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CAIRO (A.A) - Turkish State Minister Mehmet Simsek said on
Wednesday that 20 billion USD direct international investment that came to Turkey
last year was around 20 times more than the average of 1980's and 1990's. |
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<b>LONDON</b> It reads more like a spell from a Harry Potter book than a
medical manual. But 300 years ago women having difficulty conceiving were
advised to drink the spit from a hare’s mouth. A rare copy of <i>The
Ladies’ Companion</i>, or <i>The English Midwife</i>, written by a
Bristol physician, Dr William Sermon, and published in 1671, is expected to
fetch £2,000 when auctioned at Sotheby’s in London next month. |
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QinetiQ, the defence research business in which the chairman and chief
executive made more than £35 million on the flotation of the business, will
eliminate 400 jobs across the UK. |
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A clinical research firm locates its new global headquarters in Glasgow and vows to create 240 jobs over three years. |
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Hundreds of workers at the Scottish base of Prudential are told their jobs will be transferred to Capita. |
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Ancient pottery and a Roman coin are among artefacts recovered in London during digs at Olympics 2012 sites. |
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A police officer who shot a man dead in west London should not be charged, a report reveals. |
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Aerospace company Shorts Bombardier says it is create 330 new jobs at its Belfast plant. |
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Building and plumbing firm Wolseley is to cut around 1,300 US jobs following the slowing US housing market. |
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Prudential has said that about 1,750 UK jobs will be transferred to Capita as part of its cost-cutting plans. |
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