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Yousuf contemplating retirement from international cricket
Although the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has clarified that the ban on captain Mohammed Yousuf is 'discretionary' and not for life, the dejected skipper is contemplating...


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Ex-bank Manager Accused Of Bilking The Elderly
John Tran, 37, is charged with having used fraud to take money from the accounts of elderly bank customers at a Wells Fargo branch in San Jose that he managed. He was arrested on March 10, 2010 after...
Highway Deaths Drop To Lowest Level Since The 1950s
Despite the runaway Toyotas, teen drivers texting, commuters using the rearview mirror to check their hair while juggling cups of scalding coffee, the number of people dying on the highway is the...
Earthquake’s Burdens Weigh Heavily On Haiti’s Elderly
the earthquake , she is a rare repository of this country’s history and culture, but she said she considered her memories as much a painful burden as a proud legacy. No strangers to hardship,...
U.s. Football And Tv Star Merlin Olsen Dies Aged 69
(Adds statements from NFL, Rams, other details)LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Football star turned actor Merlin Olsen, who was a key member of the Los Angeles Rams' defensive line nicknamed the...
Warning On Public Sector Pensions
The amount of money paid as pensions to many workers in the public sector could more than triple in the next 50 years, the National Audit Office suggests.Its report on unfunded public sector schemes...
Football And Tv Star Merlin Olsen Dies Aged 69
Former star NFL football player Merlin Olsen carries the Olympic Flame during the Salt Lake Olympic Torch Relay, through Kearns, Utah, February 8, 2002 file...
The Day 20000 Marauders Pounced On An Aged Saviour
Around 2.30pm, around 20,000 people baying for blood stormed the society. Since the gates of the housing complex were shut and the boundary walls were high, the mob used gas cylinders, taken from...
International Union Of Painters & Allied Trades Industry Pension Fund Goes Live With V3
NEW YORK, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Vitech Systems Group, Inc., a leading provider of benefits administration software, announced today that the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades...
Real Estate Investing In A Self Directed Ira: Tapping Your Expertise For Retirement
OAK BROOK, IL--(Marketwire - March 11, 2010) - Sandra Reese, Millennium Trust Company's Senior Vice President of Real Estate and Alternative Investments, presented on the topic of Real Estate...
State Bills Offer New Retirement Incentives
Lansing -- Bills calling for incentives to coax 7,900 state employees and 39,000 public school teachers to retire were introduced in the Legislature today, drawing praise from Gov. Jennifer Granholm...
Mozilla Aggressively Asks Older Firefox Users To Update
Firefox 3.6 has been a runaway success. The publisher of the open-source browser says that more than 100 million users have downloaded Firefox 3.6 since its launch in the middle of January. However,...
Pension Protection Fund Takes On Another Seven Failed Schemes
The number of crashed pension funds in the government's lifeboat scheme swelled to 120 today after seven final-salary schemes were admitted.More than 2,500 former workers at a carpet factory in...
Highway Deaths At Lowest Level Since 1950s
(AP) U.S. highway deaths have fallen to their lowest levels since the 1950s, as more motorists bought into buckling up and embraced safety innovations. A sour economy that dampened traveling...
Denver Financial Adviser's Book Lays Out Formula To Secure Retirement
What if financial planning could be boiled down to a few simple rules and ratios? Denver financial adviser Charles Farrell, with Northstar Investment Advisors, does just that with his book "Your...
Highway Deaths Drop To Lowest Level Since 1950s
WASHINGTON — The roads today are full of hazards: Runaway Toyotas, teen drivers texting, commuters using the rearview mirror to check their hair while juggling cups of scalding coffee....
Highway Deaths At Lowest Levels Since 1950s
March 11, 2010 The Department of Transportation announced Thursday that the number of people killed in highway crashes last year was the lowest since 1954. Factoring in the number of miles traveled,...
43 Percent Of Us Workers, Retirees Have Under $10k Saved For Retirement
If you’re worried about retirement you’re not alone. A new survey out today shows that Americans are increasingly ill-prepared for retirement. US Workers are delaying their planned career end...
Motorsport: No Pension Plan For Fired-up Murph
ADELAIDE - Those joking New Zealand driver Greg Murphy's arrival at Paul Morris Motorsport is part of a team strategy to get more seniors' parking places be warned. Murphy, who has teamed with...
Seniors Protest Macewan Pool Closure
Seniors stepped up to a microphone set up outside Grant MacEwan University Thursday morning to protest the school's plan to close its pool. "I have been coming to this pool for 15 years," said...
Elderly Couple Robbed By Gunmen
An elderly couple was robbed at gunpoint by men who entered their yard on the pretense of being in search of a room to rent in Tembisa on Thursday evening, Johannesburg police said. Sergeant...
Ex Lloyds Boss Sir Prian Pitman Dies Aged 78
Tributes have been paid to Sir Brian Pitman, one of Britain's leading bankers who has died at the age of 78. The former chairman and chief executive of Lloyds TSB died in hospital after suffering a...
Rattner, Cuomo Said To Be In Talks On Pension Probe
March 11 (Bloomberg) -- Steven Rattner, co-founder of Quadrangle Group LLC, has been in discussions with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to resolve his role in a state pension fund corruption...
Patchwork Retirement Plan Adds To Greece’s Debt Woes
A protester during a demonstration Thursday in Athens. As a consequence of bargains struck between strong unions and weak governments, Greece has promised early retirement to about 700,000...
Senior Citizens To Lose Free Travel?
The Government has reached stage two of its review into free off-peak transport for SuperGold card holders. The scheme looks like it will exceed its $18 million a year budget, with $2 million of that...
Highway Deaths Drop To Lowest Levels Since 1950s
WASHINGTON—U.S. highway deaths have fallen to their lowest levels since the 1950s. The Transportation Department said Thursday that its projections show traffic deaths declined nearly 9 percent...
Sei's Pensionconnect 360 Completes Its 1,000th Pension Plan Analysis
OAKS, Pa., March 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SEI (Nasdaq: SEIC) today announced record sales growth in its corporate defined benefit business over a five year period. From the beginning of 2005...
Knee Replacement In Elderly Patients Shown To Improve Balance
Total knee replacement (TKR) successfully relieves pain and improves function in patients with advanced knee arthritis, according to a study presented today at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American...
Cognifit Takes A Bite Out Of The Big Apple
www.cognifit.com ), has opened its new United States headquarters in New York City. The new office will help CogniFit to provide improved customer service to the increasing number of businesses and...
La. Pension System Sues To Stop Firstenergy Deal
GREENSBURG, Pa. -- The Louisiana Municipal Police Employees Retirement System wants a federal judge in Pittsburgh to stop FirstEnergy's proposed $4.7 billion takeover of the western Pennsylvania...
Man Guitarist Jones Dies, Aged 63
Guitarist and singer Micky Jones, one of the founders of Welsh prog rock band, Man, has died aged 63.With Merthyr Tydfil-born Jones, the band had four Top 40 UK albums from the late 1960s and toured...
76-year-old Woman Missing From Streeterville
Police are asking for the public's help in finding a missing 76-year-old woman from the Streeterville neighborhood who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Margaret Khanna is described as...
Highway Deaths Hit Lowest Levels Since 1950s
The Transportation Department said Thursday that its projections show traffic deaths declined nearly 9 percent in 2009 to fewer than 34,000. That's the lowest level since...
Politicians Not Doing Enough To Improve Care For Older People, Uk
Sixty per cent of people think politicians are not doing enough to improve care for older people according to a survey by Age Concern and Help the Aged. The poll also found that eight out of ten...