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German shares flat midday after Wall Street profit-taking and mixed earnings

FRANKFURT (AFX) - Shares were flat in midday trade after yesterday's solid rally, following profit-taking on Wall Street overnight and some mixed US and European earnings, as investors brace themselves for an extremely busy rest of the week in terms of German quarterly results, dealers said.

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"Market growth for secure (encrypted) email beyond the enterprise boundary has been hindered by the difficulties of managing cryptographic keys. With improved manageability and ease-of-use, we expect to see continuing adoption of encrypted email by financial institutions, healthcare providers and others to protect personally identifiable information and corporate privacy," said Victor Wheatman,...

ON those exciting occasions where I've been granted an audience with those who inhabit our hallowed City Chambers, I could not help but notice what a fantastic view many of our municipal leaders have of Edinburgh.

From their lofty perch, the councillors can see not only Princes Street in all its glory - from way up there you can't see how tawdry and tacky it's become - the still splend...

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, state Insurance Commissioner George Dale has the duty of regulating insurance companies that are denying claims to Mississippi policyholders based on the "wind versus water" damage controversy.

Policyholders who voted for Dale are crying out for relief. Dale, records examined by The Clarion-Ledger last week reveal, has taken almost $50,000 in campaign don...

As the New Orleans disaster recedes from the headlines, citizen activistsface a choice. We can focus exclusively on other newer issues. Or we canwork to make the disaster one of those key turning points with the potentialto transform American politics. For this to happen, we need to consciouslycreate new dialogue, reaching well beyond the core converted.

If we think back to the 9/11 attac...

The President made the appointment on Oct. 28, Alvarez confirmed to The STAR yesterday.

Alvarez, agrarian reform chief during the term of former President Corazon Aquino, was one of the principal authors of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL).

He vowed to finish the awarding of lands to farmer-tenants before Mrs. Arroyo's term ends.

"I'm happy to serve in a program...

DANIELSON -- State police have arrested a Montville man on charges of felony murder in the death of a Hampton man.

William Schnaidt, 22, was arrested Saturday night without incident. He also was charged with robbery in the first degree.

John Santana, 37, was found unconscious in the parking lot of a Plainfield motel on Friday. The medical examiner ruled that his death was caused by...

Like most soft-hearted, wholegrained liberals, I think it's important to try and accept the idiosyncrasies of other cultures, even when those idiosyncrasies are truly idiotic.

But that's only valid as long as we're talking about cute little quirks that harm no one - like French people going topless in public or African tribesmen jamming dinnerware in their dangly bits. But when a cultu...

Mr. Khalid Ali Al Bustani has been elected to chair the Board. He is Assistant Under-Secretary for Revenue and Budget at the Ministry of Finance and Industry of the United Arab Emirates and the current Chairman of Arab Insurance Group (Arig), which controls 54.5 % of Takaful Re. Mr Bustani is also board member of the Arab Bank for Investment and Foreign Trade (ARBIFT).

Mr. Sultan Ahmed Al...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — When one of his elderly customers shared her worries about her cat's high blood pressure, pharmacist Rich Rochefort made up some special capsules to treat the animal.

When a hospice patient couldn't swallow pain medication, Rochefort put it into skin cream so she could absorb it through her skin.

That's "old time, hands on pharmacy," to Rochefort, 58, w...