Hewlett-Packard confirmed its plan to pare its work force and devote the savings to sales efforts and product development.

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Hewlett-Packard Earnings Drop; 27,000 Layoffs Set

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development cut its growth forecast for the 17-nation zone and said Europe risked creating a cycle of decline.

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Euro Watch: O.E.C.D. Sees Euro-Zone Crisis Hurting World Recovery

A weak eurozone is the single biggest threat to the global economy, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

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The tech giant will refocus on product development and sales, executives say, and operations in China will most likely be spared.

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Hewlett-Packard to Cut About 30,000 Jobs

A lack of inventory is largely responsible for a decline in incentives to buy into new developments in New York.

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Developers Cease to Offer Condo Incentives

Thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money is being wasted by delays in the redevelopment of a former army barracks, an Ulster Unionist MLA says.

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Cash ‘wasted’ over barracks delay

The highest-generating onshore wind farm in England and Wales is given the go-ahead for development in south Wales.

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Huge wind farm backed by minister

After a state agency worker publicly criticized the state’s handling of reports of abuse and neglect involving people with developmental disabilities, he was invited to a Senate-sponsored panel addressing such abuse.

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Disabilities Panel Will Reinvite Whistleblower After Cuomo Changes Course

Dr. Dawn Chatty, is a social anthropologist, whose ethnographic interests lie in the Middle East. Currently teaching at the University of Oxford, and as the Director of the Refugee Studies Center in the Oxford Department of International Development, Dr. Chatty shares her experiences from on the ground. She helps us understand the daily struggle some of the refugees often face.

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Meet Dr. Dawn Chatty, An Expert on Refugee and Displaced Persons

The town is considering bankruptcy because of its inability to pay a $43 million legal judgment in a development dispute dating back to 1997.

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Mammoth Lakes, Calif., Faces Bankruptcy

Alexandria’s Board of Zoning Appeals halted the city’s waterfront redevelopment plan early Friday by a 4-2 vote, ruling that a protest petition by the plan’s opponents had been wrongly denied. City attorney Jim Banks immediately said the city would appeal to the Circuit Court. The petition, had it been accepted in January, would have forced the City Council to pass the waterfront plan by a “super-majority” vote. The council passed the plan 5-2 , one vote short of super-majority. Read full article > >

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Alexandria board halts waterfront redevelopment plan

The Department for International Development is to announce a fund this week to encourage new solutions to assist after natural disasters.

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New fund to help with disasters

A fascinating paper published Thursday in the April issue of the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences suggests that being bilingual may slow the development of dementia among older adults. In a review of research on the cognitive effects of communicating in more than one language, psychologists led by Ellen Bialystok of the University of York in Toronto found that while the brain-health benefit of bilingualism among adults is “muted,” among older people it becomes more pronounced. For instance, a study of older people with dementia found that those who were bilingual showed symptoms of dementia about three to four years later than those who communicated in a single language — at about at 78.6 for bilingual subjects versus 75.4 for monolingual people. A second study of people with Alzheimer’s disease, a form of dementia, showed similar results, the paper reports. Read full article > >

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Being bilingual may delay dementia

Watch highlights of England in this year’s Six Nations and see the development of the team under Stuart Lancaster who has been appointed permanent head coach.

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VIDEO: Lancaster’s route to England job

Berlin is famous for its underground arts and music scene but some residents fear this sub-culture is under threat as new developments begin to take over.

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VIDEO: Berlin torn between wealth and cool