Being a wife is hard enough. Try also being a first lady. How do you balance your ambitions with the high-visibility role you are thrust into? How do you act as an advocate, often with a small budget, no experience and little respect? And how do you make sure your husband, now the leader of a nation, knows you’re still the boss? Read full article > >

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Rand African First Ladies Initiative fosters leadership among political wives

David Cameron is understood to have apologised to Tory MP Nadine Dorries for his reply when she voiced “frustration” in the Commons at Lib Dem influence and told him to show Nick Clegg “who’s the boss”.

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PM sorry to ‘frustrated’ Dorries

TAMURA, JAPAN — When the boss of Tokyo Electric Power Co. checked into a Tokyo hospital last week with high blood pressure, he didn’t get any sympathy from Tomishige Maruzoi.

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In Japan, evacuees direct anger at nuclear-plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Co.

Allegations of violence against women failed to get Charlie Sheen off the air, but insulting his boss has.

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The Media Equation: Insulting Chuck Lorre, Not Abuse, Gets Sheen Sidelined

One more for Hollywood’s baby boom: Actress Alyssa Milano, former star of Who’s the Boss?, Charmed, and the new movie Hall Pass, is pregnant with her first child. Milano, 38, tweeted Tuesday she and husband David Bugliari “couldn’t be happier” after…

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Alyssa Milano Pregnant

The stresses of the campaign trail can drive a candidate to act strangely, but senior staffers of U.S. Rep. David Wu (D-OR) say that in the days before the November election their boss’ behavior was so alarming they demanded he enter a hospital for…

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Congressman Urged to Seek Psych Help

It’s a win for oversharers everywhere: The National Labor Relations Board has settled a complaint with a Connecticut ambulance company that fired an employee for badmouthing her boss on Facebook. The company agreed to revise its rules to acknowledge…

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Facebook Gossip Not a Firing Offense

A janitor fatally shot his boss, the school principal, at the Louisiana Schnell Elementary School in Sacramento Wednesday morning. Police said Sam LaCara, 50, died from a single gunshot wound to the torso. The suspected shooter, John Luebbers, was…

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CA Janitor Fatally Shoots Principal

Would bankers get big payouts if Aristotle was the boss?

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US President Barack Obama is to name Jeffrey Immelt, the boss of General Electric, as head of a new economic advisory panel.

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GE boss to head new economy panel

How do you explain writing this conference off to your boss? The Catholic church recently held a conference for exorcism training, part of the church’s increased battle against demonic spirits. The reason for the training? Demonic possession, or at…

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Catholic Church Training More Exorcists

A nanny is charged with attempting to poison the boss of the multi-million pound Ann Summers empire by lacing her food with screen wash.

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Nanny faces poison attempt charge

A Manhattan judge on Tuesday revoked the $5 million bail for Annette Bongiorno, Bernie Madoff’s trusted secretary who is accused of pocketing $14.5 million in her boss’s massive Ponzi scheme. Federal judge Laura Taylor Swain said Bongiorno has an…

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Judge Revokes Madoff Secretary’s Bail

The Welsh FA are to approach Sheffield United in a bid to interview their boss Gary Speed for the vacant Welsh managerial position.

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Speed targeted for Wales top job

The UK’s banking sector is “enormously competitive” and banks do not need breaking up, says the boss of Lloyds Banking Group.

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Lloyds bank rejects break-up talk