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October 9th, 2008
Dozens of local councils risk losing hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money held in Iceland’s stricken banks. Town halls across the country may have to raise council tax and cut services as the repercussions of the collapse of the ...
October 7th, 2008
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A Somali pirate on a hijacked cargo ship laden with tanks and heavy weaponry says the ransom demand has been reduced from $20 million to $8 million. Jama Aden, who spoke to The Associated Press by satellite phone Tuesday, is ...
September 30th, 2008
"Considering the strife of certain top-flight sponsors, have there been any instances of a sponsor leaving a club in the lurch with disastrous consequences?" wondered Mike Hulse, a week or two ago. XL's demise has caused West Ham some trouble and ...
September 10th, 2008
Saturday pianist George Winston comes to the Brewery’s Performance Hall at 7:30 p.m. Bookers at the Brewery are taking a chance with Winston, despite the fact that he is a nationally known keyboard star. With more than a dozen CDs out, Winston is a ...
September 5th, 2008
"From the earliest age I can remember, I wanted to be an airline pilot," said Brigadier General Myron G. Ashcraft. Ashcraft now lives in Lexington, Ohio, near Mansfield, but is originally from Coshocton County, where he attended Union Elementary and ...
June 18th, 2007
BELGRADE, Jun 12 (IPS) - Weapons from the Balkans wars of the 1990s are beginning to arm conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, well-placed officials have revealed. A vital element of the Dayton Peace Agreements that ended the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in ...
August 9th, 2008
Sports Minister Richard Caborn did his bit to boost the morale of Britain's Winter Olympic team at their holding camp in Calgary on Tuesday. Caborn joined with his colleagues and members of the press in a curling challenge match of such dazzling ...
August 3rd, 2008
The newest sport at the winter Olympics in Salt Lake City next week should carry a health warning. Something like: Sliding down a bosleigh run on a tea tray can be hazardous. But it may be very useful for Britain's traditionally feeble medal count ...
September 4th, 2008
Son: Prince Michael II born c. February 2002; product of a surrogate mother and Jackson's sperm Son: Prince Michael Jackson Junior born on February 12, 1997; mother, Debbie Rowe Brother: Jermaine La Juane Jackson born on December 11, 1954; married ...
August 22nd, 2008
Gaza has become the Sarajevo of the Middle East. Israel, in an action similar to that of the Serbs in Bosnia, has surrounded and cut off nearly a million and a half Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since the Islamic militant group Hamas took control in ...
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