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Thieves in Belgium make off with $50 million in diamonds
PARIS -- Heavily armed robbers disguised as police officers stole $50 million worth of diamonds in a spectacular raid at Brussels' international airport, authorities said Tuesday. Shortly before 8 p.m. Monday, two black cars with flashing blue lights...
Tags: Theft, Brussels (Belgium), Criminals, France
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Tina Turner may become a Swiss citizen, give back U.S. passport
Tina Turner wants to become a Swiss citizen, and love has everything to do with it. If you've been wondering what the iconic diva has been up to lately, she's been living in Kuesnacht, a Zurich suburb, since 1995. A Swiss paper wrote Friday that the...Tags: Music, Swiss Confederation, Ike Turner, Entertainment, Brownsville
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PASSINGS: Galina Vishnevskaya, Lisa della Casa, Paul Rauch
Galina Vishnevskaya Russian opera singer, wife of Rostropovich Galina Vishnevskaya, 86, a world-renowned Russian opera diva who with her husband defied the Soviet regime to give shelter to writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn and suffered exile from her...
Tags: Music, Swiss Confederation, World War II (1939-1945), Obituaries, Moscow (Russia)
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Soprano Lisa della Casa, an opera beauty, dies at 93
Lisa della Casa, a Swiss-born soprano known for her sweet voice and exquisite elegance, has died at 93, the Vienna Opera announced Tuesday. The late English music critic Sir Neville Cardus reportedly once said of Della Casa that one should go to her...
Tags: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Music, Al Pacino, Swiss Confederation, Obituaries
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Pictures in the News | August 24, 2012
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The Week in Pictures | August 20 – 26, 2012
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‘So You Think You Can Dance’ names winners
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelTiffany Maher, a junior at the University of Central Florida, received lavish praise in the season finale of “So You Think You Can Dance.” But she didn't win the title as favorite female dancer on the Fox contest. That designation went to... -
Swiss bank UBS to cut 10,000 jobs, or 16% of workforce, by 2015
Swiss bank UBS will cut 10,000 jobs as it exits from its fixed-income trading business and tries to cut costs and concentrate on wealth management. The Zurich, Switzerland-based institution, which stated that it is “significantly reshaping its...
Tags: Banking, Economy, Business and Finance, Layoffs and Downsizing, Finance, Investments
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UCI researchers' work could help paralyzed patients
Two UC Irvine associate professors have laid the foundation for a treatment that could help people who are paralyzed by spinal cord injuries. Aileen Anderson and Brian Cummings developed a stem cell treatment in collaboration with Northern California-...Tags: StemCells Incorporated, Trials, Medical Research, University of California, Irvine
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Drowning in debt
Around two years ago the editor printed a letter I wrote warning that Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain (PIIGS) were in desperate financial condition, (Add France, Japan and the United Kingdom, to the list). Two years of meetings, talks, etc....Tags: Government Debt, Economy, Business and Finance, Economic Indicator, Government, Finance
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Critic's Notebook: Seeing L.A.'s MOCA as a company — therein lies the rub
If you're confused by the convulsive goings-on at the internationally admired Museum of Contemporary Art, which culminated in the June 25 firing of the illustrious chief curator instrumental in putting the museum on the map, don't be. It's not that...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Auction Service, Artists, Finance, Arts and Culture
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London's luscious, low-key side
LONDON — As a Californian, I had forgotten that you don't cancel your life just because it rains. If you did, you'd never see anything in London, at least not recently. And there is much to see. Too much, in fact. It's a travel buffet, and it's...
Tags: Theft, Arts and Culture, Travel, Paris (France), Foods and Beverages
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