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...offices. PAD leaders claim Samak, whose People Power Party (PPP) won elections last December, is little more than a proxy for former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was himself booted out of office by a bloodless military coup in 2006. (Thaksin has been charged with corruption and fled to Britain earlier this summer, claiming he will not receive a fair trial back home.) Last week, Samak declared a state of emergency, giving the army the right to forcibly remove the protesters from his office compound. But the military, so far, has refused to evict the demonstrators...
...this week the Sunday Telegraph newspaper revealed that an independent police report - completed secretly in 2004 - has found that Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the British High Commission in Kenya had made mistakes and engaged in cover-ups in the investigation into Julie's murder...
...firm has designed shoes for free runners, and is even looking into sponsoring top athletes. Free running "needs to be treated like a sport," agrees Gabriel "Jaywalker" Nunez, the 25-year-old from Los Angeles whose flips and twists eventually earned him the inaugural title of world champion, beating Britain's Shieff into second. "Everyone trains like athletes." Ridiculousness, after all, doesn't come easy...
...Three years after achieving independence from Britain, Greek and Turkish communities clash...
...What They're Eating In Britain: The bite of food inflation has more Brits turning to cheap tins of grub. Sales of baked beans, a staple of postwar rationing years, have increased 12% in the past year--to a record $530 million. Across the pond, Americans are experiencing a similar canned-food trend: sales of Spam are up more than...