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Gaddafi's office destroyed in air strike: official
A Libyan official accompanying journalists at Gaddafi's compound said 45 people were wounded, 15 seriously, in the bombing. He added that he did not know whether there were victims under the rubble.
"It was an attempt to assassinate Colonel Gaddafi," he affirmed.
Saif al-Islam, Gaddafi's son, described the bombing as
Sony eyes PlayStation Network revival
Disruption of service at the PlayStation Network began late Wednesday and had some suspecting that hackers followed through on a threat of vengeance for Sony's legal action against peers that crack PS3 software defences.
The Japanese consumer electronics giant was working to figure out the cause of the Network outage, Sony spokesman Patrick Seybold said in a blog post with the latest update on the situation.
"We wanted to alert you that it may be a full day or two before we're able to get the service completely back up and running,"
BoJ chief sees Japan economy shrinking in H1
"We are now expecting production and GDP will decline in the first quarter and the second quarter," Shirakawa said in an interview with the paper on Friday.
He said stalled production was the "heart of the problem" facing the Japanese economy in the aftermath of the monster March 11 quake and tsunami disaster which has left 26,455
GE: Khaw Boon Wan launches S$500m renewal plan for Sembawang GRC
The renewal plan is set to cost about S$500 million and 5,500 new housing units will also be built.
There will also be various upgrading programmes for selected areas which will include more cycling paths, childcare centres and nursing homes.
During the launch, Mr Khaw also responded to complaints by the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) that he is "mixing religion with
George Osborne's
Cabinet ministers have become embroiled in an extraordinary row over electoral reform amid claims that the campaign against the alternative vote is "poisoning" British politics and hiding the sources of its funding.
In a dramatic break from ministerial etiquette, Chris Huhne, the energy secretary, who backs AV, has written to Tory chairman Baroness Warsi – a cabinet colleague and patron of the No-to-AV campaign – demanding that she "comes clean" over the source of its funding and stops the "scares and smears"
Ministers admit family debt burden is set to soar
Families will be hit by a spiralling debt crisis over the next four years that will see average British households plunge further into the red as the government austerity programme bites, official figures reveal.
The Office for Budget Responsibility has raised its prediction of total household debt in 2015 by a staggering £303bn since late last year, in the belief that families and individuals will respond to straitened times by extra borrowing. Average household debt based on the OBR
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