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Pope Benedict XVI has apologized to victims of child sex abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland. In a pastoral letter to Irish Catholics, he acknowledged the sense of betrayal in the Church felt by victims and their families.

Google Android users can now use Opera Mini 5 on their smart phones. The new mobile browser includes features such as Speed Dial, tabbed browsing, and boosted speed. On March 4, Opera announced Opera Mini 5 beta for Windows Mobile 5.x and 6.x devices; Google has released Google Bike Directions. ...

Band of Horses make soaring, earthy guitar anthems and have roots in Seattle. So do Pearl Jam. Band of Horses will open a bunch of dates for the grunge megastars in May. A good look for both bands! That BoH ...

PEARL JAM ANNOUNCES 11-DATE MIDWEST AND EAST COAST TOUR Tickets on sale Friday, March 19 and Saturday, March 20 Pearl Jam Pearl Jam announced today that they will play eleven Midwest and East Coast tour dates in May of 2010. The tour ...

Where employers are most optimistic, and pessimisticIN 27 out of 36 countries surveyed by Manpower, an employment-services firm, more companies said they expected to add jobs in the three months to the end of June than said they reckoned on reducing their workforce. The difference between the proportion of hirers ...

HERBIE HANCOCK'S THE IMAGINE PROJECT SET FOR RELEASE JUNE 22 CD AND DOCUMENTARY RECORDED AROUND THE GLOBE AND WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY TOUR DATES TO COINCIDE WITH HANCOCK'S 70TH BIRTHDAY Herbie Hancock Herbie Hancock's The Imagine Project, the new CD from multiple ...

Kathy Ireland’s isn’t quitting her day job after channeling her inner Paula Abdul with a stiff presentatio as one of ABC’s Oscars red carpet correspondents at this weekend’s Academy Awards. The 46-year-old former supermodel shocked viewers Sunday night as she awkwardly interviewed Precious star Gabourey Sidibe and heartthrob Zac Efron, leading ...

Tumbling corporate-tax ratesCORPORATE-TAX rates in OECD countries have fallen remorselessly over the past 30 years. A survey by Robert Carroll of American University in Washington, DC, found that the top rate in OECD countries (excluding America) had dropped from 51% in the early 1980s to 32% by 2009. Competition among ...

Photo by David Hill Band of Horses return with their much anticipated third album, Infinite Arms, on May 18. But what label will release it? Possibly Sub Pop, who released their first two albums, but possibly not. The label hasn't been announced yet. UPDATE: Sub ...

Photo by Gail Butensky UPDATE: Spiral Stairs has posted an entry on his blog about the Auckland show, featuring photos and the setlist. As you may have heard, the indie rock band Pavement are traveling around the world on a reunion tour this year. And just ...

Photo via Spiral Stairs' blog Superfans rejoice! The Pavement reunion tour is now just a few days away from kicking into gear; the first show goes down March 1 in Auckland, New Zealand. And a couple of members of the band giving ...

Photo by Ruvan Wijesooriya Ever since he jumped on the Twitter bandwagon late last year, LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy has been micro-blogging about working on the band's ...

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Premiere Video and Announce U.S. Tour in Support of New Album, Kollaps Tradixionales Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra (SMZ) returns with its sixth full-length recording and first since the band's lineup change ...

European countries that provide the best health careTHE private provision of health care comes in several forms across Europe. In Germany and the Netherlands it provides coverage for those not on government schemes; in Britain and Ireland it duplicates state-run systems; and in France it tops up cover from official ...

Brenda Ann O'Keefe has resigned as ED wef Feb 15 Reason for cessation: The Company is proposing to relocate the position of the Finance Director to London and Ms O’Keefe, who is resident in Ireland, will be leaving the position and as a Director of the Company as she has ...

The Fall, the long-running band led by cantankerous British postpunk legend Mark E. Smith and featuring whoever Smith hasn't fired yet, have found themselves a new home at Domino. On May 4 in North ...

Assessing the risk that Greece’s woes herald something far worseHOW far is it from Athens to America and which countries lie on the way? That may sound like an esoteric geography question, but it is being asked by investors as Greece’s debt crisis creates global jitters about the safety of ...

Earlier this week, the Rising Californian indie synthesists Local Natives scored a BNM for Gorilla Manor, their first album. At the moment, the band is in France, finishing up a European tour. Once that gets done, they'll ...

Just call America “Home of The Hottie!” The United States harbors the highest concentration of attractive people on the planet, according to a British poll released by OnePoll.com on Tuesday. America beat Brazil — birth place of model Gisele Bündchen — into a submissive second place and pushed Spain — the ...

Bad debts are peaking and pay falling at Europe’s banks TWO YEARS ago banks began to include in their results announcements tables meant to show that their exposure to toxic securities was under control. The crisis has moved on: now one European financial firm’s presentation includes a slide that pleads, ...