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Commonwealth Bank of Australia CEO apologies for financial planning scandal

18 February, 2021

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Thursday, July 3, 2014 Ian Narev, the CEO of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, this morning “unreservedly” apologised to clients who lost money in a scandal involving the bank’s financial planning services arm. Last week, a Senate enquiry found financial advisers from the Commonwealth Bank had made high-risk investments of clients’ money without the clients’ […]

Massachusetts lawmakers enact plan for universal health coverage

18 February, 2021

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Friday, April 7, 2006Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court, their name for the state legislature, approved legislation on Tuesday, April 4, that would make it the first state in the United States to require all residents to have health insurance and impose penalties for non-compliance. Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican who is expected to […]

Time for North Americans to spring ahead one hour

18 February, 2021

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Sunday, April 3, 2005 The time has come for North Americans to enjoy the extra length of the Northern Hemisphere’s spring and summer day, by observing Daylight Saving Time (DST). In most areas of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, DST observers should turn their clocks ahead one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday morning. In […]

Gastric bypass surgery performed by remote control

18 February, 2021

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Sunday, August 21, 2005 A robotic system at Stanford Medical Center was used to perform a laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery successfully with a theoretically similar rate of complications to that seen in standard operations. However, as there were only 10 people in the experimental group (and another 10 in the control group), this is not […]

Category:August 2, 2010

18 February, 2021

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Japan’s National Diet passes law allowing Emperor Akihito to abdicate within three years

18 February, 2021

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Monday, June 12, 2017 On Friday, Japan’s parliament, the National Diet, passed a law to allow Emperor Akihito to abdicate. The law gives Akihito three years to become the first emperor to abdicate since Emperor Kokaku in 1817, two hundred years ago. The newly passed law, made in response to the country’s Imperial Household Law’s […]

Missing Afghan jet found; 104 believed dead

18 February, 2021

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Saturday, February 5, 2005 On Saturday NATO and Afghan troops located the wreckage of the Kam Air Boeing 737 missing since Thursday. Afghan interior ministry spokesman Latfullah Mashal announced the discovery. “The debris of the plane was found around 25 kilometers east of Kabul in a mountainous area called Band-e Ghazi.” The jet had been […]

Blizzard Entertainment’s victory over bnetd sealed in Appeals Court

18 February, 2021

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Saturday, September 3, 2005 Blizzard Entertainment has won a federal ruling in the U.S. Court of Appeals against the programmers of bnetd, a software package that emulates Blizzard’s Battle.net service. The court reaffirmed the original judgement, given in October, that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and click-through EULA’s prohibited the reverse engineering of Blizzard’s software […]

Medvedev becomes Russian president-elect

18 February, 2021

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Monday, March 3, 2008 Dmitry Medvedev, age 42, has won the presidential election in Russia and is expected to take office on May 7, 2008, replacing Vladimir Putin who has served two 4-year presidential terms since 2000. The elections were held on Sunday, March 2, and participation among registered voters was 69.65%. On Monday morning, […]

News briefs:April 16, 2010

18 February, 2021

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