The home draw sees Saudi Arabia finish in third place to go into the playoffs where they will face Bahrain.

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When researchers in Germany did the math, they found that the average worker would need their income to go up by a third just to offset the happiness cost of tacking on a 20-minute commute.

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When the first Siemens third-generation (3G) handsets go on sale later this year, they will carry the Siemens logo even though they will be made by Motorola, the world's number two manufacturer.

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In a way, this may have protected the show's overall lead: If voters had to see "Matilda" four times, they may have started to reconsider it by the third go, and been just plain sick of it by the fourth.

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Third, and most important, corporations pay extra to compensate you for the risk that they will go bust.

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