Lightning Strike Sets Fire to Columbia Home  - www.wltx.com 

Columbia, SC (WLTX) - A Columbia woman faced disaster at the hands of nature, and she says the answer to those troubles will also have to come from her faith.

Robert Fisk: Into the terrifying world of Pakistan's 'disappeared'  - www.independent.co.uk 

If you want to know how brutally Pakistan treats its people, you should meet Amina Janjua. An intelligent painter and interior designer, she sits on the vast sofa of her living room in Rawalpindi – a room that somehow accentuates her loneliness – scarf wound tightly round her head, serving tea and biscuits like the middle-class woman she is. And although neither a soldier nor a policeman has ...

Company sacked from Indigenous housing program  - www.abc.net.au 

One of the groups building houses in the Northern Territory as part of the multi-million dollar Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program has been sacked.

City Bank of Lynnwood gets 30-day ultimatum from FDIC  - www.heraldnet.com 

LYNNWOOD — City Bank is trying to sell its building lots to a national homebuilder to raise enough money to prevent a forced sale by the government, officials said today.

Loan-free buyers perk up prime sales  - business.scotsman.com 

CASH-rich buyers who do not have to rely on the still-tight mortgage market are boosting sales of "prime" Scottish properties, according to new research by estate agen

Francis Baron: The new business of rugby kicks amateurism into touch  - www.independent.co.uk 

It is not the best time for England's rugby team – lambasted as "boring" after last weekend's Six Nations draw against Scotland and not expected to produce much better in the final clash with France on Saturday.

School sports: Standards for students  - www.nst.com.my 

THE Education Ministry has announced that it will make sports activities compulsory in all schools starting next year and each student must choose a game.

LAWRENCE: Weekend storm snarled roads, power  - www.centraljersey.com 

A nor’easter that hung around for four days dumped more than more than 3 inches of rain and packed wind gusts of up to 63 mph, uprooting trees and knocking down electric power lines.

Inside the town that will test Obama to the limit  - www.independent.co.uk 

Ask Rabbi Sam White what he thinks of the global political row over plans to expand the community in which he lives, prays and studies, and he answers bluntly: "I don't see the problem. God gave us the land of Israel." The notion that the location of Ramat Shlomo, on land occupied after the 1967 Six Day War and officially expropriated six years later, might belong to another people is wholly ...

STEVENSON JAVOBS Financial plans pit US against Europe  - www.nst.com.my 

The United States, Europe and Asia must adopt uniformly strict financial regulations, otherwise banks and high-risk traders will shift operations wherever rules are more relaxed and this might trigger another economic crisis