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The UK government will raise the minimum wage from next Wednesday.

BANGKOK, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Thailand’s deputy finance minister, Suchart Thadathamrongvej, said on Wednesday he had accepted the position of finance minister and immediately suggested he was comfortable with the baht around present levels.

Cue up the na-na-na-na audio track and the slow motion video: Bionic lenses that can provide perfect vision to those of us who are functionally blind may be just five years away. The prediction comes from James Wolffsohn, of Aston University in the UK, who suggests that implantable lenses would actually replace then hardening lens in people in their forties, unlike laser surgery, which …

Interviewed after a private showing of his latest film, Linha de Passe, Walter Salles, the director of Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries, discussed life in Sao Paulo and how in the movie he has attempted to illustrate the difficulties facing the poor as they strive to grow into useful citizens of the community, and how many fall at the last hurdle.

Above ground, the fire would have been minor. Breaking out deep below the English Channel, it has stranded thousands of travelers, imperiled millions of dollars in trade and starkly demonstrated the importance - and fragility - of Britain’s only land link to Europe. The Channel Tunnel remained closed Friday after a fire that started on a truck being carried on a train to France. Firefighters …

(RTTNews) - Wednesday, Ultra Motor, the UK-based two-wheeler maker planned to invest Rs.150 crores in India over the next three years to expand operations, reported the media. The company planned to launch five new e-scooters in the current fiscal year and an electronic bike in two years.

TOKYO, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei average is likely to open lower on Thursday, led lower by financials on continued worries about the credit crisis after Lehman Brothers failed to announce any firm deals to raise desperately needed capital.