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Page last updated at 12:37 GMT, Wednesday, 25 November 2009

drought
Climate cash is 'unaccounted for'
Funds promised to developing countries to help tackle climate change are unaccounted for, a BBC investigation finds.
Q&A: Climate cash controversy
Liberians facing flood threat
Copenhagen in graphics

GM and Opel logos GM to keep all German plants open
General Motors says it will not be closing any of Opel's four plants in Germany, and will be cutting fewer jobs across Europe.

LSE sculpture The Source Investor nerves hit LSE profits
The London Stock Exchange sees profits fall by 40% after a depressed market is made worse by liberalised trading rules.

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Amma Ennim by her beachfront home Flood threat
Liberia struggles to deal with impact of rising sea levels
Hong Kong resident Chan Hon Keung who has to live in a wooden box Tight space
Hong Kong's poorest have to live in wooden cubicles
Property in Kabul Kabul capital
Real estate prices in Afghanistan go through the roof


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Chan Hon Keung Life for a Hong Kong 'cage' dweller

China's accelerating car industry
Jens Stoltenberg Norway's PM on economic recovery

Japan Airlines secures emergency loan


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ECONOMY
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US consumer confidence edges up
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COMPANIES
Statement due on secret loans
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Cost cuts lift profits at Compass
Secret bank rescue loans revealed

UK YOUR MONEY
Banks win on overdraft fees case
British Gas bill system unveiled
More mortgage approvals by banks
Good schools 'raise house prices'

AFRICA
Heritage sells oil field stakes
Trade deal agreed in East Africa

AMERICAS
Tax credits boost US home sales
Ex-smoker wins $300m in damages

ASIA PACIFIC
China broker eyes Hong Kong rival
Thai economy continues expansion
EUROPE
EU drops Qualcomm anti-trust case
Eurozone activity 'accelerates'

MIDDLE EAST
Oil price up as US reserves fall
Intel in Jerusalem 'Sabbath deal'
SOUTH ASIA
Reliance bids for LyondellBasell
Reliance to expand oil business

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Trade talks
India's premier in US to talk trade with Barack Obama
Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee electricians Walter and Levy, in Soweto Power arrangers
The electricians who connect South Africans - for free
Barrels of wine Grape expectation
Morocco's wine makers are sniffing success

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