Auditors in Prince George’s County looking into more than $1 million in spending at the publicly owned Show Place Arena in Upper Marlboro said in a draft audit to top officials that they have identified numerous irregularities. The draft audit, examined by The Washington Post, raised questions about the arena’s operations and more than $200,000 in expenditures authorized by its top manager, William Chambers. Auditors have singled out Chambers for the use of his official car, payments to businesses and community groups, and pay they say he received for days he was not at work. Read full article > >

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Auditors look into spending at Show Place Arena in Prince George’s County

The Fukushima disaster provides no reason to restrict UK nuclear reactors or stop building new ones, the official nuclear regulator has concluded

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Go-ahead for UK nuclear programme

Kim Kardashian ’s two-part wedding spectacular will finally air this Sunday and Monday on E! , the official channel of the reality TV clan. Kardashian wed athlete Kris Humphries this August in an event surrounded by a media blitz so big it was blinding. So will there be anything left to see on “Kim’s Fairytale Wedding”? Read full article > >

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Doris Day becomes the oldest artist to score a UK Top 10 with an album of new material, according to the Official Charts Company.

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Doris Day, 87, makes UK chart history

Early Monday morning, Jack Layton, 61, Leader of the Official Opposition in Canada, passed away after losing his battle to cancer. His passing is an unequivocal tragedy in the Canadian political arena.

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Goodbye, Jack: Remembering Canada’s Beloved Public Servant

The first members of the public to see the official opening of Washington’s new $120 million memoria l to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. walked in quietly, smiling but “so slow it was like we were coming to see a body,” said Weldon Ferguson of the District. What they saw instead was stone and water, words and an iconic image on a picture-perfect summer day along the Tidal Basin. Some were weeping. Others were taking pictures of the statue and each other and giving high-fives, lending the unveiling of the memorial the feeling of one big block party. Read full article > >

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King memorial opens to the public today

Leading Egyptian blogger Asmaa Mahfouz is questioned by prosecutors for allegedly defaming the country’s military, the official Mena news agency reports.

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Frustration with rumours about her personal life are among the details revealed by the official release of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s e-mails.

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SANAA, Yemen — Attacks by militants and the Yemeni army in two restive provinces left dozens dead on Tuesday, while embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh was reported to be more seriously injured in last week’s palace attack than originally stated. A U.S. government official said Saleh, who left Yemen Sunday to seek medical care in Saudi Arabia, “sustained significant burn injuries and shrapnel wounds.” “His condition is serious, and it’s likely that it will take him a while to recover fully,” the official said. Read full article > >

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Yemen’s President Saleh reported in serious condition as deadly clashes continue

The list of people missing from Joplin, Missouri, dropped to 156 after 90 people that were unaccounted for were found alive, officials said Friday. Six people on the missing list were confirmed dead, bringing the official death toll to 132. The city…

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Joplin List of Missing Drops to 156

Here’s the Republican Party’s problem: The politicians know they can’t keep pushing the Ryan budget. In fact, some of them are now leaking that they knew they couldn’t push the Ryan budget from the beginning, and said so, loudly, at heated, closed-door meetings . But as Newt Gingrich learned, the base won’t let them abandon it, either. So they’re stuck with a plan they can’t pass, can’t sell, and can’t throw overboard. Jonathan Chait thinks the only answer is to layer a new plan on top of it. “The one way out,” he writes, “is to cut a grand deficit bargain with Obama.” Then the Ryan plan looks like the opening gambit in an ultimately successful bid for deficit reduction and Republicans can supplant it with a more popular proposal even as it remains the official Republican position. Read full article > >

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Amid the small water fountain, the picnic table and the trees, it might not have seemed possible that the space at 13th and C streets SE was just years earlier a parking lot with a dumpster and plagued by drainage problems. And it might have been hard to tell near the shaded pergola that the once-vacant area said much about a neighborhood where pricey homes sat steps away from a senior community and residents seldom spoke to one another. So it was telling on Friday that despite four years of unexpected costs, uncertainties and hard work, residents making last-minute preparations for the unveiling of the 13th and C Street Community Park and Garden were mostly concerned that the official ribbon-cutting went off without a hitch. Read full article > >

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A garden helps grow a community

The dimples on the Polara create a straighter and lower trajectory, but there’s a drawback: the ball does not conform to the official rules of golf.

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A Golf Ball That Won’t Slice Comes With a Catch: It’s Illegal

LONDON — Wills and Kate are heading west, off to California in July. Prince William and his wife, the former Kate Middleton, will be in the state for three days starting July 8 after their official tour of Canada, the prince’s office announced Thursday. The palace did not provide details of their itinerary. Read full article > >

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Palace says Prince William and Kate Middleton will travel to California in July

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will visit the US after their official overseas tour to Canada this summer.

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Royal couple to visit California