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Airlines offer some cheap last-minute fares to Europe (Seattle Times)

Airlines discount fares to Europe earlier than usual to fill empty seats, including for August travel

Back when airline tickets were affordable or down right cheap, a lot of credit card companies teamed up with the ... (KAKE)

You could redeem them for a free trip after reaching a certain amount, when you bought your ticket with that credit card.

Dallas' original Metro Diner closing its doors (WFAA Dallas-Fort Worth)

The Metro Diner's artery-clogging fare was as cheap Tuesday as it was, well, about the time the artificial heart was being developed.

Internet: Last piece of fibre-optic jigsaw falls into place as cable links east Africa to grid (Guardian Unlimited)

They are the arteries of the modern world. Stretching for tens of thousands of miles over the ocean beds, the vast web of intercontinental submarine cables have brought the possibility of cheap high-speed internet and clear long-distance telephone calls to all major parts of the globe. Except one. East Africa remains the only large, inhabited coastline cut off from the global fibre-optic ...