- Yahoo Personal Finance
What percentage of your income should go to a mortgage?
Your DTI and the 25% rule are potential ways to determine how much to spend on your mortgage. Learn what percentage of your income should go to your mortgage.
- Associated Press Finance
A pair enjoyed pricey meals and bolted when it was time to pay. Their dine and dash ended in jail
A Welsh couple who dined out on pricey meals and bolted when the bill came is now paying the price — behind bars. Bernard and Ann McDonagh were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for fraud after running up tabs they didn't pay for, including three-course meals, the finest cuts of meat and double portions of dessert. Judge Paul Thomas said in Swansea Crown Court that their dine and dash spree was driven by “pure and utter greed.”
- Reuters
US says Algeria's proposed UN resolution on Rafah is not balanced
Algeria's proposed draft U.N. Security Council resolution on a Gaza ceasefire, which specifically calls for a halt to Israel's offensive in Rafah, is not balanced, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday, saying it does not blame Palestinian militant group Hamas for the conflict. "It is imbalanced and it fails to note a simple fact which is that Hamas is to blame for this conflict," a State Department spokesperson told reporters in a press briefing, without specifying if the U.S. would veto the resolution. Algeria's draft also calls for the release of all hostages held by Hamas.
