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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Crash landing at London Heathrow: A British Airways Boeing 777 flying from Beijing, China to London, England lands on the grass short of the south runway and continues onto the runway, stopping on the white stripes, injuring 13 people, but resulting in no fatalities. The chaos results in the cancellation of 200 flights. //news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7194086.stm (BBC News)
Russian security officer Vasily Khitryuk is convicted of spying for Lithuania. //www.pr-inside.com/russian-security-officer-convicted-of-r391926.htm (PR-inside)
NYSE Euronext, the holding company for the New York Stock Exchange, agrees to buy the American Stock Exchange for $260 million in stock. //www.foxbusiness.com/markets/industries/finance/article/nyse-euronext-buys-american-stock-exchange-260m-stock_441737_9.html (Fox Business)
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