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August 10th, 2011
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A typical Toronto household will see its electricity bill drop by 91 cents a month under new rates approved for Toronto Hydro.
The new rates, set by the Ontario Energy Board, are effective May 1, 2011, so bills will be slightly adjusted to make up for the past three months.
The energy board says a typical household […]
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Britain’s spreading phone hacking and police bribery scandal forced two of London’s top police officers to resign in less than 24 hours and prompted Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday to call for an emergency session of parliament.
Scotland Yard chief Paul Stephenson stepped down Sunday night, followed out the door Monday by Assistant Commissioner John […]
Tripoli was rocked by a series of airstrikes by NATO forces in the early hours of the morning Sunday.
Libyan television reported that the “NATO crusader forces” had hit civilian and military targets in the eastern suburb of Tajoura.
Just after midnight Sunday, a series of dull rumbles and flashes could be seen to the east of […]
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Egypt’s government, meeting a key demand by protesters, fired nearly 700 top police officers on Wednesday to cleanse the discredited and widely unpopular force, state television reported.
In another nod to demands by activists, Egypt’s military is delaying parliamentary elections initially expected to take place in September, Egypt’s state news agency said. The vote is now […]
The media throughout the world like to portray themselves as the defender of the public good, a steadfast bulwark against government excess, a fearless watchdog ready to root out criminality.
But what happens when the press goes rogue, when reporters and editors break the law, and violate common decency as well? When reporters hack into a […]
Gas prices hit a sweet spot for automakers last month. They fell far enough to spur pickup truck sales, yet remained so high that small cars sold well, sometimes just hours after reaching dealers’ lots.
That made June a good month for General Motors and Ford, which have traditionally relied on truck sales and now have […]
The U.S. International Trade Commission issued a partial ruling against Eastman Kodak Co. on Thursday in a high-stakes patent-infringement dispute with the makers of the iPhone and BlackBerry phones.
The trade-dispute arbiter in Washington, D.C., said it is essentially upholding an earlier ruling by one of its judges, which threw out the photography pioneer’s claims.
The federal […]
Representatives at the Food and Agriculture Organization vote this weekend to give the largest U.N. agency its first new chief in almost two decades _ an election that comes at a time of critically high food prices and malnutrition across the world.
Six candidates are vying for the top job at the Rome-based agency, but the […]
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