Figures just released, covering the twelve months to March 31 2009, show that the cost of running the British Royal Household in that time rose to £41.5m from the £40m that was required in the previous twelve month period.

As news reports from all over the nation reflect, unemployment rates are on the rise. Thus, in today's economic climate, successful personal financial planning should include solid strategies for surviving a period of unemployment and dealing with debt.

In a report released this morning, the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association stated that the number of people needing affordable housing grew 4% in a one-year period.

Cellphone sales declined in the first quarter of 2009. There were 35 million less units shipped out than during the same period one year ago.

21-year-old Marcus Antonio Sanchez of Salt Lake City, Utah became the 10th U.S. casualty of the H1N1 flu virus that is sweeping across the country. The period from infection to death occurred in less than a week.

In Konami’s announced fiscal report for 2008-2009, Playstation 3 was their top platform in terms of software sales during that period.

Buzz Hargrove, the former national president of CAW, claims to be angry as hell about the concessions that Chrysler workers made in the latest round of auto bailout maneuvers.

Barack Obama marks his 100th day in office this week, having taken this nation so far to the left in such a short period of time that it has literally made conservative heads spin.

For some time now the question on many minds inside the Beltway has been when will President Obama’s honeymoon period will be over?

A mysterious photo that experts claim has not been tampered with reveals the image of a figure in period costume peering out of a castle window. Is he or she or…it really there? Read on, but realize that answers remain in the mind of the beholder.

Letters written by the world famous physicist Albert Einstein have been accessible by way of the Internet exhibition. The letters come from the period between 1919 and 1947.

According to an archbishop in Brazil, Jews are not the only Holocaust victims during World War II. Catholics and gypsies suffered many times more during that period, he claimed.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the U.S. military will be phasing out its stop-loss policy by March 2011. Stop-loss is a military term for involuntary extension of a soldier's period of active duty.

According to a US study, our mental powers peak around age 22. After a short period of relative stability, a marked decline is first seen around age 27.

Popular boxer Antonio Margarito and his trainer have been stripped of their license and banned from practicing their profession as boxer and trainer respectively in the state of California for a period of one year.

Across China about 145 million mu crops have been affected by the drought or 40 million mu more than the same period last winter.

EBay, the online auction company extraordinaire, is feeling the pinch of an ailing economy. It reports a sharply lower fourth-quarter profit, and its first ever drop in actual sales for the period.

Under pressure from UN and international sources alike, Israel has halted its bombardments for a set time period to allow aid to reach the innocent victims of the attack in Gaza: Civilians.

One of the most disturbing trends in the United States is the increasing rate of teenage murders among African American youth. The killing increased 34 per cent during the period from 2000 to 2007 when a study was completed.

It seems that many Americans have had their fill of churches being involved in politics George Bush in 2001 ushered in a period where the religious right was particularly active in governmental affairs.