Accounts merged after name mix-up

6 November 2012 Last updated at 08:06 ETTens of thousands of pounds ended up in the wrong savings account following a mix-up over two customers with the same name and date of birth. Insurance company Prudential mistakenly merged the records of the two customers in March 2007.The mix-up, which continued for more than...

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Officials: New mass graves found in Ivory Coast

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Up to 10 new mass graves have been discovered near the site of a July attack on a camp for displaced people, officials said Tuesday, amid allegations that initial casualty totals were downplayed to mask killings carried out by the national army.Rights groups claim summary executions were carried out by the Republican Forces...

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Google says Apple patent lawsuit dismissed

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by Apple Inc alleging that Google Inc-owned Motorola‘s patent licensing practices were unfair, Google said on Monday.Apple had been set to square off against Motorola on Monday in a trial in U.S. District Court in Madison, Wisconsin, involving Google’s use of the library of patents it acquired...

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No Doubt apologize to Native Americans for Wild West video

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Pop band No Doubt was forced to remove a new Wild West-themed music video and issue an apology after getting complaints from the Native American community, saying its intention was “never to offend, hurt or trivialize” their culture or history.The Southern California band – made up of lead singer Gwen Stefani, guitarist Tom...

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Service sector growth slips in October, hiring picks up

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The pace of growth in the U.S. services sector slowed modestly in October, though a measure of employment improved to its highest in seven months, underscoring expectations the economic recovery will remain modest.The Institute for Supply Management said its services index eased to 54.2 last month from 55.1 in September, shy of economists’...

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Methane warnings ignored before NZ mine disaster

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A New Zealand coal mining company ignored 21 warnings that methane gas had accumulated to explosive levels before an underground explosion killed 29 workers two years ago, an investigation concluded.The official report released Monday after 11 weeks of hearings on the disaster found broad safety problems in New Zealand workplaces...

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Monster’s U.S. online jobs index gains in October

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A monthly gauge of online labor demand in the United States rose in October, while construction and housing-related fields saw improvement compared with a year ago, the operator of a job search website said on Friday.Monster Worldwide Inc, an online careers and recruiting firm, said its employment index gained 2 percent to 156 last...

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Robbie Williams returns to top spot on UK pop charts

LONDON (Reuters) – Robbie Williams‘ new single “Candy” shot straight to number one in Britain’s pop charts on Sunday, the Official Charts Company said, dislodging Labrinth and Emeli Sande‘s “Beneath Your Beautiful” from the top spot.Scottish producer and singer Calvin Harris entered the album charts at number one with “18 Months”, his second top-selling...

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Turkish ex-president’s autopsy fuels poisoning speculation

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – An autopsy on late President Turgut Ozal, who led Turkey out of military rule in the 1980s and whose body was exhumed last month, will reveal he was poisoned, his son believes, calling for a full investigation of the “dark years” two decades ago when he died.Ahmet Ozal was speaking after a newspaper report said high levels of poison...

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Analysis: Waiting for housing to drive the U.S. economy

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. housing market is on the mend, but the so-called “missing piston” of the world’s biggest economy doesn’t have enough power to get the broader recovery firing on all cylinders any time soon.Construction and related activity will help rather than hinder U.S. economic growth this year for the first time since 2005. That was before...

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