Where are the most pirate-infested waters in the world? CNBC gives the rundown.
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piracy

Crime at sea: The world's most pirate-infested waters

A ear of corn from last year's harvest lies in a wet field on a farm, Tuesday, May 7, 2013, near Carlisle, Iowa. The USDA's weekly crop progress repor...
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food

Food supply under assault as climate heats up

Garment workers vandalize an auto rickshaw as they block a street demanding the arrest of the owner of the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka in this April ...
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Retail

H&M approves safety standards for Bangladesh factories

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Social media

Facebook may buy Israel's Waze for up to $1 billion

Shoppers select from wide selection of Coca-Cola products in Springfield, Ill., Monday Feb. 6, 2006. The Coca-Cola Co., the world's largest beverage m...
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coca-cola

Coca-Cola to stop marketing to kids under 12 globally

Bangladeshi rescuers use a digger to move debris as Bangladeshi Army personel continue the second phase of a rescue operation using heavy equipment af...
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bangladesh

Clothing excluded from US manufacturing resurgence

Alessandro Colluccino, of Italy, performs with his dough during an acrobatic pizza event in this file photo from. Italy is facing a crisis: a shortage...
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pizza

Help wanted: 6,000 pizza makers needed in Italy

Actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau from the HBO series "Game of Thrones" arrives as a guest at the premiere of the new film "Oblivion" in Hollywood, Californ...
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entertainment

Stop pirating 'Game of Thrones,' US ambassador asks Australians

A Bangladeshi woman weeps as she holds a picture of her and her missing husband as she waits at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Sav...
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bangladesh

Western companies feel pressure as toll rises in Bangladesh

The prehistoric Stonehenge, in Wiltshire, England, is best known for the remains of a circle of standing stones.
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jobs

Help wanted: Stonehenge general manager

(FILES) In this photograph taken on July 23, 2012, Indian Bollywood film actress Sherlyn Chopra poses during a press event for the first Indian woman ...
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playboy

Bunnies (the Playboy kind) get cold reception in Indian state

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This undated photo provided by Christie's shows a rare pink diamond, nicknamed the Princie Diamond, which has sold for $39.3 million at auction in New York City.
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Business

Rare pink diamond sells for $39 million at auction

diamonds

Would you buy a man-made diamond?

With their polished sales pitch and discrete security, it looks like just another high-end diamond show room in a well-heeled Asian...

NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 22: Immigrants celebrate after becoming American citizens at a naturalization ceremony at Federal Hall on March 22, 2013 in New ...
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immigration

Countries with the most people yearning to breathe free

In this file photo, a woman collects coffee beans at San Victor farm in Los Verdes village, Fraijanes municipality, 35 km of Guatemala City on January...
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coffee

Your instant coffee may be about to go gourmet, for the same price

nick-leeson

Meet Nick Leeson -- Ireland's new insolvency expert

After causing the collapse of the U.K.'s oldest investment bank, spending several years in a Singapore jail and over a decade reinventing...

charity

Cyprus prison inmates donate allowance to needy families

NICOSIA, Cyprus -- With Cyprus' economy falling apart, even those behind prison bars are pulling together to help people in need. Dozens...

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ikea

IKEA halts moose lasagna sales after finding traces of pork

IKEA says it has withdrawn 17,000 portions of moose lasagna from its home furnishings stores in Europe after traces of pork were found...

Visitors from China shop along 5th Avenue in New York City, April 4, 2013. Chinese tourists spent $102 billion on foreign trips last year, outstrippin...
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china

Chinese now the world's biggest spending tourists

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Business

Heir to Johnson & Johnson fortune dies at 76