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The State government will provide an additional $500,000 towards a heroin treatment clinic in Perth.

The chief privacy officer for Facebook and former White House staffer under clinton seeks to be the attorney general of California.

Those rumours about Apple brewing a cheaper, netbook-style Mac just won't go away. AppleInsider reports again that Apple is 'tailoring changes to a pair of its offerings,' partly in retaliation for a Microsoft ad campaign that paints Macs as expensive PCs (did that ever bother Apple before?) and partly make sure it continues to grow market share despite the downturn. (Checkout this 1983 Apple marketing strategy that describes that: 'Macintosh cannot and will not be 'all things to all people'.')A bigger challenge might also be the rise of the netbook - but then any prospect that Apple might lower itself (or its prices) to attract a very different market and ruled out by chief operating officer Tim Cook only last week during Apple's financial results.'When I look at netbooks, I see cramped keyboards, terrible software, junky hardware, very small screens. It's just not a good consumer experience and not something we would put the Mac brand on. It's a segment we would not choose to play in

JERUSALEM - Salamo Arouch, a Jewish boxer who survived the Auschwitz death camp by fighting exhibition bouts for Nazi officers and inspired a hollywood movie about his life, has died in israel, the Ha...

Freddie Mac is paying out more than $700,000 to the family of David Kellermann, the mortgage finance company's former acting chief financial officer who died last week in an apparent suicide, the company disclosed.

On March 27, DEBKA-Net-Weekly 390 revealed exclusively Barack Obama's plans 'to transform the Khomeinist Islamic republic's clenched fist against America into a helping hand by formally asking Tehran to permit the passage to Afghanistan of fresh US troops, weapons and supplies across Iranian territory.'In its follow-up of April 3, our military sources reported a detailed plan had been put before the president, cleared in back-door talks between US and Iranian officers. To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly click HERE .

A top Mexican medical officer accused the World health Organization of being slow to respond to the country's warning about a health crisis that turned into a global swine flu scare. The WHO disputed the claim.

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A top Mexican medical officer accused the World health Organization of responding too slowly to early signs of the swine flu scare. The world agency said it was Mexico that failed to respond to its request to alert other nations to the first hints of the outbreak....

AP - Freddie Mac is paying out more than $700,000 to the family of David Kellermann, the mortgage finance companys former acting chief financial officer who died last week in an apparent suicide, the company disclosed Thursday.

The son of Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett is getting a chance at a clean slate.