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Madonna and British film director Guy Ritchie have announced they will end their marriage after seven and a half years together, according to a statement released Wednesday afternoon by the pop star's spokeswoman...
Though Britain is not part of the group that uses the euro, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown revealed a further pledge of $63 billion to partially nationalize the country's three biggest banks - a follow-through of his earlier approach that inspired the euro-zone plan. Ironically, Brown's quickness to act and sound tactics imbued the leader of Europe's most economically liberal and U.S.-inspired economy with the moral authority to urge his peers toward reform and greater regulation of their capitalist systems. On Tuesday Brown called for new international rules on trade, saying, "We must now create...
...Instead, the rebels released everyone except for Howes and Houn. Both men were killed a few days later on the orders of the ruthless Khmer Rouge commander Ta Mok. It took two years for British detectives to positively confirm that Howes had been executed and his body cremated on a makeshift pyre of wood and gasoline...
Another sad chapter in Cambodia's history of violence came to a close on Tuesday with the sentencing of four former Khmer Rouge rebels for the abduction and murder of British mine clearance expert Christopher Howes and his Cambodian interpreter, Houn Hourth...
...package will also allow national governments to buy preferred shares through capital injections to save swamped banks from failing, and allowing those in less perilous condition to fully sanitize their finances and return to normal operation. As such, the euro group plan was largely inspired by the rescue package British Prime Minister Gordon Brown rolled out the previous week, which matched $438 billion loan guarantees with up to $88 billion in capital investments to save troubled banks from failure. On Monday, the U.K. government said it would spend up to $63 billion in additional funds to take substantial stakes...