A FAMILY-RUN business has been forced to close after 27 years - and its manager has blamed illegal DVD sellers and parking attendants for its demise. Trudy and Keith Tuffs have been running video shops in Waltham Forest for nearly three decades.

WEST CHESTER, Ohio (AP) - Jenny Schwarz's shopping cart was loaded - a plug-in cooler, new cushions for her outdoor furniture, toys for the backyard pool. All things good to have for a “staycation.”

Julia Wright bounces and paces across the front of the library at Lanier High School, a public place of learning in a neighborhood of neat, modest homes and the occasional building tagged with graffiti.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has "expressed a high level of interest" in buying Lehman's crown jewel, the Neuberger & Berman money management firm, CNBC has learned.

Passers-by prayed and placed flowers on a busy Tokyo shopping street where seven people were killed the day before in a stabbing rampage, as Japan tried to make sense of the attack and others like it.