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BT has announced that about 15,000 jobs this year break down mostly in the United Kingdom, and reported an annual loss of 134 pounds.
The company said it had cut 15,000 jobs last year, which was 5,000 more than planned.
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BT said it would be £ 525m of pension contributions in each of the next three years make to reduce the scheme deficit.

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In addition, the dividend cut by 15.8 pence to 6.5p strong.
“Three of the four divisions of BT, has good results achieved in spite of fierce competition and the global economic slowdown,” said Chief Executive Ian Livingston, BT.
“However, this power from an unacceptable performance of BT Global Services and charges that we have taken overshadowed.”
BBC Business Editor Robert Peston said that the main problem with BT Global Services Division – whose clients include Microsoft, Reuters and the NHS – is that the costs spiral out of control. ”
Telecoms analyst Eddie Murphy Priory Consulting, said the unit was also taken by multinational companies looking for cheaper suppliers during times of global IT recession.

A patron says she is suing a New York City concert hall because the staff would not let her use the bathroom, even though she was 35 weeks pregnant. Lindsay Ekizian of Long Island, says the building supervisor at the Hammerstein Ballroom told her, “There’s a bathroom at the end of the block,” as she left a comedy show last October. Management did not care that Ekizian had a baby pressing on her bladder and was desperate to use the ladies’ room, a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit filed said. By the time she made it to a nearby diner, it was too late. She blames Hammerstein management for the humiliation of wetting her pants.

An unidentified man in Wuhan, Hubei Province gingerly balances a Japanese bomb dating from World War II found October 12 in the Yangtze River as he and others were using metal detectors to look for coins, jewelry and scrap metal. The bomb, complete with an intact detonator, was about 1-meter long and weighed 50 kilograms. It was reported to police who carefully took it for safe detonation elsewhere.

A quick MRI scan can spot mental developmental problems in kids, thus giving a warning if a child’s brain growth is behind schedule, a new study suggests.

Using MRI technology that detects which areas of the brain are most active based on their usage of oxygen, US researchers scanned 238 volunteers aged 7 to 30. They compiled the results and developed a baseline of what the brains of people should look like as they grow older.

The findings, which are published in the September issue of Science, could allow doctors to measure whether a patient’s brain has matured to the level it should have reached based on his or her age, said study co-author Dr. Bradley L. Schlaggar, an associate professor of developmental neurology at Washington University School of Medicine and St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

“It’s a way to understand individual differences and make predictions about an individual’s neurologic and psychological health,” he said. “The earlier you can intervene, the more likely it is that you’ll benefit a patient.”

Currently, brain scans don’t play a major role in the treatment of mental illness, said Schlaggar.

It’s possible to find a tumor or diagnose a stroke with the help of a brain scan, he said, but the technology almost always fails to reveal any problems in the brain of a person who has a disorder like autism, schizophrenia or epilepsy. “That’s vexing,” he said, “because you know that something is wrong with the brain, but the report is normal.”

In addition to diagnosing a problem in the brain, brain scans could also help gauge whether a treatment is working, said Dr. Paul R. Carney, chief of pediatric neurology at the University of Florida.

If a 7-year-old child has a frontal lobe that looks like that of a 5-year-old, for example, doctors could turn to learning therapies designed to boost that part of the brain, said Carney, who’s familiar with the findings.

“Right now, most learning techniques don’t speak to a specific brain network,” Carney said. “But here, you’d be able to design a therapy and measure the response.”

A new study found that taking high daily doses of vitamin B may slow the rate of brain shrinkage in elderly people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), media reported Friday.

Vitamins B6 and B12, and folic acid, control levels of the amino acid homocysteine in the blood. High levels of homocysteine are linked to development of Alzheimer.

Conducted by University of Oxford, the study followed 168 people with mild memory problems. Half took high-dose vitamin B tablets for two years, and half got a placebo.

The researchers found that, those who took folic acid, vitamin B6 and B12 had their brains shrink by 0.76 percent a year on average, while those taking placebo had an atrophy rate of 1.08 percent.

People with the highest levels of homocysteine benefited the most, with atrophy rates on treatment half of those taking the placebo

“It is our hope that this simple and safe treatment will delay development of Alzheimer’s in many people who suffer from mild memory problems,” study coauthor David Smith told Reuters.

MCI causes memory loss and inhibites mental functioning and it affects about 16 percent of people aged 70 and older. Around half of those with MCI will develop Alzheimer’s within five years of diagnosis.

The findings were published in the September issue of PLoS ONE, the journal of the non-profit Public Library of Science.