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Lawyers for Tomo Stephens are seeking class-action status for the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas.

Washington - US President Barack Obama took a hands-on approach to education reform on Friday, challenging schools across the country to improve their teaching standards if they wanted to get their hands on more than 4 billion dollars in federal fund...

Just three months after hiring him as chief financial officer, Solar Power Partners Inc. has said former PG&E chief financial officer Robert Powell is now the company's CEO. Alexander von Welczeck, who founded the company in January of 2007 with partner Craig Hunt, and served as its President and CEO, will continue on with Solar Power Partners as chief strategy officer. Von Welczeck said the move to promote Powell was "part of original plan and as a result of his tremendous performance, the transition was made." Solar Power Partners, based in Mill Valley, develops, owns and operates solar projects, including San Francisco's largest completed system, a 385-kilowatt system on four warehouse buildings in the Bayview/Hunters Point neighborhood. The company also said its funds extend to wind and biomass projects. The company has completed 37 projects totaling 13 megawatts so far. "This is great news for the solar industry and SPP and I personally feel very comfortable," von Welceck said

CITY minister Lord Myners' role in the controversial pension granted to former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Sir Fred Goodwin at the height of the banking crisis was defended by the Government today.

Darren Hayes, the former singer of Savage Garden, has complained about the mainstream media 'dumbing down' homosexuality.He told Gay Times: 'I have a whole issue about mainstream pop and certainly television culture, and how damaging that is in terms of dumbing down being gay

'Anyone can deliver a short but powerful message to the world about the most important issue of the day,' says the Tribe presenterThe climate crisis that's facing all of us means that it's time for all hands on deck. For too long we've been bombarded with short films in the form of adverts that tell us it's cool to consume; cool to replace barely worn out goods with newer ones; cool to travel as far and as fast as possible. Personally, I think it's time to fight back; time to fight fire with fire; time to counter the messages that infinite growth and consumption are good using the same weapon with which they've been delivered to us. Film.That is why One minute to save the world is being launched. The idea behind it is to enable anyone, anywhere, to deliver a short but powerful message to the world on the most important issue of our day - climate change. The winning films will be sent around the world in November as an online campaign to raise awareness of the Copenhagen Climate Confere

Celebrity: Molly Ringwald First up is former teen queen Molly Ringwald.  The star of The Secret Life of the American Teenager, along with husband Panio Gianopolous welcomed fraternal twins Adele Georgiana and Roman Stylianos last July 10th.   Both entered the world through natural delivery, and joins 5 1/2 yr. older sis Mathilda Ereni. Celebrity: Karolina Kurkova Expecting ...

Since the reappointment of John Jeremie as Attorney General , three major issues of public interest have come into sharp focus: the first being whether the Director of Public Prosecutions is independent of the AG; the second, whether the AG sought to pressure the former DPP Geoffrey Henderson to prosecute people for political purposes; thirdly, ...