Breaking Post » World News http://www.breakingpost.com What's on the Web Mon, 21 May 2012 13:00:15 +0000 en hourly 1 Qantas cuts 500 heavy maintenance jobs to save $100m http://www.breakingpost.com/news/qantas-cuts-500-heavy-maintenance-jobs-to-save-100m/ http://www.breakingpost.com/news/qantas-cuts-500-heavy-maintenance-jobs-to-save-100m/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 13:00:15 +0000 Staff http://www.breakingpost.com/news/qantas-cuts-500-heavy-maintenance-jobs-to-save-100m/ QANTAS has confirmed it will cut 500 engineering jobs and close its Boeing 737 heavy maintenance base at Tullamarine.

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]]> http://www.breakingpost.com/news/qantas-cuts-500-heavy-maintenance-jobs-to-save-100m/feed/ 0 May shares rout puts super at risk of negative performance in 2011-12 http://www.breakingpost.com/news/may-shares-rout-puts-super-at-risk-of-negative-performance-in-2011-12/ http://www.breakingpost.com/news/may-shares-rout-puts-super-at-risk-of-negative-performance-in-2011-12/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 12:00:35 +0000 Staff http://www.breakingpost.com/news/may-shares-rout-puts-super-at-risk-of-negative-performance-in-2011-12/ AUSTRALIAN superannuation fund members are now at risk of seeing their balances go backwards for the third successive financial year, following the 7.5 per cent downward lurch that has wracked global sharemarkets since May 1.

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]]> http://www.breakingpost.com/news/may-shares-rout-puts-super-at-risk-of-negative-performance-in-2011-12/feed/ 0 KordaMentha named administrator for Retravision Southern http://www.breakingpost.com/news/kordamentha-named-administrator-for-retravision-southern/ http://www.breakingpost.com/news/kordamentha-named-administrator-for-retravision-southern/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 11:00:13 +0000 Staff http://www.breakingpost.com/news/kordamentha-named-administrator-for-retravision-southern/ ELECTRICAL goods franchisor Retravision Southern has been placed into administration, just three days after admitting it was having difficulty paying suppliers.

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]]> http://www.breakingpost.com/news/kordamentha-named-administrator-for-retravision-southern/feed/ 0 Serbia picks president under threat of protest http://www.breakingpost.com/news/serbia-picks-president-under-threat-of-protest/ http://www.breakingpost.com/news/serbia-picks-president-under-threat-of-protest/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 10:00:02 +0000 Editor http://www.breakingpost.com/news/serbia-picks-president-under-threat-of-protest/ Pro-Western Boris Tadic will bid on Sunday for another five years as Serbia’s president and the right to lead the nation into EU membership talks, challenged by rightist Tomislav Nikolic who has threatened to contest the result in the streets.

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]]> http://www.breakingpost.com/news/serbia-picks-president-under-threat-of-protest/feed/ 0 Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng who escaped house arrest leaves Beijing for the United States http://www.breakingpost.com/news/blind-chinese-activist-chen-guangcheng-who-escaped-house-arrest-leaves-beijing-for-the-united-states/ http://www.breakingpost.com/news/blind-chinese-activist-chen-guangcheng-who-escaped-house-arrest-leaves-beijing-for-the-united-states/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 09:00:34 +0000 Editor http://www.breakingpost.com/news/blind-chinese-activist-chen-guangcheng-who-escaped-house-arrest-leaves-beijing-for-the-united-states/ A blind Chinese legal activist was hurriedly taken from a hospital and put on a plane for the United States on Saturday, closing a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations.

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]]> http://www.breakingpost.com/news/blind-chinese-activist-chen-guangcheng-who-escaped-house-arrest-leaves-beijing-for-the-united-states/feed/ 0 U.S. civil rights group NAACP endorses gay marriage http://www.breakingpost.com/news/u-s-civil-rights-group-naacp-endorses-gay-marriage/ http://www.breakingpost.com/news/u-s-civil-rights-group-naacp-endorses-gay-marriage/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 08:00:49 +0000 Editor http://www.breakingpost.com/news/u-s-civil-rights-group-naacp-endorses-gay-marriage/ The nation’s largest civil rights group, the NAACP, endorsed gay marriage on Saturday, giving a boost to the movement to legalize same-sex nuptials despite reservations expressed by some black ministers.

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]]> http://www.breakingpost.com/news/u-s-civil-rights-group-naacp-endorses-gay-marriage/feed/ 0 U.S. tells G8 Syria’s Assad must go, cites Yemen as model http://www.breakingpost.com/news/u-s-tells-g8-syria%e2%80%99s-assad-must-go-cites-yemen-as-model/ http://www.breakingpost.com/news/u-s-tells-g8-syria%e2%80%99s-assad-must-go-cites-yemen-as-model/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 07:00:34 +0000 Editor http://www.breakingpost.com/news/u-s-tells-g8-syria%e2%80%99s-assad-must-go-cites-yemen-as-model/ President Barack Obama told G8 leaders meeting at Camp David that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must leave power, and pointed to Yemen as a model of how political transition could work there, the White House said on Saturday.

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]]> http://www.breakingpost.com/news/u-s-tells-g8-syria%e2%80%99s-assad-must-go-cites-yemen-as-model/feed/ 0 Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg marries longtime girlfriend http://www.breakingpost.com/news/facebook-founder-and-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-marries-longtime-girlfriend/ http://www.breakingpost.com/news/facebook-founder-and-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-marries-longtime-girlfriend/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 06:00:31 +0000 Editor http://www.breakingpost.com/news/facebook-founder-and-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-marries-longtime-girlfriend/ Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to “married” on Saturday.

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]]> http://www.breakingpost.com/news/facebook-founder-and-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-marries-longtime-girlfriend/feed/ 0 G8 leaders urge Europe to focus on growth rather than austerity at G8 summit http://www.breakingpost.com/news/g8-leaders-urge-europe-to-focus-on-growth-rather-than-austerity-at-g8-summit/ http://www.breakingpost.com/news/g8-leaders-urge-europe-to-focus-on-growth-rather-than-austerity-at-g8-summit/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 05:00:21 +0000 Editor http://www.breakingpost.com/news/g8-leaders-urge-europe-to-focus-on-growth-rather-than-austerity-at-g8-summit/ The Group of Eight nations are advocating growth rather than austerity in Europe after spending two days of meetings at storied Camp David aimed at containing an escalating fiscal crisis overseas.

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]]> http://www.breakingpost.com/news/g8-leaders-urge-europe-to-focus-on-growth-rather-than-austerity-at-g8-summit/feed/ 0 Lockerbie bombing convict dies in Libya http://www.breakingpost.com/news/lockerbie-bombing-convict-dies-in-libya/ http://www.breakingpost.com/news/lockerbie-bombing-convict-dies-in-libya/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 04:00:19 +0000 Editor http://www.breakingpost.com/news/lockerbie-bombing-convict-dies-in-libya/ Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, died on Sunday, almost three years after being freed from jail on compassionate grounds.

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