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| Nasdaq says FINRA caps Facebook IPO claims at $41.6 million | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The total value of the claims that market makers can recover after suffering losses due to Nasdaq OMX Group Inc's botched handling of Facebook Inc's initial public offering is $41.6 million, the exchange operator said Friday. |
| Bands unite for peace | | | Two Israeli bands, one Jewish and one Arab, are joining together in "metal brotherhood" to spread a message of peace through rock 'n roll. |
| '12 Years A Slave' Agonizingly magnificent | | | Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave is an agonizingly magnificent movie the first great big-screen dramatization of slavery. Based on actual events, it begins in 1841 and tells the story of a free black man from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., a musician named Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who walks around in a natty gray suit, secure in the courtly modesty of his life as a husband and father of two. But then he accepts an offer to go to Washington, D.C., with a pair of traveling entertainers, and when they're out at a restaurant drinking wine, we get the queasy feeling this is too good to be true. It is. Solomon isn't being hired for his talents. He's being trafficked. |
| Fodor's 100 Hotel Award winners | | | Whether you're seeking a blissful beach retreat, a funky conversion or the perfect exotic hideaway, there's a hotel for nearly everyone on the third annual Fodor's 100 Hotel Awards, released Friday. |
| Witness to war | | | CNN's Atika Shubert reports on the horrific violence witnessed by one volunteer doctor in Syria. |
| Top costume festivals for adults | | | As some of these costumed events will attest, adults love playing dress-up. Fortunately, there's a themed event to suit most tastes. |
| Britain calls for EU to set tougher climate goal | | | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels by 2030 to avoid the worst effects of climate change, according to a British government paper, likely to fuel debate on whether deeper cuts are affordable. |
| We still need to end slavery | | | Bradley Myles says the new film "12 Years a Slave" immerses us in the terrible reality of slavery. What most people don't know is that slavery is also a modern day horror. |
| Can next Banksy be from Dubai? | | | At first glance, it seems the graffiti revolution that descended on the Middle East in the wake of the Arab Spring has largely bypassed Dubai. The city's public transport -- usually an irresistible canvas for taggers -- remains remarkably glistening. The walls of the city's myriad new builds are unmarred by aerosol sketches. Head indoors, however, and you're likely to find a different story. |
| Drug maker Dendreon seeking a buyer report | | | (Reuters) - Drug maker Dendreon Corp is looking for a suitor after sales for its lead product, prostate cancer drug Provenge, were weaker than expected, according to a Bloomberg report. |
| FDA panel backs Gilead hepatitis C drug sofosbuvir | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal advisory panel recommended on Friday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approve Gilead Sciences Inc's experimental hepatitis C drug sofosbuvir, paving the way for a treatment that is more effective than current therapies and takes less time. |
| How to be Parisian a cheat sheet | | | Paris can be intimidating -- don't worry, says a writer who lived there for almost 20 years. Follow a few rules (actually 11) and you'll fit in. |
| 'Big in Japan' invading Paris | | | Big in Japan. It's a phenomenon well known to generations of rock bands, elevated from relative obscurity at home to apparent god-like status in the Land of the Rising Sun. |
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