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Justin Gignac, 28, and Christine Santora, 24, painted a large picture of the phone on canvas and offered it for sale ... at the same price as the popular gadget.

It was snapped and they bought the real-life item. Now they have painted dozens of things they want. All have been sold for the price of the item, whether USD 3 for a slice of pizza or a cheque for USD 1000 to pay a months rent.<...

We have always had some affection for The PM. He’s slow to anger and shows none of the malice some of his Cabinet colleagues display. When the bad boy is out of the country you know the hand on the ship of state will be ever so polite even in the foulest of weather.

And if he does appear incompetent at times it’s only in a well meaning, old fashioned way. Like a bumbling general manag...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The chief executive of Nevada's largest employer Monday proposed doubling the state's payroll tax to help the state close its ever-growing budget deficit.

MGM Mirage Chief Executive Terry Lanni said increasing the state's businesswide payroll tax from 0.63 percent to 1.23 percent could generate $246 million a year for the state.

Lanni proposed the increase in...

However, a new online prediction tool has just been launched by the University of California to see how the US economic recession has affected people's online behaviour.

The 'Web of Misery' is an online forum which is part research project and part game - and is inviting people to predict how much traffic is likely to increase to internet sites devoted to subjects that are often assoc...

Thanks to Nicolas Sarkozy's defence cuts, France is likely to be short of an aircraft carrier or two. How will the President's longed-for EU Navy set sail with such a meagre fleet?

France released proposals for the EU Navy as part of Sarkozy's review of the nation's armed forces yesterday. While both British and French officials are said to be in "well advanced" talks about Franco-Bri...

"We have students graduating from college with student loans, car payments, credit card debt and looking to buy a house," he said.

Meanwhile, those same students don't know how to balance their paychecks.

Scism volunteered his time to help educate students in Sand Springs on personal finance management, a subject not currently required in the Sand Springs School curriculum.

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