Tables: Buyers | Sellers AS CORPORATIONS AND small businesses buckled down for the worst of the recession, they slashed supply budgets, hurting office-products companies. But share prices have bounced back, and recent stock sales at Staples (ticker: SPLS) have supplied that company’s insiders with sizeable gains. Michael A. Miles, Jr., Staples’ president [...]
Mr Balls is one of the prime minister’s staunchest allies Cabinet ministers are falling in behind Gordon Brown as he prepares to issue a rallying cry at Labour’s last party conference before the general election.Schools Secretary Ed Balls said the prime minister’s "authentic" [...]
Randy Quaid’s mug shot Photo: SPLASH NEWS The couple spent several hours in jail in the desolate town of Marfa, Texas before the local sheriff drove them to a bank so they could withdraw bail money. A police mugshot of Quaid, 58, showed him [...]
Sjt McAleese died at the age of 29, just weeks after his wife, Joanne, had given birth to their first child Sjt Paul McAleese spent £1,000 of his own money to buy a lightweight ballistic vest, desert boots and goggles. Before his death he [...]
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Knockoffs are nothing new, but usually they run some weirdo OS that’s skinned to look like the original, as with the HiPhone. Not so in this case: since Android is freely available to install on any hardware whatever, the primary difference will be the hardware, which doesn’t look that bad. The Tiger [...]
WASHINGTON — Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top American commander in Afghanistan, is expected to formally ask the Pentagon for up to 40,000 additional U.S. troops this weekend, military officials said, despite a plan to delay the request. Gen. McChrystal has held off on the request for several weeks at the direction of Defense Secretary [...]
BEIJING — Wang Jiaowei collects rural economic data for the local statistics station in Maidian, a town on China’s eastern seaboard famed for its giant cabbages and black pigs. Lately he has been trying his hand at poetry. On Oct. 1, the Chinese government will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the [...]
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Fierce street fighting in Sirte
Snipers in last-ditch bid to defend Gaddafi hometown
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FBI searches for missing Mo. baby in Kan. landfill
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Libyans face heavy resistance in Gadhafi hometown
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Libyan government forces launch big assault on Sirte
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Nobel honors African, Arab women for peace
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Economy adds 103,000 jobs, but it’s not enough
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