Kirk Thompson lost a leg, but found his niche. His meteoric rise to become a top-rate mechanic in St Thomas is nothing short of miraculous, especially as he was never formally taught the complex skills needed to repair motor vehicles...

Thanks to the Citizens Security for Justice Programme (CSJP), 28 women from inner-city communities in the Corporate Area can now look towards a brighter future. The women were all successful in passing level one of the programme...

Members of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday were stunned after being told by an executive of the Tax Administration Services Department (TASD) that an employee worked 22 hours each day, consecutively for nearly two weeks...

Despite United States media reports that a threat originating from a Jamaican cellphone was responsible for the lockdown of a community in Millvale, Pennsylvania, local authorities said yesterday they were unaware of the incident...

Career diplomat and former ambassador to the Republic of Cuba, Elinor Sherlock, has been appointed chief of state protocol in the Office of the Prime Minister. Ambassador Sherlock has been mandated to coordinate all areas of protocol in the government...

Private sector lender Kotak Mahindra Bank on Wednesday said Anand Mahindra has ceased to be a promoter of the bank but will continue to be associated with the lender as a non-executive director.

British telecom major Vodafone's former chief executive Arun Sarin received 500,000 pounds (Rs 3.87 crore) to relocate to the US following his departure from the company.

The sensitive index of the Bombay Stock Exchange regained the 15,000 level in morning trade on Wednesday, after a gap of nine months, on increased capital inflow by funds after a positive infrastructure data for April fuelled hopes of an

Faced with slump in demand in key markets such as the US and Europe, India's exports plunged by 30 per cent in May as per the quick estimates, given by commerce secretary G K Pillai. The final figures will be

Announcing measures to tackle the impact of the global recession in his country, South African President Jacob Zuma pledged on Wednesday to create 500,000 jobs by the end of this year. Acknowledging that the economic crisis had hit the nation

In her book The Big Necessity, British writer Rose George takes a long, hard look at our inefficient and environmentally unsustainable methods of disposing of human waste. Inadequate sanitation remains the world's No. 1 health risk, and kills more people

Feature film director Chris Eyre has been giving a voice to contemporary Native American people ever since his 1998 indie hit Smoke Signals. Director Ric Burns has built his career on documentary films about innovators like Andy Warhol and Ansel

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is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You With the Bill). A frequent writer on economic justice issues, his in the explains just how the

David Corn is Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones. Kevin Drum is a political blogger based in California. Together, they cover national news and politics from coast to coast. Multimedia Editor Laura McClure spoke with Corn and Drum about Obama's

is a 10-man a cappella group. They first sang together over a decade ago at the University of Indiana. Recently, the group posted a popular video of themselves on YouTube, and they got an unexpected offer—a music deal with Atlantic

Meet Dave Chameides, a 39-year-old father of two and Hollywood cameraman whose work includes Donnie Darko, Will and Grace, and The West Wing. Since January, Chameides has not thrown away any of his trash—he has cataloged and stored all of

The Rs 240-crore worth Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying (HATSOFF) will become a reality in Bangalore by 2010.