November 30, 2008
A woman who claims she had a seven-year affair with celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has detailed their alleged trysts in a British newspaper.
Sarah Symonds – author of the book Having An Affair? A Handbook for the Other Woman – told tabloid News of the World that Ramsay had confided in her that he had two other mistresses.
November 30, 2008
Barack Obama is set to formally nominate his ex-rival, Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state and roll out the national security team he will charge with defusing multiple foreign crises.
The president-elect is also expected on Monday to publicly say he has asked President George W Bush’s defence secretary, Robert Gates, to stay on at the Pentagon and to name former marine general James Jones as his national security adviser.
November 30, 2008
An actor who played one of the London suicide bombers in a television documentary escaped death at the hands of real life terrorists in the Mumbai massacre before being detained as a suspect by police.
Actor Joey Jeetun, 31, who played suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer in a British television documentary 7/7: Attack on London, was in Cafe Leopold, the popular expat and tourist haunt near Mumbai’s landmark Taj Mahal Hotel when attackers stormed both venues and other key targets on Wednesday.
November 29, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday promised “a new beginning” when he takes over the White House in January and urged Americans to work together to overcome a deepening economic crisis.
“This weekend – with one heart, and one voice, the American people can give thanks that a new and brighter day is yet to come,” Obama said in the weekly Democratic radio address, usually delivered Saturday but released early for the Thanksgiving holiday.
November 28, 2008
An Australian restaurateur left holding a hefty unpaid bill when five young diners bolted used the popular social network website Facebook to track them down – and they got their just desserts.
November 26, 2008
A thief caught on camera stealing expensive equipment picked the wrong target if he wanted to keep a low profile: a billboard company that has plastered his image around New Zealand’s largest city seeking his capture.
The unidentified thief was photographed by a suspicious onlooker as he uncoupled 15 electrical transformers used to boost the lighting on a billboard in Auckland.
The photographer knew the pillaged sign belonged to Mark Venter, who runs OTW Advertising, one of New Zealand’s oldest billboard companies.
So when the photographer offered pictures of the thief in action it cost Venter nothing to mount the images on four city billboards with the inscription: “Who is this Thief? Reward $500.”
The photo of “the ratbag” was “too good an opportunity to let go”, Venter said. “We’ve all had stuff stolen … but usually they don’t leave this calling card.”
He said he had received more than 100 calls since the photograph was posted six days ago, though most were calls supporting his campaign rather than offering information on the crime.
Police sergeant Roy Simpson said several calls to police and to Venter had named the same man as the possible thief, and he was now being sought by police.
Venter noted the thief had had one piece of good luck: If he had tried stealing the transformers at night “when they have 50,000 volts going through them – he’d be dead”.
AP
November 26, 2008
Barack Obama promised change, galvanizing many younger voters who believed America could become a fairer country and end its involvement in Iraq.
As a presidential candidate, Obama had promised a new vision of politics. A politics not divided along partisan lines, that would break with the old Washington ways where access to decision makers was corrupted by donations, lobbyists and a culture of insiders.
November 25, 2008
Canada’s largest airline is trying to figure out which obese and disabled passengers will be eligible for additional seats at no charge after the country’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the airlines.
The Canadian Transportation Agency issued an order last January requiring Air Canada and other domestic airlines to make additional seats free to disabled or obese passengers who need extra room.
November 24, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama on Monday nominated New York Federal Reserve president Timothy Geithner to serve as his Treasury secretary and oversee an ambitious plan to resuscitate the US economy.
Geithner, once confirmed by the Senate, will be joined in Obama’s economic team by former Treasury chief Larry Summers as chief White House economic advisor, the president-elect told a press conference.
November 23, 2008
A remarkable political union between two once bitter rivals looks set to be cemented after Hillary Clinton appeared ready to accept Barack Obama’s offer to be secretary of state.
The former first lady sent clear signals yesterday that she had decided to give up her Senate seat to become the face of US diplomacy abroad, The New York Times reported.
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