Power tools worth more than pounds3,000 were stolen from ajoiner's van.
The Renault van was parked in Aberdeen's Rosemount area when thetheft took place.
A number of hand and power tools were taken from the vehiclewhich was in a car park in Richmond Walk.
The owner …
As you read the words on this page, you may not be thinking about how easy it is for you to do it. Your eyes are probably handling the job pretty well, and the act of seeing seems automatic. Taking our eyes for granted is an easy thing to do.
Consider, though, the fact that over 80 percent of what you learn comes in through your eyes. That says a lot about the importance of vision in learning. Those of us with sight are visually driven creatures, and our eyes are our most important connection with the world.
You may be one of the 42 percent of Americans who doesn't need to wear corrective lenses. If so, congratulations! That doesn't mean, though, that you do not have a …
EU Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet and officials from Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg huddled in intense, closed-door talks Sunday night, trying to prevent Fortis NV from going insolvent.
In addition to Trichet, EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, the Dutch and Belgian finance ministers as well as national bank presidents were meeting with the full Belgian Cabinet to find a way out of the financial group's troubles before markets reopen on Monday.
"I hope we can move forward in the name of all the bank's" account holders, Dutch Finance Minister Wouter Bos said as he arrived at the Belgian parliament.
"We don't …
As a teacher, John Salecki used his classroom as a theater.
"He never sat in one space or taught from a podium," St. BarbaraSchool Principal Dorene Hurckes said. "He was always moving aroundthe classroom. He really engaged the students. The kids loved him."
A social studies and homeroom teacher at St. Barbara inBridgeport for 24 years, Mr. Salecki died Tuesday at McNeal Hospitalin Berwyn. He was 56 years old.
Mr. Salecki retired as a teacher two years ago.
Hurckes described him as the "perfect social studies teacher,"citing the lengths he would go to to grab his students' attention --such as developing dialects to make the topics of ancient …
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers promised a quick response and sought an independent commission as they expressed outrage Sunday over the poor conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"I'm worried about if it's this bad at the outpatient facilities at Walter Reed, how is it in the rest of the country? Because Walter Reed is our crown jewel," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
In a letter Sunday to Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday, Schumer asked for an independent commission, possibly headed by former Secretary of State Colin Powell, to investigate all post-combat medical facilities and recommend changes.
"To think …
ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) — After two days of protracted wrangling, the high-profile OSCE summit fizzled out acrimoniously in the early hours Friday morning, leaving the trans-Atlantic rights and security organization adrift without a clear mandate for the future.
Inability by the delegates at the 56-member Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe summit to reach a clear consensus on a future agenda for the group could doom it to irrelevance.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev nonetheless praised what little consensus had been reached, calling the summit "a historic event for the entire OSCE community" that would forge new ties between Asia and the West.
In …
Asian stock markets lost ground Tuesday as a strong yen pummeled Japanese shares and after Wall Street fell amid pessimism about the U.S. economy.
Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average lost 217.94, or 2.4 percent, to 8,930.20. Dragging on sentiment was the yen's advance and disappointment over the central bank's decision to ease monetary policy by expanding a low-interest low program. Markets had been hoping for stronger action.
Elsewhere, South Korea's Kospi shed 0.8 percent to 1,745.03 and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 fell 0.4 percent to 4,433.80. Singapore's benchmark was off 0.5 percent at 2,941.26.
In New York, the Dow fell 140.92, or 1.4 percent, to …
