Posh Toilets Said to Cost Geneva $13M
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GENEVA - Swiss authorities are bringing the city's public conveniences up to scratch - at a cost of $13 million for just 35 new toilets, Swiss daily Le Matin reported Tuesday.
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The Fortis financial group pays 13m euros at a pioneer auction for the rights to emit 800,000 tonnes of CO2.
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Women's healthcare specialist Warner Chilcott says it has received a bid approach which could value it at more than Â£1.5bn.
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Fon Technology secured an additional $13.1 million in funding for a global network of shared hotspots.
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The city of Amsterdam announced Thursday that it will invest up to 15 million euros (21 million dollars) to help clean up its famous red light district by buying brothels there.
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One of Israel's wealthiest men has bought the most expensive new house in Britain, a home in north London complete with cinema and nightclub, costing 35 million pounds (47 million euros, 69 million dollars), reports said Tuesday.
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LONDON, Dec. 1 -- A chauffeur-driven gold Rolls-Royce rolled past the jam-packed Cipriani restaurant, where the menu lists a Russian caviar appetizer for just under $500. A few doors down at an Elizabeth Arden spa, the Peaceful Pampering Package costs about $530 for a clientele of coiffed women...
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The total cost of the Athens Olympics may exceed $14.6 billion, according to Greece's 2005 budget submitted to parliament Thursday.
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Hike in cost means most of British Gas's 16m customers will pay around Â£130 more this year
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When Diarmuid Hegarty decided 13 years ago to buy Griffith Barracks from the Department of Defence, some observers thought he was mad.
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The tsunami catastrophe in south Asia  has caused economic damage in excess of 10 billion euros ($13.6  billion), a risk research expert at Munich Re MUVGn.DE, the  world's largest reinsurer, was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
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The airports operator BAA has said that increased security measures after an alleged terror plot last month had cost it 13.0 million pounds.
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In Chinese cities, there were 3.18 communal toilets for every 10,000 citizens in 2003, said Zhang Yue, deputy director of urban construction department of Ministry of Construction said Wednesday in Beijing.
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The United Arab Emirates will pay a cool $520 million for naming rights to the âLouvre Abu Dhabi.â
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Airports operator BAA says last month's terror alert cost it Â£13m in increased security measures and lost revenues.
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The new public pay toilet in Madison Square Park uses a large amount of water to clean itself, compared to the low-flush and even waterless units now in vogue for environmental reasons.
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Up to Â£125m in public money may be needed to bring London's theatres up to standard.