PARIS (AFP) - The French-Belgian bank Dexia, which specialises in financing local authorities, reported a 7.9-percent fall in net profit on Friday but said it had been little affected by the US home-loan subprime crisis.
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A notorious rural road north-east of Hobart has claimed another life.
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MOSCOW (AFP) - French carmaker Renault on Friday signed a billion-dollar deal to buy a stake in Lada-maker Avtovaz, Russia’s biggest auto producer, in a push into the country’s booming car market.
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The Indonesian government needs to keep a closer watch on the burgeoning publishing wing of militant Islamist group Jemaah Islamiah (JI).
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Unions will ask Qantas customers to boycott the company’s valet service after workers were made redundant and told they needed to sign AWAs.
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Four men critically injured in a helicopter crash in north west Sydney are being prepared to be airlifted to hospital.
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Former deputy prime minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, has told ABC’s Radio National that the country’s upcoming elections will be marred by voting irregularities.
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MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian gas giant Gazprom will cut its supplies to ex-Soviet neighbour Ukraine by 25 percent on Monday after talks between the two countries over gas debts ended in failure, Gazprom said in a statement Friday.
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YouTube tests a new homepage that is customizable and centered on your activities. Instead of displaying the same content for all YouTube users, the new homepage looks different, depending on your preferences and your activities. Here’s what’s new:
* recommended videos, a feature that relies on your previous activity: favorite videos, subscribed channels
* latest from your subscriptions: 12 videos from 3 of your subscribed channels
* friend activity: a list of videos uploaded, favorited or rated by your YouTube contacts. This information is displayed only if your contacts added it to their public profiles.
* inbox: messages, friend invites, received videos.
* statistics about your videos (total views, subscribers) and your activity (subscriptions, comments).
“The goal with all of this is to gauge people’s interest in having a YouTube that’s tailored to the individual. Ultimately, we want to get you one step closer to the videos you’ll enjoy most every time you come to the site,” explains YouTube.
To try the new homepage, log in to your YouTube account and then go to http://www.youtube.com/iyt.
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The Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says Turkey and Iraq should not allow Kurdish PKK separatists to "poison" relations between the two countries.
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