Portugal budget deficit leaps to 6.4%

PORTUGAL'S 2012 budget deficit leapt to 6.4 per cent of the nation's total output, from 4.4 per cent one year earlier as the heavily indebted eurozone member struggles to raise revenues and cut spending amid recession and soaring unemployment, national...

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US 4th quarter growth faster than thought

US economic growth in the fourth quarter was faster than originally thought at 0.4 per cent, the Department of Commerce says in its final revision of the estimate. The previous estimate had the economy basically flat, expanding at a 0.1 per...

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BlackBerry back in profit, sells 1m Z10s

RESEARCH In Motion says it sold about one million of its critically important new BlackBerry 10 devices and surprised Wall Street by returning to profitability in the most recent quarter. The earnings provide a first glimpse of how RIM's new touch-screen...

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US stocks higher as Cyprus reopens banks

US stocks have pushed higher in early trade after banks in Cyprus reopened without major incident and Europe's markets gained on buoyant German retail sales data. Five minutes into trade on Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 30.11...

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Man to face Sydney court over cocaine

A MAN will face court charged with drug offences after more than two kilograms of cocaine was found at a house on Sydney's northern beaches. Police from the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad arrested the man, 51, on Thursday after searching...

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William tells TV show of 'calling'

THE Duke of Cambridge has spoken of his "calling" to save lives as a helicopter pilot in a TV documentary to be screened next month. In an interview for the BBC program, Helicopter Rescue, which features footage of William in action as a search...

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Newtown gunman's weapons arsenal revealed

DETECTIVES searching the Newtown school shooter's house found he and his mother kept a startlingly large arsenal of rifles, pistols and other weapons, including swords, newly released details show. The results of search warrants executed after...

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