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 IMF calls on UK to do more to boost economy The International Monetary Fund has issued a tough assessment of U.K. economic policy, urging the coalition government and Bank of England to do more to boost demand in the economy. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:44:55Z SpaceX blasts off to space station in historic first  Opening a new era in private space flight, the US company SpaceX on Tuesday became the first commercial outfit to launch its own craft toward the International Space Station.Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:36:43Z Indian passenger train rams freight train; 25 dead  A passenger train rammed into a parked freight train and caught fire before dawn Tuesday in southern India, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens more.Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:41:02Z Spain teachers, students strike over spending cuts  Teachers and students at all levels of Spain's education system went on strike Tuesday to protest wide-ranging government spending cuts, chanting and erecting makeshift tombs at university campuses to symbolize what they claim will be the death of the country's schooling system.Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:53:37Z OECD sees euro crisis threatening world recovery  PARIS (Reuters) - The United States and Japan are leading a fragile economic recovery among developed countries that could yet be blown off course if the euro zone fails to contain the damage from its problem debtor states, the OECD said on Tuesday. In its twice-yearly economic outlook, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development forecast that global growth would ease to 3.4 percent this year from 3.6 percent in 2011, before accelerating to 4.2 percent in 2013, in line with its last estimates from late November. ...Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:40:21Z Brandon Cronenberg is a chip off the bloody block  You wait years for a new Cronenberg movie at Cannes, and then two come along at once.Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:49:48Z Five killed in restaurant blast in Syrian capital BEIRUT (Reuters) - Five people were killed when an explosive device detonated at a restaurant in the Syrian capital Damascus on Tuesday, Syrian state media and activists said. The northern Damascus neighborhood of Qaboun where the bomb went off has been a centre of protests demanding the end of President Bashar al-Assad's rule and has also seen fighting between Assad loyalists and rebels. State television blamed the explosion on "terrorists," a term the Syrian government uses when referring to the armed opposition. ... Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:47:38Z |