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GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - At least 15 train robbers looking to steal diesel from a freight carriage in Assam died on Saturday after inhaling poison gas stored in another tank they accidentally broke open, police said. A police patrol party said they found 30 other people lying unconscious on both sides of a forested ... | Fifteen people are dead, and thirty more have become ill after attempting to steal fuel from a freight train travelling through , Assam, India. It is thought they broke into a tank containing toxic chemicals. According to a railway official, the train was in the remote region with 48 wagons of petrol and diesel when ra... |
The seasonally adjusted Live Register total decreased from 157,200 in January to 155,900 in February, a fall of 1,300, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office today. The figures compare to a decrease of 800 the same time last year. The CSO said that the unemployment rate in February was 4.2%,... | According to the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the unemployment rate in the Republic of Ireland was steady at 4.2% for February. The total number on the live register was 155,900 a fall of 1,300 from January. All counties bar Waterford, Cavan, Kildare and Longford experienced a fall in unemployment, with Tipperary N... |
A message from our lawyers eBay is not providing financial advice to you. The PayPal service is provided by PayPal Australia Pty Limited (ABN 93 111 195 389) which holds an Australian Financial Services Licence, number 304962. eBay is an authorised representative of PayPal for the purpose of promoting PayPal and is not... | The eBay logo On the back of new restrictions being imposed on eBay users in the United Kingdom requiring that sellers offer PayPal payments for all sales, eBay Australia is mandating that ''only'' PayPal payments will be acceptable as of June 17. PayPal is a wholly-owned subsidiary of eBay, and charges a 30¢ transacti... |
PRIME TAKES UP SWIM IRELAND ROLE Former British Olympic swimmer Barry Prime has been appointed as National Performance Director for Swim Ireland. Prime, who competed at the 1972 Munich Olympics, takes up a four-year contract with Swim Ireland after 25 years as a coach. Prime moved from the UK to Australia in early 1993... | Barry Prime has been appointed the new National Performance Director of Swim Ireland, the governing body of swimming in Ireland. Mr. Prime (50), a former British Olympian, has an extensive coaching background. He moved to Australia in 1993 to take on the role of senior coach at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) i... |
(CNN) -- A tsunami advisory announced shortly after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Japan's Ryukyu Islands early Saturday has been canceled, Japan's Meteorological Agency reported. There was no tsunami damage "though there may be slight sea level changes from now on," it said, referring to the areas affected by the a... | Epicenter of the earthquake. Map of the impact of the earthquake An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 Mw struck the Ryukyu Islands, off the coast of Japan on Friday morning at 5:31am (20:31 UTC). A tsunami warning had been put in place. The precaution was cancelled later. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there ... |
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. A captain of an Italian cruise ship has given the BBC a dramatic account of how his crew fended off a pirate attack near the coast of Somalia. Capt Ciro Pinto said six pirates in a speedboat approached his ship, the Melody, and opened fire, but then fled aft... | An attempted hijacking of an Italian cruise ship carrying 1,500 passengers by Somali pirates was thwarted on Sunday by the vessel's security guards. Nobody was injured. The incident occurred about 290 kilometres north of Victoria, the Seychelles. According to the captain of the ship, Ciro Pinto, six pirates in a speedb... |
Somalia's interior minister was killed by a veiled female suicide bomber in his house in Mogadishu on Friday and police said there may also have been a bomb planted under his bed. Abdi Shakur Sheikh Hassan's driver said he saw the woman, a regular visitor who police said was a close relative of the minister, going into... | , the interior minister of Somalia, was killed in a bomb attack at his home in Mogadishu on Friday. The suicide bomber was a veiled woman said to be his teenage niece and a member of the militant al-Shabab, an Islamic group. According to the BBC, his niece was a frequent visitor and no security check was performed. She... |
Abu Dujana is Indonesia's most wanted Islamic militant Abu Dujana, Indonesia's most wanted Islamic militant, was arrested on Saturday on the island of Java. Seven other suspected militants were arrested with him. Analysts say the arrest is a major victory for Indonesian security forces in their fight against Islamic mi... | Pieter van der Aa in 1720. Police in Indonesia say they have arrested Abu Dujana on Saturday on the island of Java. Dujana is alleged to be the military leader of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) which stands accused of a number of attacks, including the 2002 Bali bombings. The 38-year-old Dujana was Indonesia's most wanted fugit... |
Your Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update Get the very latest news and health information on the coronavirus pandemic delivered to your inbox daily. ||||| RABAT Morocco has raised its terrorism threat level to "maximum", the highest category indicating a radical Islamist attack is expected imminently, the Interior Ministry sa... | Map highlighting the location of Morocco. Police officers and government officials met on Friday in Morocco and say that a "serious threat of a terrorist act" by al-Qaeda exists in the country and has raised their terrorist attack threat level to "maximum." "Intelligence indicates a serious threat of a terrorist act an... |
Yemini photojournalist and AFP contributor Nabil Hasan al-Quaety, 34, was shot and killed in Yemen on Tuesday.He was gunned down by unknown assailants while in his car, moments after leaving his home in the southern city of Aden. Security officials told AFP that the armed gunmen escaped.Before his untimely death, Quaet... | Nabil Hasan al-Quaety, a photo- and videojournalist from Yemen, died in the city of , in southern Yemen, on Tuesday after being shot in his car. He was 34 and reported extensively on the nation's . Al-Quaety, who contributed to Agence France-Presse among other news organizations, openly supported independence for South... |
IPad 2: Thinner, faster, and with a Steve Jobs surprise Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPad 2 (left), which is 33% thinner than the original. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance at a company event in San Francisco on Wednesday to present the second generation of the iPad tablet. ... | iPad 1 (left) next to iPad 2 (right). In a media event on March 2, Apple Inc. unveiled its tablet computer, the successor to the company's . The announcement was made at the in San Francisco, California. CEO Steve Jobs appeared at the event and introduced the new product, with video messaging (with front and rear camer... |
Gunman who killed nine people at Oregon college shot himself dead, examiners determine This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. If you want to receive Breaking News alerts via email, or on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC Ne... | Satellite map of the college campus. Nine people were killed on Thursday by 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer on the campus of in , Oregon. By various reports seven or nine people were also injured. Officials said Mercer killed himself during the subsequent shootout with police. Mercer began the killing spree in a class ... |
The latest in a series of church attacks in northern Nigeria left six dead and 10 wounded outside of Kano on Thursday. The radical Islamist sect Boko Haram is suspected of the attack, and of pushing the country toward religious conflict. The attack began when gunmen opened fire during a service at the Deeper Life churc... | Six people have died after a Thursday in a church located in , in the north east of Nigeria. Gombe state police spokesman Ahmed Muhammad reported that eight other individuals had also been wounded during the shootings. The wife of the pastor of the church was amongst those killed in the attack, which happened as a pray... |
(CNN) -- Stars at the legendary Glastonbury, one of the world's largest music festivals, have begun to pay tribute to Michael Jackson, who died Thursday. Glastonbury at Worthy Farm in Somerset is the world's largest music festival. more photos » Singer Pharell Williams of U.S. group N.E.R.D acknowledged the music icon'... | Fans have spontaneously gathered in many places around the world to both mourn and celebrate Michael Jackson who died yesterday. In New York, a crowd of 200 people gathered, to dance and sing, under the marquee of the on 125th Street in Harlem, where the famously performed at Amateur Night, which read "In Memory of Mic... |
Related links Chelsea, Manchester United and Liverpool have been kept apart in the draw for the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League, but a semi-final showdown between Liverpool and Chelsea is a possibility. Your View - Champions League draw Liverpool have been paired with Arsenal's conquerors PSV Eindhoven in t... | Both the quarterfinal and semifinal draws were announced for the UEFA Champions League. The round of sixteen saw the current cup holders, Barcelona, eliminated along with Serie A holders Internazionale, Scottish Premiership holders Celtic, and Ligue 1 holders Lyon. The current champions the respective leagues still in ... |
George Bush is to defy White House tradition and official Chinese anger by joining the Dalai Lama on Capitol Hill tomorrow, where the spiritual leader will receive America's highest civilian honour. The White House softened the slight to Beijing by keeping today's meeting between the Dalai Lama and Mr Bush a distinctly... | Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama The Chinese Communist Party's 17th National Congress gave cause for party officials to condemn a planned awards ceremony for the Dalai Lama, who is to receive the Congressional Gold Medal on Wednesday. President Bush receives him at the White House today. "We are furious," Tibet's Communi... |
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz has gained support from smaller parties Mr Marcinkiewicz won the support of the lower house of parliament with 272 votes in favour and 187 against. His conservative Law and Justice party won both parliamentary and presidential elections recently, but relies on the support of minority parties to ... | Marcinkiewicz's cabinet has been given a vote of confidence by Polish parliament. Marcinkiewicz, from Law and Justice Party (PiS), has won the voting with vote distribution 272 for and 187 against. His minority government have gained the support of minor, pro-social parties - Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland (Sam... |
05/11/2007 print LOCAL COLOURS Baked Hedgehogs on England's Guy Fawkes night Every November 5th, Guy Fawkes night is celebrated in England with bonfires and fireworks to commemorate the dissident's failed attempt to blow up parliament on November 5th, 1605. Television presenter Terry Nutkins adopts an unusual point of ... | Every year around November 5th, people in Great Britain and some parts of the celebrate to commemorate the dissident from and his conspirators who failed to blow up the houses of on November 5, 1605. This so-called Gunpowder Plot is celebrated with firework displays and sparklers, bonfires and Guy Fawkes effigies. Fire... |
Why bird flu doesn't spread between humans Agenše France-Presse Virologists say they understand why bird flu in its present form does not spread among humans. The finding suggests the world may have a precious breathing space to prepare for any flu pandemic. The reason lies in minute differences to cells located in the... | Virologists think that the reason the H5N1 strain of bird flu has poor ability to spread between humans is that the infection does not cause coughing or sneezing. US and Japanese scientists, led by Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, found that avian influenza and human influenza viru... |
Two controversial skulls unearthed nearly 40 years ago in Ethiopia have now been confirmed as the oldest modern human remains. Using today's dating techniques, the fossils are estimated to be around 195,000 years old – placing them in the time at which modern humans are thought to have emerged. When the fossils, called... | Two sets of remains, one a near complete set, the other just a skull, found in Ethiopia forty years ago, have been dated using potassium-argon dating, as the oldest human remains yet discovered at 195,000 years old. Remains from Herto, Ethiopia held the previous record of 160,000 years. The findings, published in the F... |
HONG KONG (XFN-ASIA) - Gold advanced for a second consecutive day in Asia as crude oil gained on renewed fears of tensions in the Middle East after Iran's missile test. At 12.38 pm, gold futures for August delivery traded at 930.50 usd per ounce, off a high of 932.0 and a low of 928.6, against 928.6 usd at the close We... | The Iranian Great Prophet III war games exercise has continued into a second day, with several more missile and weapons tests being conducted, including the second long-range Shahab-3 missile launch in as many days. Nine missiles were launched yesterday as part of the exercise, attracting international criticism. It is... |
Researchers: AIDS virus can hide in bone marrow WASHINGTON — The virus that causes AIDS can hide in the bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness, according to new research that could point the way toward better treatments for the disease. Finding that hide-out is a first step, but years of resea... | HIV virus (falsely colored in green)Recent research published in ''Nature Medicine'' two days ago shows the HIV virus may be found within the bone marrow of those affected. Kathleen Collins, the co-author of the study and professor at the University of Michigan, states the purpose of the study is to achieve "a better u... |
Somali Pirates Release Greek-Owned Ship Director of Greek shipping firm Alloceans Shipping says pirates freed the 'Ariana' and its crew members after the company paid a ransom. Somali pirates have released a Greek-owned cargo ship and its 24 Ukrainian crew members after seven months in captivity. The director of Greek ... | Somali pirates released a Greek-owned cargo ship and its 24 Ukrainian crew members earlier today, after seven months in captivity. The director of Greek shipping firm Alloceans Shipping, Spyros Minas, announced that pirates freed the ''Ariana'', after the company paid a ransom. The released sailors were in good health,... |
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Weary international passengers were stuck at Los Angeles International Airport for several hours, after a computer failure prevented customs officials from screening arrivals. Salvador Geurrero waits for his wife to exit customs at Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday. More than... | LAX from a side view A computer glitch in the Los Angeles International Airport computer systems caused passengers in four different terminals to be forced to wait for their flights, causing a massive backlog of over 20,000 international passengers. Los Angeles International Airport, often referred to by its airport co... |
Indictment: Suspects wanted to 'kill all the devils we can' Relatives deny suspects are terrorists MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Seven men concocted a plot to "kill all the devils we can," starting by blowing up Chicago's Sears Tower, according to charges in a federal indictment revealed Friday. But the federal grand jury in... | Seven people arrested in Miami allegedly planned attacks on Sears Tower in Chicago and other buildings as part of pledge to al-Qaeda to wage war against the United States. They are also accused of having planned attacks on FBI buildings. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Friday that "seven young men arrested in Mi... |
Millions of students, fact hunters and general knowledge buffs are set to receive a shock on Wednesday when the digital encyclopaedia Wikipedia shuts down for 24 hours in protest at internet piracy laws being considered by US legislators. Jimmy Wales, the founder of the world's fifth most popular website, is institutin... | Jimmy Wales has strongly advocated for the blackout Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation. The English version of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia will go offline for 24 hours in protest against American anti-piracy laws, the and the (PIPA). The blackout will start at midnight EST (05:00 UTC) on ... |
Boyzone Star Gately Died Of Natural Causes A post-mortem into the death of Boyzone star Stephen Gately has found the singer died of natural causes. To view this content you need Flash and Javascript enabled in your browser. Please download Flash from the Adobe download website. A court official on the island of Majorca... | Gately, at a performance earlier this year. An autopsy performed on Tuesday revealed that the late Boyzone singer Stephen Gately "had died of natural causes". Officials from the Spanish island of Majorca that Stephen had suffered from an accumulation of fluid on the lungs, or as it is known in scientific terms, a pulmo... |
Friday, January 4 2008, 16:47 GMT By Kimberley Dadds Rex Features Queen have been named the greatest British band of all time in a poll, beating the likes of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Take That and Oasis.The Freddie Mercury-fronted band was voted for by more than 20,000 BBC Radio 2 listeners on the strength of t... | Queen's original line-up prior to Freddie Mercury's death. Photo taken in Argentina with footballer Diego Maradona. British rock band Queen have been voted Britain's greatest band by BBC Radio 2 listeners. More than 20,000 people voted for the band, which was one of five finalists selected by listeners over the previou... |
Comments 18 Sep 2008, 02:16 I think they are angry because they liked to show off to anybody eficience in something they joked in the past about the maneuverility of big planes and its believing suficiency on resolve any problem without manteniance help. Anyway, the mantenience team could have revisited the internal el... | The jet before it crashed Spain's Ministry for Development has leaked a preliminary report into the crash of . The MD-82 that was lost at 's in Spanair's first and only fatal accident resulted in the deaths of 154. Controversy has come as a result of both the documents' contents and the fact that it was leaked at all. ... |
Story Highlights • Top U.S. official reportedly wanted two-week delay, Iraqi official says • U.S. wanted assurance execution was legal, the Iraqi official says • Witnesses' opinions differ on Hussein's demeanor before death Adjust font size: BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. officials reportedly tried to delay last week's ex... | On Friday, U.S. officials asked Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to delay the hanging of former dictator Saddam Hussein for two weeks, CNN reported on its website Tuesday. The story, which CNN posted at 1:27 a.m. EST, cited "a member of the Iraqi parliament close to the prime minister." The account has so far not b... |
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Political leaders have headed off on the campaign trail after Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced the UK general election would be held on 6 May. He said he would seek a "clear" mandate to continue the "road to recovery", as Labour bids for a fourth term. ... | Gordon Brown will be fighting to defend his position as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has announced that the country's next general election is to be held on May 6. He made the announcement after Queen Elizabeth agreed to dissolve Parliament on April 12. The date has been sus... |
11 charged over Chaser APEC stunt Posted Updated Eleven people from the ABC TV program The Chaser's War on Everything have been charged with offences under the new APEC legislation. Eight ABC cast and crew members and three hired drivers have been charged with entering a restricted area without justification. The group... | Eight cast and crew members of the Australian television show The Chaser's War on Everything successfully breached the security surrounding the APEC summit meeting in Sydney, Australia. Using a cavalcade of three cars and two motorcycles branded with the Canadian Flag, the crew passed through two security check points,... |
NEW YORK, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a statement being issued by Blue Man Productions: We are shocked and surprised to learn of the allegations made in reference to one of our comedic pieces, "Esophagus Video." At the time of this statement, we have not been served any legal papers. Our well-known audienc... | The Blue Man Group issued a press release Friday morning refuting a man's claims that they forced a tube down his throat as part of a show. Earlier this week, audience participant James Srodon filed a court claim in Cook County Circuit Court that members of performance trio forced a dirty tube down his throat against h... |
TEGUCIGALPA, July 5 (Reuters) - The Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa reopened its airport to international flights on Saturday for the first time since a deadly air crash in May.Authorities had closed Toncontin airport to all but domestic flights after a Salvadoran passenger plane skidded off a runway in bad weather on ... | A 757 landing at the airport Toncontin International Airport, serving the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, has reopened fully to air traffic six weeks after a deadly jetliner crash. TACA Flight 390, an Airbus A320 carrying 124 people, overshot the runway in poor weather and ran across a busy street, killing five, two of w... |
- An Indiana man is alive thanks to his two best friends! Bill Burns often takes walks with his devoted pals -- Butch and Dusty. But this week -- he collapsed in a cornfield during one of their outings. A sheriff was on a rural road when he spotted a light shining from the brush. He found Butch was holding a flashlight... | Map highlighting Indiana. In Centerton, Indiana a man is alive thanks to his 2 dogs. Bill Burns was taking his nightly stroll with his dogs, Butch and Dusty, when he had a severe diabetic attack in a cornfield. His dogs immediately reacted. Morgan County sheriff's Deputy, Steve Hoffman, was on a rural road just finishi... |
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A terrorist attack near the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan, killed two consulate security guards and at least six others Monday, authorities said. The two consulate employees who died were Pakistani, the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad said, and "a number of others were seriously wounded." ... | Three bombs were detonated near the U.S. consulate in Peshawar, the capital of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan on Monday. The attack occurred within hours of a suicide blast during a political rally which killed 38 people, according to officials. According to reports, a gun battle followed the attacks. Smo... |
The UN World Food Program has suspended aid deliveries to Somalia by ship because of pirate attacks. And it’s calling on the international community to act, so it can ensure food deliveries to about one million Somalis. Peter Smerdon is a spokesman for the WFP. From Nairobi, he spoke to Joe De Capua about the threat be... | port city of Merca in Somalia On Saturday, May 19, a ship chartered by the United Nations' (UN) World Food Programme (WFP), came under attack off the coast of Somalia after making a delivery in Merca. Two speedboats with armed guards were sent out to intercept the attack. One of these men was killed. The ship which was... |
US-BORN reporter Roxana Saberi walked free from an Iranian jail overnight after a court reduced her prison term for spying to a two-year suspended sentence, ending a four-month ordeal. "I'm okay. I don't want to make any comments but I am okay," the US-Iranian national said minutes after leaving Tehran's notorious Evin... | On Monday, Iran released Roxana Saberi, an American journalist with Iranian and Japanese parentage, from prison. Saberi was arrested in April and accused of spying. "Saberi will be released today," said one of Saberi's defense attorneys, Abdolsamad Khorramshahi. He added that after being released, Saberi "is entitled t... |
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Many voters in Saturday's Republican contests showed they're not yet ready to support Sen. John McCain as their party's nominee while Sen. Barack Obama cut into Sen. Hillary Clinton's lead in the race for Democratic delegates. Illinois Sen. Barack Obama swept the Democratic contests on Saturday, acc... | Mike Huckabee U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee won Saturday's GOP caucuses in Kansas and Louisiana, CNN reported earlier. Huckabee, a former minister and governor of Arkansas, trailed party frontrunner John McCain by nearly 500 delegates at the beginning of the day. Kansas has pledged 36 delegates to the winne... |
Edinburgh's Festivals and Events Champion, Councillor Steve Cardownie, comments in today's Edinburgh Evening News Full article As we reach the last day of the Fringe, it must be said that this year has been the biggest and best yet for the festival. Sales at the Assembly Rooms and The Stand have reached record heights,... | With many venues reporting sell-out shows, the 68th year of the Edinburgh Festival attracted visitors from around the globe. ' Brian McNeil roamed the city for the four weeks of the event, capturing the colour, spectacle, and comedy, in photos. The image gallery below may take some time to load on slower connections. Y... |
Restaurant critic Egon Ronay has died at the age of 94 after a short illness. Ronay, who was born in Hungary in 1915, wrote his first guidebook in 1956 after managing several restaurants and contributing to the Daily Telegraph. He continued to publish the books for three decades, helping to usher in the era of restaura... | Hungarian food critic , who was associated to British eateries, died on Saturday morning. He was known for publishing guidebooks, popularizing the concept of restaurant reviews. Ronay was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1915, but he left the country due to World War II. He departed and has lived in London since October 10... |
Ex-football star George Weah is facing Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf - seeking to be Africa's first elected female leader. Correspondents say turnout seemed more subdued than in the first round, when voters swamped polling booths. With much of the country's infrastructure destroyed during the war, final results could take up t... | Flag of Liberia In the aftermath of a 14-year long civil war, Liberians are holding elections for their first post-war president. Of the two final candidates — Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and George Weah — Mr Weah had a higher percentage of the vote in elections held on October 11 this year. A secondary election was held rec... |
Telecom deal with Yahoo to target online ad market Telecom is making an aggressive play for the online advertising market through an internet partnership with Yahoo!7. The joint venture announced yesterday will be called Yahoo!Xtra and will replace the existing XtraMSN site with new online content services due to go li... | Xtra, owned by New Zealand telecommunication monopoly company Telecom, has created a joint venture between themselves and Yahoo!7, creating Yahoo Xtra. Yahoo!7 is the joint venture between Yahoo! and Australian network, Seven. The join venture replaces the current and long-lasting partnership between Microsoft and Xtra... |
Silverjet stops flying Posted by Andrea at 14:12, 30 May 2008 Business class airline Silverjet has halted its flights as a result of funding issues.The carrier, which first started operations in January 2007, said in a letter to customers on its website that it will no longer be able to honour flight bookings.It advise... | Boeing 767 departs Luton Airport. British all-business class airline Silverjet has ceased operations and entered administration. The airline operated out of Luton Airport running services to New York and Dubai. Passengers booked with Silverjet have been told to claim refunds from their credit card issuer or travel agen... |
The Simpsons is now in its 17th series on US television The movie will be released in the United States in July 2007. A 25-second trailer for the film has been shown to US audiences at screenings of Ice Age: The Meltdown, promising to introduce "the greatest hero in American history". It then cut to Homer Simpson, wear... | 180px ''The Simpsons'', a major hit animated television show, is set to appear in movie theatres. It has been confirmed that ''The Simpsons Movie'' will appear in theatres July 27, 2007. ''The Simpsons'' has been on television for 17 seasons and FOX confirms that it will run at least two more seasons. The show is curre... |
by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor June 20, 2005 Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Senator Joe Biden, a Delaware Democrat who made a previous bid for the White House, says he will be a presidential candidate in 2008. Biden sought the Democratic nomination in 1988 and has been a longtime abortion advocate. Biden told a... | Senator Joe Biden Although the next U.S. presidential election is more than three years away, U.S. senator Joseph Biden (Democrat – Delaware) has already announced his intentions of running. Although he originally said in December 2004 that he would wait two years to make a decision, he told ''Face The Nation'' on Sund... |
BRUSSELS — After months of fractious debate, the 16 countries that use the euro agreed on a financial safety net for Greece , combining bilateral loans from those European nations with cash from the International Monetary Fund . The proposal, brokered by France and Germany and then approved by European leaders on Thurs... | A meeting in Brussels has produced a plan, supported by all 16 countries in the eurozone, to make available up to 22 billion euros in financing to support Greece, which is laden with debt. The deal would come into force only if Greece was unable to borrow money from commercial lenders, and would require approval from a... |
According to a Reuters report, The French space agency, (Centre National dEtudes Spatiales) is ready to publish online its archive of UFO incidents. Jacques Arnould, an official from CNES quoted by Reuters, said that the archive, which contains around 1600 incidents, will go online in January or February. The identity... | The French Space Agency will publish its UFO archive online by late January or mid-February. Most of the 6,000 reports have been filed by the public and airline professionals. Jacques Arnould, an official for the French Space Agency, said that the data had accumulated over a 30 year period and that they were often repo... |
By Melissa Fyfe February 1, 2006 THE Great Barrier Reef's future looks more grim after a report by climate scientists that predicts the world will struggle to curb "dangerous" climate change. The United Kingdom Meteorological Office report, Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, came as scientists warned yesterday that the... | Satellite image of a part of the Great Barrier Reef. Photo courtesy of NASA. Scientists say Australia's hot summer has had a devastating effect on Queensland's Great Barrier Reef. Coral reef specialists are comparing the severity of the damage to the worst case ever recorded in 2002. University of Queensland scientists... |
Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author's alone. The number of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition in the Moyamba district of Sierra Leone has reached alarming levels, says Action Against Hunger | ACF I... | According to Médecins Sans Frontières the health care system in Sierra Leone causes loss of life because the poor cannot afford medical treatment. The maternal death rate and the child mortality rate in Sierra Leone are the highest in the world. Experiences of Médecins Sans Frontières had shown that free care or low fe... |
« Aw, damn. | Main | Musical incentives » Category: science education • women in science Posted on: December 5, 2007 5:02 PM, by ScienceWoman Congratulations to Isha Jain, Janelle Schlossberger, and Amanda Marinoff, this year's prize winners at the prestigious Siemens competitions for high school science research. Jain... | For the first time in history, the Siemens Competition, formerly the Siemens-Westinghouse Competition, was won by two females. The competition, which along with the Intel Competition are one of the two most prestigious competitions for high school science research in the United States. The Siemens Competition has two c... |
By Mark Kinver Science and nature reporter, BBC News England's biggest colony of puffins has seen the birds' numbers fall by a third in just five years, a survey shows. Experts had expected to see a slight increase in the population on the Farne Islands, owned by the National Trust. The Trust says the size of the decli... | A puffin on Farne Islands in 2006. Puffin numbers are declining on the Farne Islands, where the United Kingdom's largest colony resides. During the past five years, the puffin population on the islands has decreased by a third. Experts had expected numbers to rise this year, but now with news of the decline, are citing... |
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More on Rozett's departure Posted: Monday, August 27, 2007 6:46 PM by Mark Murray Categories: , From NBC's Kelly O'Donnell It's not yet a presidential campaign, but "Friends of Fred Thompson" is again showing signs of internal growing pains. Just last Friday, Linda Rozett was on the job and putting out releases, but to... | Fred Thompson Yesterday, Linda Rozett, left Republican Fred Thompson's "exploratory committee" after serving as communications director for the past several weeks. Referring to Rozett's departure, Thompson said, "''I don't know what the story is''". Whereas, the day before reporter Jo Becker explored Thompson's past, n... |
DEMOCRATIC presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton last night threatened to "obliterate" Iran if it launches a nuclear attack on Israel, upping the rhetoric on the eve of the crucial Pennsylvania primary that she must win to keep her presidential hopes alive. "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will... | Hillary Clinton United States presidential candidate Hillary Clinton warned Iran against an attack on Israel; "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran," the former First Lady said. Clinton was speaking in an interview on ABC's ''Good Morning America'' television program. "In the next ... |
Lord Falconer to press on assisted dying law Assisting a suicide is illegal in England and Wales Continue reading the main story Related Stories Parliament is to be asked to consider the case for legalising assisted dying for terminally ill patients who have less than six months to live. Labour peer Lord Falconer is to... | Lord Falconer in 2009. , the former Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom, announced on Tuesday that he would present a bill next week to the House of Lords to make it legal for patients suffering with terminal illnesses to request assistance from their doctors to end their lives. If passed, the law would apply to thos... |
March 21: Dan Abrams counts up the cheap shots, misstatements, and blunders on the campaign trail. The Clinton camp gets a cheap shot for trying to diminish former candidate Bill Richardson’s endorsement of Barack Obama. Dan is joined by political analyst Lawrence O’Donnell and the Huffington Post’s John Ridley. March ... | Barack Obama. Two low-level United States Department of State employees have been dismissed and a third employee disciplined over accessing the passport files of Senator Barack Obama "without a need to do so." According to Assistant Secretary of State, Sean McCormack, on three separate incidents which occurred separate... |
40 killed in Hyderabad blasts , TNN 26 Aug 2007, 0057 hrs ISTTNN Print Save EMail Write to Editor People mill around at the site of a blast at Lumbini Park in Hyderabad. Forty people are feared dead in the twin blasts (AFP Photo) HYDERABAD: The killing just doesn't stop. At least 40 people were killed and scores injure... | have been reported in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, killing some 40 people. It was reported the two blasts rocked a park and a popular eat-out in Hyderabad on Saturday evening within a gap of 15 minutes. The injured, a total of 350, have been taken to nearby hospitals. Both the areas have been evacuated. The f... |
NOIDA, November 17: FOUR days after he was kidnapped outside his house in Noida’s posh Sector-15A, three-year-old Anant Gupta, 3, returned home this morning, after his father, Adobe Senior Vice-president Naresh Gupta, paid a ransom of Rs 50 lakh. Gupta and police had earlier denied that any ransom was paid, only statin... | Anant Gupta who was kidnapped from the elite locality of Sector 14, Noida, India has returned home. He was kidnapped on November 13, 2006 and released by his abductors yesterday morning. The police have made an arrest in the city of New Delhi. The other two accused are absconding. The boy claimed that he was kept in a ... |
Campaign advertisement and political debates were full of distorted facts, false information and lies. ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS Poverty, hunger and homelessness have haunted the world richest country. Upper middle- and upper-class families that constitute the top 10 percent of the income distribution are pr... | In response to the United States Department of State issuing its annual '' Country Reports on Human Rights Practices'', China has issued a contradictory report highlighting human rights abuses in the US, '' The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2004''. For the past six years, the People's Republic of China ha... |
Spotsylvania tightens dog law Supervisors respond to recent pit-bull attacks by revising county ordinance Date published: 5/11/2005 Spotsylvania supervisors moved last night to muzzle vicious and dangerous dogs by stiffening penalties for those who allow their dogs to roam at large. The revised animal-control ordinance... | Amid publicity that arose from deaths and injuries due to dog attacks in the region, the Spotsylvania County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to impose tougher penalties on dog owners who let their dogs run free. After a public hearing Tuesday evening, the board voted for a new animal control ordinance. Now dog o... |
ASSASSINATION PLOT: Shawn Adolf, Nathan Johnson and Tharin Gartrell were arrested in connection with plans to shoot US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama. Three men have been charged with gun and drugs offenses but US authorities have dismissed reports that they had serious plans to shoot Democratic... | Barack Obama. Police in Denver, Colorado located in the United States say that three men who were arrested on August 25 for possessing drugs and weapons were not involved in a plot to assassinate US presidential candidate Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention that night. "There was insufficient evidence of... |
Scorecard - Commentary - Wickets - Partnerships - Wagon wheels - Player v player - Over comparison - Over graphs - Career averages - Bulletin - Article index (8) - Photo index (21) ODI no. 2537 ICC World Cup - 7th Match, Group A Netherlands v South Africa 2006/07 season Played at (neutral venue), on 16 March 2007 (50-o... | South Africa beat the Netherlands by 221 runs in the second Group A match in the World Cup at the Warner Park Stadium, Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis. Herschelle Gibbs made history in the match by scoring six sixes in an over (bowled by Daan van Bunge). This was the first such feat in both World Cup and one-day inte... |
This week, the results of a new study further confirms the inevitable: By 2050, due to a population increase of nearly 50 percent driven mainly by immigrants and their American-born children, there will be no majority population — all Americans will be minorities, according to projections by the Pew Research Center. Th... | The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has blocked voting on legislation that would allow employers to rehire foreign seasonal workers. This year, the U.S. government will only issue 33,000 visas for winter workers and 33,000 for summer workers. This comes as a stark comparison to 2007, when 120,000 foreign workers entered ... |
One of the rarest and most threatened mammals on earth has been caught on camera in Vietnam for the first time in 15 years, renewing hope for the recovery of the species, an international conservation group said on Wednesday. The saola, a long-horned ox, was photographed in a forest in central Vietnam in September, WWF... | File photo of ''Pseudoryx nghetinhensis'', the Asian unicorn. On Tuesday, the (WWF) announced that a living , or "Asian unicorn", has been photographed in Central Vietnam. The picture was recorded last September by a camera trap placed by the Vietnamese government and the WWF. The saola, an -like animal with long horn... |
Poll: Arabs sour on Obama, back nuclear-armed Iran In a landmark speech in Egypt last summer, President Obama vowed "a new beginning" between the United States and Muslims worldwide. Now, 14 months later, a poll finds opinion in the Arab world has turned strongly against the president, mainly because there's been no br... | A new poll by Zogby International and the University of Maryland has found that Arabs in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are discouraged by US policies, have little confidence in US president Barack Obama and for the first time, a majority of poll respondents support a nuclear... |
TheStar.com | GTA | U of T supercomputer probes origins of the universe U of T supercomputer probes origins of the universe DOMINION RADIO ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY Here’s how you would see our home galaxy, the Milky Way, if your eyes picked up radio waves instead of visible light. Jun 18, 2009 04:30 AM Joseph Hall Sci... | SciNet Consortium computers in March, 2009. The University of Toronto SciNet Consortium went online yesterday with the IBM System x iDataPlex Supercomputer. U of T's IBM System x is now the fastest computer outside of the United States, the largest Intel processor based IBM installation internationally and the twelfth ... |
Emergency officials in British Columbia say they do not expect coastal areas of the province to face any significant impact from tsunami waves following Wednesday's earthquake in Japan. The Provincial Emergency Co-ordination Centre says preliminary reports from Japan and Alaska indicate any wave that might reach coasta... | A tsunami wave alert for the outer coast of British Columbia has been dropped. It was lifted about three hours after the alert was issued. The alert was issued at 4:10 a.m. PST for B.C. north and central coasts to the northern tip of Vancouver Island and also the west coast of Vancouver Island south to Sombrio Point. I... |
The first all-female United Nations peacekeeping unit sent on a foreign mission will soon begin duties in Liberia. The unit of more than 100 Indian police officers, which arrived last month, is receiving training and say they are eager to begin work. U.N. officials say they hope an all-female unit can inspire and help ... | Arrival at Monrovia airport An Indian all-female United Nations peacekeeping unit has arrived in Liberia, the first such team to be sent on a foreign mission. More than a hundred female officers and about 20 men engaged in logistics work flew into Liberia on January 30, where they will receive additional training befor... |
Robot 'learns' to walk like a toddler The walking robot Cornell moves like a human, falling and catching itself as it moves forward. YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Cornell University or or Create your own Manage alerts | What is this? WASHINGTON (AP) -- The difference between man and machine is shrinking. Scientists have developed... | Engineer Russ Tedrake has designed a robot that is engineered to walk like a human. Tedrake did his work in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The robot uses a method called "passive-dynamics" to move, taking advantage of gravity and kinetic energy to move its limbs. This approach differs from standard motorize... |
KATHMANDU: Even as pressure mounted on Nepal prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala to woo the Maoists back into the government and avert a crisis, a day after the rebels quit the government and trained their sights on the November election, reconciliation talks among the eight parties on Wednesday failed to appease the ... | Maoists from the Communist Party of Nepal resigned ''en masse'' from their positions in the interim government on Tuesday, September 18, two months ahead of a looming election. The bloc presented their resignations to Prime Minister Girija Koirala, who is still engaged in discussions to ensure their return. The Hindust... |
Grief etched on her face and her tearstained eyes behind sunglasses, Sir Bobby Robson's widow Elsie is moved as she witnesses soccer fans' sea of tributes to her husband. Lady Elsie, 75, made an emotional pilgrimage to St James' Park - home of his beloved Newcastle United and now turned into a giant shrine by 50,000 we... | Bobby Robson Since his death on Friday, tributes have continued to be paid to Sir Bobby Robson, the former manager of the English national association football team. Silences were held at football games throughout the country over the weekend, with fans creating makeshift shrines at Newcastle United and Ipswich Town, t... |
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Do you want a seven-day weather forecast for your ZIP code? Or hour-by-hour predictions of the temperature, wind speed, humidity and chance of rain? Or weather data beamed to your cellphone? That information is available for free from the National Weather Service. But under a bill pending i... | 100px A bill introduced last week by Republican Rick Santorum in the US senate, S. 786, could prohibit National Weather Service from publishing free forecasts online. This would have no effect on The National Hurricane Center as the bill exempts forecasts meant to protect "life and property." "The weather service p... |
+ NASA Home > Mission Sections > Mars Global Surveyor Print This Email This Report Reveals Likely Causes of Mars Spacecraft Loss 04.13.07 Related links: + Preliminary Report: MGS Loss of Contact (28Kb PDF) + Mission highlights WASHINGTON - After studying Mars four times as long as originally planned, NASA's Mars Global... | Computer generated image of Mars Global Surveyor.Credit: Corby Waste (NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems). A complex series of events, including a five month-old computer error, was responsible for the battery failure that led to the loss of NASA's Mars Global Surveyor last year, an internal review board says. Findin... |
Indonesia flash floods kill 38: official MEDAN, Indonesia — At least 38 people were killed in flash floods in a remote region of Indonesia's North Sumatra province on Tuesday, a spokesman for the provincial government said. The early morning flood hit the coastal district of Mandailing Natal, 275 kilometres (170 miles)... | A spokesman for the Indonesian government has said that at least 38 people were killed following flash flooding in the North Sumatra province on Tuesday. The flood, which began in the early morning, struck the Mandailing Natal Regency, 275 kilometres from the provincial capital, Medan. The country's health ministry cri... |
'Nothing can stop our civil nuclear programme as the Iranians are a courageous nation and not afraid of intimidations,' Ahmadinejad said in a speech in the city of Dargaz in north-eastern Iran, carried live on state television. Ahmadinejad proclaimed that the 'psychological war' initiated by the West would have no impa... | Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirmed on Tuesday that the country has successfully enriched from 164 of their . "I am officially announcing that Iran has joined the group of those countries which have nuclear technology. This is the result of the Iranian nation's resistance. Based on international regulations... |
Doctors’ leaders were accused of ignoring the wishes of patients yesterday by mocking plans for more NHS services at evenings and weekends. The British Medical Association claimed that the idea of what it called a “Tesco NHS” was absurd and unaffordable. It also rounded on Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, accusing hi... | Today, it was announced that Syd Barrett, the founding member of British rock band Pink Floyd died from a complication with diabetes. According to a Pink Floyd spokeswoman, he died days earlier (July 7) but the announcement was withheld. "He died peacefully at home. There will be a private family funeral in the next fe... |
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It is truly something very special what infamous Finnish folk metal warriors TURISAS unleash upon you now with the premiere of their fantastic new clip “Rasputin”, an insane cover version of the old Boney M. classic every fan should already recognise from their unforgettable live shows. Band mastermind Warlord comments... | Finnish folk metal/viking metal band Turisas have released their first music video and second single, a cover version of the Boney M. 70s disco hit Rasputin. The Turisas version of the song was released as a single, on September 21 in Germany, to be followed by France, the United Kingdom and various other territories o... |
THE fatal shark attack on a teenage surfer in northern New South Wales is the first in Australian waters in over two years, and the first in NSW since 1993. Share this article However, the boy's death follows a number of non-fatal attacks and shark sightings in the region over the past year.The 16-year-old surfer was f... | A boy in Australia has died after being bit on the leg by a shark. The boy, who was sixteen years old was with a friend at the time of the attack. The friend claimed that he believed the victim was joking when he was being attacked by a shark. "I thought he was only joking, so I went over to him and as I flipped him ov... |
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Rochester, N.Y. -- A bomber slipped into a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday and detonated a suicide vest, killing eight CIA officers in one of the deadliest days in the agency's history, current and former U.S. officials said.The attack took place at Forward Operating... | A suicide bomber attacked an American base in the Khowst region on the Pakistani border of Afghanistan, leaving seven American CIA officers dead and six injured. No American or NATO military personnel were killed or injured in the attack on Forward Operating Base Chapman. It appears that the suicide bomber, reportedly ... |
DETROIT — Toyota on Monday added another model to its long list of recalls, hours after agreeing to pay the largest fine ever imposed by the government against an automaker. Toyota said it would recall the Lexus GX 460 to fix a problem with its stability control system that was first disclosed last week by Consumer Rep... | Toyota has agreed to pay a record $16.4 million fine to the US government over allegations that the automaker concealed defects in its vehicles. US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood made the announcement Monday, saying in an e-mailed statement that "Toyota has accepted responsibility for violating its legal obligatio... |
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore City Fire officials identified the two men who died at an Amazon facility Friday night after a tornado hit the region. The men killed in the Amazon building collapse Friday were identified as 54-year-old Andrew Lindsay and Israel Espana Argote. No age was provide for Argote. The two men that... | On Friday, a storm caused a building to partially collapse in the Amazon Fulfillment Center at the warehouse of Amazon.com, a US-based online retailer, in south-east Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The storm removed the roof of the building, causing a 50 (about 15 ) concrete wall 8 (about 20 ) thick to collapse. At... |
Following weeks of speculation linking Hurley with the operation, the Charlotte-based F1 team confirmed on Wednesday night that the millionaire will be the outfit's primary investor. Speaking about the announcement, Hurley said: "I am thrilled to be a part of America's first Formula 1 team in more than 40 years. "Getti... | Chad Hurley at the World Economic Forum in 2007. 2010 Formula One World Championship entrants USF1 have secured an investment deal with YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley, British magazine ''Autosport'' have revealed. Hurley was positive about the future, and hinted at long term involvement with the team. YouTube was bough... |
U.S. Senate appointee Roland Burris laughs with students at Paderewski Elementary School in Chicago, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009, after supplying tickets to 30 eighth-graders to attend President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration Jan. 20 in Washington. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) Roland Burris sworn in as senator to replac... | American politician Roland Burris of the United States Democratic Party was sworn in Thursday as US president-elect Barack Obama's replacement in the United States Senate. Roland Burris. Burris was initially not admitted into the Senate, even though Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich appointed him to the position, du... |
The US has confirmed it will hold naval exercises with South Korea, after a report blamed the North for the sinking of a Southern warship, officials say. The Pentagon said the joint anti-submarine and other military exercises would start "in the near future". South Korean President Lee Myung-bak earlier froze trade wit... | Following a report blaming North Korea for the sinking of a South Korean in March, the United States and South Korea plan to hold joint naval exercises "in the near future." The exercises are planned to focus on anti-submarine patrols, as well as improving both country's ability to detect shipments of nuclear material,... |
NYC's flagship Macy's store reopens after fire NEW YORK — Hundreds of holiday shoppers were evacuated from the flagship Macy's store at Herald Square on Sunday after a fire in an escalator spread smoke through the building. The fire occurred in an escalator between the third and fourth floors, said Elina Kazan, a Macy'... | Macy's flagship store in Herald Square, New York City, was evacuated due to a two-alarm fire on Sunday. The fire started in an escalator and smoke began to spread throughout the department store. Nobody was seriously injured, however thick smoke was present. The fire was reported at 16:00 EDT (21:00 UTC) and the store ... |
Kenya Warned of Future Poll Violence Former UN Sec. General Kofi Annan(R) leaves the offices of Kenyan Pres. Mwai Kibaki (unseen) in Nairobi on 05 Oct 2009 Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan warned late Wednesday of a "crisis of confidence" in Kenya's leadership and told the nation that it risks returning to violent ethnic c... | In parting remarks made after a three-day visit to Kenya late on Wednesday, former UN chief Kofi Annan warned that the country risks returning to ethnic clashes if reforms are not implemented. Kofi Annan"My conversations with Kenyans during the last three days have underscored that there is a crisis of confidence in Ke... |
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The White House says it is considering using money earmarked to rescue the US banking industry to bail out the country's struggling automakers. A $14bn (£9.4bn) bail-out deal for the US car industry failed to get Senate support, raising fears of job cuts and... | After a plan to bail out three large American auto companies failed to pass the Senate this week, the White House has said that it is considering using some of the US$700 billion earmarked to rescue the banking industry to bail out the automakers. The White House says that the collapse of the automakers would be a terr... |
JENSON BUTTON kept his title bandwagon rolling as he roared to victory in Spain — then insisted: I won it fairly. The Brit increased his world championship lead to a massive 14 points over team-mate Rubens Barrichello, spearheading a dream one-two for Brawn GP. But Barrichello was upset after his outfit switched Button... | Brawn BGP 001. On Sunday, Brawn-Mercedes driver Jenson Button won the FIA Formula One 2009 Spanish Grand Prix at Circuit de Catalunya, Montmeló, Spain. This marks his fourth win this season. His teammate Rubens Barrichello finished second, who used a more efficient three-stop fuel strategy than Sebastian Vettel from Re... |
In a few minutes you will receive an email with instructions on how to activate your account. Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarctica Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Bermuda Bhutan B... | FC Barcelona football star Lionel Messi became the first player to score 300 goals in La Liga competitions as he scored a against in an away match at and his tally reached 301 on Wednesday. Barcelona defeated Gijon 3–1 and leads the La Liga table. File photo of Lionel Messi Messi scored a long range goal in the 25th mi... |
Gillian Gibbons was teaching at a school in Khartoum Teacher's statement Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was freed after eight days in custody. She had been given a 15-day jail term. Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir pardoned her after talks with two British Muslim peers. In a statement, Mrs Gibbons apologised for ... | The Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir has issued a full pardon to British school teacher Gillian Gibbons who was sentenced to 15 days in jail after allowing children in her class to name a teddy bear "Muhammad". The decision came after a meeting with two members of a British Muslim group, Lord Ahmed and Baroness Warsi ... |
The benchmark index of the Toronto stock market endured one of its bigger one-day point losses on Tuesday, following a major stock sell-off in China. S&P;/TSX composite index 3-month history The S&P/TSX composite index fell 364 points to end the day at 13,040 — a drop of 2.7 per cent. It was the biggest one-day percent... | The '''Toronto Stock Exchange''' experienced one of its biggest one-day point losses in the wake of a major (9%) stock sell-off in China. The S&P/TSX Composite Index dropped 2.7%, falling 364 points eventually ending the day at 13,040. Despite this 'dramatic' drop, the main Toronto index is still above where it was eig... |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cindy Sheehan and about two dozen fellow anti-war activists were arrested on Monday for refusing to leave the office of a Democratic lawmaker after calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Peace activist Cindy Sheehan takes part in a march to deliver... | Cindy Sheehan gives the peace sign in front of the White House on November 7, 2006. Cindy Sheehan, an Iraq War protester, was arrested inside the Rayburn Building in Washington, D.C. in United States along with 45 to 50 other protesters for disorderly conduct on Monday. "The Democrats will not hold this administration ... |
Published on Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 02:03 , Updated on Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:18 in India section Ads by Google New Delhi: Mahatma Gandhi’s memorabilia went under the hammer at the Antiquorum Auctioneers early on Friday morning (India time) in New York after hours of high drama. Lot 364, featuring effects of Mahatma G... | Mohandas K. Gandhi Valuable personal items belonging to Mahatma Gandhi, The father of India were auctioned for US$1.8 million by Antiquorum Auctioneers in New York City, New York. Documentary filmmaker James Otis owned these items and put these up for auction. The items were bought by the owner of the United Breweries ... |
British special forces in Afghanistan rescued a New York Times reporter who was kidnapped Saturday by the Taliban, but the deaths of his interpreter and a British commando in the predawn raid Wednesday raised questions about the operation. View Full Image Reuters Stephen Farrell, left, was rescued Wednesday in a raid i... | This past week, British Commandos saved a British journalist, from what could have been a very dangerous situation as he had been abducted by Taliban insurgents in Province, Afghanistan last weekend. During the raid, one of the rescuers and the journalist's translator were killed in addition to about three others accor... |
Global Orgasm for Peace Day Today is the Global Orgasm for Peace Day . Didn't you know about it? Well, you still can participate in it. What does it imply? It implies that today, on the 22th of December everyone who wants to make this world better and to contribute to peace around the globe, should achieve orgasm on th... | Probably the most unusual massive anti-war demonstration was held yesterday, on December 22nd. The event was called ''Global Orgasm for Peace''. It implied that everyone in the world who wanted to contribute to peace around the globe could take part in the event by achieving orgasm on the 22nd of December. According to... |
Tamiflu is the only drug known to be effective against bird flu Oxford University researchers report two cases of patients in Vietnam who died after failing to respond to treatment with the drug Tamiflu. Details are published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The H5N1 variant of the bird flu virus has so far kill... | In an article in the December 2005 issue of the ''New England Journal of Medicine'' (NEJM), researchers from Oxford University report that two recent avian flu fatalities in Vietnam were patients who had been treated with the anti-viral medication ''Tamiflu''. There has been one other reported case of Tamiflu-resistanc... |
Improved outlook pushes oil above $66 NEW YORK -- Oil prices soared Friday above $66, approaching seven-month highs on further signs of economic recovery and as the US currency plunged to a 2009 low against the euro. New York's main futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in July, rallied to $66.47 a barrel, a... | Oil prices attained a six-month high on Friday, on new signs that the U.S. economy may not be contracting as fast as was believed. U.S. crude oil prices reached US$66.47 a barrel, a level not seen since last November. Brent North Sea crude oil was up $1.13 to $65.52 at the end of the week, after peaking at $65.70, also... |
Story Highlights • Four deaths reported in Washington • Restoration of power could take days, authorities say • Wind, rain have caused flooding • Airports, roads, bridges closed Adjust font size: SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- More than a million people still were without power Friday night after the worst windstorm in mo... | High winds and heavy rains have left 4 people dead, and much of the Seattle, Washington area is without electrical power. A number of large trees have been downed and heavy rains have caused minor flooding in many areas of the city. According to first-hand reports as many as 1 million people and several large organizat... |
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