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£130 Million Worth Silver Discovered on Shipwreck off Ireland Coast

A shipwreck loaded with silver worth more than £130million has been discovered at the bottom of the Atlantic. Odyssey Marine Exploration announced that it has confirmed the identity and location of the shipwreck site of the SS Gairsoppa nearly 4,700 meters below the surface of the North Atlantic, approximately 300 miles off the coast of Ireland in international waters.
Eurozone

Global Financial Crisis: Shares Rally as Euro Looks to Move Into Safe Zone

The Euro opened Tuesday away from its eight month low on the back of a report in Europe that leaders are considering 'beefing' up its bail out fund prompted short covering Reuters reports Tuesday.Asian currencies also rebounded after huge sales in the last two weeks, helping to ease the global worries of contagion from the Euro zone crisis. A group of the worlds 20 largest economies met this weekend to discuss the world's economic fears but were unable to offer anty concrete steps t...
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Eurozone Debt Crisis: The Pain in Spain

I was speaking to a young couple from Madrid a couple of weeks back. They were on a camping holiday, a treat paid partly by their respective parents. Things were very bad in Spain they told me and both were most concerned about getting work. The young lady said: "Everybody's going to either Madrid or Barcelona...Really the only two places in the country where you can find anything. It's not good in the north (of Spain) and the south is just devastated."
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FiReControl Project Wasted £469 Million: Panel

Margaret Hodge, MP and Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, has termed a project which initiates nine regional centres for fire and rescue services a 'complete failure.' She said that the FiReControl project had wasted £469 million.
UK Economy: Does Ed Balls Have a Credible Alternative?

UK Economy: Does Ed Balls Have a Credible Alternative?

The UK economy has flat lined and with the threat of massive trade union strikes on November 30 of this year’s year both the public and economists are seriously considering whether David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne have got their plan right. Has the UK moved down a road they can’t come back from or is it in fact that Ed Balls’ and the Labour Party plans simply are not credible?
New Zealand Dollar

Tough Times in New Zealand - Focus on Christchurch After Earthquakes

Fourth September this year marked the first anniversary of the 7.1 Richter scale earthquake that struck the city of Christchurch at 04.35 local time. New Zealand's second largest city, and the largest in the South Island, the miracle was surely that despite extensive damage, no-one was killed in the quake. No doubt that the quake hit the area early on a Saturday morning helped make this possible.
Trump's assistant, Amanda Miller

Trump Flaunts His Extravagant Customized Jet (VIDEO)

Donald Trump, the real estate tycoon spells extravagance and how!His recent buy is an amazing $100 million Boeing 757. Donald may have felt a space crunch in his previous boeing 747 and hence his new buy is twice the size of his previous jet. His assistant, Amanda Miller, stars in a 3-minute video tour pointing out all the little extras the plane has to offer.
Rupert Murdoch

News International Profits Fall but Murdoch Stands Defiant

News International has announced a full-year operating income of £3.08bn. The figures show a 12 per cent increase driven by the success in television and cable networking programming with BSKYB and Fox News performing well for the company.
Utility Bill Hikes Accountable for Further Inflation Rise

UK Economy Grows 0.2 Per Cent: Are George Osborne’s Plans Working?

UK Growth figures show that the economy grew between April and June with growth at 0.2 per cent in the last three months. The weak figure from the Office for National Statistics will put pressure on the government to boost growth. Chancellor George Osborne has said that the government will stick to its economic plan "in a world of very great uncertainty." There will now be growing calls from the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, to adopt a plan B amid fears that the UK can't support the defi...