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arget stores has agreed to pay a $1.7 million civil penalty for overcharging California customers through electronic cash register scanners that rang up too-high prices, the Sonoma County district attorney's office said today. The stores, without admitting guilt, also agreed to improve their pricing procedures for the next four years. The case arose after weights and measures inspectors in Sonoma, Contra Costa, Marin, Santa Cruz and Fresno counties found "numerous occasions where the price charged at the cash register was not the lowest posted ... Read More

The staggering sum (US$56 million/AU$75 million) is the largest upfront payment in film history and will see Johnny, 45, move to the top of Hollywood's rich list - overtaking Will Smith - when he reprises his role as Captain Jack Sparrow. A source said: "It's a hell of a lot of money for one movie but there’s only one man who can play Captain Jack Sparrow - and that's Johnny Depp." "Pirates just wouldn't be the same without him, so they were more than ... Read More

I know how to spend it. The money spent on the Games is colossal. Better to spend it on something useful, not the antics of athletes (Alice Miles) Were you up for Rebecca? Did you catch that split-second moment when her hand touched the edge of the pool first? Or did you perhaps read about her Jimmy Choos yesterday; the promise from her mum of a new pair of Christian Louboutin heels if she won? I am not sure whether the dull details of ... Read More