20100711

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Germans Embrace Socializing Online Despite Government Efforts to Protect Them (Jul-11, 15:05 EDT )-- A disconnect is developing between consumers, who are giving out private details to Facebook, Apple and Google, and officials who are investigating the companies for possibly breaching privacy laws.


News Agencies Stare Each Other Down in Shrinking German Market (Jul-11, 15:03 EDT )-- Relations between the agencies â€" D.P.A, which was founded in postwar West Germany, and D.A.P.D., which traces some of its roots to the former Communist East â€" have turned decidedly frosty.


Crisis Awaits World’s Banks as Trillions Come Due (Jul-11, 14:48 EDT )-- Institutions around the world must repay or roll over trillions of dollars in short-term borrowing over the next two years, perhaps leading to tighter and costlier credit.


BP’s Plan to Cap Oil Well Stays on Target (Jul-11, 14:40 EDT )-- BP reported progress in an effort to install a cap that could contain all the oil spewing from its out-of-control well in the Gulf of Mexico.


$355 A Week Is Tough, But It's Even Harder Without (Jul-11, 14:04 EDT )-- Debra Rousey doesn't want to get an unemployment check every week. She'd much rather get a paycheck, as she used to back in November, before she lost her job as an assistant bank manager. But now that her unemployment benefits have ended, and Congress...


Smaller Increase in China’s Foreign Reserves in Quarter (Jul-11, 11:19 EDT )-- The central bank cited the declining euro behind its purchase of only $7.2 billion in foreign reserves in the quarter.


Congress Stalled As 2 Million Lose Jobless Benefits (Jul-11, 11:07 EDT )-- When members of Congress return from their Fourth of July break Monday, they'll find a big challenge waiting for them right where they left it. The issue is unemployment -- specifically an extension of benefits for people who've lost their jobs. The...


Cuba's New Deepwater Oil Well Uncomfortably Close (Jul-11, 07:00 EDT )-- As a legal case over a moratorium on deepwater drilling works its way through the U.S. courts, a Spanish-led consortium is now preparing to sink a deepwater exploratory well in Cuban waters, just 60 miles off the Florida coast. The move raises concerns...


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