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UK Charts

Lady Gaga has once again hit the top spot with her new single "Poker Face" with only 221 copies seperating the Top 2, the comic relief songs take a subsequent fall and end up back down at 3 and 4 respectively. Beyonce is now the one to watch as she races up the chart with new single "Halo" climbing from No.20 to this weeks No.9.



1 4 LADY GAGA POKER FACE 53,699
2 2 FLO RIDA FT KESHA RIGHT ROUND 53,478
3 1 JENKINS/WEST ISLANDS IN THE STREAM 40,478
4 3 SATURDAYS JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH 34,633
5 5 TAYLOR SWIFT LOVE STORY 33,922
6 7 TI FT JT DEAD AND GONE 31,353
7 6 KELLY CLARKSON MY LIFE WOULD SUCK 30,030
8 9 AKON BEAUTIFUL 25,565
9 20 BEYONCE HALO 25,122
10 8 KINGS OF LEON USE SOMEBODY 19,637


On the album charts, in the battle for the mothers day album, Ronan Keating came out on top, whilst Lionel who has been in the UK all week promoting his new album could only just scrape the Top 10.



1 (NEW) RONAN KEATING SONGS FOR MY MOTHER 87,030
2 (2) ANNIE LENNOX THE COLLECTION 52,317
3 (4) KINGS OF LEON ONLY BY THE NIGHT 40,964
4 (6) FARYL FARYL 40,350
5 (9) TAKE THAT THE CIRCUS 37,642
6 (1) U2 NO LINE ON THE HORIZON 30,199
7 (8) LADY GAGA THE FAME 28,214
8 (3) KELLY CLARKSON ALL I EVER WANTED 27,373
9 (21) BETTE MIDLER THE BEST BETTE 25,031
10 (NEW) LIONEL RICHIE JUST GO 22,618

Beautiful shots of the Aurora Australis

The aurora australis, commonly known as the southern lights

Jade Goody has passed away

Jade Goody passed away around 3:30am this morning at her home in Essex, England.

Jade who has been fighting cancer since finding out on India's Big Brother back in 2007, lost her battle whilst surrounded by her mum and husband.

Thoughts and prayers are with her family at this difficult time.

Prince's LA shows for album release

Prince has a busy schedule next week. Along with performing three nights in a row (March 25-27) on the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno," the Purple One is scheduled to play three back-to-back concerts at separate venues in Los Angeles on March 28.

Prince is hoping the live appearances will help build anticipation for the March 29 release of his two new albums, "LOtUSFLOW3R" and "MPLSoUND." Both CDs, along with a third by new artist Bria Valente, will be available as a three disc set exclusively through Target for a price of $11.98.

Prince is also launching a fan subscription service called Lotusflow3r.com. For $77 a year, subscribers will get an as yet not fully outlined set of content that will include exclusive music, video, lyrics, artwork and photos.

On March 28, Prince is scheduled to perform three full-length concerts at Los Angeles' $2.5 billion L.A. Live sports and entertainment project, which is owned and being developed by AEG. Doors for the first show at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live will open at 5:30 p.m.; doors at the Conga Room open at 8 p.m.; and doors at Club Nokia will open at 11:30 p.m.

Fans will be required to purchase separate tickets for each concert. Tickets go on sale March 22 via ticketmaster.com and lotusflow3r.com for $77 (plus additional fees).

The "Tonight Show" performances are part of a larger rollout for the CD package in Los Angeles. In an e-mail message sent to fans who signed up for updates on lotusflow3r.com, Prince wrote, "From the 24th on, there will b a slew of NPG-related events happening around electric LAlaland.. we don't want 2 give away all the details yet, but b prepared 2 get yo groove on, numerous ways 4 numerous days. We know $ is tite but the adventures will b worth ur while! Stay 2ned 2 this outtaspacestation."

As previously reported, Prince is just the latest music legend to release new music exclusively through a major retailer. AC/DC and the Eagles were among the acts who sold millions of CDs through their partnership with Wal-Mart.

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Walmart hand out $2billion in bonuses

he world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, has released new annual bonus figures today. Wal-Mart said it paid out about $2 billion to its U.S. hourly employees through various financial incentives, which included $933.6 million in cash bonuses, $788.8 million in profit sharing, merchandise discounts, 401(k) contributions, employee stock options, among other incentives.

Last year, Wal-Mart handed out $1.2 billion in financial bonuses.

Wal-Mart has been able to do this given strong growth despite a global economic downturn. Same-store sales were up 3.3% in the last fiscal year ending Jan 31, 2009. Total sales during that same period were up significantly by 7.2% to $401.24 billion.

More and more people are going to Wal-Mart today to save on purchases given massive job losses and high mortgage payments that become due. Wal-Mart said today it plans to further cut prices including specifically on glasses and contact lenses, among other merchandise.

Fritzl sentenced to life

The sick man who trapped his daughter in his basement and raped her thousands of times over 2 decades and subsequently had 7 children with her has been sentenced to life in jail.

The daughter and children are still being looked after by officials, and though the children are said to suffer from psychological issues, because they are young they should be able to adapt to their new surroundings. However it is the daughter that will have the massive psychological problems and need constant observation, as she spent most of her life void of communication to humans, bar her children and father and the overwhelming feeling of being introduced to a new world will have serious repocussions.

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