Numbers in the News
Recent stories featuring numbers.
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'Super-hospital' [...]Birmingham's new £545m hospital opens to patients[...] read more from BBC News
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New £5m MG studio unveiled [...]A multi-million pound design studio and technical centre is unveiled on the site of the old Longbridge car factory.[...] read more from BBC News
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Tesla share sale 'to raise $185m' [...]US electric car maker Tesla Motors hopes to raise $185m (£125m) from selling its shares[...] read more from BBC News
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Modigliani sells for 43.2m euros [...]2m euros (£35.8m) at Christie's auction house in Paris - a record for the artist[...] read more from BBC News
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Bank of Japan in $33bn loans plan [...]Japan's central bank announces plans to provide up to 3 trillion yen (£22bn; $33bn) in low interest [...] read more from BBC News
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Billionaires fund health effort [...]Two of the world's richest men and Spain's government pledge $150m (£101[...] read more from BBC News
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Afghanistan mineral wealth 'huge' [...]Afghanistan may have more than $1tn worth of untapped mineral deposits, a government spokesman sugge[...] read more from BBC News
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Asda apologises for online error [...]Supermarket group Asda apologises after mistakenly offering a £75 discount to shoppers using its web[...] read more from BBC News
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'$100 laptop' grows up to target secondary school pupils [...]One Laptop per Child redesigns its low-cost PC, designed for primary school pupils in the developing world, for use by older children.[...] read more from BBC News
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African leaders prize not awarded [...]A prize of $5m (£3m) for African ex-leaders is not being awarded for a second year, Sudanese magnate[...] read more from BBC News
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Dana pays £270m for oil company [...]Aberdeen-based Dana Petroleum agrees to buy Dutch oil firm Petro Canada Netherlands in a £270m deal[...] read more from BBC News
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Obama to ask for special BP claims fund over oil spill [...]Senior officials from the Gulf states of Florida and Louisiana both want the oil company to put $7.5[...] read more from Wikinews (English)
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2010 Komen St. Louis Race for the Cure becomes world's largest Komen race [...]Louis Race for the Cure becomes world's largest Komen race 9 June 2010: Hospital in Essex, England f[...] read more from Wikinews (English)
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Rescue underway for teen solo sailor [...]Saturday, June 12, 2010 California Other stories from California 12 June 2010: Rescue underway fo[...] read more from Wikinews (English)
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Rescue underway for 16-year-old solo sailor [...]Saturday, June 12, 2010 California Other stories from California 12 June 2010: Rescue underway fo[...] read more from Wikinews (English)
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NCAA Football: USC banned from bowl games for two seasons, wins vacated [...]The women's tennis team was also fined for allowing an unidentified student to use a university-owne[...] read more from Wikinews (English)
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Turkey sets the price to lift the ban on YouTube and Google services [...]Turkey’s Finance Ministry has given Google a tax demand of $18.6 million, and Transport and Communic[...] read more from Wikinews (English)
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Sugar chooses Junior Apprentice [...]There were four finalists in the Junior Apprentice - but who did Lord Sugar choose for the £25,000 p[...] read more from BBC News
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Cambridge fund campaign tops £1bn [...]Cambridge University raises more than £1bn for a teaching fund, two years ahead of schedule[...] read more from BBC News
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Cameron's PR chief paid £140,000 [...]David Cameron's communications director Andy Coulson is being paid £140,000, the Cabinet Office says[...] read more from BBC News
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BA chief refuses £334,000 bonus [...]British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh has turned down an annual bonus worth £334,000, the air[...] read more from BBC News
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US lawyer jailed for Ponzi scheme [...]A US court has sentenced a prominent Florida lawyer to 50 years in prison for running a fraudulent i[...] read more from BBC News