Your garden: Thin your fruit trees
Expert advise on what to do for your garden this week. Celery can be planted during the next three or four weeks. The old method of digging a trench and filling it with compost or manure mixed with soil before planting has much to recommend it, but celery will grow well in any good soil.

The new Baghdad
The pilot announces we're landing at the Afghan capital, but bombs and banditry here are eerily reminiscent of another time and another place - Iraq, circa 2003. The scale of the violence is different, but the same deliberate strategy is apparent.

Town that wealth built starts to feel the pain
Purse strings tighten in U.S. haven

Town that wealth built starts to feel the pain
GREENWICH, CONN. ? As many hedge funds suffer big losses and anxious investors yank out their money, the town synonymous with the riches of their recent glory is now hurting.

Shattered lives
By JACK POIRIER The Observer Morning light spills through the tiny window in Robert Patrick?s cell. He stares out and closes his eyes, relishing the [...]

Fernando Meirelles, director of City of God on his new film, Blindness
Fernando Meirelles, director of City of God, tells Ryan Gilbey how making a film about blindness helped him to see the light

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The Daily Telegraph

Green giants: Clever design needn't take a back seat when it comes to eco-friendly living
This house in Cloone is constantly evolving. Designed by the architect Dominic Stevens and his wife, Mari-Aymone Djeribi, and built using local materials and affordable building methods, it is an unpretentious building that can adapt to their family's needs.

Hunter abandons plans to take over Flying Brands
SCOTLAND'S richest man Sir Tom Hunter has abandoned his attempted takeover of wilting home shopping business Flying Brands because the asking price - according to a source familiar with the retail and property magnate - was "simply ridiculous".

Wildlife caught on film
THE hidden world of urban wildlife is to be captured on camera at nine sites in the North East. Remote control cameras, which are activated by movement, will be set up to record animals on the move, especially at night.

Get ready to Wiggle New Zealand!
What's red, blue, yellow AND purple, And Lots Of Fun The Fab Four for the Under Fives .. The Wiggles!

North West Evening Mail
THE credit crunch has pushed the cost of imported Christmas trees to new heights. Homegrown trees are also likely to be dearer. Reporter DAVID PICKTHALL asks Christmas tree salesmen in South Lakeland if the price hike will force shoppers to switch to artificial trees.

Recycler accused of dumping
REGULAR rubbish recycler, Dr John Mantle, was stunned when he was handed a letter addressed to his car number plate. It named him as a suspect for illegally dumping commercial waste, fingered by the fact he visited the site . . . too frequently!

Calling all bikers - it's Toy Run time again!
Most South African motorcyclists ride purely for pleasure but now it's time to get serious. It's Toy Run time across southern Africa - and it's all for children. Check here for where and when YOUR run will happen and, well, just BE THERE!

Hundreds die of cholera in Zimbabwe
Hundreds of people are dying of cholera in Zimbabwe amid an epidemic that President Robert Mugabe is trying to cover up. The Daily Telegraph has learnt that dozens of people have died from the outbreak in the last two weeks alone.

Fight escalates against Mexican feather grass
AgForce is urging primary producers to be on high alert for Mexican feather grass, which was recently detected by Department of Primaries Industries officers, but may have been on sale in Queensland nurseries since 2007.

No place like home
Living on an estate can be difficult, but the words "tough estate" are unhelpful and just provoke fear.

It's home
Housing estates get a bad press, but if you live on one...

The Herts Advertiser
A NATIONWIDE recycling slump caused by the current financial downturn has made its mark locally.

Home Depot set to open 60,000-square-foot store in New Minas
The Home Depot Canada will open the doors to its first store in New Minas this Thursday, Nov...