Facebook took another step toward its goal of being a platform for developers Wednesday, by announcing that it will launch its own App Center, a single location for the platform’s many applications. The company also announced that it will begin supporting paid apps, a program that it is offering to developers in a beta test. (Right now, developers can have in-app payments on the network, but all applications have been free to access.) Read full article > >

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A demand for suspended payments apparently sparked the attack on the office of Prime Minister Abdel Rahim el-Keeb, who reportedly was not present at the time.

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Libyan Militiamen Attack Premier’s Office in Tripoli

A 24-year-old woman who says she is the prostitute at the center of a Secret Service scandal gave the most complete account yet of her alleged dispute over payment with an agent that led to revelations about nine Secret Service members bringing prostitutes to their rooms on a presidential business trip to Colombia. Read full article > >

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A 57-year-old officer has been arrested by police investigating corrupt payments in relation to the phone-hacking scandal, the Met Police says.

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Two of the UK’s biggest banks admit that some customers have been denied their legal right to cancel recurring payments, reports Radio 4′s Money Box.

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Banks ‘wrong’ over payment policy

Rupert Murdoch will face questions about phone hacking and claims of illegal payments by his UK journalists when he appears for a second day at the Leveson Inquiry later.

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Rupert Murdoch returns to inquiry

Demand payment before treatment.

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Debt Collectors Pursue Patients in ER

Sandy Annabi, a former councilwoman, was found guilty of accepting close to $175,000 in secret payments from Zehy Jereis, a political operative.

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Two Convicted in Yonkers Corruption Case

KABUL — U.S. military officials paid $916,000 to the relatives of villagers allegedly shot by a rogue U.S. soldier earlier this month in Kandahar Province, Afghan officials said Sunday. Payment of “blood money” is a common way to settle disputes stemming from violent deaths in Afghanistan. The money could defuse the intense anger the March 11 massacre generated in the southern province. Read full article > >

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The Sunday Times says it has film footage of Tory Party co-treasurer Peter Cruddas offering access to the prime minister for payments up to £250,000.

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Tory Cruddas ‘sold access to PM’

In February 2009, Michael Zucker told a group of high-paid surgeons something they did not want to hear: The way they earned a salary was about to change. Zucker is the chief development officer at Baptist Health System , a five-hospital network in San Antonio. For 37 common surgeries, such as hip replacements and pacemaker implants, it would soon collect “bundled” Medicare payments. Traditionally, hospitals and doctors had collected separate fees for each step of such procedures; now they would get a lump sum for treating everything related to the patient’s condition. Read full article > >

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Health reform at 2: Why American health care will never be the same

Judge orders payment of $83 million.

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Mets’ Owners Must Pay Madoff Victims

Federal regulators have authorized nearly $100 million in payments to cover the legal costs of three former Fannie Mae executives, including more than $37 million since the government seized the firms more than three years ago, a watchdog said Tuesday. Read full article > >

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U.S. covering millions in Fannie Mae executives’ legal costs

During this extended period of cloudy federal employee horizons comes a wee bit of sunshine, the story of a worker who took on Uncle Sam and won. But it took her more than a decade to do it. As the federal workforce endures a two-year freeze on basic pay rates and faces a possible increase in pension payments and as new employees will have to contribute more to their retirement program, Barbara Murchison has reason to smile. Read full article > >

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Federal worker prevails in discrimination case against Social Security

Firms and charities are to be offered a payment-by-results scheme to try to get 55,000 “Neet” teenagers in England into work, education or training.

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Firms paid to help jobless teens