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RAF Jets Intercept Russian Bomber Two RAF jets have intercepted a Russian bomber over the north Atlantic. Typhoon interceptors shadowed a Russian Tupolev-95 "Bear" reconnaissance aircraft last Friday. It is the first time the £60m Eurofighter has been scrambled on a genuine alert since it took over defence of Britain's... | One of the jets shadowing the bomber shadowed a Russian "Bear-bomber" last Friday, which turned back before it reached UK skies. Two Typhoons were sent from in to meet the Bear-H aircraft after the early warning radar system detected it heading towards UK territory, according to the . The jets cover the UK Quick React... |
Originally published November 18, 2010 at 9:49 AM | Page modified November 18, 2010 at 12:01 PM Comments (0) E-mail article Print view Share Freddy Beras Goico, an actor and comedian considered the most influential television figure in his native Dominican Republic, died Thursday in New York. He was 69. SANTO DOMINGO, ... | Freddy Beras-Goico in 2010 Dominican comedian has died at the age of 69 in the United States. Beras died at the Mount Sinai Medical Center on Thursday in . Admitted to the hospital on November 5, the comedian died on Thursday, three days before his 70th birthday, of . Beras, who started his career as a cameraman in the... |
Shares in Elan tumbled today after a report said that a fourth patient taking its multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri might have contracted a fatal brain disease. Elan halted sales of Tysabri on February 28 after it emerged that one patient had died of a brain disease known as PML, and another was believed to have it. A th... | Irish biotech firm Élan has seen its shares plunge this morning after it revealed that a fourth patient taking its new multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri had contracted a fatal brain disease. Whilst US stock markets have not yet opened for business, Athlone based Élan has suffered a 22% drop on the Irish Stock Exchange an... |
China’s vaccine diplomacy campaign has been a surprising success: It has pledged roughly half a billion doses of its vaccines to more than 45 countries, according to a country-by-country tally by The Associated Press. With just four of China’s many vaccine makers claiming they are able to produce at least 2.6 billion d... | The number of abducted Filipino seafarers in Somali waters rose to 134 with the seizure of the MV Delight on November 18. The seven Filipino seafarers are members of a 25 multi-national crew aboard the Hong Kong registered Iranian ship, whose crew also includes seven Indians, two Pakistanis and two Ghanaians. None of t... |
"We find it incredible that something of this importance, that will affect the aviation landscape for decades to come could be pushed through without being scrutinised robustly through the very process set out by the competition authorities." ||||| The controversial takeover of UK airline bmi by British Airways' parent... | The (EC) has approved yesterday a takeover of loss-making UK airline from by (IAG), owner of British Airways (BA). IAG will have to make concessions after told the EC the deal would be anti-competitive. A bmi Boeing 737 at Edinburgh Airport. Rival Virgin had claimed the sale would give BA excessive dominance in Scotlan... |
Jazz Profiles from NPR Anita O'Day Anita O'Day is a singer's singer. Highly rhythmic with a distinctive sense of phrasing, she was one of the first big band singers to tackle the intricacies of bebop and prevail. She's influenced many, including June Christy and Chris Connor, and now stands as a living legend. Born Ani... | Anita O'Day Anita O'Day, best known for her sassy rendition of "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "Honeysuckle Rose" died in her sleep early Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 2006. She was 87. Known as the "Jezebel of Jazz," she was one of America's most respected jazz vocalists whose vocal contemporaries included Ella Fitzgerald,... |
About CisionJobs.co.uk Formerly Gorkana Jobs, at Cision Jobs you can find the latest job opportunities in PR, Journalism and Editorial from leading employers across all sectors. Create a profile Upload your CV to be visible to employers Create Job alerts tailored to your career goals. ||||| HAITI Préval could be presid... | An opinion poll taken in Haiti from November 6 through 16th shows that former President René Préval leads the race of likely presidential candidates with 30% of those polled. However disqualified candidate Dumarsais Siméus received 34% of those polled, signalling that if Siméus were declared eligible it could be a tigh... |
The deaths occurred in the Bala Baluk district of Farah during a joint military operation targeting the Taliban The deaths occurred in the Bala Baluk district of Farah during a joint military operation targeting the Taliban Rohul Amin, the governor of Farah province where strike took place, said on Wednesday that he fe... | in western region of Afghanistan Afghan officials warned that a United States raid had killed 100 people, "mostly civilians", in the Afghani province of . Among the dead was a member of the (ICRC) and his family. "Twenty-five to 30 of them are Taliban, including from and Pakistan, and the rest are civilians including c... |
The Mozilla Festival took place this weekend and provided journalists, open web developers and educators with a place to learn and to build. Here are six tips from the festival, which was called media, freedom and the web. 1. In less than a week there will be a Data Journalism Handbook. Created in 48 hours with contrib... | Developers and designers working together on projects at Mozilla Festival. In London last weekend, journalists, software developers, filmmakers, designers and many others spent time discussing ideas and building tools at the 2011 Mozilla Festival at . Following the theme of "Media, Freedom and the Web", many attendees ... |
July 29 (Bloomberg) -- British Airways Plc, Europe's third- biggest carrier, started talks to merge with Spain's Iberia Lineas Aereas de Espana SA to lower expenses as slower economies and higher fuel costs wipe out earnings. The airlines want to conduct an ``all-share merger,'' and planes would still fly using the two... | United Kingdom flag carrier British Airways (BA) has entered into merger talks with Spanish airline Iberia Lineas Aereas de Espana SA. BA is already Europe's third-largest airline. This is a British Airways Boeing 747-400. The proposed all-share merger of BA and Iberia, meanwhile, is approved by the boards of both comp... |
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Shelley Winters, the forceful, outspoken star who graduated from blond bombshell parts to dramas, winning Academy Awards as supporting actress in "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "A Patch of Blue," has died. She was 85. Winters died of heart failure early Saturday at The Rehabilitation Centre of Be... | Actress Shelly Winters died of heart failure today at The Rehabilitation Centre of Beverly Hills, her publicist, Dale Olson said. She was 85. Winters was hospitalized in October after suffering a heart attack. Winters was the daughter of a tailor's cutter and her mother was a former opera singer. She made her impromptu... |
A still from the five-part programme Controller apology Peter Fincham spoke out after he allowed journalists to see a television trailer which appeared to show the Queen storming out of a photo shoot. He said showing the footage, which had misrepresented the sequence of events, was a regrettable "human error". The BBC ... | Queen Elizabeth II The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has apologised to Queen Elizabeth II and photographer, Annie Leibovitz, after a trailer for a documentary suggested she had walked out of a portrait sitting when the photographer asked her to remove her crown. The trailer shows a clip of the photographer tel... |
After the win against Lazio, Joshua Kimmich was named Man of the Match. Read why here. Bayern run and a unique goalscorer Facts on a last 16 win over Lazio that was full of records In the quarter-finals for the 19th time and 19 games unbeaten - here are the most important facts... ||||| Thank you. Your FIFA.com story h... | Munich, Germany The 69,000 capacity crowd at the Allianz Arena of football (soccer) fans watched Bayern pummel the Rostock goal to go top of the table. The match was academic after Klose's 66th minute goal when Rostock keeper Stefan Wächter spilled a Philipp Lahm shot and when he also took his career 1.Bundesliga total... |
PARIS — A curious match of contrasting styles looked no more than halfway over. But as Francesca Schiavone sat in her chair after winning a first-set tie breaker, Elena Dementieva approached. “When I saw her, I thought, Do you need something?” Schiavone said. Dementieva shook Schiavone’s hand and said she was too hurt ... | Samantha Stosur at Roland Garros in 2009 Australia's will compete against Italy's for the women's title in this year's , while 's will go up against 's . In the women's semifinals, Stosur easily defeated , once , while Schiavone's opponent decided to withdraw due to a torn after losing one set to Schiavone. Stosur and ... |
Earthquake Summary Earthquake Summary Poster Tectonic Summary The Banyak Islands, Sumatra earthquake of April 6, 2010 occurred as a result of thrust faulting on or near the subduction interface plate boundary between the Australia-India and Sunda plates. At the location of this earthquake, the Australia and India Plate... | A heavy earthquake has struck near Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, the US Geological Survey reports. It had a magnitude of 7.7, although its original intensity was measured at 7.6. Map indicating the intensity of the earthquake in the immediate vicinity. The star depicts the epicentreAccording to the USGS, the tremor, whi... |
Return to previous page News and Events News and Events Oneida, New York Derailment Response Efforts Continue Released: Mar 12, 2007 Updated 1 p.m., March 13 - CSX Transportation provided the following update regarding the Oneida, New York, train derailment, which occurred at 7 a.m. on March 12. Today, working closely ... | A freight train traveling from Buffalo to derailed in , New York. No injuries have yet been reported as a result of the accident. It is not yet known what caused the accident; CSX and NTSB officials are investigating. Twenty six of the train's 79 cars derailed around 7:00 a.m. local time; the derailment led to the expl... |
Alice Cooper is due to play at the festival on Saturday Police say two people have been found dead at a music festival in southern Norway headlined by Alice Cooper. The victims were found in or near a bus at the Norway Rock Festival in Kvinesdal, 270 miles southwest of Oslo. "We do not know exactly how they died, but w... | Vest-Agder, Norway, county containing Kvinesdal. Two people have been found dead by police at Norway Rock Festival in Kvinesdal. They were on or near a bus that six to eight others were found outside and hospitalized. It is thought that the deaths were due to carbon monoxide poisoning. "We do not know exactly how they ... |
MADRID, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Sevilla midfielder Antonio Puerta, one of Spain's most promising young players, died on Tuesday three days after collapsing during a Primera Liga match. The 22-year-old Spanish international had been in a critical condition in the Virgen del Rocio hospital in Seville since being admitted on S... | Seville, Spain Sevilla midfielder Antonio Puerta died today at the age of 22. Puerta had been in critical condition at Virgen del Rocio hospital since collapsing during a game against Getafe. Puerta's body will be taken to the club's stadium where fans could pay their respects. He will be buried on Thursday. Puerta col... |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush’s fellow Republicans in the Senate on Wednesday blocked a Democratic proposal to force him to withdraw American combat troops from Iraq after a rare round-the-clock debate. The action prompted weary and frustrated Senate Democrats to postpone consideration of other m... | After a rare all-night session, the United States Senate voted today at 11 a.m. EST on the motion to invoke of the Levin/Reed Amendment (S.Amdt. 2087) which would begin a pullout of United States troops from Iraq, but only 52 votes were cast in favor of the amendment and 47 were cast against it, falling short of the 60... |
Molotov cocktails and rocks were thrown as supporters of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood clashed with opposition demonstrators staging a sit-in protest today near the presidential palace. By early afternoon local time, a large pro-government group laid claim to the area in a mass show of force, forcing opponents to Presiden... | At least two people in Cairo, Egypt have died after clashes at the presidential palace broke out between supporters and opponents of president Mohamed Morsi. Dozens more were injured. On Tuesday night, opponents of Morsi set up tents and began camping outside the palace. On Wednesday, reports say supporters of Morsi st... |
Bulgaria's Georgiev aims for chess world record SOFIA (AFP) — Bulgarian grandmaster Kiril Georgiev on Saturday began 360 chess games in an attempt to break the world record for the largest number of simultaneous games played. "Georgiev began playing 360 games Saturday morning," Bulgarian chess federation chief Stefan S... | Kiril Georgiev at the EuroChess Iraklion in 2007Kiril Georgiev, a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, began playing 360 simultaneous games of chess on Saturday, in an attempt to break the world record for the most games played simultaneously. The games are being hosted at the Inter Expo Centre in Sofia, the capital of Bulgari... |
Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has unveiled his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Starr gave his familiar sign of peace at the ceremony on Monday, which took place for the first time under nightfall. Starr's induction comes less than a year after Sir Paul McCartney helped unveil a star for their late Beatles band... | Ringo Starr, who is a member of The Beatles, was given his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday. Ringo Starr in 2007 The event, which was also celebrating fifty years since the pavement was founded, took place during the night for the first time. Starr was the 2401st individual to have a star awarded on the... |
Child hospitalized after ride accident at Puyallup Fair Two children were taken to a Puyallup-area hospital Friday night after a ride at the Puyallup Spring Fair tipped, but the injuries were not life-threatening. The Lolly Swings, part of the child ride section, had roughly a dozen kids on board when the accident occu... | Pierce County. At least twelve children have been injured after a swing ride at the Puyallup, Washington Spring Fair toppled over. The ride is called a 'LollySwing', which is located in Kiddyland, where the riders sit in swings while the machine spins them around. It is owned by Funtastic Traveling Shows which has been... |
Patrick Swayze dead at 57 1 2 next Patrick Swayze (Getty Images) LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood is mourning the loss of actor Patrick Swayze who died Monday after a two year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.The "Ghost" and "Dirty Dancing" star "passed away peacefully with family at his side after facing the challenge... | Patrick Swayze, 1952 - 2009 Image credit: Alan Light Singer, songwriter and actor Patrick Swayze died on Monday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer at the age of 57. Swayze was born Patrick Wayne Swayze on August 18, 1952 in Houston, Texas, USA. He starred in the 1987 film ''Dirty Dancing'', and also had a hit s... |
China corruption problem 'still very serious' - report There was public anger over the activities of Wen Qiang, executed after he was convicted of rape and taking bribes China says its corruption problem is "still very serious" and has set out new measures to tackle it. In a new report on the fight against corruption, ... | A report by the Chinese government states is "very serious". Officials, it says, have investigated over 240,000 cases in the past seven years including and . Shanghai, China. The document, released by state news agency '''', states although "notable" steps have been made towards fighting corruption, attempts to flush o... |
Los manifestantes teñían las calles con el color amarillo y verde de la camiseta de la selección de fútbol de Brasil durante una jornada de protesta que se extenderá en más de 400 ciudades. ||||| Agosto 18, 2006 Víctor Hugo Cevallos | PENIPE, Chimborazo La ceniza volcánica llegó hasta Guayaquil. También a lugares de Lo... | File photo of Tungurahua, as seen from the north (2004) The eruption of volcano Tungurahua on August 16 destroyed several small villages in the Ecuadorian Andes. At least 6 people have been killed and about 4000 residents of the affected area have been evacuated. The 5,023 m high volcano spat lava, stones and ash for s... |
The US bailed out AIG, in effect judging it too large to fail US insurance giant AIG paid out a total of $218m (£150m) in bonuses after accepting bail-out cash, according to a senior US official. Documents obtained by Connecticut's attorney general showed AIG's payout was $53m, or 32%, more than was previously estimate... | The AIG building lobby at 70 Pine Street in New York CityA senior United States official has stated that the US insurance firm (AIG) has paid out US$218 million in bonuses to its executives, after receiving over $180 billion in federal aid from the government. The number is higher than the earlier figure of $165 millio... |
Christian Wulff is congratulated by German Chancellor Angela Merkel after it was announced that he won the German presidential election after a third round of voting at the Reichstag. Photograph: Barbara Sax/AFP/Getty Images Christian Wulff, candidate of Germany's centre-right coalition to become president, narrowly wo... | Wulff in 2009. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's candidate, , was elected Germany's new President on Wednesday. Wulff was a candidate of Germany's centre-right coalition. Wulff won 600 votes in the first round; 615 in the second and 625 in the third and final round, beating , who reached 494 votes. "Ladies and gentleme... |
MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Spain's jobless rate rose sharply, to 17.36 percent in the first quarter, with just over 4 million people out of work, the government said Friday. The collapse of the real estate boom in Spain has driven unemployment rates to record levels. Nearly half of the 4 million lost their jobs in the past... | According to official statistics, Spain's jobless rate reached 17.4%, with slightly more than four million people unemployed. The figures have doubled over the past twelve months, the National Statistics Institute reports. The numbers are an increase over the previous jobless rate of 13.9%, which was revised in the fou... |
Local big wave rider Cristian Merello, 28, has won the Quiksilver Ceremonial Punta de Lobos Big Wave Invitational, presented by Suzuki, staged in waves of up to 30 feet today. The event launched the 2010-2011 Big Wave World Tour that Merello now leads. Merello employed patience, local knowldege and a determined effort ... | Promotional poster of the championship. The famous rocks of . The Surf Championship Competition, "Ceremonial Quiksilver Pichilemu 2010", took place on Wednesday in the Chilean city nicknamed "Capital of the Surf", Pichilemu. Waves nine meters high or larger were predicted in , six kilometers from the urban centre of Pi... |
Lower Manhattan fell silent at 8.46am this morning, the moment when eight years ago the first jet crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Centre. Ground Zero, still a construction site after so long, was filled with victims' relatives and volunteers under thick rain clouds in utter contrast to the clear metalli... | After eight years, the 9/11 attacks have been remembered in New York, in the United States at the site of the former World Trade Center. Other memorial services were held at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. U.S. President Barack Obama attended a memorial service at the Pentagon. In a speech Obama stated, ... |
A selection of our best photos from the past seven days from India. 1 of 4. A woman carries her baby to a safe place in Banda Aceh after a strong earthquake struck Indonesia province April 11, 2012. BANDA ACEH, Indonesia | BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - A powerful 8.6 magnitude earthquake and a series of strong afte... | An 8.6 magnitude earthquake occurred off the Indonesian coast at 08:38:37 UTC today, causing a tsunami watch to be issued over the entire Indian Ocean. According to the , the quake struck at a point 308 miles (495 km) southwest of , the provincial capital, located on the northern extremity of the country's island, at a... |
The home and office of publisher Martin Rynja, who was targeted by alleged extremists Book link probed after petrol bomb A suspected petrol bomb attack on the home of a publisher may be linked to a controversial book about the prophet Mohammed, it has emerged. Two men were arrested outside a home in Lonsdale Square, in... | Four people have been arrested on terrorism charges in Islington, London, England, after a suspected petrol bombing on the house of Martin Rynja, owner of book publishing company Gibson Square. His company recently sparked controversy after buying the rights to publish ''The Jewel of Medina'', a work of fiction by Sher... |
A British security worker could face the death penalty in Iraq after he was arrested on suspicion of the murder of two colleagues during an argument in Baghdad's Green Zone. The contractor, named by sources as Daniel Fitzsimons, was being questioned by Iraqi police over the death of Paul McGuigan, a Briton, and Darren ... | Authorities in Iraq have charged a British man with the murder of his two colleagues from security contractor ArmorGroup. Daniel Fitzsimons is suspected of murdering fellow Briton Paul McGuigan and Australian Darren Hoare. Three men were shot in the incident yesterday, which occured in ArmorGroup's Baghdad compound. In... |
Thousands of striking teachers have marched in England and Wales Nearly a third of schools in England and Wales have been disrupted, and one in 10 closed completely during the biggest teachers' strike in 21 years. The National Union of Teachers (NUT) said thousands of members had heeded its strike for a 4.1% pay rise. ... | The ''BBC'' has reported that 8000 schools have been fully or partially closed by today’s national UK teachers strike. The majority of state schools in the city of Bristol are closing for the strike, although many of the schools for students age 16+ are expected to remain open. Some schools that originally said they wo... |
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a way to produce a cheap and reusable diagnostic "lab on a chip" with the help of an ordinary inkjet printer. At a production cost of as little as 1 cent per chip, the new technology could usher in a medical diagnostics revolution like the kind br... | On Monday, scientists from the announced the invention of a new diagnostic tool that can sort cells by type: a tiny printable chip that can be manufactured using standard inkjet printers for possibly about one U.S. each. Lead researchers say this may bring early detection of cancer, tuberculosis, HIV and malaria to pat... |
NZPA Sir Graham Collingwood Liggins, described as one of New Zealand's greatest scientists and who undertook groundbreaking obstetrical research, has died at the age of 84 after a long illness. Liggins - known to his friends and colleagues as Mont - was born in Thames on June 24, 1926. He followed his father into medic... | , a New Zealand scientist whose research saved the lives of numerous , has died at the age of 84. He died after suffering from a long illness. Liggins followed in his father’s footsteps and entered a career in medicine. He trained as an and began to work at the in 1959. While he was working at the hospital Liggins bega... |
Profile: 'Chemical Ali' Ali Hassan al-Majid, a former Iraqi official known as "Chemical Ali", has been executed by hanging, a government spokesman has announced. Majid, an enforcer in Saddam Hussein's regime and his cousin, had earlier been sentenced to death four times for genocide and crimes against humanity. Earlier... | File photo of Ali Hassan al-Majid at a hearing in 2004. Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam Hussein convicted in Iraq of genocide and crimes against humanity, is dead. "The condemned Ali Hassan al-Majid has been executed by hanging until death today", said Ali al-Dabbagh, a government spokesman. "Chemical Ali", as ... |
Talk to a domain expert: 1-303-893-0552 Hurry - once it's sold this opportunity will be gone! Besides being memorable, .com domains are unique: This is the one and only .com name of its kind. Other extensions usually just drive traffic to their .com counterparts. To learn more about premium .com domain valuations, watc... | Indonesian authorities are conducting tests on samples taken from a suspected bird flu patient who died on Thursday, May 5. The 26-year-old poultry trader from Sukoharjo, Central Java, died after being hospitalized for three days. If confirmed, this will be the 95th case of human H5N1 infection in Indonesia. The Indone... |
JERUSALEM – Benjamin Netanyahu appealed to his moderate rivals Friday to join a unity government a tricky alliance that would let the hawkish Israeli leader avoid relying on an unstable grouping of right-wingers almost sure to collide with the Obama administration and each other. "I call on the members of all the fac... | (בִּנְיָמִין "ביבי" נְתַנְיָהוּ) was the 9th and is Chairman of the Party. Today, Shimon Peres has selected leader to form the government of the 18th . 65 Members of Knesset informed the President of their preference of Netanyahu to head the government. President Peres was persuaded by two factors to choose Likud over... |
» AIRS: Saturdays 3 p.m. ET / Sundays 5 p.m. ET Finding the roots of modern humans DNA study may reveal who we are, where we came from By Marsha Walton CNN (CNN) -- "Genographic" is not showing up in many dictionaries yet. But two global institutions, IBM and the National Geographic Society, hope the idea it conveys be... | Human Genetics Genetics researchers announced today that they will beginning a five-year plan to create a map of human migrations based on DNA mapping. The "Genographic Project" will be funded by the Waitt Family Foundation, IBM Corporation, and the National Geographic Society, and plans to collect 100,000 samples of D... |
The FIFA ethics committee cleared FIFA president Sepp Blatter of corruption but suspended one-time presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam and FIFA vice-president Jack Warner yesterday. The committee, chaired by Nambibian Petrus Damaseb, heard 62-year-old Qatari bin Hammam, Warner and Blatter during a dramatic day wh... | Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, has been cleared of any wrongdoing as two senior officials have been suspended. FIFA has suspended two of its senior officials amid allegations that they bribed voters ahead of the organization's presidential election, while Sepp Blatter has been cleared of ignoring these activities... |
DELAVAN, Wis. --Twin infant boys were among six people found shot to death in a home after a domestic dispute erupted into a barrage of gunfire that some neighbors shrugged off as pre-Fourth of July firecrackers. A 2-year-old girl was found in a nearby van seriously wounded with a gunshot in her chest. A male family me... | The location of Delavan in the state of Wisconsin. Six people have been killed and one wounded in a shooting incident inside a home in Delavan, Wisconsin. The injured girl, 2, was shot in the chest, and is currently being treated at University of Wisconsin in Madison. Police have not released the names of those shot. A... |
Why did this happen? Please make sure your browser supports JavaScript and cookies and that you are not blocking them from loading. For more information you can review our Terms of Service and Cookie Policy. ||||| For Microsoft Corp., it was likely a relief to end its fiscal year on a more positive note. After startlin... | Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT, HKSE:4338) has announced plans to buy back US$40 billion of its stock between now and 2011. (All further figures in this article are in U.S. Dollars.) Microsoft, the world's largest maker of computer software, will make a tender offer to repurchase $20 billion of its own stock by Aug... |
Thousands in Va. get minimum-wage boost Today, about 51,000 of Virginia's hourly workers will get a raise. That's the number -- out of 1.84 million hourly workers in the state -- who made the minimum wage of $5.15 an hour or less in 2006, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The minimum wage rises 70 cents... | A federally mandated minimum wage increase for U.S. workers goes into effect today. The 70 cents per hour increase, from US$5.15 to $5.85, is the first hike since 1997. The increase, which was approved by Congress in May, is the first stage of a 3-step increase over the next two years. Next summer, the minimum will inc... |
Louis Walsh Pays Tribute To His Friend Gately Boyzone manager Louis Walsh has paid tribute to Stephen Gately, remembering him as a "great, great professional kid". Louis Walsh arriving at the airport after Stephen Gately died The pop guru said he was still in shock over the band member's sudden death, which has been pu... | Boyzone manager Louis Walsh has paid tribute to the late Stephen Gately, who died unexpectedly on Saturday of "natural causes". Louis, who was a close friend of Stephen, described Gately as a "one-off". He stated: "We're all in shock. Nobody can believe it — the guys, me, nobody. We are in shock. The boys are devastate... |
BEIJING (Reuters) - Authorities in southwestern China have ordered three batches of milk products off shelves because they contain a chemical that killed at least six children in 2008, causing global concern over the made-in-China brand. Health The health department in Guizhou province stopped the sales of dairy produc... | Shelves lie bare in China after the 2008 recall The health department in Guizhou province, China has ordered three batches of milk products to be removed from sale after the discovery they contain melamine. In 2008 six children were killed by milk contaminated with the chemical and 300,000 fell ill. The department has ... |
TWO military cadets engaged in a calculated plan to entrap a fellow cadet into a filmed sexual encounter, and then lied to investigators to cover it up, police alleged at the pair's first court appearance. The allegations were heard hours after police arrested first-year officer cadets Daniel McDonald, 19, and Dylan De... | The ADFA shield. (ADFA) cadets Daniel McDonald, 19, and Dylan De Blaquiere, 18, were arrested and appeared in court Friday after allegations were made that they filmed a female cadet having sex and then broadcasted it over the internet, lying about it afterwards. They were released on bail. The female complainant, 18,... |
Penguins force Game 6 with triple-OT stunner Ryan Whitney and Petr Sykora of the Pittsburgh Penguins celebrate the triple overtime winner in Game 5. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images) Ryan Whitney and Petr Sykora of the Pittsburgh Penguins celebrate the triple overtime winner in Game 5. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)... | Inside Joe Louis Arena, Detroit Pittsburgh denied the Detroit Red Wings a Stanley Cup on Monday as it won 4-3 in overtime on Monday's Game 5 of North America's premiere ice hockey championship. ===Game synopsis=== Pittsburgh's Petr Sýkora in February 2008 Pittsburgh gained a 2-0 lead in the first period with goals by M... |
Bird flu victims to be buried in plague pits Sunday, 2nd April 2006, 18:21 Category: Healthy Living LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - More than a third of a million British victims of bird flu are to be buried in plague pits if an outbreak of the deadly disease takes hold, a leaked government report revealed. Mass burials simila... | Human Disease from Influenza A (H5N1), Thailand, 2004 left A report titled: ''Managing Excess Deaths in an Influenza Pandemic'' dated March 22, 2006, leaked from the Home Office in the United Kingdom states that the U.K. is preparing 'mass graves' in the event that the Avian Flu Bird Flu mutates. It also states that, "... |
Fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City left at least six dead on Saturday US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has made an unannounced visit to the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. She said she hoped to see further reconciliation of the various sectarian groups in Iraq. Ms Rice said she saw a "coalescing of a centre in Iraqi politic... | Miss Rice will meet with Gulf nations in Kuwait on Tuesday where she will push for more support for Iraq United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has arrived in Baghdad's Green Zone for a previously unannounced visit to Iraq. Yesterday Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr threatened an "open war" against the current Ir... |
Former snooker commentator Ted Lowe has died at 90, the BBC has learned. Lowe, born in Berkshire, became a household name through the hit television show Pot Black in 1969 and retired after the 1996 world final. He died on the morning of the first session of the 2011 Snooker World Championship final in Sheffield. Lowe'... | Lowe started his broadcasting career in the 1940s British snooker commentator has died at the age of 90. Lowe, who received the nickname "Whispering Ted" due to his broadcasting style commentated on many of snooker's biggest events including the between and . His death has come on the same day as the first session of t... |
On one side is the Church of Scientology, freshly boosted by a $10m donation from the actor Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson. On the other is what the self-styled church has dismissed as a "pathetic" collection of "computer geeks": a maverick band of hackers who have launched an online war against the organi... | A protest against the Church of Scientology organized by the Internet-based group "Anonymous" held in Orlando, Florida drew 100 people on Saturday. The group "Anonymous" formed a movement called Project Chanology in response to what it views as suppression of freedom of speech on the Internet by the Church of Scientolo... |
ANKARA, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Turkish police arrested four more army officers on Saturday in a widening probe into a possible coup plot that has increased tension between the Islamist-rooted government and secularists. The case, known as Ergenekon, has affected financial markets in the EU candidate country and threatens t... | Turkish police arrested two colonels and two lieutenants Saturday as part of a wide-reaching probe into a suspected coup plot. The arrests are the latest related to an alleged clandestine neonationalist organization referred to as "Ergenekon". The Ergenekon case has had adverse effects on financial markets in Turkey, a... |
Makua brush fire contained Posted: Saturday, July 24, 2010 11:23 PM EDT Updated: Monday, July 26, 2010 2:13 AM EDT MAKUA (HawaiiNewsNow) - The large brush fire that burned up part of the Makua Valley hillside is now contained. Sky News Now got an exclusive view over Makua's Northern ridge where flames have burned about... | Picture of wildfire in Makua Valley taken from Farrington Highway A wildfire rages along the mountainside of Makua Valley near Kaeana Point, on the Hawaiian island of . firefighters were called in at 2 pm yesterday (local time). A ''Wikinews'' contributor was on the scene with a camera. Local and federal firefighters ... |
For two years an Oregon woman tried without success to get mistakes in her Equifax credit report fixed. Now a jury has awarded her $18.6 million for her trouble. Justin Baxter, one of the attorneys representing Julie Miller of Marion County, Ore., tells ABC he believes the judgment is unprecedented in its size. "I'm no... | A jury awarded Julie Miller of , Oregon 18.6 million last Friday in a federal lawsuit against . The lawsuit claimed she spent two years trying to get Information Services to fix major mistakes on her credit report which cost her the opportunities to get new credit. left Miller said she had contacted Equifax several tim... |
A LANDMARK hardware shop in Port Adelaide, which is more than 90 years old, has closed unexpectedly, leaving about 40 workers without a job. A sign at the front of Manns Mitre 10 reads the landlords have repossessed the property over outstanding rent totalling $315,000. Another says the Robe St shop has been closed unt... | Wednesday, an over-90-year-old Manns , run by ''Alex P Mann Pty Ltd'', closed until further notice after a rent dispute in , South Australia. The rent dispute involved $315,060.70 of rent for months of September 2012 to January 2013 unpaid to the landlord, ''Fourteen Sails Pty Ltd''. The site was . The store had to fir... |
NEWS RELEASE Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3JR Out of Hours Tel: 020 7270 8960 Out of Hours Fax: 020 7270 8125 Up to index 469/05 21 October 2005 CONFIRMED CASE OF AVIAN FLU IN IMPORTED PARROT PICKED UP IN QUARANTINE A highly pathogenic H5 Avian Flu virus ... | Bird Flu has been found in a parrot under quarantine which was being imported from Surinam, South America. It has been confirmed as the lethal H5N1 strain found predominantly in Asia. It is speculated that the flu might have originated from Taiwanese birds which had previously been kept with the South American birds, a... |
http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=1139053637 People have been ordered off the streets of Jaipur - the day after a series of bomb blasts devastated areas of the Indian city popular with tourists. ; http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1488655367/bctid1553184749 The seven bombs killed 80 people inclu... | Rajasthan, IndiaAccording to police sources, a series of seven coordinated bombs detonated in Jaipur, the capital of the state Rajasthan, in India on Tuesday, May 13. At least eighty people were killed and over two hundred injured in the attacks. The bombs went off over a period of twenty minutes and tore through the c... |
HIGH-profile science commentator Dr Karl Kruszelnicki is turning his attention to politics, with tilt at the Senate. Dr Karl, as he is best known, said today he would run for the Senate as a candidate with the Climate Change Coalition after becoming "more and more concerned" with the way big issues were being tackled. ... | Dr Karl Dr Karl Kruszelnicki has announced that he will run for the Australian senate in the upcoming federal election. Kruszelnicki will be number two on the Climate Change Coalition's New South Wales Senate ticket. "I'm in the business of communicating important ideas. I've dedicated my life to it. This is another wa... |
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) – Bahraini security forces fanned out across the island nation in unprecedented numbers on Tuesday as Shiites marked the one-year anniversary of their uprising against the country's Sunni rulers. Authorities sent troop reinforcements and armored vehicles to the predominantly Shiite villages around ... | In Bahrain, tension is building between the opposition protesters who want to revive last year's marches, and government authorities who are trying to maintain control over protest activities. A planned march by the to Manama's former , to mark the beginning of last year's protests, was overwhelmed by the security surr... |
T O P S T O R Y RELATED LINKS Russel Norman named Greens co-leader 04 June 2006 Russel Norman was elected yesterday as Green Party co-leader, filling the spot left vacant after Rod Donald's death late last year. Mr Norman, 39, was elected on the first ballot by delegates at the party's annual conference in Silverstream... | New Zealand Green party has elected a new party co-leader, Russel Norman at the AGM this weekend. Russel Normans election to co-leader follows the death of previous co-leader, Rod Donald. Russel Norman, 39-year-old, was elected on the first ballot at Silverstream, Upper Hutt on the Greens Annual General Meeting. Norman... |
On the first day of its meeting in Sydney, the FIFA Executive Committee decided to suspend the Iraqi Football Association (IFA) as of today, 26 May 2008, following the governmental decree passed on 20 May which dissolved the Iraqi National Olympic Committee and all national sport federations, including the IFA. The FIF... | The FIFA Executive Committee decided to suspend the Iraqi as of May 26, 2008, following government interference. The Iraqi Government dissolved the Iraqi National Committee and all national sport federations, including the Iraqi Football Association. The suspension for Iraq is from all tournaments for 12 months. The FI... |
March 04, 2006 Dennett responds to the Wieseltier Review of his book For those of you who have not been following this controversy, have a look at this first. Dennet himself has now protested Wieseltier's review in a letter to the New York Times Book Review: Apparently The New York Times Book Review has discovered a ne... | Professor of philosophy Daniel Dennett's (Tufts University) new book ''Breaking the Spell'' uses the scientific method commonly employed to analyze natural phenomena in order to examine religion. ''The New York Times''' February 20th review by Leon Wieseltier, which was strongly negative, has sparked debate about the m... |
Odwołanie Leppera Samoobrona z koalicji chce wyjść, ale Lepper ją zatrzymał Zobacz wideo Rafał Zakrzewski: Niebywały thriller i przyśpieszenie Zobacz wideo Rafał Zakrzewski: Czy będą wybory? Zobacz wideo Lepper powiedział na konferencji prasowej, że na wtorkowym posiedzeniu klubu parlamentarzyści Samoobrony "jednogłośn... | Andrzej Lepper, the leader of Self-Defence. Andrzej Lepper, the now-former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, as well as Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland announced on Tuesday that his party is "conditionally" staying on in the governing coalition. The only condition is to show "so-called seri... |
Latest on Georgia (21/08/2008) Latest developments Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, travelled to Tbilisi after the NATO Foreign Ministers meeting to meet Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. After the NATO Foreign Ministers meeting on Tuesday 19 August NATO issued a press release outlining their concerns about the... | Several governments and the United Nations have expressed concern over the current situation in South Ossetia. Carl Bildt, the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, has said that "the way in which the situation in South Ossetia has deteriorated is cause for profound concern. It is extremely important that all those inv... |
About 50,000 residents have been told to evacuate from an area around the volcano [Reuters] Scientists in the Philippines have warned that one of the country's most active volcanoes could be on the brink of a major eruption. The alert around the Mayon volcano has already triggered the evacuation of more than 20,000 res... | Tens of thousands of people were evacuated from areas near Mount Mayon in the Philippines on Tuesday, after the lava started flowing out of the volcano. Local scientists caution that Mayon might be on the verge of a powerful eruption. "After the series of ash puffs and ash explosions of 1,000 metres, we cannot rule out... |
CAIRO, April 5 (Xinhua) -- A 6-year-old Egyptian boy has contracted the bird flu virus, bringing the human cases of the fatal avian influenza to 63 in the populous country, Egyptian Health Ministry said Sunday. The boy, Ali Mahmoud Ali, comes from northern Egyptian governorate of Qalyubiya, some 40 km north of Cairo, t... | The Egyptian Health Ministry reported on Sunday that a six-year-old Egyptian boy contracted bird flu, the sixth such incident in a month. The child was hospitalised on March 28, reported to be in critical condition after treatment, and is breathing with an artificial respirator. The state news agency MENA revealed that... |
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, one of President Bush's closest confidants and a key architect of his controversial counterterrorism policies, announced yesterday that he is quitting after seven months of bitter confrontation with Congress over his honesty and his competence to run the Justice Department. His res... | Department of Justice portrait. US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, after several months of controversy, today announced his resignation after 13 years of public service. He will leave office on September 17, 2007. While he did not elaborate on the circumstances of his departure, he referred to his tenure as a "remar... |
Toespraak van H.M. de Koningin 28 januari 2013 Zoals u allen weet, hoop ik over enkele dagen mijn 75ste verjaardag te vieren. Ik ben dankbaar dat het mij gegund is deze dag in goede gezondheid tegemoet te gaan. Aan het éinde van dit jaar zullen wij herdenken dat ons land tweehonderd jaar geleden een koninkrijk werd, wa... | of the in On Monday at 19:00 local time (1800 ), of the Netherlands held a speech on radio and television, announcing she will abdicate the throne on April 30. is to become King of the Netherlands. Prior to the Queen's announcement, local media suggested she would abdicate. Following the Queen's address, Dutch prime m... |
TOKYO - Wind shear may have caused the crash of a FedEx jet that cartwheeled on the runway at Tokyo's main international airport and burst into a fireball, investigators said Monday, but experts noted that the model was notoriously difficult to land. The American pilot and co-pilot — the only two people on board — were... | at On Monday, a cargo jet flying from Guangzhou, China to Tokyo, Japan crash-landed at Tokyo's at around 7 a.m. local time. The plane landed during high winds, and bounced twice upon landing before flipping over and bursting into flames. Firecrews were dispatched to the scene, and the airport was closed. The fire subs... |
Minimum Wage Increased After Nine Years PITTSBURGH – Some 420,000 hard-working Pennsylvanians will have a chance to make a better life for themselves and their families with Governor Edward G. Rendell’s signing of Senate Bill 1090, legislation to increase the state’s minimum wage for the first time in nine years. “Rais... | North Carolina Governor Mike Easley signed into law a new minimum wage for the U.S. state Thursday. The increase of US$1 will raise the rate to US$6.15. Easley said that the new law will make it easier for North Carolinians to deal with the rising cost of living. The new law will become effective on January 1 next year... |
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement Canadian fighter jets have escorted a Cathay Pacific airliner to land at Vancouver airport after receiving an alert of a bomb threat, officials said. The Vancouver-bound flight, which originated from Hong Kong, landed safely at 1340 (2040 GMT) ... | A file image of a Canadian CF-18 A passenger aircraft from Hong Kong was escorted by two Canadian military aircraft after the pilot issued an alert of a bomb threat to the aircraft. The aircraft landed without incident at at around 1340 local time (2040 ). Passengers were initially kept on board the aircraft before bei... |
Articles No Laws – Just Pirates The pirates of the World Wide Web are going to create their own, independent from the rest of the world, island-nation. It will be situated in the Northern Sea. The island will serve as a protection against the laws concerning copyrights. The Swedish file-exchange network, called "The Pi... | Sealand. Location of Sealand. The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing website based in Sweden, seeks to purchase its own island nation in an attempt to escape copyright laws. A group of people has launched a campaign to collect money via the Internet to acquire a former British sea platform situated in the North Sea, six miles ... |
Australian foreign ministerís comments on Fiji Media Decree exaggerated : SMITH JOHNS 4:04 pm GMT+12, 29/06/2010, Fiji The reported comments of Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith on Fiji’s Media Industry Development Decree is grossly exaggerated and taken out of context, says the Permanent Secretary for ... | The military-controlled government of Fiji has imposed restrictions on foreign media ownership and jail terms for journalists whose work violates the "public interest or order". Australia's Foreign Minister has publically condemned the Fiji Media Decree which went into effect Monday. The decree, the full title of which... |
The Big Brother race row spilled into the world of politics The Bollywood actress watched prime minister's questions in the Commons before meeting Mr Blair afterwards and declaring: "He was very sweet." She was invited by Labour MP Keith Vaz, who was among those who criticised the TV show after Ms Shetty's treatment by... | Shilpa Shetty (Credit: Fayyaz Ahmed) Tony Blair The winner of the British television reality show Celebrity Big Brother, Shilpa Shetty expressed her gratitude to Prime Minister Tony Blair during a meeting at the U.K. Houses of Parliament. The Bollywood actress observed prime minister's question time in the Commons befo... |
The Glynn County Police Department Patrol Division responded to the Canal Mobile Home Park Thursday shortly after 8pm after a 6-year-old boy was reported missing. Today, police told WTOC they're treating this case as an abduction. Christopher Barrios, Jr., was last seen around 6:15pm walking home from a neighbor's hous... | Christopher Michael Barrios, Jr. Six-year-old Christopher Michael Barrios, Jr. has been missing since Thursday night. He was last seen near his home in the Canal Mobile Home Park just north of Brunswick, Georgia. He is a hispanic/black male, 3'06" - 4'00", and 60-70 lbs. He has short black hair and brown eyes, and was ... |
An early evening launch for Ariane The first wholly home-designed and built telecommunications satellite for Japan has gone safely into orbit. The Superbird-7 spacecraft went up on an Ariane rocket from Europe's Kourou launch facility in French Guiana. Built by the Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, the satellite will de... | A mockup of an Ariane 5 rocket. At 20:44 GMT on Thursday, an Ariane 5ECA rocket lifted off from ELA-3 (Launch Area 3) at the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana, carrying the Superbird 7 and AMC-21 satellites for the Space Communications Corporation (SCC) of Japan and SES Americom respectively. Just under thirty minut... |
A plane has crashed in the northern US state of Montana, killing 17 people on board, aviation officials say. A witness said the light aircraft crashed in a cemetery as it approached the airport in the town of Butte. A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said several children were among the victims. The pi... | A Pilatus PC-12 similar to the one that crashed in Butte, MontanaAccording to the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a single-engine passenger aeroplane has crashed in Butte, Montana, killing seventeen people. The plane, a turboprop Pilatus PC-12, had departed from Oroville, California. Authorities sa... |
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement OJ Simpson has been found guilty on 12 charges of armed robbery, conspiracy to kidnap and assault with a deadly weapon by a court in the US city of Las Vegas. The former US football star and actor was accused of robbing two sports memorabilia d... | File photo of Simpson After a deliberation of around thirteen hours late last night, a Clark County, Nevada jury convicted University of Southern California alumnus O. J. Simpson and an accomplice of twelve criminal charges. This comes thirteen years to the day after the widely publicised "trial of the century" acquitt... |
The Link You Followed Has Expired This site collects news items from hundreds of news sources and stores them in a database for indexing purposes. It is however not an archiving site, so items get cleared from the database after a certain time. This is what happened to the link you followed. if you followed this link f... | disputed island chain is too small to appear on most maps of the area. Japan refers to the islands as "Sento Shosho" or "Senkaku Retto", the People's Republic of China (PRC) uses the name "Diaoyu Tai", and the Republic of China (Taiwan) calls them "Tiao Yu Tai". Those spelled differently in English, both PRC and ROC us... |
He was, they say, trained and ready to inflict "violent jihad" against Americans. But there is a missing element in this case that has bothered me ever since Hayat was arrested in June 2005 as part of the celebrated bust of what the FBI then claimed was an active al Qaeda cell in the Central Valley town of Lodi. The go... | Hamid Hayat, an American citizen who recently turned 25, was sentenced Monday to 24 years in a federal prison. Hayat was convicted in April, 2006 of providing material support to terrorists and lying to FBI agents about it. The California man was intending to attack hospitals, banks, grocery stores and government build... |
Afghan Parliament Rebukes Karzai by Rejecting Most Cabinet Picks Photo: AP Afghanistan's parliament dealt a blow to President Hamid Karzai Saturday, rejecting most of his nominees for a new Cabinet. It took parliament hours to count the yellow paper ballots cast secretly by more than 200 lawmakers. But after each of th... | Afghan President Hamid Karzai The Afghan parliament has rejected president Hamid Karzai's nominees for his new cabinet. Karzai had nominated 24 persons to fill vacancies, although only seven were approved. Of the nominees rejected include incumbent Energy Minister Ismail Kha, and the incumbent minister of Women's Affai... |
At least 11 people have been killed after a typhoon caused landslides and swamped farmland in the northeast of Philippines. Nine other people were still missing on Sunday after piles of mud and debris swept into a coastal village in Maganelles, burying 12 houses, officials said. Troops, police and villagers used shovel... | ''Dante'', a tropical storm in Southeast Asia, has killed at least eleven people and displaced tens of thousands in the Philippines. Government authorities reported that nine persons were missing after a mudslide resulting from the storm in the coastal village of Maganelles. Regional disaster official Bernardo Alejandr... |
'It takes an entire city to raise an Olympic champion' Officials, groups pay tribute to Lysacek Mayor A. George Pradel officially named Friday, March 26th, as "Evan Lysacek Day" at a Chamber of Commerce lunch attended by more than 400 people Friday at White Eagle Golf Club. After announcing that this was "the liveliest... | Evan Lysacek holds his gold medal during the men's medals ceremony at the 2009 World Figure Skating Championships. Residents of the Chicago suburb of Naperville, Illinois celebrated Evan Lysacek Day last Friday. Held in honor of the gold medalist in figure skating at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, the day started ... |
A seven-year-old boy who hoped to raise £500 for Haiti earthquake relief by cycling five miles around a local park has raised £120,000 in donations and gift aid, with the total still rising. Charlie Simpson's efforts have touched the hearts of people around the world with visitors to his JustGiving website page piling ... | A seven-year-old boy from London, England, has raised more than £100,000 (about US$161,000) on a sponsored bike-ride for victims of the Haiti earthquake, shattering his target of £500 (approximately $800). Yesterday, Charlie Simpson cycled seven laps of a park near his home in Fulham (about five miles, or eight kilomet... |
Turkey has culled more than 300,000 of its birds Health officer Juan Lubroth said it may be spreading despite controls. More than 300,000 birds have been culled. The UN's bird flu co-ordinator says Turkey has revealed that the best prevention is through a rapid response to outbreaks and widespread education. Two people... | The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has asked countries neighbouring Turkey, specifically mentioning Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, to be cautious and take measures to prevent the avian flu, H5N1, from spreading. The UN also warned that civilians in these countries should be given... |
Man who shot John Paul II cleared for release on parole Associated Press ANKARA -- The man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 will be released from a Turkish prison this week after a court decided he had completed his sentence with time served for the attack on the pontiff and crimes committed in his homeland. The full... | Pope John Paul II in St Peter's Sqaure. Mehmet Ali Agca, jailed in 1981 for shooting and injuring former Pope John Paul II in Rome has been released from Turkish prison. A Turkish court had determined that he had already completed his sentence with time served. Agca shot the Pope as he rode around St Peter's Square in ... |
Riot police armed with clubs have dispersed protestors who spent four nights in Minsk's central square demonstrating against Alexander Lukashenko's victory in a disputed presidential election. Around 100 police arrived at Oktyabrskaya Square in the capital of Belarus late last night and stormed the tent camp that had b... | After four days of protesting the disputed election victory of Alexander Lukashenko in , Belarus, protesters have been dispersed by riot police using clubs. Police arrested some 300 protesters in the process of ending the demonstration. The European Union released a statement condemning the arrest of these protestors, ... |
Residents of the settlement of Elon Moreh in the West Bank have cut a pipe carrying drinking water to a nearby Palestinian village, and are using it to fill a small swimming pool located at a picnic site, which was itself built on land owned by the village. The pipe, which carries water to the village of Dir al-Khatab,... | Residents of the Jewish settlement of Elon Moreh in the West Bank have cut a water pipe carrying drinking water to the nearby Palestinian village of Dir al-Khatab, and the rerouted water pipe is being used to fill a swimming pool. The pipe brings fresh drinking water into the pool and drains dirty water back into the v... |
Be a member & get the benefits! Register or login Garuda pilot gets two years for negligence Slamet Susanto , THE JAKARTA POST , YOGYAKARTA | Tue, 04/07/2009 9:10 AM | Headlines Muhammad Marwoto Komar, the pilot of the Garuda jetliner that crash-landed at Yogyakarta’s Adi Sucipto Airport in 2007, killing 21 people on b... | A similar Garuda jet Captain Muhammad Marwoto Komar, the pilot who was controlling Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 when it crashed two years ago, has been jailed for two years. 21 people were killed when the Boeing 737 crashed at Adi Sucipto Airport in Yogyakarta. The court ruled that Article 479G(b) of the Criminal Code h... |
NewsAlert Sign up for our NewsAlert service and have the latest news in astronomy and space e-mailed direct to your desktop. Enter your e-mail address: Privacy note: your e-mail address will not be used for any other purpose. Spaceflight Now + Subscribe to Spaceflight Now Plus for access to our extensive video collecti... | Kosmos-3M A Kosmos-3M carrier rocket has successfully launched the SAR-Lupe 5 satellite, the fifth and final member of the German SAR-Lupe surveillance satellite system. The rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia at 02:20 GMT this morning. The SAR-Lupe system uses Synthetic Aperture radar (SA... |
Central American gang targets vigil on Mexico border By Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published March 28, 2005 NACO, Arizona -- Members of a violent Central America-based gang have been sent to Arizona to target Minuteman Project volunteers, who will begin a monthlong border vigil this weekend to find and report for... | Ebner Anivel Rivera-Paz, A leader of the vicious Mara Salvatruchas(MS-13) gang, has issued orders from his prison cell for his followers to teach the American "Minutemen" volunteers a lesson when they begin patrolling the Mexican border tomorrow. MS-13 gang members are considered to be America's most violent gang wi... |
By Bernd Debusmann, Special Correspondent Fri Dec 1, 9:05 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters)- When radio host Jerry Klein suggested that all Muslims in the United States should be identified with a crescent-shape tattoo or a distinctive arm band, the phone lines jammed instantly. The first caller to the station in Washington s... | When radio host Jerry Klein suggested that all Muslims in the United States should be identified with a crescent-shape tattoo,"the switchboard went from empty to totally jammed within minutes." Some callers agreed with Klein, one saying that, "Not only do you tattoo them in the middle of their forehead but you ship the... |
NINGBO, Zhejiang, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Typhoon Fung-Wong made landfall in east China's Zhejiang Province on Monday, bringing strong wind and downpour. With speed reaching 28 meters per second, Typhoon Fung-Wong landed in coastal areas of Hepu Township, Xiangshan County of Ningbo City, at around 7:35 p.m.. It is current... | Fung-wong on September 20th approaching Taiwan. made landfall in , , China, at about 7:35 p.m (1135 ) yesterday, bringing with it reportedly 100 (60) winds and heavy rains. China prepared for the storms by recalling nearly 33,000 ships and boats to port, and the preemptive evacuation of over 250,000 people from vulner... |
Nov. 30: President Bush vigorously defended his war strategy, refusing to set a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawals and asserting Iraqi troops are proving increasingly capable. NBC's David Gregory reports. ANNAPOLIS, Md. - President Bush, facing growing doubts about his war strategy, said Wednesday that Iraqi troops a... | President Bush during his address to the Naval midshipmen. Photo by Paul Morse U.S. President Bush re-stated his commitment to withdraw troops from Iraq and outlined goals for training Iraqi security forces that will guide such withdrawal. The presidential speech followed from a newly released White House document titl... |
Rolling Rally rumbles through Boston More than one million fans turn out to salute champion Sox Starting just after noon, leaving in more than 20 "Duck Boats," team officials, executives, players, coaches and staff began a three-mile winding journey that began at Fenway Park and ended near Boston City Hall. And there w... | Red Sox relief pitcher Kyle Snyder hosts the trophy above his during Tuesday's "rolling rally" in Boston The Boston Red Sox baseball team, back in Boston today, fresh off their sweep of the Colorado Rockies, paraded down from the venerable Fenway Park onto Boylston Street in Boston making their way through the heart of... |
Pakistan's Defense Minister Barred From Leaving Country Photo: AP Pakistan's defense minister says he was barred from leaving the country late Thursday following a Supreme Court decision that revived corruption charges against him and several senior members of Pakistan's government. Defense Minister Ahmed Mukhtar told ... | Pakistani intelligence officials said earlier today that two suspected US drone attacks in -dominated tribal areas of the country have killed at least a dozen people, although some reports put the number as high as seventeen. The first attack targeted a vehicle carrying two suspected militants in the town of Dosali, in... |
Oldbury Power Station is to close by 2008 A generator at the Oldbury installation in South Gloucestershire overheated and caught fire on Wednesday, a spokesman for British Nuclear Group said. No-one was injured in the blaze which was on the non-nuclear side of the plant, but the reactor has been shut for the foreseeabl... | Oldbury nuclear power station in South Gloucestershire, England caught fire today after overheating. No-one was injured in the blaze which is believed to have been an accident and was extuinguished within minutes by an automatic sprinkler system. The fire took place on the non-nuclear side of the plant, in an electrici... |
Full investigation launched in Jamaica Woolmer's death 'suspicious' - police Cricinfo staff Mark Shields, Jamaica's deputy police commissioner, addresses the media regarding the death of Bob Woolmer © Getty Images Police are now treating Bob Woolmer's death as suspicious, Mark Shields, the deputy commissioner of police... | Bob Woolmer The death of Bob Woolmer, Pakistan's cricket coach at the 2007 Cricket World Cup in the West Indies, has been officially labelled "suspicious" by the deputy commissioner of police, Mark Shields, in Jamaica today. "We are now treating the death of Mr. Woolmer as suspicious" he said at a news conference. Bob ... |
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