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Chelsea FC record first Abramovich-era profit

YoopyaNov 9, 20120

Chelsea Football Club has said it made a profit of £1.4m ($2.2m) for the financial year ending on 30 June, the first time the club

Burma train crash and fire kills 25

YoopyaNov 9, 20120

A train carrying liquid fuel has crashed and burst into flames in central Burma, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens. The train was

Drew Linzer: The stats man who predicted Obama’s win

YoopyaNov 9, 20120

Pundits insisted the presidential race was a toss-up, but “polling aggregators” – who analyse polls to make predictions – were being criticised for favouring President

Edgar Feuchtwanger: A Jewish childhood on Hitler’s street

YoopyaNov 9, 20120

Very little changed for a young Jewish boy, Edgar Feuchtwanger, when Hitler moved into his street in an affluent Munich suburb – until the night

Anders Behring Breivik’s prison conditions ‘inhumane’

YoopyaNov 9, 20120

The Norwegian convicted of the massacre of 77 people last year has said he is being held in “inhumane” conditions. Anders Behring Breivik complained in

South Africa gives rhino poacher 40-year jail term

YoopyaNov 9, 20120

A Thai man has been jailed for 40 years by a court in South Africa for organising illegal rhino poaching expeditions. Chumlong Lemtongthai had been

Melcom shop collapse in Ghana: Voices heard in rubble

YoopyaNov 9, 20120

Voices can still be heard in the rubble of a multi-storey shopping centre in Ghana’s capital, Accra, 48 hours after it collapsed, rescue workers have

Exclusive: Google Ventures beefs up fund size to $300 million a year

YoopyaNov 9, 2012December 19, 20230

(Reuters) – Google will increase the cash it allocates to its venture-capital arm to up to $300 million a year from $200 million, catapulting Google

Twitter mistakenly resets passwords of large number of users

YoopyaNov 9, 20120

(Reuters) – Twitter said that it mistakenly reset the passwords of “a large number” of its more than 140 million active users while conducting routine

Obama to make landmark visit to Myanmar this month

YoopyaNov 9, 20120

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama will become the first U.S. leader to visit Myanmar this month, the strongest international endorsement of the fragile democratic transition