Mohamed al Fayed, father of Dodi Fayed, Princess Diana’s boyfriend with whom she was in the 1997 car crash that took both their lives, has sold the famous British department store, Harrod’s, after 25 years.. He was the fourth owner of the store since its founding in 1849. The store has been sold to Qatar [...]

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Last month an Icelandic volcano erupted, sending up a giant ash cloud that forced airports across the continent to close for days. Airlines estimated that they lost more than 2 billion pounds in the melee, which stranded thousands of passengers.
Now, intensifying activity from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano has sent up a new cloud, which briefly closed [...]

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