Up to 6,000 additional troops are urgently needed in Afghanistan and a failure to deploy them will only prolong the presence of Western forces in the country, a German NATO general said on Sunday.
An argument about the ownership of art worth over $500,000 led to the arrest of two women after they allegedly attempted to steal the artwork from a Chicago storage facility Friday, law enforcement authorities said.
A fishing boat belonging to Britain’s most decorated lifeboatman could be restored. Historians in Cromer, Norfolk, are trying to raise about £20,000 to renovate Henry Blogg’s hoveller, Q J and J . Mr Blogg, who died in 1954, aged 78, was a lifeboatman between 1894 and 1947 and received the George Cross and the British Empire Medal for his bravery.
More than 10,000 British soldiers are unfit for frontline duty as the pressure of supplying troops for years of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan takes its toll on the army, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
The pay of MPs could soon exceed £100,000 if their second homes allowance is replaced with a block grant. The Commons has drawn up three options for overhauling the expenses system through which MPs claimed large sums for new kitchens, furniture and even gardeners.
DES MOINES, Iowa - None of the tickets sold for the Powerball game Saturday night matched all six numbers drawn, but five tickets, including two sold in Arizona, win second-place jackpots of $200,000.
MPs could be handed an annual lump-sum allowance worth more than £20,000 to pay for their second homes, travel and other costs without having to provide receipts, under plans to be unveiled this week.
AUSTIN, Texas – Nurses are still very much in demand in the state of Texas with about 9,000 job openings per year forecasted to be available until 2014, according to Ruben Garcia, a Filipino-American manager in the Labor Market and Career Information Department of the Texas Workforce Commission.
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