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Q&A: Is a bachelor’s in international business administration good for a career in investment banker?

June 16th, 2011
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Is a bachelor’s in international business administration good for a career in investment banker?
I’ve found a university in europe that only has courses in english that sound like this: international business…

Obama: NATO to erect missile shield for Europe (AP)

November 19th, 2010

U.S. President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with Portuguese Foreign Minister Luis Amado as he arrives for a NATO summit in Lisbon on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010. U.S. President Barack Obama and the leaders of NATO's 27 other member nations will open a two-day summit Friday aimed at finding ways to keep the Cold War alliance relevant in the 21st century with revamped roles including ballistic missile defense, anti-piracy patrols, and counterterrorism. (AP Photo/Andre Kosters, Pool)AP - President Barack Obama won NATO summit agreement Friday to build a missile shield over Europe, an ambitious commitment to protect against Iranian attack while demonstrating the alliance’s continuing…

Toyota to sell plug-in hybrid in US, Europe, Japan (AP)

November 18th, 2010

A man drives Toyota Motor Corp's prototype of an iQ-based battery electric vehicle at a Toyota showroom's test drive course in Tokyo November 18, 2010. Toyota on Thursday laid out big plans for launching greener vehicles, including 11 new conventional hybrids over the next two years and a Prius-based plug-in hybrid that may cost as little as 3 million yen.   REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN - Tags: TRANSPORT EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT)AP - Toyota is planning to sell a plug-in hybrid car in the U.S., Japan and Europe in 2012, targeting sales of 50,000 vehicles a year at 3 million yen…

Europe faces prospect of more bailouts (AP)

November 11th, 2010

Ireland's Central Bank Governor Patrick Honohan  walks to The Irish Paliament in Dublin  Wednesday Nov. 10, 2010. Ireland's financial troubles loomed large Wednesday as investors  betting that the country soon could join Greece in seeking a bailout from the European Union  dumped Irish bonds and drove the interest rate on the country's borrowing to a new high. (AP Photo/Julien Behal/PA)  **  UNITED KINGDOM OUT    **AP - Europe’s government debt crisis intensified Thursday as worries grew that the continent’s most financially troubled countries, mainly Ireland and Portugal, will need a bailout to avoid bankruptcy just…

Lady Gaga tops MTV Europe Awards (AFP)

November 7th, 2010

Americans cleaned up at the MTV Europe Awards in Madrid, as Lady Gaga, pictured in August 2010, picked up three top prizes and awards crowned Katy Perry, Canadian teen idol Justin Bieber and half a dozen US outfits.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Tim Mosenfelder)AFP - Americans cleaned up at the MTV Europe Awards in Madrid, as Lady Gaga picked up three top prizes and awards crowned Katy Perry, Canadian teen idol Justin Bieber…

Is the U.S. Bullying Europe Into Cutting Ties with Iran? (Time.com)

October 29th, 2010

Time.com - Even with a new set of E.U. sanctions against Iran, European companies still have an economic relationship with the country. But some firms say the U.S. is pushing…

WikiLeaks plans ‘major’ announcement in Europe (AP)

October 22nd, 2010

File - The Pentagon is seen in this aerial view in Washington, in this March 27, 2008 file photo. The WikiLeaks website appears close to releasing what the Pentagon fears is the largest cache of secret U.S. documents in history — hundreds of thousands of intelligence reports compiled after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In a message posted to its Twitter page on Thursday Oct. 21, 2010, the organization said there was a 'major WikiLeaks press conference in Europe coming up.'  (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - The WikiLeaks website appears close to releasing what the Pentagon fears is the largest cache of secret U.S. documents in history — hundreds of thousands of intelligence reports…

9/11 link to militant in Europe terror alert (AP)

October 8th, 2010

A man reads the Quran inside a mosque in Hamburg, northern Germany, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. Hamburg security officials shuttered the al-Quds mosque, later dubbed Taiba mosque, in August, forcing its members to scatter. But authorities insist they have the city's estimated 200 extremist Muslims — including 45 al-Qaida followers — under surveillance and have sought to downplay Hamburg's role in the binternational/b terror scene. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)AP - The Islamic militant whose disclosures under U.S. interrogation in Afghanistan triggered Europe’s terror alert is an old friend of a man convicted in the 9/11 attacks and, as…

Europe Terror Threat: Caught Between Caution and Alarm (Time.com)

October 7th, 2010

Time.com - As the pace of terror-related news quickens, European security experts and officials have the tricky task of reacting to attack threats without over-dramatizing them

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Chinese, Japanese leaders meet in Europe amid spat (AP)

October 5th, 2010

AP - The Chinese and Japanese prime ministers held an impromptu meeting in a hallway at a conference in Europe, in the highest-level contact between the countries since a bitter…