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    The union has rejected the current offer of a pay rise of 1.5 per cent in 2009 followed by an inflation plus 0.5 per cent increase from next April. "We have no option but to put the issue back out to our members and to begin the process of balloting for further action across London Underground" Mr Crow said in a statement. Full Article at Asian Age
    We have no option but to put the issue back out to our members and to begin the process of balloting for further action across London Underground
    – Bob Crow SOURCE: Asian Age 1 month ago

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  1. A man walks past an electronic stock indicator in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009, showing global markets including Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average, top center, that rose 226.65 points, or 2.4 percent, to 9,572.20, the highest close since Nov. 18. Japanese shares jumped to a two-week high Tuesday, buoyed by hopes that the nation's central bank will take steps to shore up the deflation-plagued economy.
  2. Volunteers dressed as a red ribbon and a red cross take part in an AIDS awareness event to mark World AIDS Day in Beijing Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009.
  3. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, right, welcomes Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, before the 17th OSCE Ministerial Council in Athens, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009. Foreign policy chiefs and senior officials from 56 countries gathered in Athens on Tuesday for meetings on security challenges ranging from Afghanistan to cybercrime.
  4. People walk past an electronic stock indicator in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009, showing Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average rose 226.65 points, or 2.4 percent, to 9,572.20, the highest close since Nov. 18. Japanese shares jumped to a two-week high Tuesday, buoyed by hopes that the nation's central bank will take steps to shore up the deflation-plagued economy.
  5. World ranked no. 6, boxer Leon Moore of Guyana, right, poses with Indonesia's boxer Marangin Marbun, left, during a press conference with the backdrop of Singapore's financial skyline seen, Tuesday Dec. 1, 2009 in Singapore. The city nation will host the "Professional Championship Boxing: A New Beginning," which will have a six fight card with the main event seeing Leon Moore battle Marangin Marbun, for the vacant WBA (PABA) super bantamweight title.
  6. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, right, speaks with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, left, before the 17th OSCE Ministerial Council in Athens, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009. Foreign policy chiefs and senior officials from 56 countries gathered in Athens on Tuesday for meetings on security challenges ranging from Afghanistan to cybercrime.
  7. A Christie's auctioneer conducts a sales session during Christie's Hong Kong Autumn Auctions 2009 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre December 1, 2009. Christie's, hit by anaemic spring sales due to the financial crisis, had been banking on the current autumn sales in Hong Kong, now the firm's third biggest arts hub after New York and London, for a reversal of fortunes.
  8. European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Frank De Winne of Belgium rests in a vehicle after he returned to Earth in the Russian Soyuz space capsule, in the steppe near the town of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan December 1, 2009.
  9. A view of the Sobibor train station in Poland December 1, 2009. John Demjanjuk, an 89-year-old former U.S. autoworker, was wheeled into a packed Munich court on Monday to face charges he helped kill 27,900 Jews during the Holocaust in what is likely to be Germany's last major Nazi-era war crimes trial. German state prosecutors accuse Demjanjuk of assisting in killings at the Sobibor death camp in Poland, where prosecutors say at least 250,000 Jews were killed.
  10. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - DECEMBER 01: (L to R) Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom shakes hands with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak at the Presidential House on December 1, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. Solyom is visiting South Korea to discuss economic exchanges and to strengthen bilateral relationships in trade, culture and diplomacy.
  11. A view of the Sobibor train station in Poland December 1, 2009. John Demjanjuk, an 89-year-old former U.S. autoworker, was wheeled into a packed Munich court on Monday to face charges he helped kill 27,900 Jews during the Holocaust in what is likely to be Germany's last major Nazi-era war crimes trial. German state prosecutors accuse Demjanjuk of assisting in killings at the Sobibor death camp in Poland, where prosecutors say at least 250,000 Jews were killed.
  12. Chemical bottles are left in the former laboratory of a Union Carbide Corp, now part of Dow Chemical Co, pesticide plant in Bhopal December 1, 2009, which in December 1984 developed a toxic gas leak resulting in thousands of people dying in the aftermath, in what is called one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Bhopalis and environmental groups say many more people have been harmed since then by pollutants seeping out of the plant site into ground water, which they contend have caused health problems for nearby residents including cancer, growth retardation and dizziness.
  13. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - DECEMBER 01: (L to R) Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak attend during a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential House on December 1, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. Solyom is visiting South Korea to discuss economic exchanges and to strengthen bilateral relationships in trade, culture and diplomacy.
  14. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - DECEMBER 01: (L to R) Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom shakes hands with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak at the Presidential House on December 1, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. Solyom is visiting South Korea to discuss economic exchanges and to strengthen bilateral relationships in trade, culture and diplomacy.
  15. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - DECEMBER 01: Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom (L) talks with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak (R) at the Presidential House on December 1, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. Solyom is visiting South Korea to discuss economic exchanges and to strengthen bilateral relationships in trade, culture and diplomacy.
  16. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - DECEMBER 01: (L to R) Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak attend during a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential House on December 1, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. Solyom is visiting South Korea to discuss economic exchanges and to strengthen bilateral relationships in trade, culture and diplomacy.
  17. The Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Frank De Winne of Belgium, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk lands in the steppe near the town of Arkalyk, in northern Kazakhstan, December 1, 2009.
  18. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - DECEMBER 01: Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom attends a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential House on December 1, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. Solyom is visiting South Korea to discuss economic exchanges and to strengthen bilateral relationships in trade, culture and diplomacy.