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Iraq releases video of deadly blasts
Iraqi officials on Tuesday released security camera video of two weekend bombings that killed at least 155 people — the deadliest attacks in the capital in more than two years.
Don’t believe your lying eyes
Seeing lightness and color are the simplest sensations the brain has. And yet even at this most basic level we never see the light that falls onto our eyes (called the retinal image) or even the real-world source of that image
Roadside doctors with no degrees thrive in India
Sitting on an iron bench along a busy street, Chaman Lal sticks his fingers into a mug full of a greasy concoction and then applies the dark-red brew to areas where his patients complain of pain.
Analyst: King wrong over ‘break up banks’ call
Bank of England Governor Mervyn King this week launched a scathing attack on Britain’s banking sector, calling for a break-up of behemoth financial institutions that have taken billions of public money to stay afloat. King says Britain’s Main Street banks should be separated from their risky investment arms to dissolve a culture in which some banks can fall back on the knowledge that they are “too important to fail” and thus can keep gambling with vast amounts of public cash.
Comics confess their nightmares
King says Britain’s Main Street banks should be separated from their risky investment arms to dissolve a culture in which some banks can fall back on the knowledge that they are “too important to fail” and thus can keep gambling with vast amounts of public cash. The governor’s comments come as leading financial houses — including recipients of taxpayer-funded bailouts — prepare to pay out large bonuses, angering many who fear this signals a return to pre-economic crisis rewards for reckless profit-seeking
Wall Street: How Andrew Hall Earned His Citigroup Pay
The way to make $100 million dollars on Wall Street, so the old joke goes, is to start with $200 million. Or you could trade oil
Afghan women still struggle, 8 years on
Afghan women have seen their status rise and fall repeatedly over the past three decades, attaining a measure of equality in the early 1990s before the strictly Islamic Taliban muscled their way to power and forced women to again wear the burqa and stay out of school.
Goldman Sachs profits crush estimates
Goldman Sachs reported on Thursday that it had nearly quadrupled its profits in the third quarter compared with a year ago, driven by a jump in trading revenues and strong returns on its own corporate investments. Meanwhile, Citigroup defied expectations of a third-quarter loss, reporting profits of $101m on the strength of its customer deposits
Why the Nobel Peace Prize Should Go to Nuclear Weapons
President Barack Obama’s Nobel peace surprise was given “primarily for his work on and commitment to nuclear disarmament,” according to Agot Valle, a Norwegian politician who served on the award committee.