Iranian opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi are removed from their houses and taken to an undisclosed location, reports say.
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Iran ‘arrests opposition leaders’
Fifteen people were led to safety after a blaze hits four houses in Blaenau Gwent in the early hours of Monday.
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Homes evacuated after town blaze
A plague on both your houses, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says. “Democrats now, and Republicans then, spent more time and energy conducting partisan warfare than forging centrist solutions to our toughest economic problems,” he said in a…
Labour MP Paul Farrelly says he will not face disciplinary action for wrestling a man to the floor inside the Houses of Parliament.
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‘No action’ in MP wrestling case
Charlie Rangel stood, stony-faced, in the well of the House. His feet planted wide, his hands crossed over his fly, the 80-year-old lawmaker awaited the rebuke of his peers.
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Charlie Rangel’s censure, House’s disgrace
Urgent repairs to the Houses of Parliament will cost £69m over the next five years, peers have heard.
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Urgent repairs to Parliament ‘to cost £69m’
We found our dream house. We found it just 15 miles outside the District, in southern Prince George’s County. A stunning three-bedroom, two-bath contemporary on six acres of wooded land with a stream running through it, a huge deck and a swimming pool. A wall of windows brings the surrounding woo…
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Rejected for a mortgage because of a house’s shape
Labour MP Paul Farrelly has admitted he “wrestled” a man to the floor inside the Houses of Parliament.
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Labour MP admits House incident
The renowned British members-only club opens its doors to Miami surf and sun by John Ortved Despite sandy beaches and tropical influence, when it comes to social life, Miami isn’t known as the warmest of places. Inundated with velvet ropes, crowded clubs, big cars and bigger jewelry, the Florida metropolis recently received an attractive antidote with the arrival of the Soho Beach House . Situated just a short distance north of the South Beach strip on Miami Beach, Soho Beach House—complete with Cowshed Spa —hopes to bring the brand’s mix of exclusive intimacy to a scene weary of its anti-poseur atmosphere. Soho House has always been, first and foremost, about its clientele. The establishment itself is difficult to pigeonhole—it’s a members-only club, just like its fellow Houses in L.A., New York, London and Berlin ; it’s also a boutique hotel, providing 50 rooms to paying guests who get to act like members; it’s an accessible spa, offering anyone massages, blowouts and pedicures, using their exclusive Cowshed products; it’s a beach club, with beds and full service on its own strip of sand; and it’s a restaurant, Cecconi’s, offering pricey but well-prepared Venetian delicacies. The Beach House successfully blurs the boundaries between Miami old and new. With designer Martin Brudnizki (who redid London’s Club at The Ivy ), they’ve taken over the space formerly occupied by one of Miami’s great Art Deco hotels, The Sovereign, gutting the interiors and building a second tower, but leaving behind the lobby detailing and flooring, as well as its classic fa
A White House report to Congress shows how bleak the situation in Afghanistan truly is.
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The White House’s report on Af-Pak: Hold the optimism
