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Overnight Markets: US stocks up as Greece starts talks on reforms
Thu 9 Feb 2012
Wall Street moved slightly up on Wednesday as Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos began talks with political leaders on reforms in exchange for a bailout critical to avoiding a chaotic default. The... (photo: AP / Richard Drew)
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Blindness   Japan   Photos   Traffic   Wikipedia: Traffic light		  The Daily Telegraph 
Japan testing traffic lights for colour-blind drivers
Wed 8 Feb 2012
Japan is road testing new traffic lights that can be seen by people who are colour-blind as well as drivers with perfect vision. Colour-blindness affects around 8 per cent of males and 0.5 per cent of... (photo: WN / RTayco)
FILE - In this April 13, 2008 file photo, the company logo shines off the grille of an unsold 2008 Avalaon sedan at a Toyota dealership in the southeast Denver suburb of Centennial, Colo.Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc., Friday, May 1, 2009, reported month-end sales of 126,540 vehicles, a decrease of 41.9 percent from last April, on a daily selling rate basis.  Jakarta Globe  Wed 8 Feb 2012
Toyota to Invest $534m for New Indonesia Plant
Toyota Motor, Japan’s biggest automaker, said that it would spend 41.3 billion yen ($534 million) to build a second plant in Indonesia to meet growing demand in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.... (photo: AP / David Zalubowski, file)
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Black rhinoceros at the Taronga Western Plains Zoo in 2006  Orange News  Wed 8 Feb 2012
Video: Papier Mache Rhino 'Attacks' Zoo Staff
Japanese police and zoo keepers have been filmed fending off a papier mache rhinoceros as part of an emergency drill. More than a hundred staff and Japanese police and paramedics took... (photo: Creative Commons / ZooPro)
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World stocks rise as Greece debt deal appears near
BANGKOK — World stocks rose Wednesday as Japan's powerhouse exporters got a boost from hopes of new moves to weaken the yen while a deal appeared within reach... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
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A woman walks past a stock indicator in Tokyo Friday, Aug. 10, 2007. Japanese stocks plunged Friday, following a sharp fall on Wall Street overnight, sparked by fears about a spreading credit crunch. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 issues shed 2.37 perce Dayton Daily News Wed 8 Feb 2012
Asia stocks rise as Greece debt deal appears near
BANGKOK — Asian stocks rose Wednesday as Japan's powerhouse exporters got a boost from hopes of new moves to weaken the yen while a deal appeared within reach... (photo: (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara))
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2010 Nissan Altima photographed in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. The Times of India Wed 8 Feb 2012
Nikkei ends above 9,000 for first time in 3 months
Japan's Nikkei share average closed above the 9,000-mark for the first time in three months on Wednesday, boosted by a better-than-expected profit outlook from Toyota... (photo: Public Domain / IFCAR)
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Logo of Toyota Motor's on New Prius car-Automaker-India. The Times of India Wed 8 Feb 2012
Tokyo stocks up 0.69% by noon
Tokyo stocks were higher on Wednesday morning, supported by overnight gains on Wall Street and a lower yen. The Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange gained 0.69... (photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam)
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KLdy1 - rupiah - indonesian rupiah - currency - indonesia. (dy1) Jakarta Globe Wed 8 Feb 2012
Indonesia Stocks Rise on Greek Debt Hopes
Hong Kong. Asian markets, including in Indonesia, rose in early trading on Wednesday, tracking gains on Wall Street amid growing hopes that Greece will reach a bailout... (photo: WN / deniseyong)
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After studying chimpanzees in the wilds of Tanzania's Mahale Mountains National Park for the past year as part of a National Science Foundation grant, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine researcher Taranjit Kaur and her team have produced powerful scientific evidence that chimpanzees are becoming sick from viral infectious diseases they have likely contracted from humans. Chimpanzees may be learning medical know how from watching elders Newstrack India
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In this undated image from video seized from the walled compound of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and released Saturday, May 7, 2011, by the U.S. Department of Defense a man, who the American government identified as Osama bin Laden, watches himself on television. Bin Laden-Thoreau Debate AND Agreements WorldNews.com
Hiroshima aftermath. During World War II, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, were destroyed by atomic bombs dropped by the United States military on August 6 and August 9, 1945, respectively, killing at least 120,000 people outright, and around Hiroshima bombing survivor became ambassador for peace Tulsa World
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second right, gestures, as he visits Iran's Fuel Manufacturing Plant (FMP), a new facility producing uranium fuel for a planned heavy-water nuclear reactor, just outside the city of Isfahan, 255 miles (410 kilometers), south of Tehran, Iran, Thursday, April 9, 2009. Dan Lieberman: U.S. Policies Motivate Iran Nuclear Aims Scoop
The Diablo (background) was named for a legendary bull, while the Countach (foreground) broke from the bullfighting tradition. After christening the Urraco after a bull breed, in 1974, Lamborghini broke from tradition, naming the Countach not for a bull, but for countach! (pronounced [kunˈtɑtʃ] ( listen)), an exclamation of astonishment used by Piedmontese men upon sighting a beautiful woman. 8 Ferraris involved in 'world's most expensive car crash' Newstrack India
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