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Greek parties face Monday EU bailout deadline - Reuters
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Greek parties face Monday EU bailout deadline
Reuters
* Talks with EU/IMF "very tough and difficult", official says * Unions call 24-hour strike against more austerity * Wage, spending cuts remain key sticking points * Frustration reaches breaking point in euro zone By Harry Papachristou and Renee ...
European Leaders Maintain Pressure on Greece to Complete DealBusinessWeek
European Leaders Maintain Pressure on Greece to Complete Terms for BailoutBloomberg
Greece talks over EU bailout end without agreementBBC News
Financial Times -Telegraph.co.uk -MarketWatch
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India: I've seen how aid is wasted - Daily Mail
Daily Mail
India: I've seen how aid is wasted
Daily Mail
By Sue Reid A picture on the Department for International Development's website shows a 20-year-old named Meenakshi polishing the new solar panel on the roof of her village shack in Orissa, on the east coast of India. This gleaming piece of kit to ...
India tells Britain: We don't want your aidTelegraph.co.uk
Minister defends aid to India amid row on tradeFinancial Times
Clamour to stop British aid to IndiaEconomic Times
The Sun -Sydney Morning Herald -Spectator.co.uk
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Mining Deals to Pile Up - Wall Street Journal
New York Times
Mining Deals to Pile Up
Wall Street Journal
By JOHN W. MILLER And DANA CIMILLUCA The proposed merger of Glencore International AG and Xstrata PLC would create a true rival to global mining heavyweights like Vale SA, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, as well as put pressure on midsize players to either ...
Glencore pays a price for Xstrata dealFinancial Times
European Commission may probe 'Glenstrata' mergerTelegraph.co.uk
Xstrata chief executive Mick Davis facing investor backlash over proposed ...This is Money
Bloomberg -Reuters -The Independent
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Facebook looks to make mobile click - Financial Times
Financial Times
Facebook looks to make mobile click
Financial Times
By Tim Bradshaw, Digital Media Correspondent When Facebook starts offering marketers the chance to highlight their messages in smartphone apps and other mobile devices in the run-up to its initial public offering, it will begin to tackle a problem that ...
Facebook IPO: 'If you're in a position to lose money and want to speculate, go ...Daily Mail
Real hero of the Facebook story isn't Zuckerberg, it's the internetThe Guardian
Zuckerberg's 2012 personal income tax bill: $1.5 billionRegister
Telegraph.co.uk -Economic Times -CNET
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Spaghetti western reveals differences between human and monkey brains - The Guardian (blog)
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Spaghetti western reveals differences between human and monkey brains
The Guardian (blog)
Monkeys are our closest living relatives, whose brains have long served as an indispensable model for understanding how our own brain works. But we're separated from each other by 25 million years of evolution, so there are some major differences ...
Clint Eastwood helps reveal secrets of brain evolutionNew Scientist
To Compare Human and Monkey Brains, Humans and Monkeys Watch a Clint Eastwood FilmPopular Science
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Prime Minister faces backlash over 'anti-business' agenda - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk
Prime Minister faces backlash over 'anti-business' agenda
Telegraph.co.uk
The Prime Minister will today face a stormy showdown with Britain's business leaders who are dismayed about the Government's perceived anti-business agenda. City leaders have voiced concern that the Government's move to strip Fred Goodwin of his ...
Bonuses: a culture in need of curbingThe Guardian (blog)
Hampton: Defending Hester's bonusBBC News
Our burn-a-banker frenzy is tempting – but wrongFinancial Times
The Press Association -Reuters
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Greening criticised over opposition to pay scheme - Financial Times
Telegraph.co.uk
Greening criticised over opposition to pay scheme
Financial Times
By Kiran Stacey, Political Correspondent Justine Greening has been accused of hypocrisy after vowing to vote against a pay scheme for Network Rail bosses that Labour MPs and industry insiders insist she would have been consulted on.
Transport secretary to vote against Network Rail £20m bonusThe Guardian
Massive bonus for Network Rail chief "unacceptable" says Transport SecretaryTelegraph.co.uk
Red light for bonuses at Network RailDaily Mail
The Press Association -BusinessWeek
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Employers warn on 'quickie apprenticeships' - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk
Employers warn on 'quickie apprenticeships'
Telegraph.co.uk
The value of apprenticeships is being dragged down by “quickie” courses that do not lead to proper jobs, employers warned on the eve of a speech by the Business Secretary to promote the on-the-job training scheme. The Chartered Institute of Personnel ...
Apprenticeship Week gets underway amid continued concern about value of ...This is Money
The New Era of Apprenticeships Is LaunchedHuffington Post UK (blog)
Apprentice week ready to rollSouth Yorkshire Times
West Sussex County Times
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Goodwin quits post at Jubilee Trust - The Press Association
New York Times
Goodwin quits post at Jubilee Trust
The Press Association
Disgraced banker Fred Goodwin has resigned as a trustee of a prestigious charity which has close links with the Queen. Mr Goodwin left the Queen's Silver Jubilee Trust before he was stripped of his knighthood last week. His title was "cancelled and ...
Fred Goodwin knighthood 'hysteria' criticisedBBC News
Fred Goodwin's knighthood: Alistair Darling leads the backlashThe Guardian
Sir Fred Goodwin knighthood: At long last, a fitting punishment for such arroganceDaily Mail
Telegraph.co.uk -Evening Standard -Mirror.co.uk
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Greek Bailout Hangs on Razor's Edge as Reforms, Cuts Sought - BusinessWeek
Telegraph.co.uk
Greek Bailout Hangs on Razor's Edge as Reforms, Cuts Sought
BusinessWeek
By Marcus Bensasson, Maria Petrakis and Natalie Weeks (Updates with meeting starting in fifth paragraph. See EXT4 for more on the euro-area financial crisis.) Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Greece's efforts to win a second bailout from international creditors ...
Greece in last-minute austerity talksFinancial Times
Greece holds crucial talks over EU bailout plan termsBBC News
Greece on "knife edge" in push to agree bailoutReuters India
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MPs join calls to cut wind farm subsidies - Morning Star Online
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MPs join calls to cut wind farm subsidies
Morning Star Online
by Rory MacKinnon More than 100 Tory MPs have backed government policy with calls to cut wind farm subsidies even further. But the PM's response today suggested more than a mere tilting at windmills. Daventry MP Chris Heaton-Harris led the barracking ...
Wind power: why the MPs have written to the Prime MinisterTelegraph.co.uk
Wind farm subsidy cut urged by MPsBBC News
First test for Davey as Tory MPs revolt over wind farm subsidiesClick Green
The Press Association -Metro -Politics.co.uk
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Barclays 'set to reveal pay cuts' - The Press Association
Telegraph.co.uk
Barclays 'set to reveal pay cuts'
The Press Association
Barclays will reportedly attempt to defend itself against "banker bashing" this week by revealing that it has cut pay and met targets for lending to businesses. A source told the Sunday Telegraph that Barclays will reveal on Friday that it has lent 13% ...
Barclays' profit set for £6bnTelegraph.co.uk
Barclays boss 'to receive 2 million euro bonus'Economic Times
Barclays CEO Diamond to Get $4 Million Bonus, Telegraph ReportsBloomberg
The Independent -Scotsman -Mirror.co.uk
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Requests for block-grant funding far outpace available funds - Lynchburg News and Advance
Requests for block-grant funding far outpace available funds
Lynchburg News and Advance
A controversial decision to cut nonprofits out of a major source of city-controlled grant funding will take full effect this year. The move, which was approved by City Council and phased in over two years, has succeeding in drastically reducing the ...
Categories: Grants & Funding News
Organizations awarded more than $175000 in grants from United Way - Inside NoVA
Organizations awarded more than $175000 in grants from United Way
Inside NoVA
This is why it is so important for the community to give to their local community impact fund to further meet the needs and enrich the communities it serves.” One of the grant recipients is the Pediatric Primary Care Project, which provides primary ...
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Dutch firm takes on East Anglia trains from National Express - BBC News
Norwich Evening News
Dutch firm takes on East Anglia trains from National Express
BBC News
The British branch of Dutch train firm Abellio took over the Greater Anglia train franchise from National Express East Anglia just after 02:00 GMT. For the next 29 months, the company will provide train services across Cambridgeshire, Essex, ...
Anglia’s rail rated UK’s worst valueBury Free Press
Rail season ticket re-launch bid to ease strain for train travellers to ...Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
National Express East Anglia ranked bottom of customer satisfaction surveyHarlow Star
Diss Express -Gazette -Harwich and Manningtree Standard
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Komen Foundation reverses funding decision of Planned Parenthood - CNN (blog)
The Guardian
Komen Foundation reverses funding decision of Planned Parenthood
CNN (blog)
"We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants, while maintaining the ability of our affiliates to make funding decisions that meet the needs of their ...
Internet Fury Spurs Komen ReversalBloomberg
Komen restores Planned Parenthood fundingStamford Advocate
Susan G Komen in U-turn over Planned Parenthood funding cutThe Guardian
Minneapolis Star Tribune -Los Angeles Times
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Categories: Grants & Funding News
Africa needs $4b to bridge Global Fund shortfall - East African
East African
Africa needs $4b to bridge Global Fund shortfall
East African
The 2011 Audit Report on The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria shows Rwanda's significant amounts of grant funds have been tied up to pay value added taxes (VAT) even as grant agreements provided for tax exemption on goods and ...
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Competition more fierce for grants - Marion Star
Competition more fierce for grants
Marion Star
Now another funding source has become harder to come by: Grants. This means competition has become more fierce among governments, said Kent Scarrett, communications director for the Ohio Municipal League. "There's not a lot of grant money out there, ...
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DEP Awards 73 Grants to Protect, Improve Watersheds in 36 Counties - Gant Daily
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DEP Awards 73 Grants to Protect, Improve Watersheds in 36 Counties
Gant Daily
This year, the Growing Greener program, which is funded by the Environmental Stewardship Fund, will award $9.72 million for 57 projects around the state. An additional project, funded by the Surface Mining Conservation and Reclamation Grant, ...
Local sites to receive 'Greener' grantsLebanon Daily News
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Rothschild Seeks Peace With Bumi's Bakrie, Telegraph Reports - Bloomberg
Financial Times
Rothschild Seeks Peace With Bumi's Bakrie, Telegraph Reports
Bloomberg
Bumi Plc (BUMI) co-Chairman Nathaniel Rothschild will seek peace with Chairman Indra Bakrie as he tries to end the feud that may oust Rothschild from the Indonesian miner's board, the Sunday Telegraph reported, without saying where it obtained the ...
Olive branch from Nat Rothschild in Bumi feudTelegraph.co.uk
Bakrie vehicle moves to oust Rothschild from BumiFinancial Times
Miner may dig out RothschildThe Independent
Reuters UK -BusinessWeek
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