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    Pop starlet Kylie Minogue has early-stage breast cancer

    Tuesday, May 17, 2005 Pop starlet Kylie Minogue has announced through her management that she has an early stage of breast cancer. The 36-year-old has said she will be going through the treatment in her native Australia. Due to early diagnosis the singer stands a good chance of making a full recovery. Kylie, who had spent the past week in Melbourne, has revealed that due to the cancer the rest of her Showgirl tour of Australia will be postponed and her appearance at this year’s Glastonbury festival will be cancelled. The Showgirl tour was due to hit Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth in June. However despite the cancellation, ticket…

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    Signs In Wichita Falls, Texas Can Help Your Business Start On The Right Foot

    Click Here For More Specific Information On: Sign Companies Melbourne Best Business Signage Melbourne byAlma Abell With all of the commercial growth happening these days, it can be very easy for a brand new business to become lost in the crowd and meet an unceremonious end before they even have a chance. A business like that could benefit greatly from some eye-catching signage which has been strategically placed. The right sign, creatively designed, and properly located, can make an impressive first impression on behalf of a new business, functioning as a giant “Welcome” sign or huge, brightly-lit business card. It’s an effective method of introducing your company or your brand…

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    Romanian VAT to remain at 19 percent

    Monday, February 28, 2005 [[w:Bucharest, Romania|Bucharest, Romania]] — The Romanian Finance Minister Ionu? Popescu has responded to public fears of a rise in value added tax (VAT) by saying that Romania’s VAT will remain at 19% and will not increase. He rejected rumours that the value added tax, which is applied to most goods and services, will increase due to negotiations with the International Monetary Fund and a need to boost government revenue. After introducing a low flat tax rate of 16% on January 1, 2005, which applies to both personal income and corporate profits, the government has had to fund the tax cuts through alternative means, including increases in…

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    Wikinews Shorts: August 4, 2010

     Correction — August 13, 2010 This article incorrectly describes BP as ‘British Petroleum’. In fact, such a company has not existed for many years as BP dropped this name when becoming a multinational company. The initials no longer stand for anything.  A compilation of brief news reports for Wednesday, August 4, 2010. BP (British Petroleum) engineers began injecting drilling mud into the capped Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico as the first part of a “static kill” procedure intended to permanently stop the flow of oil into the Gulf coast. Earlier in the day, the multi-national energy company ran “injectivity tests” to find out if the well, which had…