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Maggie Humphrey, a price collector for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, visits the same grocery store every month in the Chicago suburbs to punch the cost of a pound of bananas into her Lenovo tablet computer.
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard brought a former premier of the nation’s most-populous state into the Cabinet as she shuffled posts in the wake of her victory over political rival Kevin Rudd.
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An Australian rescue team that specializes in finding people trapped in collapsed buildings is ending its work in Japan and will return home in coming days.
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Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan said resource tycoons including Gina Rinehart, Clive Palmer and Andrew Forrest are threatening the nation’s democratic process by using their wealth to shape policy to their interests.
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Australia opened its first international dispute resolution center, challenging Hong Kong and Singapore for business in the growing legal market.
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Apotex Inc. agreed to delay selling a generic version of the osteoporosis drug Boniva until a judge rules on the validity of a Roche Holding AG patent on the medicine that expires in March 2012.
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Thousands of Australians fled their homes as floodwaters engulfed parts of the country’s northeast, damaging properties and ravaging crops a year after natural disasters cost the economy about A$9 billion ($9.6 billion).
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Australia’s insurers including Suncorp Group Ltd. and Insurance Australia Group Ltd. are calculating the cost of floods that have inundated communities in southwest Queensland and forced thousands from their homes.
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Facebook Inc., the world’s biggest social network, should have access restricted to people older than 18, some Australian politicians say in response to concerns over online bullying that led teenagers to commit suicide.
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U.S. prosecutors are seeking forfeiture of more than $5.1 million from former Bernard Madoff aide Annette Bongiorno, according to an e-mailed statement.
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