The White House, eager to demonstrate that it’s serious about cutting federal spending, is adopting a tactic frequently used by penny-pinching shoppers: buying in bulk. Starting this week, several federal agencies and departments will pool their purchases of office printers, copiers and scanners in hopes of collectively saving $600 million in the next four years, administration officials said late Friday. Read full article > >

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To save money, federal agencies to start buying in bulk

After four years since his last movie, Chris Tucker is starting a comedy tour and planning some films. Where’s he been? “I’ve been here,” he says, “I’ve been living.”

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Back Again, Whether or Not He Was Away

Two men from Cheshire have been jailed for four years each for using Facebook to incite disorder during riots in England last week.

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Two men are jailed for four years each for using Facebook to incite disorder during riots in England last week.

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Facebook riot posts pair jailed

Scottish house prices are now almost identical to the price levels of four years ago, according to Lloyds TSB Scotland

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Scots house prices at 2007 levels

The Health and Safety Executive has taken action against an animal health laboratory at the centre of a foot and mouth outbreak four years ago.

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‘Safety incidents’ at animal lab

Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney has got engaged to his girlfriend of four years, New York businesswoman Nancy Shevell, his publicist says.

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Sir Paul McCartney to marry for third time

It has beennearly four years since the incident that made Andrew Meyer a YouTube and media sensation. Even so, it’s not easy for the 24-year-old to watch the video of what happened to him at a University of Florida student forum with Sen. John Kerry. “I don’t go out of my way to watch it, but it comes up sometimes,” Meyer says. “Every time I see it, it’s still painful. People talk about the Taser as if it were nothing. Maybe some people have been tased, and they didn’t feel it. When I felt it, it was excruciating.” Read full article > >

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Whatever Happened To … the college kid who got tased by police at a Kerry forum?

The Northern Ireland Executive budget for the next four years is passed by the Assembly.

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Stormont Executive budget passed

Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who disappeared in Iran four years ago, is alive, according to the US State Department.

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Missing ex-FBI agent ‘is alive’

Future Parliaments should be fixed in length at four years rather than the five proposed by the government, Labour has said.

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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will not stand in the next presidential election due in four years, a ruling party official says.

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Bashir ‘won’t seek re-election’

Belarus dissident Vasily Parfenkov is jailed for four years for a protest against the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko.

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Belarus election protester jailed

The sun has produced its largest flare in four years, observers say, prompting warnings of potential interference with electrical power grids and communications on Earth.

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The Sun has unleashed its strongest flare in four years, observers say.

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Sun unleashes huge solar flare