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Qatar signs up Germans for metro
A German rail company has signed a $26 billion contract to construct an underground railway network in Qatar and a track to Bahrain.

Italian bank workers to inherit job
An Italian bank based in Rome has decided to make jobs hereditary in a bid to cut costs when replacing older staff.

OECD optimistic on world economy
Asia and the United States are pulling the world out of the global economic downturn with surprising if "modest" speed, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has said in a report.

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