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First-time parents Catherine and Samuel Simmons lost their home six months ago after he lost his job as a limo driver.

The civil servant at the centre of the Home Office leak inquiry says he has been 'dumped' by the Conservative party, even though Tory frontbencher Damian Green promised him a job in return for handing over sensitive Whitehall documents. Christopher Galley was arrested and lost his Home Office position after leaking documents to Green, the shadow immigration minister. He says Green promised to look after him 'if things went wrong'.Last night a Conservative source said Green did 'emphatically not' offer Galley a job. 'It is just not true.' Galley and Green both faced a five-month Scotland Yard investigation, reportedly costing £5m, before they were cleared. Galley, 26, was sacked last month from the civil service after a disciplinary hearing. The mole, who says he is still active in his local branch of the Conservative party, claims Green reneged on a deal. This is disputed by the MP for Ashford. 'Green and his team said that if something did go wrong they would look after me,' said Gall

Joe Blanton shrugged several times while trying to explain today's loss. After lasting eight innings but allowing six runs, and raising the rotation's earned run average to 6.47, the pitcher had few answers.

CarlosTevez believes Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has lost faith in him.

TAX loopholes benefitting rich executives to the tune of nearly 900 million dollars will be closed in Tuesday's federal budget.

Hockey legend Guy Lafleur may be stripped of his status as a member of the Order of Quebec after he was found guilty last week of giving contradictory evidence at his son's bail hearing in 2007.

German state bank WestLB will say in a few days that it posted a three-digit million euro net profit in January-March, its best-ever first-quarter, Chief Executive Heinz Hilgert told a German weekly magazine.

German travel company TUI is keeping to its plan to provide three vessels for TUI Cruises by 2012, weekly WirtschaftsWoche said, citing TUI Cruises head Richard Vogel.

There were some voices of optimism about the economy this week. The reason? Only 539,000 jobs were lost in April and 10 of the nation's largest banks need to raise only $75 billion in capital. That's supposed to be encouraging? Well, the stock market liked it; the Standard and Poor's 500 index was up about 6 percent for the week. Are these really signs that the economy could be turning around?

The NBA lost one of its coaching giants Saturday with the passing of Chuck Daly, the first coach to win an NBA title and lead the U.S. to a gold medal in the olympics. Daly was 78 and had been battling pancreatic cancer since Feb. 9.