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THE U.S.Coast Guard said progress was being made to contain the oil, but predicted that the cleanup effort could extend into autumn. “We’re making the right progress,” Admiral Thad Allen, who is overseeing the federal […] […]

ALL activists and crew on board the Rachel Corrie aid ship which tried to run the Israeli blockade of Gaza would be expelled from Israel today, an Israeli immigration official told AFP. “Everyone on board […] […]

A POLICE investigation has begun into Google and some of the internet giant’s employees for collecting private information about Australians while they photographed streets. Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland revealed today he had referred the matter […] […]

By Sandrea: MY GRIPE As the world remember June 6 1944, and for the great majority of us who were not even born then, history has gave us the details of this remarkable day.  On […] […]

MIAMI – Palm tree fronds may have saved the life of a 4-year-old boy who on Friday morning fell from a 17th-floor balcony at the Doubletree Grand Hotel, Miami police said. The boy, whose name […] […]

By Sandrea: MY GRIPE: The public humiliation of Brig.-Gen. Daniel Menard, Canada’s top commander in Afghanistan,  for an “inappropriate” relationship with a female soldier, was an unfortunate situation. Given his rank and the number of […] […]

VOICE MAIL member O’neil Edwards was today laid to rest after a moving thanksgiving service for his life in which a pastor asked if his death would provide the turning point for Jamaicans to reject […] […]

PLANO, Texas—Texas authorities say “Gossip Girl” heartthrob Chace Crawford faces a marijuana possession charge after being arrested in the Dallas suburb of Plano. Police spokesman Rick McDonald says Crawford was arrested in a parked vehicle […] […]

PENSACOLA, FLA.—Jennifer Motyleski came to the beach even though she is a third-grade teacher and Friday was the last day of school. “I called in sick today,” she said, her 6-year-old daughter frolicking nearby, “because […] […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In his mind’s eye, Gary Freeman can clearly see his wife and four grown children, laughing and joking in the kitchen of their family home on a quiet, leafy family street in Mississauga. He […] […]