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A former aide to Australian supermodel Elle Macpherson told an inquiry Tuesday she was fired after being falsely accused of leaking stories that were in fact obtained by British tabloid phone-hacking.

Starbucks is teaming up with a network of community-based financial institutions to help create jobs. Beginning Tuesday, anyone can make a tax-deductable contribution at a Starbucks store or online to the Create Jobs for USA Fund.

After falling short in his bid to become Alberta’s new premier, Gary Mar’s consolation prize is a new $264,500 a year job as the province’s representative in Asia.

The former cabinet minister ­accepted the job offer from Premier Alison Redford, who narrowly beat Mar two weeks ago on the second ballot of the Progressive Conservative leadership race.

A sluggish domestic economy and a debt crisis in Europe continue to create problems in the nation’s financial hub, as Wall Street firms prepare to cut thousands of jobs in New York City.

Nearly 10,000 workers in the securities industry in New York could lose their jobs through the end of next year, according to a report issued Tuesday by the state comptroller, Thomas P. DiNapoli, bringing the total cuts for New York in the sector to 32,000 since January 2008.

Officials on Tuesday applauded an aircraft maintenance company’s plan to create 259 new jobs within 18 months, but acknowledged it does not make up for the loss of more than 8,000 jobs when DHL closed its U.S. freight hub near Wilmington.