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To know Bob Dylan is to experience him live But for those making do with Dylan's sprawling bootlegs as he criss-crosses the globe this year Thursday's Dylan Fest offered the goods from a revolving lineup of guests – including Steely Dan's Donald Fagen and Boz Scaggs – during the first...

The values of Hong Kong's total exports and imports of goods both recorded year-on-year increases in April, the city's Census and Statistics Department said on Thursday.

French former Unilever chief to take over from 2013, four years after retiring from the consumer goods group with which he spent 35 years

GENEVA (Reuters) - China has filed a complaint at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to challenge U.S. countervailing duties, tariffs charged on Chinese goods that the United States considers to be unfairly subsidized.

Adidas India has confiscated goods from three of the four 'secret' warehouses where it alleged that its former top executives had stashed products worth Rs. 63 crore, two persons with knowledge of the development said.

US manufacturing growth slowed in May, a survey indicates, while orders for long-lasting factory goods fall.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Orders for long-lasting factory goods edged up slightly in April but a key category that tracks business investment spending fell for a second straight month....

Orders for long-lasting factory goods edged up slightly in April but a key category that tracks business investment spending fell.

Two men were killed by a goods train in Heidelberg, southeast of Johannesburg, yesterday afternoon.

Research conducted by consumer analysts Mintel found that shoppers who used to seek out the biggest brands at the lowest prices, now believe the ‘value’ ranges have improved in taste and quality.

Research conducted by consumer analysts Mintel found that shoppers thought 'value' branded products had improved in taste and more were launched last year as buyers try to make more savings.

Corrections officers at the only women's prison in Alabama regularly sexually harass, abuse and even rape female inmates with few consequences, according to a new report by a civil rights organization.Numerous female inmates at Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Ala., reported becoming pregnant after being raped by male correctional staff over the past five years, said Bryan Stevenson, exec...

You're a new face. You're a new talent. You're a new voice. No one has any idea what you bring to the table. You must accept this stage and commit yourself to delivering the goods every single time you get an opportunity.

Earlier today, David Lee of SV Angel said that one of the hottest areas to watch in tech right now is the area of mobile commerce and companies that can “close the loop” between online and offline transactions. Today sees the launch of Cardify, a mobile app and merchant dashboard that aim to solve that challenge from the direction of customer loyalty. The idea behind Cardify, a contestant in t...

There’s thinking outside the box, but what about selling outside the shop? Sarah Brady and Alex Cole’s Highland Park home decor store, Platform, is turning the art of staging homes for sale into a shopping experience: The open house is a pop-up store. Platform, known for mostly locally handmade house wares, attracts what Brady calls “a pretty decent stream of customers.” But Brady, a former tre...

MILAN (AP) -- The Italian government is to free up to (EURO)30 billion ($38.25 billion) to make overdue payments to businesses that have supplied goods or services to state institutions....

25 people were killed and over 70 injured when the Bangalore bound Hampi Express collided with a stationary goods train near Penekonda, Ananthpur district, Andhra Pradesh.

A passenger express train collides with a goods train in India's Andhra Pradesh state, killing at least 15 people.

WORLD TRADE WEEK, 2012 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION America has always been a Nation of doers, makers, growers, and builders. Empowered by innovative universities, pioneering entrepreneurs, and productive workers, we have met a global demand for goods and services designed and produced by Americans. During World Trade Week, we reaffirm the...

Shipping food to foreign countries may not always be the best response to food crises; sometimes sending cash or procuring goods locally is cheaper, faster and more effective.

Falling value of rupee is likely to further push up prices of manufactured goods and other commodities, adding to the woes of common man reeling under double-digit retail inflation, say experts.

THE company that purchases white goods and electronics for more than 100 Retravision stores in Victoria, southern NSW and Tasmania has gone into voluntary administration.

ELECTRICAL goods franchisor Retravision Southern has entered administration, three days after admitting to payment difficulties.

RETRAVISION store owners in Victoria, Tasmania and southern NSW are holding emergency meetings to discuss financial problems facing the electrical goods retailer.

MONDAY’S STRONG statement by EU foreign ministers on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict marked a significant and important shift in EU thinking on the stalled peace process, and appeared to signal a new level of engagement. After the meeting Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore, going further, suggested that Israel may have until the autumn to respond positively to specific EU demands on il...

As part of J. Crew's second annual sponsorship of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, innovative New York jewelry designer Pamela Love created a limited-edition three-piece capsule collection, available now at j.crew.com. The goods include a chevron belt with hardware accents ($135) and two denim pieces: a jacket and a pair of skinny jeans (both $295). This marks Love's first foray into clothing desig...

Europe risks becoming little more than a tourist attraction for wealthy Chinese if it does not reform, luxury goods group Richemont’s chairman and chief executive, Johann Rupert, said on Wednesday.

A group of young women climb around in Dumpsters in the back alleys of Coquitlam, B.C., searching for discarded food. These women are not homeless or poor, but choose to scavenge their meals this way. They are part of a movement called 'freeganism'. A ‘freegan’ is someone who gathers edible food from the dumpster bins of grocery stores or food stands that would otherwise have been thrown away. ...

With emerging market demand for luxury goods driving sales at home and abroad, the challenge is to maintain the industry’s high earnings momentum

People who "work their butts off" in northern Europe should not be expected to bail-out the likes of Greece and Spain, according to the head of luxury goods company Richemont.

New York, NY --Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. announces that Text2Pay will discuss mobile payments at the Ninth Annual West Coast i Date [url=http://www.mobil...

The Irish pound or punt is being accepted in shops in the town of Clones, Co Monaghan, as payment for goods alongside the euro and sterling in the first move of its kind by a town in the Republic.

A one member UDRP panel has just awarded a pretty generic domain name StocktonGolf.com to  StocktonEnterprises, Inc. a company owned and operated by  professional golfer, Dave Stockton, a 10-time PGA Tour winner and a 14-time Champions Tour winner. The panel rejected that the domain represented the city of Stockton and terms related to Golf. The panel found that the ““Stockton” name is, and has...

With deal announced between CIBC and Rogers, consumers will soon be able to pay for goods, services, with their cellphones

Partnership will allow customers of CIBC who carry Rogers smartphones to pay for goods at merchants by using their mobile phone

Shop-A-Fada campaign encourages public to counter anti-Israel boycotts by purchasing of merchandise manufactured in Israel.

The UK's overall trade gap in March narrowed to £2.7bn, but the deficit for trade in goods alone was unchanged, official figures show.

Report by MPs and peers says selling treatments intended for NHS to other EU countries has caused serious shortagesThe health of patients has been put at risk by speculators trying to increase profits by exporting medicines intended for use in the UK, according to a group of MPs and peers.Ministers must consider banning the practice, which is legal under EU trade rules, and put the wellbeing of...

coondoggie writes "According to court documents, investigation by federal law enforcement agents revealed that subjects whose domain names had been seized in a November 2010 operation continued to sell counterfeit goods using new domain names. In particular, the individuals, based in China, sold counterfeit professional and collegiate sports apparel, primarily counterfeit sports jerseys." So no...

Incentives for overseas sales of textile and engineering goods expected as government battles to deal with widening trade deficit

LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - Reckitt Benckiser's biggest shareholder the Reimann family's JAB Holdings BV, said it intends to sell around 4.9 percent of its stake in the British consumer goods group to...

Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Cost Plus (CPWM), a home goods retailer, to buy the company for $22 a share, or 22% more than Cost Plus’ Tuesday closing price of $17.99. The cash offer is worth about $500 million and should close in Bed Bath’s [...]

Guangdong is hoping undercover reporters are the solution to the trade in counterfeit goods that has traditionally been widespread in this area.

Customs officials at the IGI Airport on Tuesday arrested one passenger for carrying memory cards and game processors worth Rs 26.62 lakh.

Prices for goose and duck down, an insulator for winter jackets, pillows and comforters, are flying away, leading manufacturing to raise prices for high end goods as much as 60%.

Roger Goodell better have the goods....

GLOBAL financial turmoil fails to slow luxury goods market, which is forecast to grow by up to seven per cent as China drives consumption.

Man made use of sophisticated equipment to rob other stores and resell them

While we're STILL recovering from Glee’s heartbreaking Choke episode last night, it sounds like the show’s cast members are as well! If you didn’t manage to sneak your way into the TV Academy panel last night, no need to fear, Gleeks! We’ve got ALL the goods right here! The Glee cast dished on all [...]

When one of the largest companies in the world files a UDRP, most would probably think the outcome would go in their favor, regardless of the descriptive nature of the domain name.  Johnson and Johnson, one of the largest health and consumer goods companies in the world, filed a UDRP to try and wrest the [...]

It’s a bad, bad, bad economy – and an election year to boot. Poor Obama has his hands full. Domainers facing a lack of monetary liquidity still want to invest in domain names. Since money and credit are currently tight, resorting to the exchange or trade of goods and services is a viable solution. We [...]

The American idle rich inherit a lightly-taxed, multi-million dollar trust fund fortune, never work a day in their life, and live off the labor of others in sudore vultus alieni. They do absolutely nothing to earn their keep, their daily bread, their room and board, and their precious stock and bond and real estate and capital goods mammon

British manufacturing output barely grew at all in April as an economic slowdown in the euro zone curbed demand for goods made in Britain, a survey showed today, raising the risk of a longer recession.

Speaker John Boehner says he's been successful in changing the House for the better despite not having legislative goodies like earmarks to help the process. "I've got no -- no grease," the Ohio Republican said in an interview aired Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." His comments on earmarks comes as there has been agitation among House lawmakers looking to reinstate the congressionally dire...

(Reuters) - Groupon Inc has hired another former eBay Inc executive to head its discount retailing arm Groupon Goods starting Monday, according to an internal email obtained by Reuters on Friday.

MENTAL goods, such as intellectual curiosity, are unlikely to respond to economic stimuli.

International trade plays a key role in expanding demand and supply of environmentally friendly goods and services and helping countries shift to a greener development path, experts said during a panel debate at a United Nations trade and development conference in Doha, Qatar.

Orders for durable goods in the US fell 4.2% in March, the Commerce Department says, pointing to weakening growth.

Demand for long-lasting manufactured goods was the weakest in three years in March, suggesting the economy lost momentum as the first quarter drew to a close.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Demand for long-lasting U.S. manufactured goods dropped by the most in three years in March and a gauge of business spending plans fell, suggesting factory activity lost momentum as the first quarter ended.

Mila Kunis let out a capital N-O over a week ago after the rumor started that she had an all-naked That '70s Show reunion with Ashton Kutcher. Mila said the same shit you say when your friend accuses you of scooting your goods all over the town douche: We're just friends! We just drink tea together. Well, People says that over the weekend, Mila and Ashton spent three...

Three luxury cars and household goods belonging to Khulubuse Zuma have been auctioned off to pay R10-million owed to Protea Coin Security.

Jefferies & Co.’s Robert Lea this morning reiterates a Hold rating on the Taipei-traded shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (2330TW), offering up a think piece to clients on the prospect Intel (INTC) might gain some business fabbing chips for Apple (AAPL). “While TSMC’s stock price might not be factoring in a 2nd source win with [...]

Chelsea fly to Barcelona at lunchtime with interim manager confident old guard can deliver the goods despite criticisms.

Nationalist and leftist groups marched in a central Russian city to protest a proposal by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to set up a transit hub for goods shipped to and from Afghanistan.

Carbon emissions from goods imported and consumed in the UK are rising more quickly than greenhouse gases are being cut domestically, MPs have warned.

A number of conversations have recently converged on a single problem: how to match applications to network access. Let's unpeel this issue. Post and Telegraph 2.0 When I was Chief Analyst at Telco 2.0, we proposed there was a significant untapped market opportunity for network operators to bundle together access with content, applications or services. The revenue opportuni...

He's a singer, actor and a successful clothing designer, and now Justin Timberlake is set to tackle another frontier -- home goods.

That fever really did a number on Don Now he's refusing the goods at a brothel and telling Pete to stop cheating on his wife? Don't get me wrong it's not exactly a bad thing – did you ever see him smile at Betty like he did before he violated...

Now that the country's top liquor brand Moutai is under scrutiny, we should also take a look at some of the other goods that have been trying to follow hard on the heels of the expensive liquor.

Many Japanese have a sense that their country has outgrown an economic template based on constructing commodity goods, but they disagree over what should replace it.

President Obama said today that new free trade agreements will help U.S. companies sell more goods abroad.

Scientists track the movement of ‘virtual water,’ used in the production of goods and exchanged among nations

IT’S BEEN a strange and disorienting week for those interested in vast amounts of cash being exchanged for apparently not much in the way of goods. Let me list the billion dollar deals. Microsoft paid AOL a billion dollars for various patents; Facebook paid a billion dollars worth of cash and shares for Instagram, a photo-uploading company with a dozen employees; and ATT sold a majority stake i...

U.K. retail sales rose in March as the unseasonably warm weather led to an increase in sales of non-food goods, while a separate survey indicated that the number of permanent job placements rose for a third straight month.

In a down economy where advertisers are concerned about every dollar spent, researchers have developed a new method of measuring the effectiveness of Google search advertising, taking into account not only online sales, but goods or services purchased off-line as well.

Pinterest, the social network where users “pin” photos to virtual pin boards, has become the third most popular with Web users behind Facebook and Twitter, a report from marketing company Experian says. Like all social networks, Pinterest is dogged by questions of how to make money but Experian’s data suggests that it may not be difficult. Ads for consumer goods and retail are the most success...

Is it possible to chalk up billions in UK sales without paying any corporation tax? Last year Amazon sold £3.3bn worth of goods in the UK and allegedly paid no corporation tax - because it is based in Luxembourg.

Palestinians are selling goods to long queues of passengers waiting to pass through security checkpoints in the occupied territories.

The Manny Pacquaio Foundation is learning the hard way ... used clothes do NOT count as "relief goods" in the Philippines ... this according to a lawsuit obtained by TMZ. Manny's charity is being sued by a logistics company which claims they were…

I will recommend not to wait until you get enough amount of money to buy goods! You can just get the home loans or consolidation loans and feel yourself fine

A pledge by the manufacturer of Apple's iPhones and iPads to limit work hours at its factories in China could force other global corporations to hike pay for Chinese workers who produce the world's consumer electronics, toys and other goods.

Canadians traveling to the United States will soon be able to bring home far more duty-free goods, now that the federal government has tabled a budget harmonizing this country’s limits with those south of the border

U.S. stocks opened mostly flat Wednesday, after a disappointing report on durable goods orders. Investors are expecting big quarterly gains three days before the close of the first quarter.

U.S. stock futures pared gains to trade essentially flat after a disappointing reading on durable goods orders added to concern over weakness in overseas markets

Creativity is the most essential skill for navigating an increasingly complex world ? or so said 1,500 CEOs across 60 countries in a recent survey by IBM. And yet federally funded research and development ? creativity, institutionalized ? is down 20% as a share of America's GDP since the late 1980s. Private R&D spending has also tailed off since then, when it brought us breakthrough innovat...

Data from Barclays’s new contactless credit and debit cards can be extracted using specially-designed software on smartphones – and then used to buy goods on shopping websites.

NEW DELHI  – Pakistan is expected to bring out a notification next month allowing import of certain goods, including petrol and food items from India. “I discussed importing petrol from India during talks with Petroleum Secretary GC Chaturvedi,” Secretary for Petroleum and Natural Resources Muhammad Ejaz Chaudhry said on the sidelines of the 7th Asia Gas Partnership ...

NEW DELHI  – Pakistan is expected to bring out a notification next month allowing import of certain goods, including petrol and food items from India. “I discussed importing petrol from India during talks with Petroleum Secretary GC Chaturvedi,” Secretary for Petroleum and Natural Resources Muhammad Ejaz Chaudhry said on the sidelines of the 7th Asia Gas Partnership ...

European foreign ministers have extended sanctions on 12 additional people in Syria including imposing a travel ban and asset freeze on President Bashar al-Assad's mother, sister, sister-in-law, and wife, Asma al-Assad. The decision came after this weeks' leak of Assad emails, many of which show Asma shopping for expensive jewels, furniture, and other luxurious goods. The travel ban will prev...

“Green” jobs accounted for 2.4 percent of the nation’s total employment in 2010, the Labor Department reported Thursday in its first-ever survey of green goods and services jobs. According to the report, which gave a snapshot of the role that environmental consciousness plays in the U.S. economy, the United States had 3.1 million green jobs in 2010, the vast majority of them in the private sect...

U.S. white goods maker Whirlpool Corporation has announced its new strategy for China, stating that it will upgrade its Chinese sales channels and form a strategic alliance with the Chinese electronics and home appliances retailer Suning. Whirlpool's new move aims to enhance strategic cooperation and expansion in the Chinese market. It plans to introduce more [...]

ONE person has died after a goods train hit a car in South Australia's mid-north.

Backpage.com and similar Web sites help find buyers for enslaved young girls.

SOCCER ANGLES:The Drogheda man has had his ups and downs but 16 years later he is still delivering the goods, writesMICHAEL WALKER

PRIVATE emails from Syrian president Bashar Assad show he bypassed US sanctions for music while his wife bought luxury goods on iTunes.

Fridges and ovens could become eerily intelligent - one the world's biggest chip companies, ARM, has unveiled a new processor built to work inside 'connected' white goods.

TABLETS and bags of sweets are added to basket of goods used to calculate inflation

Fun, fast and deep, 'Street Fighter X Tekken' delivers the goods for fighting game fans.

Expandable and collapsible luggage generated the greatest buzz-aaand the most awards-aaat this week's 2012 Travel Goods Show.

Lawmakers voted to ensure that the United States could impose duties on subsidized goods from China and Vietnam.

Two former Texas Southern basketball players accused of stealing more than $500G of jewelry from coach's houseBaggage Handlers Busted for Stealing Jewelry Worth $160G From PassengerNJ Officials Charge 29 in Counterfeit Goods Ring

New Jersey authorities have charged 29 people in connection with a counterfeit goods ring.

Downing Street accuses Argentina of pursuing a "policy of confrontation" over the Falkland Islands, amid reports of an Argentine ban on importing UK goods.

Brazil plans to impose strict quality control on imports from China and other Asian nations to prevent the influx of cheap goods.

An Altadena man was facing federal weapons and stolen property charges Friday after sheriff’s detectives used theft recovery software to track a stolen laptop to his home. Last month, Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives, backed by a search warrant, combed...

Paul Rudd is the best friend a movie comedy can have He always delivers the goods and something extra usually something wild and weirdly wonderful In Wanderlust Rudd lets the funny fly Like the movie he's in Rudd only seems normal Inside it's all deliriously unhinged Rudd plays George an...

ANY ECONOMIST would say that the free market should determine the price and quality of goods and services. But, as any economist will also tell you, there are exceptions. Cases of “market failure” — natural monopolies such as electric power utilities — call for government regulation. Read full article >>

Police: Teen used credit card numbers published on the web by hacker OxOmar to buy goods.

Eight months ago, the German Marshall Fund asked your humble blogger to be part of an "eminent persons group " to examine the future of the transatlantic economic relationship.  Now, I'm not gonna lie, I've always coveted the title of "eminent person."  If I'm required to age, there should be some perks, and I thought this would be a big one:  SNOOTY MAN WITH CLIPBOARD:  I'm sorry, th...

'Apprenticeships are at the heart of the economy we want to build,' writes David Cameron.

I just read about Nicki Minaj's backstage demands, like two dozen roses in her room and candles that smell like "baked goods." Is that normal for a pop star? ...

Pakistan goods given duty free access to the EU

England's pace-cum-spin attack has delivered the goods to keep Pakistan down to 256-7 on the opening day of the second Test.

The European Parliament passes a new law to curb dumping of electronic goods such as mobile phones, computers and TV sets in landfill sites.

In the last three years the goods transporters have defied conventional wisdom and performed better on a host of parameters.

Why the idea of 100-calorie baked goods is a bad (and sad) one

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Chicago (ots/PRNewswire) - ~ - Azarenka startet 2012 mit neuem Wilson Juice(TM) ~ Wilson Sporting Goods (http://www.wilson.com), geht langfristige Partnerschaft mit der Nr. 3 der Weltrangliste, Victoria (Vika) Azarenka ein. "Ich bin von meinem Umstieg auf ...

TEHRAN — At a time when U.S. officials are increasingly confident that economic and political pressure alone may succeed in curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the mood here has turned bleak and belligerent as Iranians prepare grimly for a period of prolonged hardship and, they fear, war. This stark contrast has been evident in the Iranian capital this week as a top military commander declared a ...

Heavy goods vehicles and other large lorries were involved in two thirds of cyclist deaths on London's roads last year, according to accident reports released by TfL.

BEIJING (AP) -- China announced a cut Tuesday in its rare earths export quota as it tries to shore up sagging prices for the exotic metals used in mobile phones and other high-tech goods....

A GOODS train was swept off its tracks as the remnants of tropical cyclone Grant tore through northern Australia, dumping 30cm of rain.

AUSSIE shoppers set to make a beeline for luxury goods during Boxing Day sales with hundreds camping out for the privilege.

A SERIES OF strong earthquakes hit the New Zealand city of Christchurch yesterday, sending goods toppling from shelves, causing rockfalls and driving terrified residents from buildings 10 months after a quake killed 182 people in the city.

David and Anna Hambly’s Red Moon Bakery became a success by catering to expats and Indians looking Western-style baked goods

A series of strong earthquakes struck Christchurch, New Zealand, today, rattling buildings, sending goods tumbling from shelves and prompting terrified Christmas shoppers to flee into the streets.

A series of strong earthquakes struck Christchurch, New Zealand, today, rattling buildings, sending goods tumbling from shelves and prompting terrified Christmas shoppers to flee into the streets.

A series of strong earthquakes have struck the New Zealand city of Christchurch, rattling buildings, sending goods tumbling from shelves and prompting terrified holiday shoppers to flee into the streets. There was no tsunami alert issued and the city appeared to have been spared major damage. One person was injured at a city mall and was taken to a hospital, Christchurch police said in a statem...

QUETTA - Railways employees Wednesday staged a protest against the torture of their colleague allegedly by Frontier Corps personnel at Sardar Munir Road railway crossing, delaying Karachi-bound Bolan Mail for about an hour.The protesting officials told the media that FC personnel had gone to a railway employee, Allah Bakhsh, when he was performing his duty at the railway crossing at Sardar Muni...

Homemade edible gifts like flavored oils, marinated things and mixes for baked goods are sure to please — and they’ll keep you out of the shopping mall.

A booming business in virtual goods adds up to huge profits for the online gaming company.

The Cambodian government should urge the Senate to strike a provision of the draft Law on Prisons that would permit prison labor to be used for producing goods for private firms. The Cambodian government should urge the Senate to strike a provision of the draft Law on Prisons that would permit prison labor to be used for producing goods ...

DESIGNER Robert Foster established his company as a local challenge to pricey European designer goods such as Alessi.

COPS found a 'burglar' taking electrical goods from Mario Balotelli's home was star himself

COPS found a 'burglar' taking electrical goods from Mario Balotelli's home was star himself

Blog post by ArtReview magazineRashaad NewsomeBy David Everitt Howe Walking into Rashaad Newsome’s sunny Chelsea studio is a bit like entering a strange fetish factory. An assembly line of cheery, XActo- wielding assistants methodically scour magazines such as XXL and Black Hair, carefully excising the most brilliant visual idioms of hip-hop desire: diamond and pearl necklaces, race cars, chrom...

Ich will keine Tradition aus dem freitäglichen Foreign-Affairs-Lesetipp machen, aber der Artikel Why Only Germany Can Fix the Euro über die Euro-Krise ist wieder mal lesenswert (womit ich nur meine: wert, dass man ihn liest - das ist nicht automatisch eine Zustimmung zu den Inhalten). Im Kern dreht er sich darum, dass Deutschland durch seine auf Währungsstabilität fixierte Politik die aktuelle ...

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian police have detained three suspected thieves who they say stole goods from trucks as they drove on highways at night.

Three bomb blasts have hit a busy market in Iraq's capital, killing at least eight people and wounding 26 others, police and hospital sources said. The blasts occurred in Shurja, an important commercial district in central Baghdad, on Sunday at the beginning of a Muslim festival. Officials said the bombs, planted on Sunday in different parts of the market, killed sellers and shoppers buying goo...