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• U.S. financial panic goes global
On Monday, the panic that began on Wall Street effectively shut down interbank and other loan markets, pushing industrialized countries closer to recession. Even as Sweden, Austria and Denmark followed Germany’s lead by offering guarantees to ...
• Research into HIV, cancer garners Nobel Prize
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Germany's Harald zur Hausen and French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering the AIDS virus and the role of viruses in cervical cancer. Barre ...
• World struggles with unified response to crisis
Even as Sweden, Austria and Denmark followed Germany’s lead by offering guarantees to savers, investors from Tokyo to London continued to slash risk from portfolios and positioned for a further tightening of credit and bank lending. South Korea said ...
• World markets plunge on fears of growing crisis
France’s BNP Paribas SA committed to taking a 75-percent stake in troubled European bank Fortis NV, and Sweden and Denmark followed Ireland and Britain in raising the amount of savers’ deposits guaranteed by the government. Germany made a ...
• Nokia takes on Apple in music and cell phone
Sony Ericsson launched its music package this month in Sweden, and South Korea's LG Electronics plans a service similar to Nokia's. Could change music industry, some say Nokia's package will differ from others on the market since users can keep all the ...