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The husband of a Labour MP has been paid by four MPs in the party for personal accountancy advice, at taxpayers' expense, it was claimed in the Daily Telegraph.Three ministers, John Healey, ­Gillian Merron and Jim Knight, and one former minister, Angela Smith, all employed tax adviser Dennis Bates - who is married to the Sheffield Heeley MP Meg Munn.The four MPs have issued a statement ­saying that Bates, as a former employee of the Inland Revenue, was 'eminently qualified' to give them tax advice.Yesterday it was revealed that a group of eight senior cabinet ministers claimed about £11,000 of public money to help them complete their tax returns.It emerged that the accountancy bill of the chancellor, Alistair Darling, had come to £1,400 over two years, while transport secretary Geoff Hoon's claims came to almost £3,000.A Labour party aide insisted that the claims were legitimate and laid down in the green book, which governs MPs' expenses, specifically stating that claims for accountan

Samsung's new low-end t349 will soon be landing on T-Mobile. It'll be available in a silver / green color combo at a laughable price of $14.99 on contract. Some of its features include a 20-key panel, 1.3Mpix camera, Stereo Bluetooth, microSD expansion, and no 3G support...... [These are short news! Click for details]

Mike writes 'Swiss auto company Green GT recently released the first details on a svelte all-electric supercar that is being heralded as the most powerful electric race car ever built. Designed with the 2011 Le Mans race in mind, the Twenty-4 will boast a sleek carbon fiber chassis and twin 100-kw electric motors totaling 400 hp — enough to push the vehicle from 0-60 mph in 4 seconds flat, and to a top speed of 171 mph. GreenGT's head engineer Christophe Schwartz has stated that 'The GreenGT Twenty-4 design study could become our 2011 Le Mans Prototype electric racer, or it could even become an electric road-going supercar. There is a possibility to do both!'' of this story at Slashdot.

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- Gunmen detonated a car bomb near police and intelligence agency offices in Lahore on Wednesday, killing about 30 people and wounding more than 100 in one of Pakistan's deadliest attacks this year, officials said....

For most travelers, renting a car is simple. But for those with complex itineraries, car rentals pose a whole world of problems. Ed Perkins is here to help.

Hugh Pickens writes 'BBC reports that a team of Japanese scientists has integrated a new gene for green fluorescent protein into the common marmoset, causing them to glow green under ultraviolet light, creating second-generation, glow-in-the-dark monkeys in what could be a powerful new tool in human disease research. Though primates modified to generate a glowing protein have been created before, these are the first to keep the change in their bloodlines. If a fluorescent protein gene can be introduced into the monkey genome and passed onto future generations, other genes could be too opening up a world of possibilities for medical research, such as the generation of specific monkey colonies containing genetic defects that mirror human diseases aiding efforts to cure such diseases as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. However many people are likely to find the routine use of monkeys in medical research far less acceptable than that of rodents, drawing action from animal rights activi

When a Brown University adviser told Shane Reil, who expected to go to community college, he was getting a free ride, he ran out to the car to tell his mother. 'She was crying so much ... she couldn't drive,'' he said. Thanks to the generosity of a Brown dropout who turned Jagermeister and other alcohol brands into a fortune, 49 students graduated Sunday with an education worth $180,000 each.

Imperial Oil said Monday that its board of directors has approved the go-ahead of the first phase of the Kearl oilsands project.

Car commuters will get to work 12 minutes quicker on average this week as they will not have to compete with the school run it has been disclosed.

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