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Cash-strapped banks mobbed in Zimbabwe Armed riot police have been out in force for a second day as thousands of Zimbabweans mobbed banks, unable to access money or cash cheques. On Friday, police dispersed a crowd who smashed a glass window of a building society in a desperate attempt to cash pay cheques. Bank tellers are only able to give customers 10,000 Zimbabwe dollars (about £7) due to a cash shortage created by the country's economic crisis. President Robert Mugabe's government is unable to print enough currency to keep up with inflation and banks have run out of the imported...

<p>DALLAS (AP) Stiff fees by American Airlines Inc. for passengers using paper tickets are designed to eliminate what has become a costly system in favor of electronic ticketing, officials say.</p> <p>The cash-strapped airline will charge $50 for a paper ticket starting immediately, up from $25. Officials say the higher fee is designed to ''increase the incentive'' to use e-tickets.</p>

35 Afghans strapped in seats to be flown home By Nic Fleming (Filed: 28/04/2003) Thirty-five Afghan illegal immigrants are to be strapped to their seats for an eight-hour flight home today. They will be flown non-stop to Afghanistan amid tight security. They are the first of thousands of failed asylum seekers whom the Government plans to remove forcibly from Britain. The Afghans will board a jet at Stansted, Essex, as part of the Home Office's clampdown on illegal immigrants. Medical personnel - and 15 guards wearing stab-proof vests - will accompany the group. The asylum seekers will be subjected to...

<p>California chicken farmers do not pay state sales taxes for products they use as litter and resell as fertilizer.</p> <p>Fuel sold to commercial airlines with destinations outside the United States also is exempt from the state sales and use tax.</p>