WASHINGTON – Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa and Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin will be honored on U.S. postage stamps next year. Joining them will be Oscar-winning actress Katharine Hepburn, singing cowboy Gene Autry, artist Winslow Homer and Adm. Arleigh Burke. More: continued here

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Ministry of Defence set to lift ban after pressure from Labour figures to introduce full equal opportunities in the Armed Forces. More: continued here

About 6 million Americans receiving food stamps report they have no other income. More: continued here

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Calling it quitsDuncan BannerRodney Brooks, Postmaster of Duncan, is hanging up his proverbial gear and unwrapping the gift that 31 years of service to the post office has brought; … More: continued here

AUSTIN – A group of legal aid lawyers is suing the state for allegedly taking too long to decide whether needy families will receive food stamps or not. The Health and Human Services Department is being ordered to comply with the rules that require decisions on food stamp applications to …

About 6 million Americans receiving food stamps report they have no other income, according to an analysis of state data. More: continued here

Royal Mail’s pre-Christmas postal strikes saw many companies send merchandise by TNT and other private companies Britain’s private postal operators have made substantial inroads into Royal Mail’s customer base as a result of the strikes at the end of the year, and any further upheaval will accelerate the process, warns …

The Canadian government says it won’t enter into a dispute between the Jordanian and Israeli governments over the Dead Sea scrolls, a portion of which are on display at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum. More: continued here