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If you have a dream of collecting a romantic moment with antiques and collectibles, the time has come for you to get the future king and his wife-to-be staring lovingly into one another’s eyes in the form of a £5 coin, sold for just for £9.99.

An artist’s impression of the new £5 coin, which will cost £9.99, was recently released.

From Dailymail.co.uk:

It is rivalled in inaccuracy by the Mint’s coin to celebrate their engagement – Kate looked haggard with a plump upper lip and broad neck while William’s Adam’s apple was the size of his nose.

The prince and the Queen – whose image is on the reverse – must have been happy with the designs because they personally approved them both. A Royal Mint spokesman said: ‘The official UK royal wedding coin has been designed by Mark Richards, a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.

It is only the second time the Mint has produced a coin to mark a royal wedding rather than an engagement, the first time being a 20p piece made for the marriage of Charles and Diana in 1981.

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A top White House official recently remarked that the United States is hopeful that major trading partners like China, India, and Brazil will help successfully conclude the Doha round of trade negotiations.

The statement was made to assert that the United States is engaged in trying to pursue an ambitious agreement for the Doha Round.

From in.finance.yahoo.com:

“We are very much engaged in trying to pursue a ambitious agreement for the Doha Round. We”re engaged bilaterally with major trading partners. We”re engaged in the multilateral process in Geneva. We’re engaged plural laterally with various groupings of countries,” US Deputy National Security Advisor Mike Froman told reporters Monday.

The United States, he said, believes that it is important that the Doha Round creates meaningful market access if it is going to be successful.

“That’’s what we’re focusing on right now and we hope that our major trading partners, including China, India, Brazil, will come to the table with a similar approach and a similar attitude with the objective of creating a strong agreement,” Froman said in response to a question.

The recently concluded Asia-Pacific Cooperation Senior Officials Meeting discussed the Doha round, as per Froman.

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Providers of services like BlackBerry, Skype, and Gtalks in consultation with telecom operators will have to inform the government by March 31 by which the security agencies can intercept their services.

A senior official said, “The home ministry has asked the department of telecommunication (DoT) to ensure that all telecom operators submit their plans by the end of this month on when they can provide access to all services, including BlackBerry’s BES, whenever there is a necessity for the security agencies.”

From in.finance.yahoo.com:

He said that DoT had been touch with the telecom operators who, under their licensing agreement, were negotiating the details with the smart-phone service providers. The department would tell the home ministry about the deadlines, which would be final in terms of downloading “certain software” in mobile handsets itself to ensure interception, he added.

“If they cannot give access, they have to put off their services in India,” the official said. He explained that once the companies provide solution within the deadlines, the “retrofitment” or “download of certain software” in the handsets for legal interception would not be difficult.

The Centre will also put in place a security architecture for the telecom sector through which the government could put in a new facility to deposit open software in certain forms and new testing facility (labs).

Meanwhile, articulating government’s security concerns, home secretary G K Pillai on Monday said that the terrorists these days were using Internet and mobile communication as the “most potent tool” to rope in youths and carry out espionage operations in the country.

“Terrorist attacks like that in Mumbai were facilitated by communications from the handlers over Internet and Internet has become one of the most potent recruitment tool for extremists and terrorists,” he said at a conference on the challenge posed by cyber crime.

Pillai said, “Because the bulk of servers are outside India, when you want help, when you move to law enforcement agencies of other countries, help comes sometime but it comes very late, it’s delayed and many times they are not willing to give us information citing privacy issues.”

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An index survey has revealed that Indian women have better financial literacy levels than their counterparts in China and Japan but are still placed at the bottom half in a ranking of 14 countries.

According to a Mastercard’s Financial Literacy Index released recently, hai women topped the financial literacy index with score of 73.9.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

“Chinese and Indian women are particularly weak in basic money management (54.4 and 58.8) and are near the bottom of the ranking for that component in Asia Pacific,” the survey noted.

In the overall financial literacy rankings, India and China have scored over developed countries like Japan and Korea.

Among the 24 markets surveyed it noted that women across Asia Pacific are financially savvy “to some extent”, in particular among the over-30 years married and working group.

Their level can be raised further, especially among the younger generation, the survey noted.

The index is based on a survey of consumers across Asia Pacific Middle East Africa (APMEA) and comprises of three major components–basic money management, financial planning and investment.

Thailand is followed by New Zealand (71.3) and Australia (70.2). Also noteworthy were Vietnamese women, who took fourth place, with an overall Index score of 70.1 and Singapore cornered the fifth spot with a score of 69.4.

Tan Vice President (Communications) Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa at MasterCard Worldwide said, “While it is encouraging to see that women across Asia Pacific have some basic degree of financial literacy, it is also apparent that there is still work to be done to improve levels across the board.”

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According to US researchers, newly trained female doctors in the United States make nearly $17,000 less than their male counterparts despite the fact that women increasingly are choosing careers in higher-paying medical specialties.

The researchers disclosed that there has been a widening gender gap in starting salaries for female doctors, rising from a difference of $3,600 in 1999 to $16,819 in 2008.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

“It is not surprising to say that women physicians make less than male physicians because women traditionally choose lower-paying jobs in primary care fields or they choose to work fewer hours,” Anthony Lo Sasso of the School of Public Health of the University of Illinois at Chicago said in a statement.

“What is surprising is that even when we account for specialty and hours and other factors, we see this growing unexplained gap in starting salary. The same gap exists for women in primary care as it does in specialty fields,” said Lo Sasso, whose findings were published in the journal Health Affairs.

The study is based on survey data from more than 8,000 doctors exiting training programs in New York.

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