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Auto executives, from left, General Motors Chief Executive Officer Richard Wagoner, UAW President Ron Gettelfinger, Ford Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally, and Chrysler Chief Executive Officer Robert Nardelli testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008, before a Senate Banking Committee hearing on the auto industry bailo
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Dec 5, 2008 10:16 AM Having grounded their luxury jets and agreed to work for $1 a year, the heads of the "Big Three" US automakers dropped arrogance for humility in a new plea for federal help to survive. "We're here today because we made mistakes, which we are learning from," General Motors chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner testified at a hearing of...

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5 Dec 2008, 0302 hrs IST, Jayanta Gupta, TNN               Text: KOLKATA: Border Security Force officials said that there had been an exodus across the 1,145 km porous Indo-Bangla border ever since the...
photo: AP / Ramakanta Dey

 
              Text: QUITO: Ecuador has been ordered to pay US oil giant Chevron 1.6 billion dollars by an international court in a long-standing dispute over alleged environmental damage, the company said on...
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              Text: MUMBAI: Gold suffered a jolt across the board on Thursday after the European Central Bank (ECB) cut interest rates by 75 basis points on Thursday — its biggest ever cut. In Mumbai, a major...
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The world's most famous polar bear, Knut, has become the latest victim of the worldwide credit crunch. The animal, which pulled in the crowds as a cute cub, turns 2 years old Friday and needs a new enclosure at the Berlin Zoo for him to grow up and...
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5 Dec 2008, 0020 hrs IST, AP               Text: WASHINGTON: US attorney-general Michael Mukasey said on Wednesday that the United...
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5 Dec 2008, 0041 hrs IST, Rajat Pandit, TNN               Text: NEW DELHI: With intelligence inputs holding terrorists could strike through the aerial route after the maritime one, the IAF has cranked up...
photo: AP / Bikas Das

 
 
 
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