Japanese Markets Posts Biggest Fall Ever

The benchmark ended the month of October down 24 percent, its biggest monthly fall in its 58-year history as fears over a global recession battered investor willingness to take on riskier assets.

Market players also said short-term profit taking was inevitable after the Nikkei gained nearly 30 percent in the three-day rally to Thursday..

Read more Nikkei drops 5 pct, posts biggest monthly fall ever


Source: The Guardian

World Markets Cheer Fed Rate Cut

World stock markets rose Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to help revive the world's largest economy and opened new credit lines with other central banks.

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Source: houston chronicle

Wall Street: Second Biggest Point Advance on Record

Stock markets around the world have been extremely volatile for past six weeks as more than $12 trillion of market value has been lost. Tuesday's advance started in Asia as Hong Kong shares were up 14 percent - their best advance in 11 years, Germany was up 11 percent and Brazil 13 percent...

Read more US Stocks Soar, Second Biggest Point Advance on Record

Source: voa news

White Supremacist Jolts Tennessee

In a rural Tennessee county where you can't buy alcohol or even find a Wal-Mart, residents of tiny Bells stopped each other to ask if anyone knew the pale-skinned young local accused of plotting to kill dozens of black people, including Barack Obama...

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Source: tennessee gulf news

Homeless: 77 Million Displaced

The United Nations estimates that 77 million people - more than 1 percent of the world's population - are displaced within their own countries, having been forced to flee their homes by armed conflicts, violence, urbanization, development, and natural disasters.

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Source: daily star lebanon

Scientists Find Gene For The Transsexual Experience

IN THE largest ever genetic study of transsexuals, Australian researchers have discovered a DNA variation linked to male-to-female transsexualism.

The finding strengthens the view that there is a biological reason why some people feel they are living in the wrong body, in this case men who have an strong desire to live as a woman.

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Source: canberra times