There will be no sackcloth and ashes for the management of struggling insurer Fortis, who agreed to lucrative pay packages despite a plummeting share price and a shareholders' revolt over the handling of the business through the credit crunch. Fortis ...
19 Nov 2008
Bangkok, Thailand (BANG) - Thailand's Princess Galyani Vadhana's ashes will be taken to their final resting place Wednesday. The royal, who died aged 84 in January, has been remembered with three days of national mourning which will culminate with a ...
19 Nov 2008
The ashes of Mama Afrika, who passed away after a performance in Italy last week, are to be scattered at the Cape Point at midday today. It had been her wish to be cremated and have her ashes scattered at sea. Spokesperson for the Makeba family ...
19 Nov 2008
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A bonfire built by a group of young adults caused a weekend wildfire in Santa Barbara that destroyed 210 homes, including multimillion-dollar mansions, and injured more than two dozen people, authorities said yesterday. An ...
19 Nov 2008
Sydney: Australian opener Mathew Hayden who will be playing his 99th Test on Thursday, at the Gabba against New Zealand , has said that the match would likely provide him answers whether he would be around for his fifth Ashes tour next year. Hayden ...
19 Nov 2008
Associated Press Writer= HANGZHOU, China (AP) - He was born in China and wanted to be buried in China. For decades, politics made that impossible. But Chinese and American officials watched the interment Monday of the ashes of John Leighton Stuart ...
19 Nov 2008
SOUTH Africa have reprised painful memories of the 2005 Ashes by recruiting former England coach Duncan Fletcher as a consultant for the Proteas' forthcoming tour of Australia.
19 Nov 2008
There will be no sackcloth and ashes for the management of struggling insurer Fortis, who agreed to lucrative pay packages despite a plummeting share price and a shareholders' revolt over the handling of the business through the credit crunch.
19 Nov 2008
The ashes of Mama Afrika, who passed away after a performance in Italy last week, are to be scattered at the Cape Point at midday today.
19 Nov 2008
LOS ANGELES - People burned out of a mobile home park returned to the ashes yesterday on a windless day that helped crews mop up wildfires that damaged or destroyed nearly 1,000 homes.
19 Nov 2008
The ashes of six ex-servicemen have been scattered over the sea above the wreckage of HMAS Sydney.
19 Nov 2008
The ashes of Mama Afrika, who passed away after a performance in Italy recently, are to be scattered in the ocean near Cape Point.
19 Nov 2008
Fashion, culture, books, crossword puzzles, food and dining from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
19 Nov 2008
Ashes To Ashes: An Afternoon In 1982. THE sun burst out from behind rain clouds when I arrived at the Ashes To Ashes set this afternoon. Philip Glenister (Gene Hunt) and Keeley Hawes (Alex Drake) were filming today. ...
18 Nov 2008
From the Ashes Little Journalism Projects Grow. I was at the Poynter Institute last week for a conference on “Who Will Pay for the News?“. I loved all the little projects starting everywhere, including my Rep J concept. ...
18 Nov 2008
Daily blogs from the experts at BBC Gardeners' World.
18 Nov 2008
'Ashes Are Burning' is the 2nd album of these Renaissance and 4th album with Renaissance monicker. Although not perfect 'Ashes Are Burning' is a great album. Only songs are aged in good manner: 'Can You Understand', 'Carpet Of The Sun' ...
18 Nov 2008
I read a really good report tonight on the train home, ‘From the ashes of the crash - 20 first steps from new economics to rebuild a better economy.’ It’s from the New Economics Foundation (nef), and you can download it here. ...
17 Nov 2008