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BEIJING — European and Asian leaders pledged at a summit here to comprehensively and quickly reform the global financial system, as they vowed united action in tackling the unprecedented economic challenges. The more than 40 leaders spent the 1st day of the ASEM in talks on how to end the worst financial turmoil...


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National Heaters to kick-start annual essay writing contest Udinese inflict more misery on Spurs, Milan sink Heerenveen

Opec agrees sharp output
cut, oil slide goes on
Credit-crunched Brits chill out
in ‘world’s most relaxing room’

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A Yemeni boy enjoys the splash-back from a passing taxi as he plays in a
puddle following torrential rain in the capital Sanaa
yesterday.  — AFP
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