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Foreign Affairs Minister and President-designate of COP21 Laurent Fabius (C), raises hands with Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki Moon (2-L) and France's President Francois Hollande (R) after adoption of a historic global warming pact at the COP21 Climate Conference in Le Bourget, north of Paris, on December 12, 2015. Envoys from 195 nations on December 12 adopted to cheers and tears a historic accord to stop global warming, which threatens humanity with rising seas and worsening droughts, floods and storms. AFP PHOTO / FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP / FRANCOIS GUILLOT (Photo credit should read FRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP/Getty Images)

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COP21: Paris agreement formally adopted

First climate change accord in nearly two decades

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National Front seeks landmark win in French polls

Far-right party pushes for first regional government

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China’s insurers outshine bank valuations

While bank profits stagnate, assurers are poised for golden era

Dec 11, 2015

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Fifth of US adults live in or near poverty

Almost 5.7m Americans join lowest income ranks since financial crisis

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Hail the Paris accord — and get to work

The urgent, long overdue challenge of implementation now begins

Frank Sinatra on his private plane, 1962, from ‘The Rat Pack’ (Reel Art Press), a limited-edition book of many previously unpublished photographs

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Dec 11, 2015 LIFE & ARTS

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Star Wars: May the franchise be with you

For Disney the billion-dollar licensing deals are crucial for what could be the biggest movie of all time

Alexis Tsipras, Greece's prime minister, speaks at the Greek parliament as he unveils his 2016 budget in Athens, Greece

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Greece to receive €1bn aid payment

Agreement reached with creditors over energy sector reform and privatisations

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U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen addresses the Economic Club of Washington in Washington in this file photo from December 2, 2015. The Federal Reserve will not just have to decide whether to raise rates next week, but also what to say about where rates are headed, and how fast. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/Files

Janet Yellen, chair, US Federal Reserve

The most powerful woman in world finance tackles the Fed’s top job with assiduous planning and a no-nonsense style
Anne-Marie Slaughter, author, campaigner, CEO

The former US foreign policy director has written a best-selling book about having it all that puts men firmly in the spotlight
Eliza Manningham-Buller, chair, the Wellcome Trust

Ex-head of MI5’s new aim is to ‘make a real difference to health’

An employee counts Chinese one-hundred yuan banknotes at the Bank of China Hong Kong headquarters

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Dec 11, 2015 GLOBAL ECONOMY

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China clears way for renminbi weakening

Central bank switch raises investors’ fears of new currency war

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Dec 11, 2015 COMPANIES

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Amazon aims to disrupt delivery

Internet shopping group invests in warehouses and trucks

Industrial robots 'dance' at a booth the day before the 2015 China International Industry Fair at National Exhibition and Convention Center on November 2, 2015 in Shanghai, China.

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Dec 12, 2015 COMPANIES

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Silicon Valley in move to keep AI safe

Musk, Thiel and others to fund $1bn research to protect humans

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Journey of a barrel of oil across Syria

How Isis’s oil production works and why it is so hard to disrupt, even with airstrikes

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Dec 11, 2015 COMMENT

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Bitcoin central banker is yesterday’s man

Cryptocurrencies have moved on — whether or not Satoshi has been found, writes Stephen Foley

Irish singer and frontman of U2, Bono, arrives on September 27, 2014 at the Cipriani Hotel in Venice for the wedding of US actor george Clooney with British Amal Alamuddin in Venice. George Clooney has said goodbye to bachelorhood in Venice with a stag party at his favourite restaurant with Hollywood chums, and was gearing up for a day of glamourous pre-wedding celebrations. The actor had swept into the floating city yesterday with his British fiancee Amal Alamuddin on a watertaxi dubbed "Amore", zipping up the Grand Canal to cheers from fans at the start of nuptials set to draw out over the weekend. AFP PHOTO / ANDREAS SOLARO (Photo credit should read ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images)

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Dec 11, 2015

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Bono shows love the answer to terrorism

I could have hugged U2’s singer for his words in Paris, just as I could have hugged Bush after 9/11

Handout photo shows Then U.S. Army First Lieutenan Kirsten Griest and fellow soldiers participating in combatives training during the Ranger Course on Fort Benning, Georgia...Then U.S. Army First Lieutenant Kirsten Griest (C) and fellow soldiers participate in combatives training during the Ranger Course on Fort Benning, Georgia, in this handout photograph taken on April 20, 2015 and obtained on August 20, 2015. When Griest and another woman completed the daunting U.S. Army Ranger school this week they helped end questions about whether women can serve as combat leaders, as the Pentagon is poised to open new roles, including elite Navy SEALs, to women in coming months. The feat by Griest and First Lieutenant Shaye Haver followed a re-evaluation of the role of women after their frontline involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan and the end of a rule barring them from combat roles in 2013. REUTERS/Spc. Nikayla Shodeen/U.S. Army/Handout via Reuters FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

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Dec 11, 2015

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Women and the right to fight

‘These reforms could make the US army one of the most gender-neutral fighting forces in the world’

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