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• Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Star Wars legend George Lucas and other billionaires agree to give away their wealth
  
  

  Thirty-eight US billionaires have pledged to give away at least half of their wealth to charity, after persuasion from Microsoft founder Bill Gates and investor Warren Buffett. The seriously wealthy donations are being made by a number of US billionaires including New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, entertainment executive Barry Diller and CNN founder Ted Turner, [...]

  
  
  
• Kylie Minogue’s album Aphrodite fifth No.1 in album charts
  
  

  Aussie pop pixie Kylie Minogue has scored the number one spot on the UK album Top 40 chart with her latest offering Aphrodite, 22 successful years after her debut album first entered the charts. Many would believe that after a 22-year career and a total of 11 studio albums released, Kylie would already have a [...]

  
  
  
• Michael Jackson murdered for money claims sister LaToya
  
  

  On the eve of the first anniversary of his death, the sister of the late pop icon Michael Jackson has claimed that her brother was murdered for money. LaToya Jackson made these shocking comments yesterday during the first of a two-part interview with GMTV. Speaking after Billboard magazine reported earlier this week that the Jackson [...]

  
  
  
• Unemployment up 23,000 as almost quarter of working-age Brits jobless
  
  

  Latest unemployment figures released show that there are now 2.47million unemployed people in Britain, up 23,000 from the last quarter. Some experts predict that this figure will continue to rise, with some estimating a further 500,000 people joining the queue over the next two years. More working age Brits than ever before are being forced [...]

  
  
  
• British tourists killed in South Africa bus crash
  
  

  Three British students have been killed while travelling by bus in South Africa. The vehicle veered off the road and overturned in Mpumalanga province. Two teachers and 18 students from a Leicestershire college were on board at the time. As well as the three who were killed, three other students are currently in intensive care [...]

  
  
  
• Terrorist rail attack in India kills at least sixty five
  
  

  A train has been derailed in India, in what is believed to be the third major terrorist attack by a Maoist rebel group in the last two months, leaving at least sixty five passengers dead. The train was travelling overnight from Kolkata to Mumbai when the incident occurred near West Bengal. Thirteen of the train’s [...]

  
  
  
• Tension mounts and markets fall as China & US get involved in Korea negotiations
  
  

  Following accusations that North Korea was responsible for sinking a Chenoan ship and killing more than forty sailors, the tension in Korea is said to be at breaking point. Both North and South Korean military forces have been put on alert as the situation escalates to a dangerous level and the US and China have [...]

  
  
  
• Sarah Ferguson’s debt problems exposed in £500K royal access scandal
  
  

  The Duchess of York is reportedly in hiding this week following embarrassing revelations exposing her debt problems even further, where she tried to make £500,000 in return for granting access to her former husband, Prince Andrew. Posing as a businessman, an undercover reporter from a Sunday newspaper exposed Sarah Ferguson’s attempt to make some quick [...]

  
  
  
• Facebook and YouTube banned in Pakistan over images of the Prophet
  
  

  Social networking websites Facebook and You Tube have been banned in Pakistan over non-Islamic images depicting the Prophet Muhammad. In a matter of days, the outrage and debate over the blasphemy of public images of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) – started by a Danish cartoonist in 2005 – has not only been reignited, it has [...]

  
  
  
• Crashed Afghan passenger plane found
  
  

  An International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) helicopter has reportedly found the wreckage of an Afghan plane that crashed near the Salang Valley between Kabul and Kunduz in Afghanistan. The aircraft – operated by Afghan airline Pamir Airways – went down early last Monday morning whilst flying over the Hindu Kush mountains on route from Kunduz [...]