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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
loss after loss
French bank BNP Paribas says first quarter net profit falls 21 percent, less than expected
The Associated Press
PARIS: French bank BNP Paribas SA said Wednesday its first-quarter net profit declined by 21 percent as the global credit crisis hurt profit at its corporate and investment bank.
Published: May 14, 2008
France's largest bank beat expectations to post a net profit for the quarter of €1.98 billion (US$3.06 billion), down from €2.51 billion in the same period a year earlier.
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Flim festivel
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CINEMA
Cannes kicks off with diverse offerings
Wednesday 14 May 2008
The Cannes film festival opens Wednesday, beginning with a new Brazilian film from "City of God" director Fernando Meireilles; later in the festival, Stephen Spielberg releases the latest Indiana Jones sequel. (Report: France 3/J. Le Masurier)
Special Report Cannes Film FestivalCANNES, France, May 13 (Reuters) - The world's biggest film
festival kicks off in Cannes on Wednesday, bringing Hollywood
A-listers, obscure arthouse directors, international media and
fans together for 12 party-packed days on the French Riviera.
festival kicks off in Cannes on Wednesday, bringing Hollywood
A-listers, obscure arthouse directors, international media and
fans together for 12 party-packed days on the French Riviera.
Wednesday 14 May 2008
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Killer carl party with facebook chummies
Carl Williams 'partying' with Facebook mates
May 14, 2008 01:30pm
By staff writers
Killer ... Williams outside Melbourne Supreme Court in 2004, left, and his Facebook profile / Richard Cisar-Wright, Facebook
GANGLAND murderer Carl Williams is behind bars, but on Facebook he is "partying" with 971 friends, sipping cyber cocktails and taking virtual happy pills.
On a Williams Facebook page the underworld killer's mood was today described as "happy". With a growing list of well-wishers, it verges on a Williams fan site.
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woes follow each other
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New storm head toward cyclone-devastated Myanmar
1 hour, 35 minutes ago
YANGON, Myanmar - Another powerful storm headed toward Myanmar's cyclone-devastated delta on Wednesday and the U.N. warned that inadequate relief efforts could lead to a second wave of deaths among the estimated 2 million survivors.
The country's junta told visiting Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, however, that it is in control of the relief operations and doesn't need foreign experts.
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relative religion
Einstein Called Religion Expression of Weakness
By Jill Lawless, Associated Press
posted: 13 May 2008 05:21 pm ET
LONDON (AP) — Albert Einstein: arch rationalist or scientist with a spiritual core?
A letter being auctioned in London this week adds more fuel to the long-simmering debate about the Nobel prize-winning physicist's religious views. In the note, written the year before his death, Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the product of human weakness and the Bible as "pretty childish.''
find buck bugs
Police respond to shooting, but find $1 million in pot
Article Launched: 05/13/2008 01:33:09 AM PDT
It started as a weekend response to reports of a shooting in central San Jose.
It ended with a massive drug bust resulting in the seizure of $1 million in pot plants, according to San Jose police.
About 9:10 a.m. Saturday morning, police responded to a report of shots fired in the 900 block of Taji Court, near Lucretia and Phelan avenues, near Kelley Park. Based on information that there was a shooting victim inside the home, police forced their way inside the residence.