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Bomb blast in Thailand, 24 wounded Print Email Discuss Bookmark/Share Save Comment Text Size: | YALA (Thailand): A bomb attack on Monday on a crowded market in Thailand's troubled south wounded 24 people including three soldiers, local police said. The device, hidden in a motorcycle parked in front of the market in Yal... | Satellite Image of Yala, Thailand The city of Yala, Thailand was hit by a bomb attack this morning in a fresh food market wounding 24, including three soldiers. One injured soldier is said to be in a serious condition. The bomb was hidden in a motorcycle and detonated via remote. The police believe the bomb contained b... |
Somali pirates seize 2 vessels in Gulf of Aden SAN'A, Yemen (AP) — Somali pirates on Tuesday seized a tugboat operated by the French oil company Total and a Turkish cargo ship, as the U.N. anti-crime agency called for a special maritime police force for the insecure Gulf of Aden coastline. Somali pirates have seized ov... | Map showing Somalia Two more vessels have been hijacked in Somalia. Pirates have captured an Indonesian tugboat with a barge that was working for French oil firm Total and a Turkish container ship. The Turkish vessel's seizure was confirmed by a US Fifth Fleet spokesman. MV ''Bosphorus Prodigy'' is a 330 ft (100 m) con... |
Rome - Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Turkey from November 28 to December 1 will be accompanied by a massive security operation amid concerns that the head of the Catholic Church may be targeted during his first visit to a predominantly Muslim country. Though no details have yet been provided, thousands of policemen as w... | Pope Benedict will be visiting Turkey, a predominantly nation, for four days starting on November 28. Some, organized by an Islamist party, protested the visit in the streets after hearing of the Pope's trip. Security concerns are on the rise as the protests progress. Benedict will arrive in , the capital of Turkey. Ac... |
For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. Here are the instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser ||||| One-parent Households Double Risk Of Childhood Sexual Abuse Science Daily Adult men who grew up in one-parent households are more likely to have been abused as childre... | University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Children from single-parent homes are much more likely to be sexually abused - a study carried out at University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine suggests. Previous studies have found that children being raised in single-parent homes are at greater health and other kind... |
The warning signs are up for Ajax Ajax Cape Town may have gone all the way to the final of the Nedbank Cup last season, but they have a tough task in attempting to replicate the feat. ||||| It has been revealed that air France received a telephone bomb threat just days before Air France flight AF447 disappeared over th... | ''Wikinews'' has learned that Argentine media reported on May 27 that an flight traveling from Ezeiza Airport in , Argentina to Paris, France, was delayed after the airline reportedly received a bomb threat, just days before crashed into the . According to ''momento24'', on May 27, authorities boarded Air France Flight... |
TUESDAY, Sept. 23 (HealthDay News) -- More than half of all supporting clinical trials for U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved drugs remain unpublished five years after permission has been given to sell the drugs in the United States, say University of California, San Francisco researchers. They combed the medic... | 200px Medical doctors have not been getting the full picture about newly FDA-approved drugs, concludes a research team from the University of California, San Francisco. This is because not all the studies required for FDA approval get published. New drug studies that do see publication tend to be ones where the medicin... |
Updated Aug. 3: The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Deputy Ambassador Earl Anthony Wayne’s nomination late Tuesday evening, Reuters reported. Mexico’s Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores issued a statement after the confirmation expressing its willingness to work with Wayne to continue to strengthen the relationship ... | Wayne is the former U.S ambassador to Argentina The United States Senate has unanimously confirmed as the new to Mexico. He replaces , who resigned in March following a dispute with Felipe Calderón. Wayne's nomination had been pending since June, and in late July the approved the nomination. Before the confirmation he ... |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hurricane Relief Support and Levee Repair Background Information The breaches that have occurred on the levees surrounding New Orleans are located on the 17th Street Canal Levee and London Avenue Canal Levee. The 17th Street Canal Levees and London Avenue Canal Levees are completed segments... | After Category 4 storm '''''' slammed into New Orleans, on the night before August 29, 2005, several flood control constructions failed. Much of the city flooded through the openings. One of these was the flood wall forming one side of the 17th Street Canal, near Lake Pontchartrain. The ''' (USACE)''' is the primary a... |
Dr Bruce Ivins had helped with the investigation into the attacks A US scientist who killed himself last week was the sole person responsible for the deadly anthrax attacks in 2001, new FBI papers allege. Dr Bruce Ivins alone controlled flask RMR1029, used in the attack, could not account for unusual overtime in labs a... | A photomicrograph of Bacillus anthracis bacteria The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has alleged that Bruce Ivins, a government bioweapons scientist, was the sole person responsible for the biological terrorism attacks in the USA in 2001 which came shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Ivins... |
Snow causes second day of disruption Much of Scotland is braced for more snow Severe weather conditions are causing further travel disruption in the south and east of England. Flights in and out of London's main airports are still suffering from delays and cancellations. More snow is expected in Scotland, Wales, Northe... | A second day of winter weather and snow has caused further disruption in the UK. At 15:13 GMT last Saturday, one ''Wikinews'' contributor in West Lothian described the conditions there as 'white-out', although later conditions were reported to have improved. Forecasters had indicated further snow in Scotland later into... |
WORLD Bank members today said they would interview US President George W Bush's controversial choice as bank president, Paul Wolfowitz, a step not usually taken in previous appointments. The interviewing process for Wolfowitz, now United States deputy defence secretary and a key architect of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, ... | The White House announced the selection of Paul Wolfowitz to head the World Bank, replacing John Wolfensohn who retires as acting president after 10 years. The switch is expected to occur sometime in June. The choice of Wolfowitz is raising controversy in Europe and developing nations. Known as hawkish and outspoken, W... |
Maryland scientist is charged with spying for Israel A Chevy Chase scientist was charged Monday with trying to sell top-secret information to Israel for $11,000, federal prosecutors said. Stewart D. Nozette, 52, was arrested on a charge of attempted espionage and is being held pending an initial appearance Tuesday in U... | Stewart D. Nozette, 52, from Chevy Chase, Maryland in the United States, was arrested Monday on charges of espionage and is being held until a court hearing on Tuesday. He is accused of spying for Israel. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Nozette, who received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,... |
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Corn Exchange to tell Nigel Farage that Edinburgh would not stand for his brand of politics. People of all ages and of a variety of political persuasions brandished placards against Ukip policy as Mr Farage launched the Scottish leg of his European election campaign inside th... | UKIP protest on Friday Roughly 300 protesters turned up yesterday for the return of Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party, to Edinburgh after last year's disastrous attempt at a press conference in a pub at the foot of . Unseen by protesters or public, Farage is believed to have left the venue around 7:30pm... |
Mr Bresnik's wife gave birth 220 miles (354km) below on Earth A US astronaut on board the space shuttle Atlantis is literally walking on air, with the news of the birth of a daughter back on Earth. Randolph Bresnik, who is on his first space flight, became a father for a second time when baby Abigail was born back home... | Randolph J Bresnik. American astronaut, Randolph Bresnik, is in orbit over 200 miles above the Earth, where he learned of the birth of his daughter Abigail. Lieutenant Colonel Bresnik becomes only the second man to have become a father while in space. Onboard Atlantis this morning, the crew were woken by mission contro... |
Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles has turned to podcasting The site lets people search for and subscribe to the personally produced audio programmes designed to be downloaded to portable music players. It also features reviews of noteworthy podcasts and will let listeners rate the downloads they have listened to. Yahoo said it w... | ''Yahoo!'' announced in its blog Sunday the beginning of a public beta test of its new Podcast search service. The new service makes it easier for people to find and listen to podcasts. Podcasts are short downloadable audio shows, very similar to a radio show. Podcasts are most commonly downloaded to portable mp3 playe... |
Mr Gomez was on his way to a regional security meeting Guatemalan Interior Minister Vinicio Gomez has been killed in a helicopter crash north of the country's capital, government officials have said. Deputy minister Edgar Hernandez, the pilot and one other person also died. The authorities lost radio contact with the a... | Vinicio Gómez, the Guatemalan Interior Minister and Édgar Hernández Umaña, the deputy Interior Minister, were yesterday killed in a helicopter crash, according to government officials. The helicopter lost contact at 19:08 UTC yesterday, and as a result, this is believed to be the time that the accident occurred. A spok... |
TVR boss dies at Spanish holiday home The founder of a Lancashire-based performance car company TVR has died, the TVR Car Club website said today. Trevor Wilkinson, 85, was from Blackpool. He left school at 14 and started an engineering apprenticeship at a local garage. In 1946 he bought a wheelwright's business in the... | The TVR No 2, the oldest surviving TVR, pictured in 2006 Trevor Wilkinson, who founded the UK performance car manufacturer TVR has died at his home in Minorca, Spain. He was 85. Wilkinson, from Blackpool, left education at 14, getting an apprenticeship at a local garage. In 1946 he bought a local wheelwright's business... |
"White Lines", a nova série da Netflix com Nuno Lopes: "Não podia ter saído numa altura melhor, é o oposto do que estamos a viver" MAG ||||| Beriev danificado ao carregar água Beriev teve um acidente O avião Beriev, que está a ser sujeito a testes em Portugal, para utilização no combate aos fogos florestais, sofreu ont... | Location of Santa Comba Dão.The accident occurred at the dam of Aguieira during an refueling operation. The Russian Beriev 200 airplane leased to the Portuguese Government suffered an accident last Thursday (July 6) afternoon, after one of its engines was damaged. The accident occurred after a refueling operation at th... |
Teenage parties involving sex, violence, drugs and alcohol are spiralling out of control, prompting principals of Perth’s top schools to take the extraordinary step of warning parents of the extent of the problem. Scotch College principal, the Rev. Andrew Syme, is leading a push to rein in promiscuous and unruly behavi... | The headmaster of Scotch College in Perth, Western Australia is set to meet the parents of the school's Year 11 (aged 15 - 17) students after a set of incidents involving alcohol, use of recreational drugs and the hire of a stripper, who used vegetables and fruit in her act, at a Rugby union wind-up. Reverend Andrew Sy... |
Monkeys have become a major nuisance in Delhi The court told the authority to catch monkeys who were disrupting work at the Tis Hazari courts within a month. A petitioner complained that the monkeys were attacking lawyers and their clients and snatching their food. Delhi suffers from a serious monkey menace, with score... | The Delhi High Court expressed its displeasure to the civic authorities on their continued failure to resolve the problem of marauding monkeys in the court premises. The court was in session when the public interest litigation filed by a Supreme Court lawyer was brought to its attention. The petitioner Mr.Nirmal Chopra... |
Convicted: Attorney-General Philip Ruddock has welcomed the verdict against Thomas. (ABC) Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock has welcomed today's guilty verdict for a Victorian man on terrorism charges. Joseph Terrence Thomas, 32, of Werribee has been found guilty of receiving from Al Qaeda $US3,500 and a plane ti... | Former taxi driver Joseph Terrence Thomas has become the first Australian convicted under new new anti-terrorism laws. Thomas was convicted by a Supreme Court jury of receiving a plane ticket and AU$4,740 (US$3,500) from Al-Qaeda associate Khalid bin Attash. The 32-year-old was also convicted of having a Pakistani visa... |
'); //--> Associated Press Update 1: Full Text of Bin Laden Tape By The Associated Press , The following is the full text of a new audiotape from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. Parts of the tape were aired on Al-Jazeera television, which published the entire version on its Web site. The text was translated from the A... | The Qatar-based Arabic news channel, Al Jazeera, announced receipt of the audio tape purportedly from Osama Bin Laden. Portions were broadcast in which Bin Laden offers a "a long-term truce" to allow rebuilding of Afghanistan and Iraq while also making threats of "new attacks" against the United States. FBI photo of Os... |
Sun Microsystems is recommending that nobody use an open-source license it created, a small step in a broader push to pare back the number of such licenses. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based server and software company is retiring its Sun Industry Standards Source License, said Simon Phipps, director of Sun's Open Source O... | Yesterday, September 2, Sun Microsystems announced the retirement of the Sun Industry Standard Source License (SISSL) scheme. The Open Source Initiative had been discussing ways of reducing the quantity of Open Source licenses to make it easier for developers and companies to chose a license. Dropping the SISSL takes t... |
SINGAPORE, 23 November, 2005. Flaring at ExxonMobil's Singapore Chemical Plant is continuing, but the flare is substantially reduced. We continue to work on restarting the process units safely. We are sorry that this has caused concern among the Singapore public. We would like to once again assure that there is no risk... | Jurong Island is an artificial island southwest of the Singapore mainland As of 9 am this morning, flaring is still being carried out by ExxonMobil at Jurong Island, Singapore. This is the 3rd day flaring works are being carried out by the company to burn off excess fuel from the refinery plant. The flame, according to... |
ICC Women's World Cup 2009 - News England holds its nerve to win third World Cup title Nicky Shaw named player of the final; Claire Taylor declared player of the tournament ICC Team of the Tournament to be announced on Monday Video news release available via SNTV; photos from the final available through Getty Images an... | England beat New Zealand in the final of the 2009 Women's World Cup tournament at North Sydney Oval, North Sydney in Australia to win the title for the third time. The other two matches for the 3rd place play-off between Australia and India ended with India beating Australia by 3 wickets and the West Indies beating Pak... |
A jealous man who stabbed his wife to death in their kitchen after she admitted an affair, was jailed for nine years today at Winchester crown court. Alisdair Sinclair, 48, who the court heard was a depressive and a controlling husband, stabbed his wife Sally, 40, a senior executive with the Vodafone mobile phone compa... | A man has been given a prison sentence of nine years for the manslaughter of his wife in Hampshire, England. 40-year-old Sally Sinclair was head of business analysis for mobile phone provider Vodafone and had been killed in August 2008 in her home in the village of Amport, after admitting to her husband that she had ha... |
Children have close call with bear Tuesday, July 12, 2005 A Ligonier Township father credits his dog with scaring off a black bear that ran toward a group of children playing in a field near their home this weekend. "It was big," Bill Rusko said about the bear that ran near his children Sunday as they played at their h... | A boxer is missing in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, after it chased off a bear to protect three children. According to Bill Rusko, the father of two of the children, the bear crossed Route 30 in Ligonier Township and moved towards the three kids as they played badminton. The year-old dog, Major, then ran around th... |
U.S. President George W. Bush (3rd L) walks to a news conference with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (L), Janez Jansa, prime minister of current European Union president Slovenia (R) and their security detail at Brdo Castle, June 10, 2008 REUTERS/Jason Reed BRDO, Slovenia (Reuters) - U.S. President G... | A European Union-United States summit held in Slovenia produced a draft declaration outlining the groups' future cooperation on climate change, energy security and financial stability. Yesterday was the final day of the summit, the last EU-US summit that US President George W. Bush will attend in his current role. Brdo... |
N. Korea threatens nuclear war amid looming regional diplomacy By Sam KimSEOUL, Dec. 17 (Yonhap) -- North Korea warned Friday that another war with South Korea would involve nuclear arms and spread beyond the peninsula, upping the ante as a prominent U.S. politician and a top U.S. nuclear envoy each visited Pyongyang a... | North Korea has warned of "self-defensive blows" to South Korea if they participate in joint, live-fire military exercises with the United States, scheduled to begin in the next few days. The U.S. and South Korea will be taking part in a one day, live-fire exercise on Yeonpyeong Island, the island which was shelled by ... |
Europe's all-star team - a fitting farewell to a player popular among fans and his colleagues at OT. Carles Puyol Barcelona Age: 28 The shaggy-haired Catalan centre-half is club captain at the Nou Camp, the heartbeat of Barca’s defence and one of the best defenders in Spain, and indeed the world. Gianluca Zambrotta Bar... | Manchester United will be taking on eleven of the top players in Europe in a celebration match next Tuesday at Old Trafford, and the lineup for the European XI is coming together nicely. The game is a UEFA-Manchester United collaboration created to commemorate not only the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty ... |
Ozone recovering, but unlikely to stabilize at pre-1980 levels 04.05.2006 While Earths ozone layer is slowly being replenished following an international 1987 agreement banning CFCs, the recovery is occurring in a changing atmosphere and is unlikely to stabilize at pre-1980 levels, says a new University of Colorado at... | 2004 maximum ozone hole Researchers say the ozone hole over Antarctica is likely to contract and may disappear by 2050 - as a result of a global reduction of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other ozone-depleting emissions. The findings are based on a series of numerical simulations carried out by Eiji Akiyoshi of Tokyo'... |
Bomb placed underneath seat in Cafe in Cairo Egypt Cairo (UNN) Egyptian security source said that initial reports indicate on the explosion at Al-Hussein Cafe in downtown Cairo was due to a an improvised bomb placed underneath a seat in the cafe, an Egyptian police source said in a statement on Sunday. The source said ... | The marketplace in 2006. At least 20 people have been injured and one has been killed in a bomb blast targeting 'Western tourists' in Cairo, Egypt. The Egyptian Health Ministry reported that a 17-year-old French girl was killed and 13 French, one German and three Saudis tourists, as well as four Egyptians, have been wo... |
ONDCP FACT SHEET Breaking Cocaine Sources of Supply Overview: Coca, the raw material for cocaine, is grown exclusively in the Andean region of South America. Eradication efforts in Bolivia and Peru have been largely successful, but the continued expansion of coca cultivation in Colombia tempers that success. Even with ... | The "War on Drugs" waged by the United States has been criticized in a report released by the Washington D.C.-left wing based human rights group Washington Office on Latin America. The report, "Drugs and Democracy in Latin America: The Impact of U.S. Policy" ( Summary, PDF), investigated "the impact of drug control pol... |
Ben Shephard set to quit GMTV Ben Shephard is to quit GMTV at the end of the summer. The 35-year-old's contract is due to end in the coming weeks but he is expected to carry on presenting the show through the summer. Speculation over future changes to the presenting line-up has been rife in recent months, fuelled by th... | has announced his departure from '''', the current television breakfast programme on ITV in the United Kingdom, having been a presenter on the programme for ten years. His current contract ends in April 2010, but he is expected to leave by the end of the Summer of 2010, according to the . Initially, Shephard only prese... |
Germany' top state veterinary laboratory raised the risk level after more wild birds had tested positive for H5N1 in the eastern states of Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. "We will raise the threat level," a spokeswoman for the Friedrich Löffler Institute told reporters. The regional authorities in Sangerhausen in Saxony-A... | At least 38 new cases of the H5N1 strain of bird flu have been found in wild birds in eastern Germany today. These discoveries, in conjunction with the fifth outbreak in France in 17 months, have prompted both countries to raise the bird flu risk assessment level. German scientists discovered the outbreak after receivi... |
Yemeni al Qaeda militant Jamal Badawi (C) looks out from behind bars during a trial session in Sanaa in this February 26, 2005 file photo. Yemen denied on October 28, 2007 media reports that Badawi, who was convicted over the al Qaeda bombing of the U.S. Navy ship Cole in... SANAA Yemen denied on Sunday media reports t... | FBI photo of Jamal al-Badawi. Jamal al-Bedawi, one of the planners of the USS Cole bombing in 2000 that killed 17 American Navy personnel and injured 39 others in Yemen, has been freed from a prison in Sanaá, the capital of Yemen after he "pleaded allegiance" to the president of the country, and will be kept under hous... |
By David Brunnstrom and Susan CornwellBRUSSELS/WASHINGTON, April 18 (Reuters) - The United States and European Union urged Russia on Friday to reverse a strengthening of ties with separatist regions of Georgia that has alarmed the government of the former Soviet republic.Moscow announced on Wednesday it would establish... | Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed government officials to normalize relations with neighboring Georgia, two days after Russia's decision to establish ties with the separatist Georgian regions of and . According to the Russian foreign ministry, Putin ordered authorities to... |
Russian authorities say the man who headed the KGB for one day after the failed 1991 Soviet coup has been found dead in his apartment as the result of "an apparent suicide." Russian investigators say the body of 77-year-old Leonid Shebarshin was discovered on March 30 with a bullet in his head. Nearby was a pistol he h... | , a retired senior spy who headed the former Soviet Union's for a day, has apparently killed himself. He celebrated his 77th birthday earlier this week. The KGB's logo. Shebarshin headed the service for a day. Born in 1935, Shebarshin had experience as an agent in India, Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan. He was made hea... |
By Douglas Hamilton BEIJING (Reuters) - Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian threw down his Olympic bronze medal in protest on Thursday after his bid for greco-roman gold was ended by a decision denounced by the Swedish coach as "politics". Abrahamian took the bronze from around his neck during the medal ceremony, stepped f... | Ara Abrahamian, an Armenian-born wrestler from Sweden, received a bronze medal in the 84kg class of Greco-Roman wrestling. During the award ceremony on Thursday, Abrahamian stepped down from the podium, took off his medal and dropped it onto the wrestling mat. He then angrily left and was later quoted as saying "I don’... |
DeLay steps down permanently as House majority leader BY JAMES KUHNHENN Knight Ridder Newspapers Tom DeLay, the pugnacious Texas Republican dogged by ethics complaints, stepped down permanently as House majority leader Saturday, the first political casualty of a blossoming Washington lobbying scandal. Maintaining that ... | Republican Tom DeLay, representative from the 22nd Congressional District of Texas, announced on Saturday that he will not attempt to reclaim his position in the United States House of Representatives. Fellow Republicans, spear-headed by (R-AZ) and Melissa Hart (R-PA), began circulating a petition last week urging to e... |
Today, I spoke with Shava Nerad from the Tor project. She explained that while 6 computers that serve as Tor nodes *were* seized by police, the move does not represent a crackdown on Tor or anonymity services by German authorities. Shava Nerad, TOR: Absolutely not. Last week, a few Tor exit-node servers were seized by ... | Seven ISPs and individuals were raided and six confirmed computers seized by German police -- but not purely for operating as anonymity proxy servers using the Tor network protocol. The premise of the seizures was that the servers showed up in a server log of a child pornography site. According to German civil liberti... |
Get the latest news in racing In order to read Daily Racing Form's free daily news stories it is required that you have a DRF.com free membership. If you do not have a DRF.com free membership, please register here. You will NOT need to be logged in to read each day's free news stories. If you already have a DRF.com fre... | In a dominating performance, Big Brown triumphed in the 2008 Kentucky Derby. Jockey Kent Desormeaux gave Big Brown a stalking ride, even as he was 4-wide along the backstretch. Once they reached the top of the stretch, Big Brown grabbed the lead and won going away, 4 3/4 lengths away from filly Eight Belles. Desormeaux... |
Copenhagen/Stockholm - Drifting snow on Friday continued to generate problems for motorists for the second day running and disrupted plane and train services in Denmark and southern Sweden. An expecting mother early Friday delivered her baby in an ambulance that due to the difficult road conditions could not arrive in ... | Location of Norway. A major snowfall has disrupted transport in Norway this week. Several roads and all railway services have been reported as closed due to the heavy snowfall, and meteorologists have recommended that people try to stay at home if possible. Snow storms are also causing problems in other parts of Southe... |
By PIERRE THOMAS and JASON RYAN Oct. 19, 2006 The FBI in Milwaukee has interviewed a young man from Wisconsin who has been associated with threats posted on the Internet, saying that a "dirty" bomb attack would take place during NFL games this weekend. Law enforcement officials maintain that the threat is not credibl... | City officials in seven United States cities were warned today about a possible attack on NFL stadiums using "dirty bombs." The Department of Homeland Security, which issued the warnings, has also added that the threat is "not credible." The bomb threat, originally discovered on 4chan, stated that truck bombs containin... |
Radioactive packages trigger major alert in central Edinburgh A LANGUAGE school was at the centre of a radiation alert last night after four suspicious packages were found inside. Emergency services sealed off and threw two cordons around the Regent Language Training School in the West End of Edinburgh after the discov... | Plutonium, seen in a much larger sample. A school located in Edinburgh, Scotland was sealed off on Wednesday night after reports of several packages containing radioactive materials were found on the school grounds. Reports say that the packages, in one box, were marked as plutonium, radium and strontium. The packages ... |
US rescuers used helicopters and boats to pull around a dozen people from their stranded cars today after a water main burst outside Washington DC, creating a fast-moving torrent along a road. Television footage showed two people being pulled from a minivan into a helicopter after the pipe, measuring 1.5 metres in diam... | A 66-inch (168 centimeter) water main has been reported broken at River Road and Bradley Boulevard in Bethesda Maryland, a suburb of Washington D.C. The Montgomery County Police in Maryland stated that they received a call at 7:55 local time (12:55 GMT) about a water main break. A spokesman for the Montgomery County fi... |
Chilean police chief among 11 killed in Panama copter crash PANAMA CITY, Panama: Chile's national police chief and 10 other people were killed Thursday when the aging Panamanian government helicopter they were riding in crashed into a three-story building in the heart of Panama City. Gen. Jose Alejandro Bernales, direc... | Gen. José Alejandro Bernales A helicopter named SAN-100 crashed Thursday at 14:00 local time (09:00 UTC) on a roof in Banana Price, Calidonia, Panama City, Panama. The crash was a block from by Q street and Central Avenue. The crash also started a small fire. Of the 12 people aboard, half of whom were Chilean federal p... |
A huge ring of warm dust encircling a sun-size star 424 light-years away may well be molded into an Earth-like planet in the next 100 million years, astronomers reported this week. A team that examined infrared light hailing from the star HD 113766 discovered a belt of powdery dust and probably rock—the raw material fo... | This artist's conception shows a binary-star, or two-star, system, called HD 113766, where astronomers suspect a rocky Earth-like planet is forming. NASA scientists have stated that an "earth-like" planet is currently forming in a star system's 'habitable zone' just over 400 light-years from Earth. The new discovery wa... |
Ouders moeten met hun kinderen praten over wat ze doen op het internet. Volgens de projectgroep Virtueel Leven in Enschede is dat is de oplossing om problemen met kinderen en internet te voorkomen. De gemeente Enschede werkt mee aan het project. Aanleiding is onder meer een incident vorig jaar, waarbij meisjes van het ... | Unconfirmed reports are claiming that Demonoid, a popular semi-private torrent tracker, has been shut down by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). If true, this would be the latest in many shutdowns of peer-to-peer websites by anti-piracy groups. Earlier this week, trackers Torrentbox, isoHunt, and Podtr... |
Top Wall Street executives and officials were on Sunday night engaged in increasingly desperate efforts to save Lehman Brothers as Barclays of the UK – one of two frontrunners to buy the stricken bank – walked away and regulators began preparing the ground for a possible bankruptcy. ||||| The American financial system ... | Lehman Brothers’ headquarters in New York City. , a major American , has filed paperwork for . It would be the largest collapse of an investment firm in 18 years. Lehman attempted to find a buyer over the weekend but it met with no success. The last remaining bidder, bank pulled out Sunday afternoon. Barclays, a United... |
(Updates with minister quotes, details) By Fabian Andres Cambero ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela, Jan 29 Venezuelan police swooped down on an ambulance used by robbers escaping a bank siege on Tuesday, arresting all four men and freeing a group of captives to end a two-day hostage standoff. The four men had botched a ... | On Monday, four men entered a branch of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria in Altagracia de Orituco, Venezuela, a small city south-east of the capital Caracas. Allegedly, the bank heist did not go as planned, and the men became trapped in the bank with police outside. In the resulting standoff, approximately 30 employees ... |
Police attacked in China's Muslim northwest BEIJING (AFP) — Eight people died in bombings and fierce clashes between police and attackers in China's remote northwest Sunday, state media reported, the second outbreak of deadly violence there in under a week. Soldiers were called in to secure the city of Kuqa in Xinjiang... | Authorities say that "violent terrorists" attempted to blow up sites in the Xinjiang province of the country. Police say at least 11 people were killed, all except one were reported to be the attackers responsible for the blasts. Police say three more were arrested and another three are "still at large." The province o... |
KRG.org Statement: KRG and Austrian Airlines optimistic flights will resume The Spokesman Kurdistan Regional Government Erbil, Iraq 27 August 2007 - Updated 22.47 Kurdistan time (GMT+3) The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and its airport authorities are in discussions with Austrian Airlines, and all are hopeful tha... | A file photo of an MD-83 similar to the one involved in the incident Sweden has suspended all commercial flights in and out of Iraq amid allegations that an attempt was made to shoot down a Nordic Airways passenger jet. On August 8 a Nordic Airways McDonnell Douglas MD-83 took off on a flight between Sulaimaniyah, nort... |
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Steelmaker Corus is cutting almost 2,000 more jobs at UK plants including Teesside, Scunthorpe and Rotherham. Corus blamed the job losses on a "further deterioration" in steel demand in the US and Europe. Unions said the cuts were "devastating". About 500 wh... | Corus, the fifth largest steelmaker in the world, is set to cut 2000 jobs in both the United Kingdom and The Netherlands. 123 jobs are reported to be going in the Netherlands with the remainder from the United Kingdom. Corus have blamed the move on the "further deterioration" of the demand for steel in both the United ... |
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement Oscar-winning film legend Paul Newman has died of cancer at the age of 83. The blue-eyed star of movies like Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid died in his Connecticut home on Friday, surrounded by family and close friends. A statement from New... | Paul Newman in June 2007 American actor died on Friday at age 83 of cancer. He pulled out of directing a stage production of John Steinbeck's '''' in Connecticut because of unspecified health problems. Newman starred in his first film in 1954 when he appeared as Basil in ''''. Later in his career he starred in several ... |
A law school student was accused of drunken driving Thursday night after she rear-ended St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman’s city car, police said. Abbie Raymond, 22, of St. Paul, was arrested on suspicion of third-degree driving while impaired after her blood-alcohol content registered at 0.26 percent, police said. The lega... | Chris Coleman speaking at a campaign rally in 2005 Saint Paul, Minnesota Mayor Chris Coleman had a close encounter with a drunk driver Thursday evening when he was rear-ended. The car wasn't traveling much faster than 10 miles per hour, but the driver registered with a 0.26 blood alcohol level, over twice the legal lim... |
Hundreds in Kabul Protest Alleged Deadly Attack by NATO Photo: AP Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Afghanistan's capital Sunday. They were angered by the alleged killing of civilians last month by a NATO rocket strike. Meanwhile, a bomb attack against an Afghan government official has killed five childr... | Five children were killed by a suicide car bomb in the province in southern Afghanistan on Monday. Officials say the suicide bomber was trying to attack the governor of the , Ahmadullah Nazak. Nazak was unharmed. "I dropped down. Then I heard a second explosion. It hit our car, but it didn't injure me," Nazak later rec... |
From: Matthew RycroftDate: 23 July 2002S 195 /02 cc: Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Attorney-General, Sir Richard Wilson, John Scarlett, Francis Richards, CDS, C, Jonathan Powell, Sally Morgan, Alastair Campbell IRAQ: PRIME MINISTER'S MEETING, 23 JULY Copy addressees and you met the Prime Minister on 23 July to ... | Documents leaked from the U.K. government revealed an apparent secret agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom to attack Iraq in 2002. The Times, a British national newspaper, reported that newly-discovered documents reveal British and U.S. intentions to invade Iraq and leaders of the two countries ha... |
By Jeanna Bryner Scientists exploring a mine have uncovered a natural Sistine chapel showing not religious paintings, but incredibly well-preserved images of sprawling tree trunks and fallen leaves that once breathed life into an ancient rainforest. Replete with a diverse mix of extinct plants, the 300-million-year-old... | Image from a part of the forest. Photo Credit: Howard Falcon-Lang. A 300 million-year-old fossilized rain forest has been found, in its entirety, outside Georgetown, Illinois, United States. Coal miners called in scientists to look at a vast and dense seam of fossils they found in a mine. It is the largest fossilized f... |
Little is known regarding nonavian dinosaur embryology. Embryological period relates to myriad aspects of development, life history, and evolution. In reptiles incubation is slow, whereas in birds it is remarkably rapid. Because birds are living dinosaurs, rapid incubation has been assumed for all dinosaurs. We discove... | A joint research team from the , , and announced on Monday that the eggs of non- dinosaurs such as the took as long as six months to hatch, far longer than had previously been believed. ''Protoceratops andrewsi'' display at the American Museum of Natural History. Bird eggs incubate for 11 to 85 days, about half the tim... |
Sign-up to receive the weekly top stories, contest and promotion announcements every Tuesday Thanks for signing up! A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it please check your junk folder. The next issue of Canada.com Newsletter will soon be in your inbox. ||||| 4 killed in helicopter crash in southeastern B.C... | Location of Cranbrook A helicopter crash Tuesday in Cranbrook, British Columbia left a pedestrian and the aircraft's three occupants dead. Authorities such as Canada's Transportation Safety Board continue to investigate, and have not yet identified a reason for the crash. Canadian Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon iss... |
ABC News Author Hunter S. Thompson Commits Suicide Hunter S. Thompson, Founder of 'Gonzo' Journalism, Shoots Himself to Death at Colorado Home The Associated Press ASPEN, Colo. Feb 20, 2005 Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counter-culture author of books such as "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself S... | American author and journalist Hunter S. Thompson found dead in his Aspen, Colorado home of an apparent suicide. His son, Juan Thompson, told the Associated Press that his 67-year-old father shot himself at the Aspen, Colorado residence. "On Feb. 20, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson took his life with a gunshot to the head at hi... |
Ford U.S. Sales Win Is First Since 1998 as GM Shuffles Leaders By Mike Ramsey and Keith Naughton March 2 (Bloomberg) -- Ford Motor Co. beat General Motors Co. in monthly sales in February for the first time since 1998, and GM Chief Executive Officer Ed Whitacre shuffled his marketing leaders for the second time in thre... | Ford Motor Company said on Tuesday that its sales in the United States rose 43% in February compared to the same period last year, as the automaker outsold rivals Toyota and General Motors. Ford said that total sales improved to 142,285 units, compared to 141,951 units sold by GM. Additionally, Ford said that its shar... |
Greenhouse gases are known to spur global warming, but scientists have said that global warming in turn spurs greenhouse gas emissions - which means the Earth could get hotter faster than climate models predict. Two scientific teams, one in Europe and another in California, reached the same basic conclusion: when the E... | Recent record Tyhoon Chenchu off the South China Sea Some scientists say current climate change estimates may be significantly underestimating the potential scale of global warming. The team of researchers report that the actual warming due to human fossil fuel emissions could be 15 percent to 78 percent higher than es... |
Conan O'Brien goes out on top: 'The Tonight Show's' tops David Letterman's in ratings Drinkwater/NBC Conan O'Brien topped fellow funnyman David Letterman in ratings last week. Well, at least he's going out on top. The high-profile drama at NBC over Jay Leno and "The Tonight Show" helped boost Conan O'Brien's ratings la... | Television ratings for Conan O'Brien's NBC program ''The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien'' have risen dramatically amidst controversy and the possibility that the host might leave the network. Nielsen ratings as of Friday showed that O'Brien's ratings were higher than CBS network's David Letterman. O'Brien also beat ou... |
FCC extends E911 deadline for VoIP users By Marguerite Reardon, CNET News.comPublished on ZDNet News: August 26, 2005, 11:24 AM PT Thousands of Internet phone users who have not yet acknowledged limitations to their providers' 911 service will get an extra month before their service is cut off. On Friday, the Federal C... | Kevin Martin: chairman of the FCC A Tuesday service cutoff deadline in the United States for tens of thousands of VoIP customers who failed to reply to a service limitation notification from their provider was extended by 30 days, to September 28. In an FCC mandate, VoIP providers such as Time Warner Cable, Vonage and ... |
As expected, nobody could hold a candle to the Red Bulls in Suzuka on Sunday afternoon as Sebastian Vettel led home team mate Mark Webber by nine-tenths of a second in a gripping race in which the five title contenders finished in the top five places. Vettels third triumph of the season, and Fernando Alonsos third pl... | File photo of Sebastian Vettel (2010) Suzuka Circuit drivers and made a one-two finish from the front line of the starting grid of the at , Japan. crashed early in a free practice damaging his suspension, but was able to participate in a qualifying session using a spare car. Though Hamilton posted the third fastest ti... |
While traveling to promote his latest film The Dark Knight [click to read], actor Morgan Freeman was seriously injured in a car accident that took place Sunday night in North Mississippi. According to reports, Freeman's 1997 Nissan Maxima flipped several times after Freeman over corrected the car after it veered off th... | File photo of Morgan Freeman. American Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman is in reported to be in serious condition but good spirits in a Tennessee hospital following a single car accident in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi in the Mississippi Delta. The 71-year-old actor was flown to the hospital by air ambulance with... |
Noel Gallagher was attacked during a set at Canada's V Festival Noel Gallagher has spoken out about being pushed on stage at an Oasis gig in Canada, saying he feels like he has been fighting with a champion boxer. Writing on the band's website, the musician said he "feels like I've had a sparring session with Ricky Hat... | Noel Gallagher performing in 2005. Noel Gallagher, lead guitarist and songwriter for British rock band Oasis, was assaulted on September 7 as his band headlined the Virgin Festival in Toronto, Canada. The band was in the middle of a performance of the song "Morning Glory" when the attacker, Daniel Sullivan, 47, ran on ... |
Northern spotted owl Credit: United States Fish and Wildlife Service October 6, 2017 - SACRAMENTO, Calif. – On Thursday the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) released the California Spotted Owl Conservation Objectives Report. The report synthesizes the best available science about California spotted owls and pro... | In a study scheduled for publication in the December 1 issue of ''Forest Ecology and Management'', scientists from the ; Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station; and have found a way to resolve the conflict that has sprung up between protecting forests from increasingly frequent wildfires and droughts and pre... |
A case of H5 avian flu has been confirmed in a gosling from O'Leary by the Atlantic Veterinary College. Dr. Lamont Sweet, P.E.I.'s chief health officer, said in a news release there is no evidence the virus can be transmitted by eating poultry products, but anyone in contact with poultry needs to take special care. "Fr... | Canada's Broadcasting Corporation reports that a case of avian flu has been discovered in a bird in the Eastern province of Prince Edward Island. The case was discovered in a gosling found in the community of O'Leary and confirmed at the Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown. The announcement was made in a press... |
The Simpson Desert in outback Australia is to be closed over summer for the first time, due to safety concerns. The conservation park and regional reserve, which covers more than 3.6 million hectares, will be closed from December 1 until March 15. Environment Department regional operations director in South Australia, ... | The Simpson Desert will be closed to visitors during summer due to safety concerns South Australia's Department of Environment and Heritage has announced that the Simpson Desert in Central Australia will close annually from December 15 through to March 1. The department says a risk assessment showed temperatures of 40 ... |
By Ed Stoddard DALLAS (Reuters) - John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy buffs have been handed a Presidents' Day present they are sure to savor. The Dallas County district attorney said on Monday that he could not categorically dismiss as fake a transcript of an alleged conversation between Kennedy's assassin Lee Ha... | Jack Ruby, who the transcript portrays as having talked with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Kennedy's assassination. At a press conference today, Dallas County district attorney Craig Watkins presented several documents and items relating to the 1963 assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. They were discovered ove... |
Rights group claims rebels took organs PRISTINA — A human rights group said yesterday that new evidence has emerged to warrant further investigation into claims that ethnic-Albanian guerrillas in Kosovo killed Serbs and sold their organs. Human Rights Watch said it has information that bolsters charges of abductions an... | The German branch of the Church of Scientology dropped its legal battle against government surveillance of its operations, according to a statement released by the organization on Tuesday. In an April ruling, the North Rhine-Westphalia Higher Administrative Court in Münster refused to consider an appeal made by the Chu... |
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg, famed for the soaring vocals and elegant instrumentation of tunes such as "Longer" and "A Love Like This," died on Sunday, three years after being diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. He was 56. "He fought a brave battle with cancer and died peacefully at hom... | Dan Fogelberg 1951-2007. Dan Fogelberg, the singer/songwriter whose hits included ''Longer'', ''Leader of the Band'', and ''Power of Gold'' has died today at the age of 56. The cause of death was announced as prostate cancer. Fogelberg was born Daniel Grayling Fogelberg on August 13, 1951 in Peoria, Illinois, USA. He r... |
(CNN) -- Georgia voters are going to the polls Tuesday in a runoff election that could determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate. Saxby Chambliss is promising to be a firewall against Democrats in Washington. Saxby Chambliss, a freshman Republican senator, is facing off against Jim Martin, a former Georgia stat... | Saxby Chambliss United States Republican incumbent Senator Saxby Chambliss won reelection over Democrat Jim Martin in the state of Georgia in a run-off election on Tuesday, taking 57.5% of the popular vote to Martin's 42.5%. The run-off occurred because neither Martin nor Chambliss received a majority in the general el... |
Facebook has launched a tool that lets users show their support of marriage equality. Facebook’s “Celebrate Pride” tool was announced by co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. The tool was launched shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage is now considered a fundamental constitutional ... | Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority decision. On Friday, the United States Supreme Court declared same-sex marriage legal in all fifty US states. More than 30 states already permitted gay marriage. The Supreme Court ruled by a five-to-four vote that bans on same-sex marriage were not constitutional. The maj... |
Shares in the UK flag-carrier fell 6pc to 137.3p by mid-afternoon trading, further weakening BA’s negotiating hand in its all-share merger talks with Spain’s Iberia. BA said: “Further economic weakness in January and the outlook for February and March combined with the fall in sterling are impacting our outlook for the... | British Airways aeroplanes at Heathrow. The United Kingdom's flag carrier airline, British Airways (BA) has warned the markets that it will post a full year loss of up to £150 million. The former state airline, privatised in 1987, saw its shares fall 8.5% on the back of an announcement that "further economic weakness i... |
Columns Norman Solomon Torture and the “Controversial” Arc of Injustice October 9, 2005 Several decades ago, “controversial” subjects in news media included many issues that are now well beyond controversy. During the first half of the 1960s, fierce arguments raged in print and on the airwaves about questions like: Doe... | The first veto of United States George W. Bush's presidency may be used to block an amendment that bans torture and mistreatment of detainees, proposed by two Republican . The sent a "statement of administration policy" to the Senate declaring strong opposition to the legislation, alleging that it would tie the nation'... |
Zoo Officials Probe Killing by Tiger Wednesday December 26, 2007 11:16 PM By JORDAN ROBERTSON Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The big cat exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo was cordoned off as a crime scene Wednesday as investigators tried to determine whether a 300-pound Siberian tiger that killed a visitor... | Tatiana at the Zoo. Zoo officials are now saying that a Siberian tiger that escaped her enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo in San Francisco, California on December 25, killing one and severely injuring two humans in the Terrace cafe, may have climbed or jumped over the walls that kept the tiger inside her habitat. "The... |
AP Photo/AMR NABIL Buy AP Photo Reprints BURG EL-ARAB, Egypt (AP) -- Egypt's top archaeologist made his version of a sales pitch Sunday, presenting 22 coins, 10 mummies, and a fragment of a mask with a cleft chin as evidence that the discovery of the lost tomb of Mark Antony and Cleopatra is at hand. Zahi Hawass showed... | Zahi Hawass, Egypt's pre-eminent archaeologist, revealed the first which may lead to the discovery of and 's resting place. The expedition has found s, 22 bronze coins cast with Cleopatra's image and her name, a royal statue, an mask resembling Marc Antony, and a of Cleopatra. "If you look at the face of Mark Antony, ... |
Pakistan restores access to Twitter ISLAMABAD — Pakistan restored access to Twitter after briefly blocking the microblog over "blasphemous" posts about a Facebook competition involving caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. The website was blocked Sunday by the telecoms authority on the orders of the IT ministry amid acc... | The Pakistani has temporarily blocked social networking website Twitter in relation to posts on the site promoting a Facebook contest involving drawings of the Islamic prophet . The block was reportedly lifted after a few hours Sunday. chairman Muhammad Yaseen confirmed that the agency had managed to persuade social ne... |
SANTIAGO, March 1 (Reuters) - A 5.6-magnitude earthquake shook northern Chile on Saturday about 22 miles (35 km) east-northeast of the city of Iquique, but local authorities said no damage or injuries were reported. The quake occurred at 4:52 p.m. local time (1952 GMT) and struck at a depth of about 22 miles (35 km), a... | Shake map of the quake. Iquique, Chile has been struck by a moderate magnitude 5.6 earthquake, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The quake's epicenter was located approximately 35 kilometers (21.7 miles) east, northeast of Iquique and had a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles). According to the USGS, dama... |
NEW YORK -- The bitter battle of words between Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell isn't over. "Rosie's a loser. She's been a loser always," the real estate mogul and host of NBC's "The Apprentice," said Thursday in a phone interview with The Associated Press. "Her show failed, her magazine failed. Barbara Walters gave he... | Rosie O'Donnell Real estate tycoon Donald Trump on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 reacted to Rosie O'Donnell's comments about him on the ''The View''. "Rosie has some real problems," Trump said on Anderson Cooper 360. "Rosie's a loser. She's been a loser always." It started when Miss USA Tara Conner was caught under age dri... |
Login Enter your details below to login If you are an existing member of The Times and The Sunday Times enjoying the full benefits of thetimes.co.uk, then simply enter your Times+ login details below and press 'Enter' Enter your details to login Email address Password Keep me logged in information Keeps you logged in f... | British murderer Gordon Park was found dead today in his cell at a prison in Lancashire, England. Park, whose 66th birthday was today, was convicted nearly five years ago of the murder of his wife, Carol, in 1976. Her body was found over twenty years later in Coniston Water, in the Lake District, Northern England, lead... |
Vinokourov topped all five time checks and won by 1 min 14 secs The pre-race favourite climbed 10 spots to ninth after finishing in a time of one hour six minutes 35 seconds. Cadel Evans came home second with Andreas Kloden in third after Briton Bradley Wiggins had set the early benchmark before finishing fifth. Evans ... | __noTOC__ Liège for Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 2006 Alexander Vinokourov of Kazakhstan has won stage 13 of the 2007 Tour de France. Vinokourov finished the 54 km individual time trial, centered around Albi, in a time of 1h 12' 06". Michael Rasmussen of Denmark held on to his overall lead, finishing 11th in the stage. Alej... |
Job vacancies Coming events Industry: Publishing Pakistani newspaper Dawn complains of government censorship Pakistan's best known English language newspaper, the Dawn, has hit out at President Musharraf over his government's "increasingly intolerant" attitude towards the press. The move comes not long after the Genera... | The publisher Dawn Group has been under increasing pressure from the government to stop negative coverage of events happening on the troubled Pakistan-Afghanistan border as well as recent events in the troubled province of Balochistan. A series of emails written last week by Hameed Haroon, the managing CEO of Dawn Goup... |
Home » Archives » February 2005 » Citizen Journalists: Could Wikinews Become The Next Associated Press? 02/15/2005 Citizen Journalists: Could Wikinews Become The Next Associated Press? Since late last year, WikiMedia.org, the site hosting the Wikipedia online encyclopedia created by collaborative efforts of millions of... | "Google Inc. has made a proposal to host some of the content of the Wikimedia projects." This small sentence has launched a thousand rumours, and not just in the blogosphere and on Slashdot, but in BusinessWeek and on ABC News as well. The offer, as described on the unofficial announcement on Wikimedia's meta.wikimedia... |
02.05.2008 13:19 Uhr Alter: 4 Tage Spendenkonto "Zuversicht", Account for donations (please scroll down for english language) Die Tragödie rund um Familie F. hat Amstetten, seine Bürgerinnen und Bürger zutiefst schockiert und erschüttert. Unser Mitgefühl gilt ausschließlich den Opfern dieses Verbrechens. Um der Familie... | Police in Austria have reported that the situation in the cellar where people were illegally imprisoned for over two decades is 'oppressive'. They have also said that they cannot stay in the cellar for more than one hour. AP reported that this is because there is a low oxygen level in the cellar. The location of the ce... |
Scorecard - Commentary - Wickets - 3D animation - Partnerships - Wagon wheels - Player v player - Over comparison - Over graphs - Career averages - Bulletin - Article index (3) - Photo index (22) ODI no. 2554 ICC World Cup - 24th Match, Group B Bangladesh v Bermuda 2006/07 season Played at (neutral venue), on 25 March ... | Bangladesh beat Bermuda by 7 wickets (with 21 balls remaining) in a crucial Group B match - the final game of the group stage - in the World Cup at the Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Bangladesh will therefore advance to the Super 8 phase, while India is eliminated. Rain stopped play during Bermu... |
Ms Ansari replaced a Japanese businessman on the trip Soyuz launch The mission is carrying Iranian-born businesswoman, Anousheh Ansari, along with a fresh crew for the International Space Station (ISS). Ms Ansari, a 40-year-old US citizen, is thought to have paid at least $20m (£10.6m) for the mission. Lift-off took pl... | Anousheh Ansari, 40, an Iranian-American became the first female paying passenger astronaut today. Paying $20 million USD for the trip, she replaced a Japanese businessman who decided not to take the trip due to medical reasons. The Russian made Soyuz Rocket lifted off at 04:10 GMT from Baikonur, Russia. Ansari is acco... |
Police remained at the scene on Wednesday night A man has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old boy at a house on Merseyside. Lewis O'Brien was shot inside the property on Hathersage Road, in the Longview area of Huyton, just before 1600 GMT. The teenager was taken to hospital but pronoun... | Map of England with Merseyside in red. A seventeen-year-old boy, who has been identified as Lewis O'Brien, has been shot dead in Merseyside, England. The boy was found after police officers were called to Hathersage Road in the town of Huyton at roughly 16:00 GMT. The police had received reports of the shooting from pe... |
Matthew Swift is a former pupil of Audenshaw School Two teenagers planned to blow up their school in a massacre timed to coincide with the anniversary of a massacre at a US school, a court has heard. Matthew Swift, 18, and his friend, Ross McKnight, 16, of Denton, Greater Manchester, deny conspiracy to murder and consp... | Two teenage boys were thought to be planning to blow up a school in Greater Manchester, England to coincide with the tenth anniversary of a massacre that took place in a school in Littleton, Colorado, US. The statement was given to Manchester Crown Court on Wednesday as the trial was proceeding. Matthew Swift, 18, and ... |
Driver, 19, dies and passengers hurt in Somerset crash A teenager has died and two others have been injured in an accident at East Brent near Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset. Police believe the BMW 328 the three were travelling in left the road, hit a telegraph pole and ended up on fire in a hedge at about 0200 BST on Satur... | A man has died and another man and a woman are injured after a road traffic accident in Somerset, England, United Kingdom. At approximately 02:00 (01:00 ) yesterday, a that was carrying the three along the in — close to the location of — struck a telegraph pole before becoming stationary in a hedge and subsequently cau... |
Customers were caught up in one of Britain’s most notorious financial scandals after salesmen working for the country’s biggest high street bank forged information on their loan agreements, it has been claimed. An investigation by The Times into Lloyds Banking Group has found that contractors employed at its largest PP... | Yuri Kravchenko, a former Interior Minister in Ukraine, has been found dead in his home just hours before questioning for the case of murdered journalist Georgiy Gongadze. Early reports indicate that he committed suicide, but the circumstances of his death will most likely result in further investigation by the authori... |
Costa Rican Volcano Erupts Photo: AP Costa Rica's Turrialba volcano has erupted for the first time in more than a century, spewing ash and prompting the evacuation of a small group of people living in nearby communities. Authorities monitoring Turrialba's activity increased a volcano alert level Wednesday, saying "inte... | The Turrialba volcanoCosta Rica's Turrialba volcano erupted for the first time in more than a century yesterday, spewing ash and prompting the evacuation of a small group of people living in nearby communities. The government has also issued an alert saying that such activity may recur. Authorities monitoring Turrialba... |
Mr Bush said certain democratic values were universal Bush speech extract Speaking in the Czech Republic, Mr Bush said the US had strong working relations with Russia and China but there were also "strong disagreements". Moscow rejected Mr Bush's criticisms, saying Russia was a democratic nation. Mr Bush later flew on ... | Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty in 2002. Just one day before the G8 summit, a battle in the media between Russian President Vladimir Putin and United States President George W. Bush continued as President Bush criticized Russia for "derailing" its promised democratic reforms. In a speech from the Czech Republic, ... |
Armenia to send forces to Afghanistan this year Published: Friday July 24, 2009 Yerevan - Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian announced that Armenia will send forces to Afghanistan by the end of 2009. Mr. Ohanian announced on July 21 that Armenia is discussing details of the deployment with Germany. He did not specify the ... | Armenia's defense minister Seyran Ohanian has announced that nation will contribute troops to the ISAF forces in Afghanistan. Colonel Seyran Shahsuvarian told Radio Free Europe (RFE/RL) that an Armenian military official is discussing the details of the deployment at a NATO planning conference in Germany. Armenia, as p... |
In a reprise of their testimony last September, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker came to Capitol Hill today to tell lawmakers that security has improved in Iraq and that the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has taken steps toward political reconciliation and economic stability. But... | General David Petraeus United States General David Petraeus, the Commanding General of the Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF-I), and Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, testified today before the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services on the security and political conditions in Iraq. In General Petraeus' opening ... |
The blue Series 3 BMW, registration L401 JOL, was in a lay-by on the B4008 next to junction 12 of the M5. When the officers approached the car, outside Blooms Garden Centre, it was driven on to the M5 and two shots were fired by a passenger. No-one was hit. The M5 was closed in both directions between junctions 12 and ... | Part of the M5 in England, United Kingdom has been closed after shots were fired at a police car in the early hours of this morning. A blue, L-registered BMW 3 Series car was parked in a lay-by just off the motorway on the B4008 near Junction 12. As the police car approached the vehicle it drove off and at least two sh... |
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