Topic: FUN - on October 28, 2008 at 5:02:00 PM CET
Crash
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 28, 2008 at 4:59:00 PM CET
Cost of crash: $2,800,000,000,000
How much is that?
The Bank of England may have put the paper cost of the global crisis at a staggering $2.8 trillion, but how does one come to grips with such a sum? Think of it like this: it could pay for 46 bail-outs of the kind the Treasury handed to the banks RBS, HBOS group and Lloyds TSB; or pay off the last quarter's public debt 45 times. It is more than three times the sum of UK annual public spending, and also equivalent to the wealth of 100 Oleg Deripaskas - before the credit crunch anyway. It's equal to 138m bottles of 1947 Petrus Pomerol, the bankers' favourite vintage; or, if it's your turn in the coffee round, 773bn lattes - nearly 13,000 each for every UK citizen.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on October 28, 2008 at 4:57:00 PM CET
Polizei sucht Sesamstraßen-"Ernie"
Die Polizei in Bayreuth bittet um Ihre Mithilfe! "Ernie" aus der Sesamstraße ist nämlich als Verkehrs-"Grobi" erwischt worden.Mit 155 km/h ist die Puppe auf der A9 am Bindlacher Berg geblitzt worden. Erlaubt waren lediglich 120 km/h.
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Topic: VIDEO - on October 28, 2008 at 4:50:00 PM CET
MTVMusic Music to your eyes.
MTVMusic Music to your eyes.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 28, 2008 at 4:46:00 PM CET
Mexiko: Mitarbeiter der Staatsanwaltschaft kooperierten mit Drogenmafia
In Mexiko haben Mitarbeiter der Generalstaatsanwaltschaft im großen Stil mit einem Drogenkartell zusammengearbeitet. Angestellte der Abteilung für den Kampf gegen das organisierte Verbrechen gaben Informationen über Ermittlungen an Dealer weiter und standen auf der Gehaltsliste des Beltran-Leyva-Kartells, wie die Staatsanwaltschaft mitteilte.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 28, 2008 at 4:44:00 PM CET
Drug unit 'corrupted' in Mexico
Members of an elite Mexican anti-drug unit passed information to a drug cartel in exchange for thousands of dollars, prosecutors say.
They said police agents and senior officials gave sensitive information to the Beltran Leyva organisation.
Assistant Attorney General Marisela Morales said those involved had received up to $450,000 (£290,000) a month from the cartel.
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Topic: GINGER - on October 28, 2008 at 4:42:00 PM CET
Dean Kamen: part man, part machine
Some see Dean Kamen as a Willy Wonka character whose most famous invention - the Segway personal transporter - is still the butt of jokes. Others compare him to Henry Ford. His next project, after perfecting an electric car, is to 'to fix the world' - using a 200-year-old engine nobody else thinks can work.
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Topic: GINGER - on October 28, 2008 at 4:42:00 PM CET
Dean Kamen: part man, part machine
Some see Dean Kamen as a Willy Wonka character whose most famous invention - the Segway personal transporter - is still the butt of jokes. Others compare him to Henry Ford. His next project, after perfecting an electric car, is to 'to fix the world' - using a 200-year-old engine nobody else thinks can work.
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Topic: NEWS - on October 28, 2008 at 4:39:00 PM CET
Wired's Product Reviews of 2008
Wired tested and rated more than 100 of the year's hottest new and upcoming gadgets, gizmos and products.
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Topic: VIDEO - on October 27, 2008 at 1:12:00 PM CET
YouTube Enables Deep Linking Within Videos
It’s not a big new feature but it’s certainly one that will come in handy: YouTube will now allow you to send users to a specific point in a video by appending a short tag to the end of a video’s URL. It’s pretty surprising that this functionality wasn’t available earlier, as Google Video introduced the same feature over two years ago. YouTube users have been forced to rely on third party services like Splicd to do the same thing.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on October 27, 2008 at 1:10:00 PM CET
Russian Regulators Block Google Online Advertising Acquisition
Russian regulators will not let Google buy a local online advertising company, halting a $140 million deal agreed to in July. Google had planned to acquire Zao Begun, which has a search and contextual video and text advertising business.
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Topic: TV - on October 27, 2008 at 1:04:00 PM CET
Stefan Raab an unlikely TV star - ProSieben host set to become international mogul
He is obnoxious yet witty, irreverent and unconventional -- but he's got talent. Stefan Raab, a most unlikely Teuton TV star, has long been the creative centerpiece of the ProSieben empire.
In pubcaster-dominated Germany, TV exports haven't done particularly well. German humor always seemed to get lost in translation.
But Raab -- a self-deprecating host, producer, comedian, songwriter and singer from Cologne -- is on his way to becoming an international TV mogul with the surprising success of his offbeat gameshow "Schlag den Raab" (Beat Your Host), a format that has been turned into an improbable German export success.
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