The controversial head of the UK tax authority – Dave Hartnett – will retire in the summer of 2012, HM Revenue and Customs announces.

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Tax boss to retire in summer 2012

Anti-police sentiment was a major factor in the summer riots in England, according to a major study in which 270 rioters were interviewed.

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‘Anger at police’ drove rioters

The U.S. economy grew more slowly in the summer than earlier thought, according to new data . But the reason could bode well for the final months of the year. Economic activity, as measured by gross domestic product, rose at an annual rate of only 2 percent in the July-through-September quarter, not the 2.5 percent that the Commerce Department estimated late last month. Read full article > >

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It all started in the summer of 2010, when author Joe McGin­niss migrated from Massachusetts to Alaska, to be closer to nature. Human nature, at least, as it plays out on the Sarah Palin homestead. The self-assigned Palin biographer, as you may recall, made headlines by renting a residence in Wasilla and moving in next door to Palin as if moving in on his prey. The former Alaska guv sounded ticked. McGinniss sounded tickled. And much of the public chose sides over all this northern overexposure. Read full article > >

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In ‘Doonesbury,’ Palin biography ‘The Rogue’ gets a comic-strip tease

Home Secretary Theresa May tells MPs that the involvement of gangs in the summer riots may “not be as high as people first thought”.

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Most rioters not in gangs – May

This has been a hard summer to love, but Washington found a way. The season’s horrors — climatic, geologic, political, economic, military — are easier to catalogue than its subtle redeeming qualities. The word many people use to sum up the summer of 2011, often after a long pause and a slightly crazy grin: “Intense.” Read full article > >

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Finding the ‘grace notes’ of an intense summer

Mitt Romney arrived Wednesday in what he called “a quintessential Iowa setting, with corn and beans around us,” and made a keen observation: “Unlike the last time I was at the state fair, it’s going to be cool and sunny both,” he told reporters here, letting his perfectly parted hair flap in the summer breeze. “The weather has markedly improved this cycle.” He is hoping that Republican voters notice more than just a change in the weather. Read full article > >

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Returning to Iowa, a wiser Mitt Romney avoids his past mistakes

UK unemployment fell 88,000 in the three months to April to 2.43m, the biggest drop since the summer of 2000, data shows.

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UK jobless figure falls sharply

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney says reports of him leaving Old Trafford in the summer are “rubbish” while also confirming his ankle injury problems are behind him.

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Rooney pledges loyalty to Man Utd

Obama is seeking to cut off poor people’s heat in the winter and AC in the summer , in a move that Bush attempted and saw blocked by ACORN. read more

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Obama Is Hurting Poor People in Ways ACORN Blocked Bush From Achieving

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has given the strongest indication yet that the 2022 Qatar World Cup will be held in the summer, not the winter.

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The compact stainless-steel .45-caliber pistol was forged in a factory in Brazil in the summer of 2006 – 4,700 miles and two years away from a fateful encounter on a narrow North Philadelphia street near Temple University.

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At every traffic stop, police face the prospect of death

Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky first crossed paths at a Hartford, Connecticut, drug treatment center in the summer of 2006, according to police.

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The path that led to 8 hours of horror

Scotland’s lifeboat crews turned out nearly five times each day during the summer months, the RNLI reveals.

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Spending by English Premier League clubs in the summer transfer window has tumbled 22% from last year, a report says.

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