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Savvy Chinese Now Shop With Their Phones

CNBC - Tue, 05/07/2013 - 2:30am
Here's another record for China - over the next 12 months one in four consumers are going to use their smartphones or tablets to shop online, double the global average.
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Transcript of missing woman Amanda Berry's 911 call after escaping alleged abductor

FOX News - Tue, 05/07/2013 - 2:28am

A transcript of the 911 call placed Monday by a woman missing since 2003, when she was 16.

(unintelligible)

Caller: Help me. I'm Amanda Berry.

Dispatcher: You need police, fire, ambulance?

Caller: I need police.

Dispatcher: OK, and what's going on there?

Caller: I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for 10 years, and I'm, I'm here, I'm free now.

Dispatcher: OK, and what's your address?

Caller: 2207 Seymour Avenue.

Dispatcher: 2207 Seymour. Looks like you're calling me from 2210.

Caller: Huh?

Dispatcher: Looks like you're calling me from 2210.

Caller: I can't hear you.

Dispatcher: Looks like you're calling me from 2210 Seymour.

Caller: I'm across the street; I'm using the phone.

Dispatcher: OK, stay there with those neighbors. Talk to police when they get there.

Caller: (Crying)

Dispatcher: OK, talk to police when they get there.

Caller: OK. Hello?

Dispatcher: OK, talk to the police when they get there.

Caller: OK (unintelligible).

Dispatcher: We're going to send them as soon as we get a car open.

Caller: No, I need them now before he gets back.

Dispatcher: All right; we're sending them, OK?

Caller: OK, I mean, like ...

Dispatcher: Who's the guy you're trying -- who's the guy who went out?

Caller: Um, his name is Ariel Castro.

Dispatcher: OK. How old is he?

Caller: He's like 52.

Dispatcher: And, uh -

Caller: I'm Amanda Berry. I've been on the news for the last 10 years.

Dispatcher: I got, I got that, dear. (Unintelligible) And, you say, what was his name again?

Caller: Uh, Ariel Castro.

Dispatcher: And is he white, black or Hispanic?

Caller: Uh, Hispanic.

Dispatcher: What's he wearing?

Caller (agitated): I don't know, 'cause he's not here right now. That's why I ran away.

Dispatcher: When he left, what was he wearing?

Caller: Who knows (unintelligible).

Dispatcher: The police are on their way; talk to them when they get there.

Caller: Huh? I - OK.

Dispatcher: I told you they're on their way; talk to them when they get there, OK.

Caller: All right, OK. Bye.

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Ivan Menezes to Replace Diageo CEO Walsh

CNBC - Tue, 05/07/2013 - 2:02am
Global spirits company Diageo named Chief Operating Officer Ivan Menezes as its new chief executive.
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Microsoft Prepares U-Turn on Windows

CNBC - Tue, 05/07/2013 - 2:00am
Microsoft is preparing to reverse course over key elements of its Windows 8 operating system, the FT reports.
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Has Asia's 'Darling' Lost Its Mojo?

CNBC - Tue, 05/07/2013 - 1:58am
Discouraging news out of Indonesia in the past few days has once again led to concerns whether this "darling of investors" can deliver on its promise.
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HSBC Shares Rise as Profit Beats Expectations

CNBC - Tue, 05/07/2013 - 1:56am
HSBC reported first quarter underlying profit before tax of $7.6 billion, a jump of 34 percent over the same period last year, as the bank continues to cut costs.
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Google Glass Already Meeting Resistance

CNBC - Tue, 05/07/2013 - 1:56am
The resistance is already under way against Google’s wearable computer, the NYT reports.
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The Lede: Missing for Years, Three Women Are Found in Cleveland

The New York Times - Tue, 05/07/2013 - 1:50am
A Cleveland neighborhood reacted with stunned elation as three woman who had been missing for years were found alive.    

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Three Women, Gone for Years, Found in Ohio

The New York Times - Tue, 05/07/2013 - 1:10am
Three women who disappeared separately about a decade ago, when they were in their teens or early 20s, were found alive in a residential area near downtown Cleveland, and three men were arrested.    

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SocGen First-Quarter Profit Halved, Eyes New Cost Savings

CNBC - Tue, 05/07/2013 - 1:02am
Societe Generale, France's No. 2 listed bank, reported a 50 percent slump in quarterly profit on Tuesday.
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Cops arrest 3 brothers after 3 Ohio women missing for a decade found alive

FOX News - Tue, 05/07/2013 - 12:00am

Authorities say three brothers have been arrested after three women who vanished about a decade ago in separate cases were found alive Monday in a residential area just south of downtown Cleveland, just a few miles from where they disappeared.

Police said a 52-year-old man was among those arrested, but released no names and gave no details about the others arrested or what charges they might face. They described one of the suspects as a Hispanic male but said they planned to provide more information at a news conference Tuesday.

Cheering crowds gathered Monday night on the street near the home where police said Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were found earlier in the day. A 6-year-old also was found in the home, according to authorities. 

Police didn't immediately provide any details of how the women were found but said they appeared to be in good health and had been taken to a hospital for evaluation, where they would be reunited with their relatives. 

Cleveland's police chief says he thinks three women were tied up in the house where they were found and had been there since they disappeared.

One neighbor, Charles Ramsey, told Fox 8 he heard screaming,found Berry at the door of the house and helped her call police.

"Help me, I'm Amanda Berry. ... I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for 10 years. And I'm here, I'm free now," Berry can be heard saying on the frantic 911 call,made at 5:51 p.m. Monday.

She asks for police to respond "now, before he gets back" and then identifies her kidnapper as "Ariel Castro."

Berry disappeared at age 16 on April 21, 2003, when she called her sister to say she was getting a ride home from her job at a Burger King. 

DeJesus disappeared at age 14 on her way home from school about a year later. Police said Knight went missing in 2002 and is 32 now. They didn't provide current ages for the other two women.

Loved ones said they hadn't given up hope of seeing Berry and DeJesus again. Among them was Kayla Rogers, a childhood friend of DeJesus.

"I've been praying, never forgot about her, ever," Rogers told The Plain Dealer. "This is amazing. This is a celebration. I'm so happy. I just want to see her walk out of those doors so I can hug her."

Berry's cousin Tasheena Mitchell told the newspaper she couldn't wait to have Berry in her arms.

"I'm going to hold her, and I'm going to squeeze her and I probably won't let her go," she said.

At Metro Health Medical Center, Dr. Gerald Maloney declined to go into details about the women's conditions.   "We're assessing their needs, and the appropriate specialists are evaluating them as well," he said at a news conference, which concluded with a round of applause from a large gathering of area residents.

In January, a prison inmate was sentenced to 4 1/2 years after admitting he provided a false burial tip in the disappearance of Berry, who had last been seen the day before her 17th birthday. A judge in Cleveland sentenced Robert Wolford on his guilty plea to obstruction of justice, making a false report and making a false alarm.

Last summer, Wolford tipped authorities to look for Berry's remains in a Cleveland lot. He was taken to the location, which was dug up with backhoes.

Berry's mother, Louwana Miller, who had been hospitalized for months with pancreatitis and other ailments, died in March 2006. She had spent the previous three years looking for her daughter, whose disappearance took a toll as her health steadily deteriorated, family and friends said.

Two men arrested for questioning in the disappearance of DeJesus in 2004 were released from the city jail in 2006 after officers did not find her body during a search of the men's house.

One of the men was transferred to the Cuyahoga County Jail on unrelated charges, while the other was allowed to go free, police said.

In September 2006, police acting on a tip tore up the concrete floor of the garage and used a cadaver dog to search unsuccessfully for DeJesus' body. Investigators confiscated 19 pieces of evidence during their search but declined to comment on the significance of the items then.

No Amber Alert was issued the day DeJesus failed to return home from school in April 2004 because no one witnessed her abduction. The lack of an Amber Alert angered her father, Felix DeJesus, who said in 2006 he believed the public will listen even if the alerts become routine.

"The Amber Alert should work for any missing child," Felix DeJesus said then. "It doesn't have to be an abduction. Whether it's an abduction or a runaway, a child needs to be found. We need to change this law."

Cleveland police said then that the alerts must be reserved for cases in which danger is imminent and the public can be of help in locating the suspect and child.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Soros Rumor Underpins Turning Tide Against Aussie

CNBC - Mon, 05/06/2013 - 11:51pm
Rumors that George Soros was planning shorts on the Australia dollar took the wind out of the robust currency late Monday.
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Nikkei Cracks 14,000 to Pre-Crisis Level

CNBC - Mon, 05/06/2013 - 11:14pm
Nikkei stock index is back on a tear as it surged past the 14,000 level for the first time in nearly five years on Tuesday.
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Cambodia's government land grabs

POLITICO - Mon, 05/06/2013 - 11:12pm
A Virginia lawyer is working to protect the rights of land owners in the Southeast Asian nation.


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Look Out Bulls, Draghi Is Watching You

CNBC - Mon, 05/06/2013 - 11:04pm
European Central Bank Chief Mario Draghi's latest comments is making euro bulls think twice.
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Teacher Pay Hurt by Recession, Report Says

The New York Times - Mon, 05/06/2013 - 11:01pm
According to the report, most teachers in the nation’s largest school districts took a pay cut or had their pay frozen at least one year between 2008 and 2012.    

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DOT quiet on tower closures

POLITICO - Mon, 05/06/2013 - 10:59pm
POLITICO Pro Report: No word on whether 149 contract towers will close by June 15.


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Advanced nurses work wonders

POLITICO - Mon, 05/06/2013 - 10:46pm
Opinion: Studies find APRNs can provide preventive care as effectively as primary-care physicians.


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FiveThirtyEight: Colbert Busch Might Win, but Could She Last?

The New York Times - Mon, 05/06/2013 - 10:33pm
Even if Elizabeth Colbert Busch beats Mark Sanford in South Carolina’s First Congressional District on Tuesday, history shows that she is unlikely to hold the seat for long.    

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Reid: Cruz a 'schoolyard bully'

POLITICO - Mon, 05/06/2013 - 10:03pm
He has found a new target in the budget battles.


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