SYDNEY -(Dow Jones)- The Australian Government will review taxes paid on gasoline as part of its efforts to counter soaring oil prices, which continue to remain above US$130 a barrel.
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Ireland’s new prime minister is supported by most people in the country, according to a poll by TNS mrbi published in The Irish Times. 52 per cent of respondents are satisfied with the performance of Fianna Fáil (FF) leader Brian Cowen.
FINE GAEL leader Enda Kenny has suggested Fianna Fáil scrapped its fundraising tent at the Galway Races because wealthy donors might be in short supply now that the construction industry is enduring a tough spell.
Rapper Ricky Slick Rick Walters was spending his first weekend as a pardoned man by keeping a busy concert schedule in Connecticut and Oregon, his wife said.Walters, 43, faces deportation from the United States because of a 1991 crime in which he shot and injured his cousin. He needed a pardon from New York Gov. David Paterson to help avoid his removal from the country as a resident alien
KayCee Stroh, who plays pop-and-lock girl Martha in the American High School Musical television movie series, says she is engaged to be married. Stroh, 23, announced her engagement to production company owner Ben Higginson, People Magazine reported Sunday, after her 24-year-old beau proposed to her at a romantic outlook commanding a view of Salt Lake City, where High School Musical 3 is under
Organizers of the Movement 08 techno music festival in Detroit said they were on pace Sunday to break an attendance record in the wake an appearance by Moby. Movement 08, in its fourth year as a ticketed event, drew nearly 22,000 people Saturday to its mixture of local youth-oriented techno, house and hip-hop music, highlighted by a performance from techno superstar Moby, the Detroit Free Press