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Because of a reporting error, a travel story on Sunday’s Page 2K about the Portuguese town of Oporto incorrectly stated that England colonized Portugal. England only traded with Portugal. Link  Report an error

A headline on Dec. 25 with an article about Herbert and Marion Sandler, bankers and philanthropists whose World Savings Bank originated a type of adjustable-rate mortgage called Pick-a-Pay that has led to many foreclosures as the real estate market and the economy collapsed, described incorrectly the consequences to the Sandlers of the criminal and legal [...]

The Press Complaints Commission has upheld a complaint against the Independent. Here’s the finding, as published by the paper: The Press Complaints Commission has investigated whether an article published on The Independent website under the headline “Chainsaw death was ‘carefully thought through suicide’”, contained excessive detail about the method of suicide used in breach of [...]

The article “Unified standard seen linking mobile world” published yesterday incorrectly stated that telecommunications executive Craig Ehrlich is married to Christine Loh Kung-wai. Statements attributed to Mr Ehrlich that he used the term “wife” to describe his relationship with Ms Loh were in fact not what he said. We apologise for any embarrassment this has [...]

In a Dec. 21 story about wind-generated energy, The Associated Press incorrectly stated how much money Mike Doyle is paid for having wind turbines on his property. He is paid about $35,000 a year, not $35,000 a month.  Report an error

In a January 1 story about new year’s celebrations, the Columbus Dispatch reported that there were fireworks at First Night Columbus’ countdown celebration. Unfortunately, the fireworks didn’t go off. That led to two corrections and a corrective article. First correction: There were no fireworks Downtown on New Year’s Eve for First Night Columbus. (For an [...]

On December 6 we published a letter signed by A J Bennett that suggested Mayor Parker was a friend of David Henderson and that the Mayor had been photographed brandishing dildoes and “doobies” or marijuana joints. Through his legal counsel Mayor Parker has confirmed, and we accept, that he is not and never has been [...]

Defamer (via LAist) took note of the fact that a pre-written obit for Lena Horne went live on Entertainment Weekly’s website back in December: A similar thing happened at CNN.com a few years back, except that was an example of mass obiticide.  Report an error

The Dec. 31 list of notable people who died 2008 contained incorrect information about musician Dave Clark. The Dave Clark Five’s singer Mike Smith died in February. Clark is alive.  Report an error

Cloris Leachman: An article about Cloris Leachman in Thursday’s Calendar section said the actress had competed in the Miss America Pageant in 1964. She was a contestant in 1946.  Report an error

A STORY in The Advertiser yesterday stated that 9030 interstate visitors spent a night holidaying in SA in 2007, with that figure forecast to drop to 8699 this year. The correct figures were 9,030,000 total visitor nights spent in SA in 2007, to drop to 8,699,000 during 2009.  Report an error

Apologies to Ireland, part three: For the third time in a month, we have included the Republic of Ireland in Britain, this time in Review. “The places where the story of Britain is told” (last week) included Dublin and Cork and the Irish writers Roddy Doyle and Colm Tóibín in a survey of British literature. [...]

The headline on a front-page article on Friday, on the role in the housing bubble and consumption binge in the United States played by investment from China, could have been misunderstood. The article described how the United States has been tolerating a huge trade deficit with China while Chinese authorities have invested huge sums in [...]

Seattle weekly The Stranger makes an annual, hilarious  accounting of its mistakes. Some entries are corrections for factual errors; others are regrets of an entirely different nature. Some samples: The February 14 issue of The Stranger referred to Seattle resident Tae Rhee as a “woman.” In fact, Tae Rhee is a man. We regret the [...]

An article last Sunday rendered a comment by Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, incorrectly. On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” she said, “We are targeting Hamas, we are not looking for civilians to kill,” and then added “More than that, during this military operation, we are trying to avoid any kind of civilian casualties.” She did [...]

Boris Johnson did not “tip off” Damian Green, the Tory immigration spokesman, before he was arrested, as we wrongly suggested (Magazine, December 28). Mr Johnson only spoke to Mr Green, who is a friend and colleague, after his arrest. We apologise to Mr Johnson.  Report an error