guardian.co.uk Society:
With the biggest deficit ever for the month, the Red October headlines are easy to write. Interpreting yesterday's public finance figures is, however, more difficult. What really matters is the medium term, and – as the last (Read More)
New York Times:
A team from the University of Wisconsin uncovered a crucial sequence of events that rules out some explanations and severely constrains others.
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The Guardian:
Departing Morrisons chief executive says new role was too good to miss, as he unveils slower growth at Bradford-based chainThe chance to take over the top job at Marks & Spencer was too big a chance to miss, said Marc Bolland (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
Their distinctive tones, last heard in the same film in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever, will feature in an animated adventure about a vet attempting to rescue a beaverIt's a far cry from Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever. But (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Danielle Simpson's lawyers issued a late appeal that was eventually rejected by the state's board of pardonsTexas has executed Danielle Simpson, a murderer who earlier this year pleaded with a court to be put to death because (Read More)
The Guardian:
Dustin Bradshaw suspended for not using video camera when firing Taser at unruly 10-year-oldA police officer who used a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl after he said her mother gave him permission has been suspended no (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Strictly for readers of a robust disposition, here are some of the passages highlighted for particular attention by the judges of the Literary Review's 2009 bad sex in fiction prizeThe Humbling by Philip Roth (Jonathan Cape, (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
It was the year of Atonement, The Body Artist and The Corrections, but what was your favourite book from 2001?It was the year our era began, with unprecedented abruptness, in obscene rolling news. But, blessedly, literature m (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Maryland:
These were among the cases received by the Montgomery County Animal Services Division. For recorded information on the Montgomery County Animal Shelter hours and location, adoption and licensing procedures, rabies clinics and (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Maryland:
Montgomery County Humane Society has hundreds of dogs, cats, small mammals, birds, reptiles and livestock available for adoption at the Montgomery County Animal Shelter, 14645 Rothgeb Dr., Rockville. To see pictures of adopta (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Maryland:
Prince George's County Animal Shelter, 3750 Brown Station Rd. in Upper Marlboro, makes animals available for adoption by residents of the county and other jurisdictions. Adoptable animals, as well as lost pets, can be seen at (Read More)
The Guardian:
Eating carp while the fish is still alive is a Chinese delicacy. But it's not the only morally dubious dish on world menusThe Chinese have come in for some flak over their eating habits after a video was posted on YouTube sho (Read More)
MSNBC:
Though their long teeth look fearsome, male sabertooth cats may have actually been less aggressive than their feline cousins, a new study finds.
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MSNBC.com: Arts, books, more:
American painter Irving Kriesberg has died in New York City. He combined intense abstract colors with human and animal elements.
New York City - Artist - New York - United States - Metro Areas. (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Philip Roth is up against Amos Oz, Paul Theroux and Nick Cave on the bad sex award shortlistThe seduction of a lesbian by an ageing stage actor, which includes an eye-watering scene with a gree (Read More)
New York Times:
Mr. Kriesberg was an American painter whose work combined the intense colors of Abstract Expressionism with haunting images of human and animal forms.
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The Guardian:
• Black Egyptians sue and demand album be banned• Row casts fresh light on racism in regionOne of the Arab world's biggest pop stars has provoked a torrent of outrage after releasing a song which refers to black Egyptians as (Read More)
The Guardian:
Pair made to pay £130 for throwing birds up into the air in Krakow's Renaissance marketTwo British men have been fined by a court in Poland for pigeon tossing. The pair threw the birds up into the air in historic Krakow's Ren (Read More)