Change your Monday night plans. Turns out that James O’Keefe — the filmmaker whose oeuvre includes numerous petite documentaries about ACORN — has postponed his planned appearance Monday night at San…
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JANUARY 31, 2010

From Ben Gurr in Port Au Prince, Haiti

A group of American Baptists has been arrested at the border with the Dominican Republic after trying to transport over thirty children out of Haiti. They didn’t have the right documents. To combat child traffiking all border movements of Haitian children has to be personally endorsed [...]

    
 Each Saturday, as part of Times Money’s expanded consumer affairs section, we publish your questions and invite other readers to suggest solutions. 

This week William Locke wrote wrote to us. He says: ”I have just moved into a block of flats. I keep getting letters from the TV licensing company, but it seems unlikely that it will [...]

It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]

No, I couldn’t listen to the Desert Island Discs while it was actually broadcast. And for most of today, I just tried to judge how it was from what other people said.


Bluff and double bluff. I went to a meeting of our Leverhulme project (yes at 6.00 pm on a Sunday) — [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks rose on Monday, following three weeks of losses, on stronger-than-expected U.S. manufacturing data and results from Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) that beat Wall Street estimates.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Monday projected the budget deficit would peak at a fresh record in 2010 before easing as he pushes for fiscal responsibility while battling double-digit unemployment.
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US oil giant Exxon Mobil has reported a 23% drop in profits, but the result was better than many analysts had expected.
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BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Traditional Musician of the Year has been won by fiddle player Daniel Thorpe from Inverurie.
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The US will resume emergency evacuation flights for critically injured Haitian quake victims on Monday, the White House has said.
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