NEW YORK, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Britain’s Prudential Plc
plans to do a rights offering of about $20 billion to
finance a $35.5 billion purchase of American International
Group’s Asian life insurance unit, a source familiar
with the situation said on Sunday.
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AP – These Olympics will be remembered for all the wrong reasons.
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* Merck KGaA will fund deal from own cash and debt
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Resuscitating the health care reform bill was the focus of President Obama’s much publicized Blair House Summit. Political analyst John Dickerson speaks with Russ Mitchell about health care reform.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Snowstorms have repeatedly battered parts of the United States this winter, making it more difficult to discern returning weakness in the economy from
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AP – This was the best possible way to end the Olympics for Canada.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers produced a second half comeback to beat the Denver Nuggets 95-89 Sunday, and their first victory over their Western Conference rivals this season.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Bipartisan agreement in the Senate on financial reform hit a snag on how much power to give a consumer watchdog office being proposed by Democrats, with marathon talks resuming on Sunday.
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Edgar Sosa’s driving layup with 8 seconds left gave Louisville a 78-76 victory over Connecticut on Sunday, adding another conference road win …
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s admission that the Government deserves a "whacking" from voters is simply a ploy to gain headlines, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says.
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VANCOUVER (Reuters) – For Canada, a country always in the shadow of its bigger, brasher, richer neighbor to the south, the idea of being best in anything was always something of a stretch.
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* Deal could be announced as soon as Monday
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will pay a short visit to Chile this week as part of her Latin American tour despite the massive earthquake that hit the country, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday.
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Credit unions want Congress to raise limit on loans to small businesses.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Martin Scorsese’s suspense thriller “Shutter Island” led the North American box office for a second consecutive weekend on Sunday, while “Avatar” was the top choice internationally for an 11th weekend.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Global miner Rio Tinto will increase its stake in Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines by 2.7 percent to 22.4 percent at a cost of C$244.7 million ($232.8 million), the company said on Monday.
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LONDON (Reuters) – The chief executives of HSBC Holdings , Europe’s biggest bank, and Asia-focused rival Standard Chartered are set to give their bonuses to charity, newspapers reported on Sunday, following a high-profile row over the sums paid to bankers.
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Cetera DeGraffenreid scored 20 of her 22 points in the second half to help North Carolina upset No. 6 Duke 64-54 and earn a needed victory for …
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VANCOUVER (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper unwittingly provided support for the popular belief that politicians cannot organize a booze-up in a brewery when they mixed up a simple wager on the outcome of Sunday’s Olympic ice hockey final.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic leaders in the Congress voiced confidence on Sunday they will have the votes, possibly within a couple of months or so, to pass landmark legislation to overhaul the healthcare system.
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CONCEPCION, Chile (Reuters) – A massive earthquake and tsunamis killed 350 people in one Chilean coastal town, pushing the total death toll higher Sunday as the government tried to get aid to hungry survivors and halt looting.
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Feb. 28 – Demand for tickets to the gold medal men’s ice hockey clash between Canada and the United States pushes prices through the roof.
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Feb. 28 – A hungry panda helps himself to scraps of meat after breaking into a villager’s pig pen in China in search of food.
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Feb. 28 – Athletes at the Winter Olympics raise funds for the family of the Georgian luger killed on a training run in Vancouver.
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The leader of armed Basque separatists ETA was caught on Sunday in northern France, the Spanish Interior Ministry said, in what was the latest blow to a group weakened by hundreds of arrests.
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