Telegraph
March 12, 2010

The once thriving industrial city has suffered a dramatic decline following the global economic crisis. According to Tim Prophit, a real estate agent, the crisis has led to a unprecedented portfolio of homes, but they are failing to sell.

Sky News
March 11, 2010

Youngsters at Grace Academy in Chelmsley Wood claim they returned from half-term to find staff had installed the cameras without notifying them or their parents. Some parents are furious at what they say is a “total invasion of privacy” and claim some pupils are so anxious about being watched they are refusing to use the facilities.

AFP
March 10, 2010

All schools across the busy midwestern US city of Minneapolis were put on lockdown early Wednesday after a vague threat was posted on two social networking sites, a spokeswoman said. The lockdown, which affected around 50 schools in the Minneapolis public school district, meant children were told to remain in their classrooms while access to outside visitors was strictly limited.

Christopher S. Rugaber
AP Economics
March 10, 2010

Unemployment rose in 30 states in January, the labor department said Wednesday, evidence that jobs remain scarce in most regions of the country. The data is somewhat better than December, when 43 states reported higher unemployment rates, but worse than November, when rates fell in most states.

London Evening Standard
March 10, 2010

Masked youths stoned police outside Greece’s parliament today in protest at cutbacks proposed to try to end the country’s debt crisis. Riot police responded with tear gas and baton charges as more than 7,000 demonstrators gathered in the centre of Athens.

Karen N. Peart
Yale University
March 10, 2010

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered that exposure during pregnancy to Bisphenol A (BPA), a common component of plastics, causes permanent abnormalities in the uterus of offspring, including alteration in their DNA.

BBC News
March 9, 2010

Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests. The survey – of more than 27,000 adults across 26 countries – found strong support for net access on both sides of the digital divide.

Brenda Branswell
The Gazette
March 8, 2010

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it is tracing where a potentially tainted food additive was distributed in Canada and what products it was used in. It’s also assessing whether those products pose a health risk, though the agency says on its website that the risks related to this contamination “are considered to be very low.”

Nichelle King
NBC News
March 7, 2010

Tiffany Luxinger worked at three Victoria’s Secret stores.  Now she’s exposing a shocking secret, “We would re-tag it and put it back on the sales floor.” And it gets worse. She says, “If a product comes back as returned it obviously has an odor to it.  We’ll put it on a hanger.  Hang it up to dry overnight, so the odor has time to come out of the product.  We’ll re-tag it the next day and put it back on the sales floor.”

ScienceDaily
March 6, 2010

Engineering researchers have crafted a flat surface that refuses to get wet. Water droplets skitter across it like ball bearings tossed on ice. The inspiration? Not wax. Not glass. Not even Teflon.