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Cadbury workers begin voting on possible strike action on Saturday, according the union Unite.

Israel has sent envoys to Ethiopia to examine the applications of 3,000 Ethiopians who claim to be descended from Jews as 2,000 French Jews are to emigrate to Israel this year, an agency helping to ar...

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert denounced the focus of the US administration on Israel's West Bank settlement construction, saying that Americans must return their attention to negotiations in order...

. Under fives three times more likely to need hospital. Warning that schools may not reopen in autumnUnder-fives and pregnant women are emerging as key swine flu risk groups, according to hospital figures and the age profiles of those who have already died.The Health Protection Agency (HPA) altered its advice this week to include the youngest age range - the under-fives - in the category of those 'predominantly affected' while the Royal College of Midwives gave fresh advice todayon giving expectant women anti-viral drugs.The shift in emphasis by health officials is a reminder that even if the final death rates from the pandemic are the same as normal seasonal flu, the social impact will be significantly different, with the disease apparently targeting the young more than elderly people. In normal seasonal flu it is the elderly who usually succumb through developing pneumonia.Altogether, 29 people have died from swine flu in the UK. A patient from Swindon and a female tourist who died

The national recession will hit the Dallas-Fort Worth office market harder than any other Texas metro area this year as companies delay expansion plans and retailers based in North Texas scale back on expenses and payroll, according to a study released Friday by commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap.

This study investigates information asymmetry in the foreign exchange market by testing the hypothesis that top trading banks possess superior information on the macroeconomy because they process greater order flow, which, according to the micro-structure literature, helps them aggregate the dispersed information and feel the general movements of the economy. Examining the information share of the banks in the Reuters EFX system using indicative GBP-$US data over 5 years, we find that the top 10 banks, out of 100 quoting banks in the market, have a monthly average share of over 70% of total market information, and around 80% during some US macroannouncements. These results suggest the possibility of private information over public news in the foreign exchange market. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Microsoft and Yahoo are close to signing a partnership to collaborate on Internet-search technology and advertising, a bid to challenge Google, two people familiar with the matter said.

Chicago headquarters to close Further proof that the worldwide recession is hitting the gaming sector comes today with the sad news that all the staff based at Midway's corporate headquarters in Chicago have been given two months' notice.According to the Chicago Tribune chief executive Matt Booty is among those who has been let go and it's thought this loss of staff represents roughly twenty percent of the publishers global workforce.Only recently Warner Bros. purchased most of Midway's American assets in a 33 million USD deal which has since grown to 49 million USD due to 'considerations such as inventory and accounts receivable,' according to GameSpot.These fresh job losses come hot on the heels of the news that broke earlier this week regarding the closure of Midway Newcastle, which wasn't included in the Warner Bros. Midway's San Diego studios which were also excluded from the deal remain up for sale.

Notre Dame and Army will bring their time-honored matchup back to the Bronx in 2010, according to published reports, carrying a tradition that flourished decades ago in the old Stadium across the street for the first football game in the new stadium.

The trip was the first by members of the Neturei Karta sect since Hamas – whose charter calls for the destruction of Israel – seized control of the tiny coastal territory two years ago. Th...