A: My library books are late; where can I put them? B: This is where they need to be turned in. Let me see them to check the date, OK? A: Yeah, I think that they are really late! B: Not all that late. You only owe the library fifty cents. A: What if...
A: These books should have been turned in last week. B: You have come to the correct place. Hand me your books. A: Here they are. B: Whoa, these are pretty late! You owe five dollars total to clear your fine. A: I don't have the money right now. B: W...
A: Can you help me with returning my late books? B: This is the right spot to pay your fee. Put your books down right here. A: OK. B: I can see that you owe 25 cents a day. That will be one dollar and fifty cents total. A: OK, here's the money. B: We...
Writing in Britain's Observer newspaper, Prime Minister Gordon Brown is calling for a return to old-fashioned, conservative banking practices. It is a change for Mr. Brown who as Treasury Secretary for a decade was a proponent of the light regulator...
A senior Zimbabwean official says he is pleased that Prime Minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai is returning home for talks with President Robert Mugabe on reviving the stalled efforts to form a unity government. The reaction comes after the South A...
In Ghana, election officials are counting the votes from Sunday's elections and unofficial returns show that with more than one-third of the constituencies tabulated, two leading candidates are in a tight race for the presidency. Election observers...
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has returned to the country to lead her party in general elections, scheduled for December. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the polls are being held to restore democracy in the country, which...
Relative calm returned to Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, as rebels positioned outside the city appeared to respect a unilateral cease-fire. Tens of thousands of civilians have been displaced in recent days, as the rebels battled gove...
The war between Georgia and Russia in early August drove more than 130,000 Georgians from their homes as they fled bombing, shelling and looting. Two months later, most of them have been able to return, but tens of thousands are still living in shel...
Republicans are getting their national convention back on track, with an address by President Bush, and a list of speakers focusing on Senator John McCain's leadership abilities. McCain was campaigning Tuesday before heading to the convention site i...
