A large wild fire on the island of Colonsay in the Inner Hebrides has been brought under control.

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Large wild fire on island put out

The new federal consumer watchdog agency is considering drafting new rules governing transparency and safety in the rapidly growing market for prepaid cards . Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray said the cards have fewer regulatory protections than bank accounts and debit cards. The agency said it will focus rule-making on three key areas: disclosure of fees and terms, liability for unauthorized transactions and niche product features, such as overdrawing an account. The agency is holding a field hearing on the cards Wednesday in North Carolina. Read full article > >

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Two warplanes are scrambled to escort a US Airways transatlantic flight diverted because of a passenger’s suspicious behaviour.

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Security scare diverts US plane

Nearly 6,000 people made bogus compensation claims for payment protection insurance mis-selling to the Financial Ombudsman last year, as total complaints rose.

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Bogus PPI complaints ‘hit 6,000′

An independent panel says cardiac services at Glasgow’s Sick Children’s Hospital “may be unsafe if critical staffing problems are not addressed”.

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Exhaustive as it was, the American Master’s documentary “ Johnny Carson: King of Late Night ” on PBS Monday left out one of Carson’s favorite guests. She was my great-grandmother, Mildred Holt. I suppose it’s a forgivable oversight. The stooped, frail-looking woman in a powder-blue dress was neither a celebrity nor a newsmaker when she appeared on “The Tonight Show” in August 1987 . She was just a little old lady from a tiny town in Kansas—and by old, I mean historic. She was 105 at the time. But she had all her marbles, as well as a fierce, straight-shooting wit, and that was enough for Carson. Read full article > >

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Baseball guarantees bad days even for its greats, the afternoons when fastballs zip six inches too high, when rain makes the ball hard to grip, when popups fall to the turf and when, in some odd cases, even ointment becomes an enemy . Stephen Strasburg had a bad day Tuesday afternoon, the kind of day that reminds you the game sometimes makes even its most talented players miserable. Read full article > >

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Nationals vs. Padres: A bad day for Stephen Strasburg as Washington falls, 6-1

Looking for something to do in Kansas on a sunny Saturday last spring, I chose darkness, and drove to Hutchinson (pop. 42,000) to take a tour of the subterranean salt mines at the edge of town. At a museum, you buy a ticket and ride a large, clanky freight elevator 650 feet underground, into pitch black. Read full article > >

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PBS’s ‘King of Late Night’: Johnny Carson, deeper down

No unsafe fracking contamination.

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EPA: Water Safe in PA Town

Various failings land folks in trouble in classical mythology. Greed turns Midas’s world into a golden prison. Willfulness earns Phaeton a fiery comeuppance. Arrogance leads Erysichthon to chop down a sacred tree, prompting the goddess Ceres to curse him with insatiable hunger. Read full article > >

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‘Metamorphoses’ is good when it doesn’t turn hammy

Various failings land folks in trouble in classical mythology. Greed turns Midas’s world into a golden prison. Willfulness earns Phaeton a fiery comeuppance. Arrogance leads Erysichthon to chop down a sacred tree, prompting the goddess Ceres to curse him with insatiable hunger. Read full article > >

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‘Metamorphoses’ is good when it doesn’t turn hammy

NBC has added another member in the pantheon of TV series about dysfunctional Washington. The network — which on Monday will officially unveil its prime-time plans for next season, kicking off an orgy of new-sked unveiling known as the Broadcast Networks’ Upfront Week — has ordered a comedy called “1600 Penn.” The show, about a dysfunctional first family, is exec-produced by, among others, former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett. Read full article > >

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NBC to unveil ‘1600 Penn,’ a new Washington comedy

The office of Libyan PM Abdurrahim al-Keib is attacked by ex-rebels demanding compensation promised by the government, leaving at least one guard dead.

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Libya PM office suffers gun attack

Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of the nation’s largest spy agency and its cyberwarfare command, is urging adoption of legislation to require companies providing critical services such as power and transportation to fortify their computer networks against cyber attacks. Read full article > >

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RBS confirms it is to repay £163bn of emergency loans, reports a three month loss of £1.4bn and sets aside another £125m for PPI compensation.

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RBS confirms state loan repayment