Spanish diplomat killed amid twin Baghdad attacks The Iraqi capital was hit by further violence as a Spanish diplomat was shot dead outside his home and a suicide car bomber struck a police station killing at least eight people.
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The bulls on Wall Street looked set to regain the initiative after encouraging results from Yahoo but gains may be tempered by the weekly jobs report which is expected to remain around 400,000.
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CURRENCIES Dollar hits fresh lows against euro and yen The dollar remained under pressure, dropping to a fresh three-month low against the euro and a fresh three-year low to the yen. Sterling eased slightly after UK rates were left unchanged.
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US politics
Small earthquake in California With its gruesome parade of ageing porn peddlers, third-rate actors and new-age lifestyle gurus, the California recall campaign looked from the start like an attempt by America's largest and oddest state at grotesque self-parody. Oct 8 2003 | Read
The EU works best when small countries are in the chair. The moment you get someone such as Chirac or Blair, he is tempted to impose his own national interest.
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President Hu Jintao's rhetoric of political reform could come back to haunt him, writes Minxin Pei, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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Globalisation is so complex that its effects are less predictable and less obvious than is usually assumed, writes Moisés Naím, editor of Foreign Policy magazine.
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Wealth, taste and cachet at bargain prices Discounted luxury is an oxymoron. When so called "exclusive" brands sell lines off cheaply, it is often to the detriment of their carefully honed image. 18:26 | Read
Lex: Philips Electronics Philips Electronics would struggle to claim that superior operating skills have driven its 28 per cent outperformance of General Electric over the last decade. 21:10 | Read