NEW ORLEANS?? Bathed in spring-like warmth and showered with trinkets, beads and music, New Orleans reveled in the excesses of Fat Tuesday. A seemingly endless stream of costumed marching groups and ornately-decorated float parades led by make-believe royalty poured out of the Garden District, while the French Quarter filled up with thrill seekers [...]

(Reuters) ? Retailers may not reap hefty gains from the longer lines of shoppers snaked around malls across the U.S. at the traditional post-Thanksgiving start of the holiday shopping season; broader bargain hunting driven by budgetary fears may depress overall holiday spending. Eager shoppers hunted for bargains on big-screen televisions, video games and toys while [...]

THE Minister for Investment and Empowerment, Dr Mary Nagu speaks to journalists during the Construction Industry stakeholders? forum in Dar es Salaam on Monday. Looking on is the Tanzania Private Sector Foundation (TPSF), Chairperson Esther Mkwizu (right), National Construction Council (NCC) Chief Executive Officer, Kesogukewele Msita (second left) and Executive Secretary of National Economic Empowerment [...]

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Brandon Franklin picks up a tar ball washed in by Tropical Storm Lee from amid shells at Gulf Shores, Ala., on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. Franklin, coastal plans manager for the city, said the tar balls are suspected of being pieces of submerged tar mats left over from the BP oil spill in the Gulf [...]