NEW YORK (AP) - Brad Pitt says it was important for his partner, Angelina Jolie, to share her story about having her breasts removed to avoid cancer "and that others would understand it doesn't have to be a scary thing." (Source: Assoc... [Full Article]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Import prices fell in April due to a drop in oil costs, a positive sign for household finances that also pointed to benign inflation pressures. Import prices slipped 0.5 percent last month, the biggest decline since December, t... [Full Article]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The homespun Afghan burqa is under siege from east and west these days - cut-price competition from China, and Western influences that are leading many urban women to exchange the full-body cloak for a simple headscarf. (Sou... [Full Article]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. trade gap narrowed unexpectedly in February as crude oil imports fell to their lowest level since March 1996 and overall exports increased slightly, a U.S. Commerce Department report on Friday showed. The deficit narro... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - British wholesale gas prices fell by up to 20 percent on Monday, undermined by major gas shipments due from Qatar and Trinidad to help replenish stored gas reserves depleted by weeks of abnormally cold weather. The price of gas for... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain faces difficulties finding new natural gas supply sources to meet its rising import needs as global price variations and new gas discoveries favour sending the gas to Asia instead of Europe. Britain has become increasingly ... [Full Article]
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle says the EU is banning the import of Iranian natural gas into European Union countries, trying to increase pressure on Iran to cooperate in talks regarding its nuclear program. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
South Korea has suspended bidding for U.S. rice imports after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Consumer Reports magazine found elevated levels of arsenic in rice. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain must begin shale gas exploration to ease its growing dependency on imports, the Institute of Directors (IoD) said on Friday. Without the development of new domestic gas resources, Britain's import costs for natural gas... [Full Article]
China's imports shrank unexpectedly in August in a sign its economic slump is worsening, bad news for exporters elsewhere that count on the appetite of the world's second-largest economy for natural resources and industrial components to of... [Full Article]
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