Business
 | The Independent - The European Central Bank (ECB) must buy huge amounts of Spanish and Italian debt this week to avert a break-up of the euro, one of the UK's most eminent economists has warned. |
 | Bloomberg - Oil fell from a five-month high in New York as Spain's borrowing costs surged, heightening concern that Europe's debt crisis is spreading and will hurt demand. |
 | Irish Times - THE GERMAN chancellor and the British prime minister have agreed to disagree on key issues of EU reform, but have promised to reach agreement soon on German proposals for treaty change and an EU financial market tax. |
 | Jakarta Post - US President Barack Obama witnessed the signing of an agreement that saw Lion Air, Indonesia's largest private airline, order 230 aircraft from Boeing, making it the US aircraft manufacturer's largest commercial order. |
 | CNN - Editor's note: Sophia Kalantzakos, a global distinguished professor in environmental studies and public policy at New York University, was Greece's deputy minister at the Ministry of Employment and Social ... |
 | AFP - DUBAI - Gulf carriers have underlined their ambition to redraw world travel maps and turn the region into a global hub by placing record orders for new planes at the Dubai Airshow closing on Thursday. |
 | Financial Times - Nothing unnerves Wall Street more at the moment than trying to quantify what exposure US banks may have to indebted countries and fellow financials in the eurozone. |
 | BusinessWeek - Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Spanish lending fell an annual 2.6 percent in September, the biggest decline since the Bank of Spain's records started in 1963. |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - TELCOS IN Southeast Asia, including Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT), will likely see their margins narrow next year as many undertake spending plans to keep up with competition, Fitch Ratings said on Friday. |
 | Expatica Spain - Crude was mixed in Asian trade Friday amid fears that Spain would be the next economy to fall victim to the eurozone debt crisis, analysts said. |
 | GreenBiz.com (blog) - 3Degrees will provide Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) for new electric vehicles entering City CarShare's fleet later this year. |
 | CBS News - (AP) NICOSIA, Cyprus - Cyprus will almost certainly need a bailout from its eurozone partners if tougher spending cuts and tax hikes aren't taken right now, the country's finance minister said on Friday. |
 | TruthDive - Beijing, Nov 19 (TruthDive): In northern China, a coal mine collapsed on Friday trapping at least 12 workers in the latest accident in the industry. |
Health
 | AFP - TOURS, France - The Slow Food movement's global campaign for "good, clean and fair" food is receiving a boost from the economic crisis, its founder Carlo Petrini said on Friday. |
 | New York Times - The commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration on Friday revoked the approval of the drug Avastin as a treatment for breast cancer, ruling on an emotional issue that pitted the hopes of some desperate patients against the ... |
 | San Francisco Chronicle (blog) - A woman was arrested by Florida police for using a mixture of superglue, cement, mineral oil and other chemicals in illegal, butt-enhancing cosmetic procedures, according to reports by NBC Miami and the Miami Herald. |
 | New York Times - Lori Wolfe/The Herald-Dispatch, via AP Titus Bailey, a pre-kindergartener, in line for his lunch this month at West Hamlin Elementary School in West Hamlin, W.Va. |
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