Woman to head Brazilian oil giant
Tweet Rio de Janeiro: The Brazilian government has nominated Maria das Graças Foster to succeed Jose Sergio Gabrielli as CEO of state-controlled oil giant Petrobras, the company said Monday. Finance Minister Guido Mantega, who chairs the Petrobras board of directors, "has already stated that he will go ahead with the proposal" to make Foster, the [...]
Tweet New Delhi: Salman Rushdie's proposed visit to Jaipur for the Literary Festival has come under cloud with the Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband saying Monday that the Booker-prize winning author should not be allowed on Indian soil because he has "hurt the sentiments of Muslims the world over". However, one of the organisers of [...]
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Tweet Buenos Aires: Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi was named "Rosario's ambassador in the world" during a ceremony in his native town, about 300 km from Buenos Aires. "It's very nice that tourists come to visit the place where I was born," said 24-year-old Messi, who's currently visiting Argentina for the Christmas holidays. Messi said [...]
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Tweet Caracas: Former Miss Venezuela Eva Ekvall died in Houston after fighting breast cancer since last year, her representatives said. She was 28. "Sadly, cancer had the last word," writer Leonardo Padron told Globovision. Ekvall, an actress and news anchor, died Saturday after "demonstrating extraordinary calm and courage in her fight against cancer," Padron said, [...]
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Tweet Sao Paulo: Brazilian football legend Socrates, the captain of the 1982 World Cup squad, passed away Sunday of an intestinal infection. He was 57 and is survived by his wife and six children. Socrates' 1982 squad is widely regarded as the best Brazilian side not to have won the World Cup. He was taken [...]
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Tweet Washington: Steve Jobs, the man who began tinkering with gadgets in his garage and then went on to power the iPod, iPad and iPhone that became a part of so many lives across the globe, has died leaving behind legions of fans. The tech legend was 56. The end came in Palo Alto, California, [...]
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Tweet Washington: Amid a long battle against illness, technical legend Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple, but will stay on as chairman of the iconic computer maker. He will be replaced by former Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, the company announced late Wednesday but made no mention of Jobs' health in its statement [...]
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Tweet Los Angeles: The creator of the Barbie doll and Hot Wheels miniature cars, Elliot Handler, died here this week after dedicating most of his life to his toymaking company Mattel, the daily Los Angeles Times said. He was 95. Handler died at home Thursday from heart failure, the newspaper cited his daughter Barbara Segal [...]
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Tweet Washington: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced Tuesday it has selected French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde as its next managing director, Xinhua reported. Lagarde’s rival candidate was Mexico’s Central Bank governor Agustin Carstens. The vacancy at the top IMF post came after former managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was forced to resign after he was [...]
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Tweet Bangalore : Former Wipro joint chief executive Girish S. Paranjpe has been named the managing director of US-based Bloom Energy International, the energy firm said Thursday. "Paranjpe, who will report to chief executive and co-founder K.R. Sridhar, will develop the global market for our products outside the US and focus on creating new solutions [...]
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