention and torture while abroad. The businessman, who is 38 and from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, was detained and tortured while on a business trip to Dubai following the London bombings in July 2005.Ghafoor and his business partner, Mohammed Rafiq Siddique, flew to the UAE on 4 July. They were dragged out of a restaurant as they dined on 21 July. The two British Muslims say they were threate

Kuwait Security Official: Businessman Charged With Fraud In The United States Commits Suicide

At least 32 people die in a gun battle between security forces and a radical Islamist group in north-east Nigeria, reports say.

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The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) closed 0.50% higher at 2,579.38 points. Strong performing real estate heavyweights Aldar Properties and Sorouh Real Estate kept the UAE capital?s stock market up. The two developers gained 8.42% and 9.77%, closing at Dhs4.04 and Dhs2.81, respectively. Consumer stocks performed weakly, losing 5.05%. Sharjah Islamic Bank (SIB)gained 1.36%, ending at Dhs1.04. SIB has recorded a net profit of Dhs151.7m in the first half of 2009, compared to Dhs191.8m in the same period last year.

Not long after you join millions of other Americans who share the pride and security of a full-time job, you discover a major drag that comes with it--filling out forms for and paying your annual inco...

QUESTION: Who should worry the most about their retirement benefits when the PBGC gets involved? ANSWER: Anyone who is receiving pension benefits that are much higher than the limits offered when the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.