Brown to defy cabinet critics with string of new policies The Independent | A defiant Gordon Brown will take on his critics in the Cabinet today by pledging to confront and overcome his problems, in a personal appeal to ministers to back his forthcoming "policy blitz" and save his embattled leadership. | At a specially convened cabinet meeting in Birmingham, the Prime Min...
Household waste from UK dumped in India: Report The Times of India | LONDON: Household waste collected weekly across Britain for recycling is being shipped and dumped in India, according to an investigation by ITVs 'Tonight programme'. | As part of country's efforts to go green and improve the environment...
Auditions The State | "NUTCRACKER": Columbia City Ballet will hold auditions Sept. 20 at the Columbia Conservatory of Dance, 1545 Main St. Audition times: male and female dancers ages 4-6, 1-2 p.m.; male and female dancers ages 7-10, 2-3:30 p.m.; male and female dancers...
Unions demand public pay protest BBC News | The TUC is facing increasing pressure to organise a major protest campaign against the government's public sector pay policy. | Seven unions are supporting the motion which will be debated at the TUC's annual conference in Brighton later. | They sa...
Fannie and Freddie on front pages BBC News "The world's biggest financial bail out" makes headlines in Monday's newspapers. | That is how the Daily Telegraph describes the take-over of mortgage giants Fannie May and Freddie Mac by the US government. | The Independent says "the Bush administra...
Chronic scam victim lost £50,000 BBC News | My mother Jessica died in October 2007 aged 83. For the last five years of her life she had been hounded by fraudsters from all over the world. | It all started when my mother replied to a very convincing letter telling her she had won a large amou...
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Eight killed as weekend of rain leads to floods across Britain The Times | Flooding and severe storms led to the deaths of at least eight people and the evacuation of hundreds of families as relentless rain fell across the country over the weekend. | A ...
Pollution 'can make your kid fat' The Times of India | 8 Sep 2008, 0051 hrs IST,PTI LONDON: Pollution does not just take a toll on our planet -it could also make your child obese, a new study...
Eat less meat to fight climate change The Times of India | 8 Sep 2008, 0051 hrs IST,AFP LONDON: People should cut their consumption of meat to help combat climate change, a top UN expert said. | ...
Re-start New Yorker | Last December, a friend and I went to a release party for Mary J. Blige's "Growing Pains" album. Near huge screens showing Blige videos, a d.j. was playing records on two turntables. The d.j.'s eyes, however, were trained on an Apple MacBook on a s...
RAF flood rescue footage BBC News | These images provided by the RAF show a rescue operation in Morpeth. | 300 people had to be rescued from their flooded homesin the town and 1,000 spent the night in temporary accommodation on Saturday. | RAF SAR Images | ...
PM to rally Cabinet in Birmingham BBC News | Gordon Brown is taking the Cabinet to Birmingham for its first meeting since the summer break. | He will move to rally ministers with a document insisting Britain can get through the economic downturn. | He will also launch a new manufacturing stra...
Brown to defy cabinet critics with string of new policies The Independent | A defiant Gordon Brown will take on his critics in the Cabinet today by pledging to confront and overcome his problems, in a personal appeal to ministers to back his forthcoming "policy blitz" and save his embattled leadership. | At a specially convened cabinet meeting in Birmingham, the Prime Minister will circulate a draft document in which he ...
Owner wants to sell Diana crash car The Australian | THE French company that owns the car in which Princess Diana died wants the wreckage back so it can sell it, possibly for as much as £1 million ($2.17m). | The wreckage of the black S280 has been held in a police compound in London since July 2005, as part of the inquest into Diana's death. | The car was cut in two before being shipped to the UK....
