Obama has made women's issues a high-profile theme of his administration, starting with the creation of the White House Council on Women and Girls that hosted Friday's forum.

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The new service will be exhibited at Fujitsu Forum 2012, to be held on Thursday, May 17 and Friday, May 18 at the Tokyo International Forum in Japan.

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The blogger, who goes by the handle Pink Couture, posted a snapshot of the cover to a forum on The Fashion Spot Friday, and it almost instantaneously spread across the web.

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The company's Smart Card Forum is scheduled to run through Friday.

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Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio Visco on Friday told Bloomberg TV at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that the trades "that were risky, the ones that had reduced liquidity at the bank, were actually connected with other operations which had losses we were not informed of".

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The president will meet International Development Secretary Justine Greening before ending his visit on Friday with a speech at the Indonesia-UK Business Forum.

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But speaking to the BBC in Lahore on Friday, the chairman of the Pakistan branch of the Forum, I A Rehman, said he was unhappy with the Indian Government's decision not to allow this facility to 200 Pakistanis to travel to Bangalore to attend the forum's fifth three-day convention starting on 6 May.

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Most sights and museums will remain open throughout Easter weekend, however, including the Colosseum, Forum and Palatine (although the archaeological area will close on Good Friday at 2 pm to prepare for the Via Crucis).

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