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Guardian Unlimited - Jul. 25, 2008, 8:59 PM

Telegraph.co.uk: new design aimed at encouraging users to access more pages on each visit is to roll out an overhauled website next week - the first major project to be produced through the publisher's new innovation lab after six months of development. ...

Guardian Unlimited - Jul. 25, 2008, 8:59 PM

Judi Dench: played kindhearted spinster Matty Jenkyns in Cranford. Photograph: BBC BBC period drama Cranford and comedy Extras have been nominated for three US TV Emmy awards each, including nods for Dame Judi Dench and Ricky Gervais. UK talent has three ...

Business Week - Jul. 25, 2008, 8:55 PM

BATON ROUGE, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AppOne, a part of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, announced today that Bank of the Ozarks, an Arkansas-based bank that offers commercial equipment financing and leasing through Bank of the Ozarks Leasing, joined ...

BBC - Jul. 25, 2008, 8:45 PM

Jon Hamm stars as Don Draper in advertising drama Mad MenMad Men, the acclaimed drama set in the world of advertising in the 1960s, has picked up 16 nominations for US TV's Emmy awards. Historical drama John Adams, about one of the United States' ...

Business Week - Jul. 25, 2008, 8:41 PM

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CBS News - Jul. 25, 2008, 8:20 PM

(CBS) 'Mad Men' and 'Damages' made Emmy history as the first basic cable show to be nominated for best series. The top multiple nominee was 'John Adams' with a whopping 23 nods. Outstanding Comedy Series 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' • HBO 'Entourage' • HBO ...

Reuters - Jul. 25, 2008, 8:17 PM

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The lead singer of the popular Canadian band the Barenaked Ladies will fight a recent cocaine charge in the United States, the band said in a statement posted on its website on Thursday. Steven Page was arrested last Friday in an ...

New York Times - Jul. 25, 2008, 8:09 PM

NEW YORK (AP) -- Media General Inc. swung to a loss in the second-quarter on severance costs and lower ad revenue and expects to take an additional charge of up to $550 million to write down the value of its intangible assets. The preliminary results -- ...

Guardian Unlimited - Jul. 25, 2008, 8:02 PM

David Currie. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe The Ofcom chairman, David Currie, has questioned the BBC's claim of a 'unique link' with licence fee payers, a key argument the corporation has employed to defend its right to be the sole recipient of this form of ...

Business Week - Jul. 25, 2008, 7:24 PM

BEIJING Beijing will abide by its commitments to provide unfettered access for foreign reporters during the Olympic Games, a government spokesman said Thursday. Cabinet spokesman Guo Weimin said authorities have been working hard to ensure access, ...