Virginia's jobless rate remains the same in April Richmond Times Dispatch | Virginia's unemployment rate held steady at 5.6 percent in April as job growth slowed during the month, the Virginia Employment Commission reported Friday. | The jobless rate was unchanged from March, when it hit a three-year low. It was down from the year-ago April rate of 6.2 percent. | The stat...
Facebook set to make market splash with $100bn floatation The Independent | The social media giant is now valued at more than 100 billion dollars (£66 billion) and stands to reap up to 18.4 billion dollars (£11.6 billion) from the sale of hundreds of millions of shares. | Founded in a Harvard dorm room eight years ago, the social networking site is expected to launch it...
Paul Vallely: Greek lessons that Cameron really should heed The Independent | A year on it doesn't seem that funny. Some 70 per cent of Greeks have just voted for parties that reject the €174bn (£141bn) international bailout offered to Athens. The country is on the brink of chaos. The consequences for the euro and for non...
Casualty! The eurozone sickness spreads The Independent | And, just to make the episode more interesting, while almost everyone agrees on the underlying causes of the disease, the doctors can't agree on the treatment. This is partly because of the varying states of the patients, but also because the docto...
The real royal courtship: The monarchy and the media The Daily Mail | It was the story of the century – the King abdicating to marry a divorcée – yet it had been kept out of British newspapers by the palace. Author Juliet Nicolson explains how the crown had to learn to woo the press | Miami, 1941: five ye...
Twinning with the Thais The Star | UNIVERSITI Malaysia Kelantan (UMK) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (Mou) and letter of intent with the Prince Songkla Universiti (PSU), Thailand for a twinning programme which would take effect immediately. | UMK vice-chancellor Prof Dr Raduan...
A fitting tribute The Star | Recipients of this year's Tokoh Guru awards share how they have made an impact. | SHE was headhunted by the Education Ministry's Technical Education Departmet to help transform SM Vokasional Tawau in Sabah. | Retired super principal Datuk Mary Yap ...
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Facebook Boosts Its Initial Stock Price Voa News | Social media giant Facebook says it is raising the price of the company stock it is offering to the public. | | The Internet-based social network site had initially said t...
Facebook CEO turns 28, IPO could be $100B gift Indianapolis Star | NEW YORK — He famously wears a hoodie, jeans and sneakers, and he was born the year Apple introduced the Macintosh. But Mark Zuckerberg is no boy-CEO. | Facebook's chief executiv...
SRK gets away as Cong supports him: Thackeray Indian Express | The Shiv Sena on Saturday asked Shah Rukh Khan to learn from Amitabh Bachchan about keeping his feet grounded and said the five-year ban on him could be lifted as he enjoys Congress support. | In an editorial in party mouthpiece Saamna, the party l...
Obama: Stop Condescending to Women The New York Times | WHEN I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste. In numerous appearances over the years — most recently at the Barnard graduation — he has made reference to how women are sma...
Making Schools Work The New York Times | AMID the ceaseless and cacophonous debates about how to close the achievement gap, we’ve turned away from one tool that has been shown to work: school desegregation. That strategy, ushered in by the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision ...
I'm not a social network genius: Courtney Love Newstrack India | Los Angeles, May 6 (IANS) Singer Courtney Love has asked advisors to help her with social networking after a number of online disasters. | The Hole star, who was embroiled in a lawsuit over her Twitter page last year, admits she is not a social network genius and has been relying on others for help with her online identity, reports contactm...
UN envoy: Libya unstable but moving to democracy The Guardian | EDITH M. LEDERER | Associated Press= UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The top U.N. envoy in Libya said Thursday there are positive signs that the country is moving toward democracy but longstanding tensions have escalated into armed conflicts, detainees are still being tortured, and there is rising discontent among former revolutionary fighters. | Less th...
