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Tony Blair's memoirs, based on his time as the prime minister, break sales records, booksellers say. ...more.

Zenit St. Petersburg beat Lokomotiv Moskva in Moscow by 3-0, confirming the leadership of the Russian Premier League. It was however the last game of Yuri Semin in charge of the Moscow team. ...more.

It has long been said that any political coalition large enough to aspire to majority status is an organization of factions, conflict and contradictions. That description defines the Republican Party today as it looks toward the November elections and beyond. ...more.

Fossils of a new type of dinosaur, which looks like a beefy version of the predatory Velociraptor, have been unearthed in Romania. ...more.

Zenit St. Petersburg beat Lokomotiv Moskva in Moscow by 3-0, confirming the leadership of the Russian Premier League. It was however the last game of Yuri Semin in charge of the Moscow team. ...more.

It has long been said that any political coalition large enough to aspire to majority status is an organization of factions, conflict and contradictions. That description defines the Republican Party today as it looks toward the November elections and beyond. Republican - United States - Politics - Parties - GOP ...more.

A special documentary looks back at the life of Alex Higgins ...more.

Lap-dance club owner Peter Stringfellow and university researcher Dr Belinda Brooks-Gordon discuss the findings of university research which reveals that one in four lap-dancers has a degree. ...more.

The future of the UK's largest dry ski slope looks more assured after a rescue package to save it is agreed. ...more.

Tommy Longo has had a rough year: both hips, a femur and a knee replaced. When he hobbles out of his truck to see how the new City Hall construction is going, he looks with every step like he just needs to sit down. His face is covered with perspiration in the afternoon heat, and he always seems to be headed to the next appointment. You might think the mayor of a town that disappeared would have little to do, and yet Longo seems to never stop. "We lost our residential structures, lost our commercial structures, lost our governmental structures," he says. "Every city building was gone. Our town was obliterated. We were wiped off the face of the earth." For all the attention focused on New Orleans each time the anniversary of Katrina rolls around, it would be easy to forget that the epicenter of the storm was over on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. And no town was ...more.