Authorities say a panel from a cargo plane has fallen outside a Miami mall. No one was hurt.

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Dolly Parton has revealed that Jack White has asked her to collaborate with him on several new tracks.
Having already announced plans to release a solo album and sophomore LP with side-project The Dead Weather in 2010, Parton claimed that White is also eager to work with her on a third record this year.
“I have been [...]

In our ongoing coverage of the Demon Sheep phenomenon , we invite you to start your weekend early by a viewing of this mash-up of Pink Floyd’s classic “Sheep” set to the Fiorina for Senate’s Demon Sheep…
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I got to Johannesburg a week or so before Nelson Mandela was released. At the door of my hotel a guy offered to clean my shoes. I said no thanks. I’d spent a lot of time photographing anti-apartheid demonstrations and felt embarrassed at the thought of a black guy cleaning my shoes. He said I [...]

 

The annual average wage for full-time employees rose by 2.6 per cent to £25,800 in 2009, according to The Office for National Statistics’ Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.

The data, which covers the average pay for full-time workers covering nearly 300 trades and professions, also found that public sector workers enjoyed average rises of [...]

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 [...]

Last night I did a gig in an ‘Intelligence Squared’ debate — on the question of whether public schools are a blight on British society. A wonderfully British subject, as you can see from the fact that more than 1300 people turned up to listen in Central Hall Westminster.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks were modestly lower in choppy trading on Friday after data showed the unemployment rate declined in January, even as employers unexpectedly cut jobs.
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KABUL (Reuters) – The Taliban have said they will not enter into any “deal” with the Afghan government or the West to bring peace to Afghanistan, and their fighters will continue to die to achieve a victory they say is around the corner.
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British Airways has announced it made a pre-tax loss of £50m ($79m) in the three months to December 2009.
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