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Friday, January 25, 2008 - Page updated at 12:00 AM E-mail article Print view Share: Digg Newsvine Investigators studying last week's crash landing of a British Airways Boeing 777 said Wednesday they are looking closely at the possibility that the accident was caused by an interruption in the flow of jet fuel to the en... | The wreckage of the aircraft Investigators examining the wreck of British Airways Flight 38, a Boeing 777 that crash landed short of the runway at London's Heathrow Airport in the first hull loss of a 777, are examining the aircraft's fuel system as a possible factor in the crash. No-one was killed as the scheduled fli... |
Why did this happen? Please make sure your browser supports JavaScript and cookies and that you are not blocking them from loading. For more information you can review our Terms of Service and Cookie Policy. ||||| A jihadist Web site Wednesday posted a message from Osama bin Laden chiding the European Union for allowin... | A video released by as-Sahab features an audio track that is reputedly of Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, entitled "The Response Will Be What You See, Not What You Hear". In it, bin Laden warns that the recent republication of the controversial Muhammad cartoons is more offensive than the killing of women and chi... |
The death toll from Friday’s bomb attacks in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu continues to rise. AP reports that Somali hospital and police sources say the death toll has risen to 53 with over 100 injured. Four car bombs by Islamic extremists exploded outside a hotel in Mogadishu, Friday afternoon. After the three explosion... | On Friday at about 4 p.m. local time, four car bombs detonated near Sahafi Hotel in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. About four to five armed attackers reportedly attempted to enter the hotel through a hole in the wall. The attackers were shot by police and the hotel security guards. This has resulted in the death of... |
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (CNN) -- Alvaro Colom of the center-left National Union of Hope party was declared Monday the official victor in Sunday's presidential election. Fourteen members of Alvaro Colom's National Union of Hope party were assassinated during the campaign. "God was with Sandrita and me," said Colom lat... | Álvaro Colom Caballeros of the National Unity of Hope has assumed the title of President-Elect following the run off phase of the 2007 Guatemalan General Election, the second election since the end of the country's violent 36 year civil war. Colom, runner up in the previous election, won the Presidency with 52.23% of t... |
A few weeks ago, a copy of Eli Roth’s Hostel: Part II was leaked on to the internet. It was not a video taped copy, like you normally find on canal street or the torrent sites. It was an unfinished production screener missing some visual and sound effects (and may-be even a scene or two depending on who you read). But ... | Publicity poster for the movie A number of reports confirm that Michael Moore's forthcoming documentary has been leaked onto Peer-to-peer networks. This is the second pre-release leak in a month of a film from Lionsgate Studios. The movie, ''SiCKO'' contrasts the U.S. healthcare system with that of several other countr... |
Thirty-nine new species of endemic cockroach discovered in the southwestern US and Mexico IMAGE: This image shows sexual dimorphism in Arenivaga; adult male on left, adult female on right. Click here for more information. A genus of cockroach in the poorly studied family Corydiidae has been revised for the first time s... | Sexual dimorphism in Arenivaga. Arenivaga distribution before and after the study. Heidi Hopkins, a taxonomic researcher and PhD candidate at the Museum of Southwestern Biology of the , in , , , conducted a four-year study revising the genus of cockroaches, discovering 39 new species in the genus previously thought to ... |
A group of University of Colorado-Boulder researchers has detected a ring of "moonlets," which they say are most likely fragments of a larger, shattered moon, floating in Saturn's outermost ring. Using images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the scientists observed a series of small, propeller-like disturbances in t... | The largest propeller seen here is noted in the white dashed box, and it indicates the presence of a 150-meter (490-foot) moonlet. Scientists say that floating inside Saturn's rings are pieces of what they believe to be a "shattered moon," according to images captured by NASA's spacecraft Cassini–Huygens. The scientist... |
Tropical Storm Not Expected To Cause Much Damage Tropical Storm Gabrielle has crashed on shore at North Carolina's Outer Banks. The National Hurricane Center said Tropical Storm Gabrielle made landfall Sunday morning on North Carolina's Outer Banks along the Cape Lookout National Seashore. The center of Gabrielle came ... | Tropical Storm Gabrielle forcasted track on September 8, 2007 at 8 p.m. EST. Gabrielle became a tropical storm this evening, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). And, forecasters call for some additional strengthening as it churns toward North Carolina. At 5 p.m. EST, the storm was located 185 miles southe... |
FOROYAA Newspaper (Serrekunda) Gambia: Dr. Taal Testifies in Man Sait Ceesay's Case Fabakary B. Ceesay and Awa B. Bah Dr. Alieu Badara Saja Taal, the former Managing Director of Daily Observer Newspaper, has on Monday, March 31st , testified in the trial of journalist Mam Sait Ceesay, the former press officer at State ... | The former managing director of the Gambian newspaper, ''The Daily Observer'', Dr. Saja Taal, testified today in Banjul Magistrates’ Court as part of the trial of Mam Sait Ceesay, who was formerly the State House Press Officer in Gambia. Taal said in court that he knew Mam Sait Ceesay. “I used to work at the Daily Obse... |
India's interior minister said the attacks showed the 'savage nature' of the Maoists [AFP] India's interior minister said the attacks showed the 'savage nature' of the Maoists [AFP] About 300 rebels are said to have attacked the police from a hilltop on Tuesday in Dantewada district as they returned from an operation, ... | Officials have reported that Maoist rebels in India killed at least 70 soldiers in Chhattisgarh, a central state in the country. The ambush was made on security convoys in a dense jungle in the district of Dantewada, a remote area. According to police, about 300 Maoists set off explosives and started shooting at them. ... |
ISLAMABAD, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake, measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale, jolted most of the upper parts of Pakistan Thursday night, local TV channel reported Friday. The earthquake rattled most of the areas of eastern Pakistan's Punjab province, North West Frontier Province and northern regions, creating panic... | Location of fault lines in the Middle East. An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the hit Pakistan on Thursday at 23.44 local time (+18.44 ). The epicentre was in the Hindukush mountain range. The earthquake was mainly felt in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Muzaffarabad, Lahore, and . The quake lasted approximately for twenty seconds... |
Science World's Largest Commercial Telecom Satellite Launches Into Orbit - Print E-mail del.icio.us 20 comment(s) - last by bobny1.. on Jul 3 at 12:26 PM Recipient E-mail Sender E-mail Please input the letters/numbers that appear in the image below. (not case-sensitive) The world's largest telecom satellite will help f... | The TerreStar-1, an American communications satellite operated by TerreStar Corporation was launched Wednesday by an Ariane 5ECA rocket at 17:52 GMT by the European Space Agency (ESA) from the ELA-3 at the Guiana Space Centre. The 6,910-kilogram (15,200 lb) TerreStar-1 satellite cost US$300 million. It was launched fro... |
I LEARNED THREE things after reading the account of the 15-year-old boy who tagged a bus while Los Angeles' mayor was on board. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, along with a busload of other officials, were at the Santee Education Complex in South L.A. to celebrate the successful relocation of a bus stop from two blocks awa... | The ''Bratz'' cast at a theatre in Toronto, last Thursday, for its Canadian premiere. Logan Browning poses for Wikinews. The Bratz cast signs autographs for fans. Described in press materials as a "low budget" production, the crew of ''Bratz: The Movie'' turned to a busy LA high school to film the picture's main scenes... |
Obama and Romney fight to claim mantle of 'change' Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. US President Barack Obama has returned to the campaign trail and to his 2008 theme of change, with five days to go until the US election. The Democratic incumbent is campaigning in three key election states,... | Incumbent U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney have returned to campaigning after taking time out due to . On Wednesday, Obama visited New Jersey, meeting with Governor in Atlantic City, and spoke to victims of the storm at a community center in Brigantine. Obama earned the prai... |
Jorge "Giant" Gonzalez, a former WCW and WWF wrestler, died at age 44 due to complications of diabetes and issues from being 7-foot-7, according to multiple reports. He wrestled in WCW from 1989 to 1992 and moved on to the WWF in 1993. Before Gonzalez began his wrestling career, he was drafted by the Atlanta Hawks in t... | González wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation in 1993 Former Argentine professional wrestler and basketball player has died at the age of 44. González died in his hometown of , Argentina. The cause of death was established to be complications of . González had suffered with the illness for several years and was... |
404 We're sorry but the page you requested could not be found.Please try again from the home page or contact us ||||| Have the news stories that matter most sent to your inbox daily. Nain, Nfld. Federal and provincial politicians were to travel to northern Labrador on Friday to sign a final agreement with the Inuit t... | '''''' means "Our Beautiful Land" in the Inuktitut language of the people of , and the name of their new land as part of a land claims agreement signed on Saturday by the Labrador Inuit Association and representatives of both the Canadian federal and Labrador provincial governments. The land agreement, thirty years in ... |
Voter turnout was put at about 60% across India Counting is set to begin in India as the marathon general election in the world's largest democracy finally draws to a close. The ruling Congress-led alliance is battling the opposition BJP coalition and a host of regional parties. Most analysts and exit polls suggest no ... | Manmohan Singh, the prime minister of India India's Congress Party won a large victory in Saturday's general elections. According to state television, the alliance of Congress is ahead or has already won in 263 seats. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party came in a distant second, with 154 seats, and the Third Front w... |
The Canadian dollar reached parity with the U.S. greenback on Thursday for the first time in almost 31 years, capping a spectacular run that has seen it rise 62 per cent since 2002. The loonie briefly reached $1.0003 US on foreign-exchange markets shortly before 11 a.m. ET, the Bank of Canada said. The currency spent m... | The rising value of the Canadian briefly matched the falling United States for the first time since 1976, before closing at 0.9987 US dollars on Thursday. The Canadian dollar has risen 62% since bottoming out at 0.6179 US dollars in 2002, following a steady decline since the 1976 electoral victory of in which triggere... |
New York City TV station back on the air after studio fire takes down broadcast NEW YORK: A New York television station was back on the air Monday morning after a fire at its Manhattan studios filled the building with thick smoke and forced staff to evacuate, station officials said. No one was injured in the fire that ... | A fire broke out in the WABC-TV studios at 66th Street and Columbus Avenue in New York, New York. It started at around 11pm EDT Sunday evening, and caused programming to be suspended for over two hours. The New York Fire Department has put out the fire, which is described as minor. A witness says that a light bulb had ... |
MP Ahmed Tibi called Israel's attacks on Gaza an election strategy Israel's election authorities have voted to ban two of the three main Arab political parties from running in next month's general elections. The Central Election Committee (CEC)voted overwhelmingly to ban the United Arab List-Ta'al (UAL-Ta'al) and Balad... | Israel's Central Election Committee voted yesterday to disqualify two Arab political parties from running in the country's general elections scheduled for February 10th. The committee voted 26–3 to disqualify the Arab political party Balad, and 21–3 with eight abstentions to disqualify an alliance of parties United Ara... |
(CNN) -- Serbia's ultra-nationalist challenger Tomislav Nikolic will face pro-Western incumbent Boris Tadic in a presidential runoff on February 3, The Associated Press reported on Monday. Serbian voters are set to head for the polling booths again on February 3 in a presidential runoff. The state electoral commission ... | Boris Tadić, current President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolić has won the first round of the Serbian presidential election with nearly 40% of the vote, according to election officials. Incumbent Boris Tadić came in second with 35% of the votes. The two will face each other in a runoff election on February 3. Coming in thir... |
Chiang Mai Charity Calendar Launch Honoured by the Presence of H.E. Dr. Suvit Yodmani, Minister of Tourism and Sports Our Calendar Launch on 5th October 2007 at the Sofitel Riverside Hotel was attended by members of the travel trade, airlines, media, city officials, Consulates, school students and parents. Following co... | A small desk calendar, which started as a voluntary school project, has risen to unexpected heights of fame. His Excellency Dr. Suvit Yodmani, Thai Minister for Tourism and Sports paid tribute to the young creators of the "Chiang Mai Charity Calendar" by travelling up from Bangkok to preside at the official launch of t... |
President Lula was cheered by supporters after voting in Sao Paulo In a victory speech, Lula said he would govern for all Brazilians and intensify efforts to alleviate poverty during his second four-year term. "We will give attention to the most needy. The poor will have preference in our government," he said. Lula nar... | Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been re-elected with more than 60% of the votes against Geraldo Alckmin in Brazilian general elections, 2006. 61-years old Lula received 58,295,042 votes while Alckmin received 37,543,178 votes, or 39.17%. Lula was the candi... |
MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- A car bomb explosion at a civil guard barracks in northern Spain killed a guard member and wounded four others Wednesday, a Basque regional police spokeswoman told CNN. Police cordon off a road near the scene of the deadly blast in Spain's Basque region. There was no immediate claim of responsibi... | A car bomb car exploded today at 3:00 AM () in the town of Legutiano, near the barracks of the Spanish paramilitary police . A policeman died and 4 more were injured. The Basque group ETA was blamed for this attack by authorities, but no one has claimed responsibility yet. The dead man was in a small surveillance build... |
The BBC’s new Director General George Entwistle starts his new job today, taking over from Mark Thompson who’s been in charge at the corporation since 2004. George Entwistle was previously Director of BBC Vision, with his background in television working on programmes such as Newsnight, Tomorrow’s World and The Culture... | became the new of the BBC Monday. He replaces , who had held the position since 2004. On the BBC's , Thompson said Sunday the corporation was "getting very, very close to the edge" following recent sixteen per cent real-terms budget reductions. "When you look around the operation, it's very hard to see what more you ca... |
Daniel Craig helped launch the new film at Pinewood Studios The Bond film set The title is taken from one of a collection of short stories published by 007 creator Ian Fleming in 1960. Producer Michael Wilson said the film would have "twice as much action" as 2006's Casino Royale, which saw Daniel Craig debut as the ic... | Bond star Daniel Craig in 2007 The name for the newest James Bond film has been announced today. The 22nd film, previously known only as "Bond 22", will be called "Quantum of Solace". EON Productions who are producing the film made the announcement today at Pinewood Studios, where production for the film has been under... |
Mets land Santana for four prospects Deal contingent on Minnesota ace agreeing to extension A conditional trade, negotiated Tuesday, has put two-time Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana on their doorstep, though not yet in their rotation, and given them a potential means of repairing some of the damage caused by their ... | Santana pitching against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays at Tropicana Field, May 6, 2005 In a deal announced Tuesday, the Minnesota Twins have traded pitcher Johan Santana to the New York Mets. The trade is yet to be finalized, pending a physical examination and agreement on a contract extension, but an agreement is expected ... |
In addition to fines, a speaker system which allows people to press a button and remind smokers they are breaking the law has been installed at the Grange Hospital in Cwmbran and the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport. ||||| Wales has become the first of the UK nations to make it illegal to smoke on hospital and school gr... | Wales at hospitals, schools, and playgrounds Monday, with violators to face a 100 fine. It will be the first of the UK to do so. This is in addition to various restrictions on the practice, including a ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces in place since 2007 and a ban on smoking in cars with children in place since... |
Scientists take aim at cigarettes Smokers’ litter is toxic to fish, project shows CIGARETTE BUTTS They have two parts: a plastic filter and the remnants of a smoked cigarette. They’re considered the No. 1 littered item in the world, and more than 1 million are collected annually in beach cleanups nationwide. They’re ta... | Chemicals that leach from cigarette butts into water can kill fish, according to Professors Tom Novotny and Rick Gersberg of San Diego State University. They have conducted the first scientific study of the effects of cigarette butts on fish and will present his research today at the American Public Health Association ... |
Moment tensor solutions GEOFON standard1 Time 2008-02-27 00:56:47 Magnitude 4.6 Latitude 53.40°N Longitude 0.30°W Depth 27 km Nodal planes Strike Dip Rake 89° 65° 139° 198° 54° 31° GEOFON standard inversion using body and surface waves. [Details]. This is a product of the GEOFON Extended Virtual Network (GEVN) and cred... | The epicentre of the quake according to USGS (Source: NASA Worldwind). The United Kingdom was hit by a minor earthquake on February 27, 2008 at 00:56:45 UTC. Tremors were reported as wide spread as Edinburgh, Manchester, Sheffield, Middlesbrough, Cambridge, London, Birmingham and Southampton. The epicentre appears to b... |
Doctors at Royal Wigan Infirmary in Greater Manchester put out the alert after fearing the man faced amputation as the ring cut off his blood supply. Two firefighters used a mini hand grinder to cut through the ring during a 20-minute procedure. It is understood the man, aged in his 40s, was given an anaesthetic. The f... | Fire fighters in the United Kingdom used a hand grinder to remove a metal ring from a man's 2 days ago. They had been summoned after doctors at the Royal Wigan Infirmary in Greater Manchester became worried that the man may have required of the penis as the ring was cutting off the blood flow. The man had been taken to... |
A MILLIONAIRE former rock manager was jailed yesterday for at least two years for having sex with a 15-year-old girl at a Melbourne motel. Robert Jackson Yates, 62, who owns a luxury home in NSW and a yacht, stood stone-faced as a County Court judge told him he would have received the maximum term of six years had it n... | Robert Jackson Yates, the former manager of the New Zealand and Australian New Wave band Mi-Sex, has been sentenced to a four-year jail sentence after pleading guilty to having sex with a minor. The Victorian County Court heard that Yates, 62, met the girl through a website named Adult Friend Finder, where she claimed ... |
Ancient golden jewelry found in Egyptian tomb CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian officials says archaeologists have found ancient golden jewelry in a pharaonic-era tomb that belonged to a senior official under Egypt's most powerful queen. The Supreme Council of Antiquities says five golden earrings and two rings were found in the t... | A team of archaeologists excavating an Ancient Egyptian tomb have discovered golden jewelry in a recently-discovered lower chamber at the Valley of the Kings burial site in Luxor, Egypt. Two golden rings and five golden earrings were found in the tomb of Djehuty, an 18th-dynasty official of Queen Hatshepsut, and were p... |
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Scotland Yard has decided to launch an investigation into the alleged misuse of expenses by a small number of MPs and peers, the BBC has learned. Police say its economic and specialist crime command will investigate. Labour's David Chaytor has confirmed he i... | According to the BBC, the Metropolitan Police Service of London in the United Kingdom announced today that its Specialist Crime Directorate will start an investigation into members of the U.K. Parliament, or MPs, who have been implicated in the on-going scandal about MPs' expense claims. The investigation will be overs... |
Slowing consumer spending has put pressure on High Street retailers Littlewoods is also selling the remaining 33 shops in the Index estate to retail giant GUS, which will convert them into Argos stores. Sir Frederick and Sir David Barclay bought the Liverpool-based business for £750m in 2002. Littlewoods said the Index... | The large UK retail group Littlewoods is set to make 3,200 staff redundant and close 126 of its Index catalogue-based shops. It intends to sell the remaining 33 stores to its largest rival Argos. The firm revealed that it had made accumulated losses at the Index chain of more than GBP 100 million (EUR 146 million, US$1... |
The teenage gunman who went on a shooting rampage in a school in southern Germany killed 15 people before dying in a shoot-out with police. 0930 (0830 GMT), 11 March: The 17-year-old, named locally as Tim Kretschmer, walks into his former school Albertville-Realschule [1] in Winnenden. I look at the door and there stan... | A 17 year old gunman has killed 15 in the towns of Winnenden and Wendlingen, near Stuttgart in southwest Germany, before being killed himself in a shootout with police. Dressed in what has been described as black combat gear, the gunman entered Albertville school at 9.30am on March 11 2009 and, beginning with a particu... |
Defence Secretary Des Browne has given orders for HMS Illustrious and HMS Bulwark to "make ready" for operations following Israeli air strikes. No order has yet been given to evacuate UK citizens from the region. But British citizens have been warned to prepare for a departure at short notice if the situation changes. ... | HMS Illustrious (R06) HMS Bulwark (L15). The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious and landing ship HMS Bulwark have been ordered to 'make ready' to sail to Lebanon. It is reported that UK ministers are considering plans to evacuate UK citizens who are trapped there due to the Israeli naval blocade of Lebanese po... |
Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:01 AM Please enable Javascript to watch this video click to enlarge Dennis Romero/L.A. Weekly click to enlarge Hso Hkam Jay Adams, Venice surf and skate legend. It was 80 degrees, the seas were calm and glassy, and a nice leftover south swell was gently rolling in. It was the kickoff to a three-da... | An estimated two thousand people from the and communities, and a ''Wikinews'' reporter, attended the funeral service and memorial paddle-out and skateboarding session this past weekend in for skateboarding pioneer , who died on August 15 while on a surfing trip with his wife Tracy in , . Within days after his death sev... |
After examining the video game sales from August, Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter has issued his own NPD report reviewing the month. Overall, he was surprised by just how strong August turned out to be. "August overall retail sales were much higher than our expectations. One surprise was stronger than... | The Xbox 360 is starting to sell strong in America. The latest console data from the NPD Group shows that Microsoft's Xbox 360 console outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 by a ratio of 2 to 1. Earlier in August, Microsoft reduced the price of their console to try and compete with their other main competitor, Nintendo with the... |
Why did this happen? Please make sure your browser supports JavaScript and cookies and that you are not blocking them from loading. For more information you can review our Terms of Service and Cookie Policy. ||||| Thailand's Islamist Insurgency on the Brink By Stephen Ulph With the pace of violence in Thailand increasi... | The Thai Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, despatched an additional 1,000 troops to the south of the country to help deal with the widespread violence. This brings the total number of security forces operating in the three troubled provinces to approximately 30,000. Mr. Shinawatra's recent visit to the region was fol... |
NAIROBI, Kenya – A search team has found the cockpit voice recorder of a Kenya Airways plane that crashed in Cameroon last month, killing 114 people, the airline's chief executive officer said. The voice recorder was found Friday afternoon and Cameroonian authorities are now making arrangements to get it to Canada as s... | A Kenya Airways Boeing 737. A search team has found the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the wreckage of Kenya Airways Flight 507. The plane, a Boeing 737-800, crashed in Cameroon on May 5, killing all 114 on board. The aircraft's flight data recorder, which records details of what happened to the plane, had previousl... |
MIAMI (Feb. 4, 2007) -- Tony Dungy, beaming and sporting an NFL champions cap, waded through the mob on the soggy field until he found his quarterback, Peyton Manning. And there they stood in the rain, the winning Super Bowl coach and the MVP, finally savoring a moment that was a long time coming. A wet and wild night ... | 150px The Indianapolis Colts won Super Bowl XLI against the Chicago Bears in a 29-17 victory at a rain-soaked Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. Quarterback Payton Manning was named the game's Most Valuable Player. Colts coach Tony Dungy became the first African American to coach an American football team to Su... |
A sorry excuse: Obama adviser makes lame apology for 9/11 conspiracy mess This is an apology? As we editorialized yesterday, Van Jones, the Obama green-jobs guru, has a lot of explaining to do about why he signed an insane 9/11 conspiracy theory petition back in 2004. The 911Truth.org petition, bursting with lies and d... | Van Jones. Van Jones, the environmental jobs adviser to United States President Barack Obama, has resigned after what he calls a smear campaign against him. It had recently been brought to light that Jones had signed a petition in 2004 that stated the U.S. government was behind the 9/11 attacks and that only "white sub... |
Car accident halts live German TV show Koch was wearing spring-powered stilts known as "powerbocks" A live TV game show in Dusseldorf, Germany was halted on Saturday mid-broadcast after a contestant was severely injured in a stunt. Samuel Koch was hurt when he tried to jump over a moving car driven by his father on Wet... | Justin Bieber was due to appear on the same episode of the show A man was seriously injured yesterday after a stunt went wrong during a live game show in Germany. Samuel Koch, 23, suffered injuries to his neck and back after he failed to jump over a car being driven by his father on the show (Wanna bet?). The show was ... |
How Whispering Jack saved John Farnham JOHN Farnham had hit rock bottom. Living in a rented house, he couldn’t even afford to buy his son McDonald’s on his birthday. Then came Whispering Jack. PM trades tax cut to raise GST to 15 per cent THE GST will rise to 15 per cent, middle-income earners will secure tax cuts and ... | APEC Leaders wave for the media dressed in Driza-Bones in Sydney. APEC Leaders dress in Driza-Bones to represent Australia's costume. Leaders attending the APEC summit in Sydney, Australia have worn Driza-Bone coats for their traditional group photo in front of the Sydney Opera House. In APEC tradition, leaders wear at... |
CTVNews.ca Staff Both pilots of a U.S. Navy fighter jet that crashed into a densely populated Virginia Beach, Va. neighbourhood were released from hospital Saturday as officials worked to recover the aircraft's electronic data record. The F-18 Hornet, similar to fighter aircraft flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force, b... | A crashed into a civilian area of , Virginia yesterday at approximately 12:05 pm EST (1605 UTC). Both pilots of the jet ejected from the aircraft. The jet's flight originated from in Virginia Beach. It is reported that the jet crashed shortly after takeoff. The crew are members of the based in Oceana. The jet crashed ... |
Video footage shows a suspected bomber, who is wearing a black shirt Local newspapers ran the pictures with appeals for help in identifying the three men. At least 19 people died in Saturday's bombings of popular tourist resorts. Investigators said the bombers were recruited, trained and equipped by a back-up team, and... | Several explosions hit popular tourist destination areas in Kuta Beach, Indonesia early today, killing at least 19 people and injuring 100 others. Between 11:50 and 12:00 UTC, three explosions hit the Kuta Square and Jimbaran Beach, two popular Western tourist areas in Bali. The Indonesian national news agency, ANTARA,... |
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Southern California wildfires already blamed for more than $900 million in losses continued to rage out of control Tuesday night, pushing officials to concede they may only be able to contain the infernos while they blaze a trail west to the Pacific Ocean. Fueled by hot, dry Santa Ana winds... | NOAA image of fires in San Diego County, C.A. on October 23, 2007. NASA images of the fires on October 22 Reports say that the amount of people fleeing from their homes in California located in the United States due to wildfires has reached the 1,000,000 mark as the fires continue to grow. More than 500,000 people have... |
Michelle Wie reacts after birdying the fifth hole during her second round of the SK Telecom Open in Inchon, Friday. /Yonhap The 16-year-old star from Hawaii scored a 3-under-par 69 in the second round of the SK Telecom Open at the Sky 72 Golf Club in Inchon, west of Seoul, Friday, holding a two-round total of 5-under 1... | U.S. golfer made the cut yesterday in the 2006 SK Telecom Open in , South Korea, finishing the second round with a 3-under-par 69 and 5-under-par overall, tying her for 17th overall. This was Wie's eighth attempt at making it past the halfway point in a men's professional golf tournament. She had played in seven tourna... |
Bird Poop as Political Commentary President George W. Bush was busy praising embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at a press conference Thursday when a bold sparrow swooped overhead and deposited a present on the commander in chief’s left sleeve. Though a White House spokesperson claimed it was a good sign, we h... | President Bush goes to wipe off bird feces on his left arm.United States President George W. Bush received an unwelcome gift from an overhead-flying , which deposited a fresh batch of its feces on the left sleeve of Bush's suit. Bush was addressing the American press on Thursday in a nationally televised broadcast outs... |
Police said 2-3kg of dynamite was used in the attack The blast happened at the time when Mr Voulgarakis would normally have been passing by on his way to work. Nobody was hurt by the explosion. Mr Voulgarakis headed the law and order ministry before moving to culture this year. The move was seen as a demotion following... | A bomb exploded near the house of the Greek Culture Minister,Georgios Voulgarakis, in Lycabettus Hill, Athens, wrecking a number of cars. The device, which the police said consisted of 2-3 kg (4-7lb) of dynamite, had been placed on a bike left between two cars. The explosion at 7:42am (GMT +2), close to the home of Min... |
An employee for NBC is one of the holders of a $266-million lottery ticket purchased in Pico Rivera, according to KNBC News. "One of the owners of the winning ticket works at NBCLA. The owners of the winning ticket said they're not ready to come forward, yet, and asked not to be identified," the station said on its web... | Logo of the California State Lottery. An NBC employee won US$266 million from the 's Mega Millions drawing. The winner, wishing to remain anonymous, will receive $165 million in total, after federal taxes, reports spokesperson for the lottery Cathy Doyle Johnston. David Reese, a assistant manager, was informed by the w... |
Doubt over Greenpeace report on GM rice By Jiang Zhuqing (China Daily) Updated: 2005-04-14 05:39 Agricultural experts and Chinese authorities denied Greenpeace accusations of "out of control" genetically modified (GM) rice and cast doubt on its testing procedures. At a news conference in Hong Kong yesterday, Greenpeace... | Authorities in the People's Republic of China today questioned the integrity of tests conducted by Greenpeace, the environmental awareness organisation, purporting to show that genetically engineered (GE) rice has been illegally farmed and sold, in the largest rice-producing country. Greenpeace alleges through a press ... |
A contrarian in life, the writer Christopher Hitchens united the world in death, with friends, colleagues and even debating opponents joining to celebrate his fearless intellect, ready wit and diamantine prose after he died from cancer at the age of 62. Salman Rushdie took to Twitter to mourn the passing of a "beloved ... | Christopher Hitchens speaking in 2007 at The Amazing Meeting 5 (TAM5) conference in Las Vegas. British-born author, journalist and political commentator Christopher Hitchens has died yesterday aged 62 at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, following a diagnosis of esophageal cancer in June 2010. Hitchens w... |
Obama calls for disgraced governor to step down AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) CHICAGO (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama said Thursday he didn't discuss his vacant Senate seat with disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich and said he's confident nobody on his staff did either. Calling bluntly for the Illinois Democrat to resign, O... | The Tibetan Mastiff, one of the new breeds showcased this year. This year, four breeds of dogs are competing for the first time in the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, United States. The new breeds making their Westminister debuts this year, are the Plott, a hunting hound ori... |
Saturday was a day of surprises in Melbourne - no Ferrari on the front row, BMW Sauber looking a genuine threat to polesitters McLaren, and Honda eclipsing Renault and almost making Q3 - despite all the gloomy pre-race predictions that have surrounded the Japanese team. But whose pace was for real and who was running l... | Lewis Hamilton (Stars and Cars 2007) Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton starting from pole wins the FIA Formula-1 2008 ING Australian Grand Prix on the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne. Nick Heidfeld took second for BMW Sauber. Nico Rosberg scoring his first Formula One podium in third and a long-awaited f... |
At long last, cheerful news on Wall Street Wall Street shares have soared after the US government announced another bailout plan for troubled banks. All key stock indices gained around 7%, with the Dow Jones index jumping nearly 500 points to close at 7,775 - its highest level in more than a month. The wider S&P 500 in... | A logarithmic graph of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from January 2000 to December 2008.United States stock markets surged on Monday, following an announcement by the government to give another bailout to the banks. All three major stock indexes posted gains of about seven percent at the closing bell. Part of the ra... |
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (AP) -- The remains of the last person missing after a bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River nearly three weeks ago have been found, authorities said Monday, bringing the official death toll to 13 and relief to the only family still awaiting word on a missing loved one. Workers remove a sch... | Aerial photo of the collapsed I-35W into the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The remains of the last missing person following the bridge collapse in Minneapolis were recovered on Monday. The official death toll now stands at 13, following the collapse nearly three weeks ago. All recovery efforts have now b... |
Explosion and gunfight kill seven soliders in Yala Authority said the insurgents shot at close range at the head of the seven injured soldiers following the bomb attack. The eighth soldier, who suffered injuries form the explosive, managed to fled the scene. Insurgents also took all seven M16 belonging to the dead sold... | A roadside bombing and ambush attack today in southern Thailand killed seven Royal Thai Army soldiers and left one injured. Blamed on Muslim insurgents, the attack in Bannang Sata district, Yala, was similar to one on May 31, in which 12 soldiers were killed in one of the deadliest days of the south Thailand insurgency... |
Exoplanet Biosignature Gases A biosignature gas is defined as one that is produced by life and accumulates in an atmosphere to detectable levels. Any kind of ab initio approach to predicting what biosignature gases might be is so challenging that nearly all work done to date basically follows the “We know what Earth li... | In May, a study was published in journal '''', conducted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Dr and other researchers, showing - organisms like '''' (''E. coli'') and can thrive in both 100% and atmospheres. ''Wikinews'' discussed the findings with Dr Seager to know more about her research. File photo of... |
If you’re the proud owner of a cast-iron pan , then you already know what a good investment it is. Once well-seasoned, it can cook just about anything from pancakes to fried chicken, it can go from stovetop to oven with ease, it’s nearly indestructible, it’s inexpensive and it holds its heat like a dream. But if you’re... | The Pirate Bay logo A raid involving 50 members of the Swedish National Criminal Police has taken the servers of The Pirate Bay and Piratbyrån (the Pirate Bureau) — a Swedish lobby organisation that originally developed The Pirate Bay — into custody. The search warrant was given on grounds of alleged copyright violatio... |
MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A massive manhunt is under way after four Miami-Dade County, Florida, police officers were shot during a traffic stop Thursday, a police spokeswoman said. One of the officers later died, Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez said. Police say Shawn Sherwin Labeet is being sought after the shooti... | Suspect wanted for the shootings. A manhunt in southeastern Florida has begun after four Miami-Dade Police Department officers were shot with a high-powered rifle. One of those officers has died. Two others are in serious condition. One has been released from Homestead Hospital. "Shortly after 11:21 a.m. Thursday, Miam... |
Haggard, Colo. Springs church he founded reach a settlement Ex-pastor agrees to financial deal, continued therapy Ted Haggard and the church he founded and led for two decades have reached a settlement that includes a financial package and a pledge by Haggard not to talk about the scandal that destroyed his ministry, a... | The New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado has reached a financial settlement with its founder (and former head of National Association of Evangelicals) pastor Ted Haggard. Haggard stepped aside as senior pastor in the Church in November 2006, when a male prostitute claimed that he had engaged in a three year re... |
Twitter, which has proved a hit with Barack Obama, Stephen Fry and Sarah Brown, picked up one in every 400 UK internet visits last week, according to data from Hitwise, the internet research company. The extra clicks make Twitter Britain's 27th most popular website, one position above News Corporation-owned MySpace. Ro... | Social networking website Twitter picked up 1 in every 400 UK Internet visits last week and had more viewer visits than rival site MySpace. The Twitter logo. Hitwise, an Internet research company, provided the information. They said: "For the week ending August 29th 2009, Twitter.com picked up 1 in every 400 UK Interne... |
We’re supposed to wish for a healthy child with 10 working fingers and 10 working toes. But a family in San Francisco got something even better: A healthy child with 12 working fingers and 12 more working toes. Kamani Hubbard was born a few weeks ago with polydactyly, a condition that means he’s got some extra digits. ... | __NOTOC__ DICOM-format X-ray of a ten year old male patient's left foot, anterior-posterior view, with postaxial polydactyly of 5th ray. A six-pound infant born in San Francisco, California has six perfectly formed and functional fingers and toes on his hands and feet, so that it isn't considered a disability or deform... |
Zimbabwe’s recent history has been marked by much controversy and, unfortunately, massive abuses of power and infringements against human rights. The problems experienced by the people living in Zimbabwe do, however, go back many years, perhaps even to before the colonial era when Cecil John Rhodes and the British Sout... | The US-funded Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWSNET) has said that Zimbabwe may face famine this year, due to wilting crops caused by poor rains. The organisation added that more than two million Zimbabweans would require food aid between now and March. “Since December, below-average precipitation and above-aver... |
Guinea President Lansana Conte has dismissed his prime minister after canceling a government re-organization. These events closely follow Mr. Conte's return from a medical trip to Switzerland. A presidential decree read on state radio said Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo had been fired for serious misconduct. It al... | Guinean President Lansana Conte Today, Guinean president Lansana Conte fired his prime minister, Cellou Dalein Diallo, for "grave wrongdoing and serious misconduct." The two appeared to be in a power struggle as President Conte quickly reversed a shuffle planned by PM Diallo that would have replaced allies of President... |
Four attack aircraft breeched Georgian airspace at about 11:30am local time on August 8 and dropped a bomb outside Gori, Eka Zguladze, the Georgian deputy interior minister, said. The bomb exploded in a non-populated area and no one was injured, she said. The incident came just an hour after three aircraft, apparently ... | The has escalated as Russian forces are being sent into the conflict on the Ossetian side. At 10:00 a.m. , Georgian sources reported that three Russian attack aircraft invaded Georgian air space and dropped bombs onto a target near the town of Kareli. A later flight dropped one bomb near Gori. While no one was harmed i... |
By Rebecca Morelle Science reporter, BBC News The little pink calf was spotted in amongst an 80-strong elephant herd A pink baby elephant has been caught on camera in Botswana. A wildlife cameraman took pictures of the calf when he spotted it among a herd of about 80 elephants in the Okavango Delta. Experts believe it ... | A baby was sighted in the African country of Botswana on Friday by a filmmaker for the BBC as he was filming for a . The cameraman took photographs of the elephant when he noticed it in a herd of around eighty elephants in the . According to experts, it is most likely an , an occurrence that is very rare among . "We on... |
Nine quintillion (9,223,372,036,854,775,808) SHA1 computations in total 6,500 years of CPU computation to complete the attack first phase 110 years of GPU computation to complete the second phase While those numbers seem very large, the SHA-1 shattered attack is still more than 100,000 times faster than a brute force a... | This Thursday, Google announced that it had performed a successful on the popular for the first time — that they know of. The collision attack demonstrated an algorithm for making two distinct inputs map to the same hash output, putting at risk the usage of SHA-1 for verifying data integrity. Google published a blog p... |
ORLANDO, Fla. - The investigation into the shooting death of "The Voice" star Christina Grimmie has been closed, officials said on Wednesday. Grimmie was shot and killed while signing autographs after a performance at The Plaza Live in Orlando June 10 just after 10 p.m. Orlando police said the case was closed and clear... | The man who murdered following a June 10 concert lived "like a hermit" and had apparently never met the singer, but was infatuated with her and had spent recent months changing his appearance in an effort to win her over, according to information released on Wednesday by police in Orlando, Florida. Christina Grimmie in... |
Tesla Motors and Toyota Motor Corporation Formalize Agreement to Develop Electric Version of RAV4 Palo Alto, California, U.S.A., and Tokyo, Japan — TESLA MOTORS, INC. (Tesla) and TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) today announced that the two companies have signed an agreement to initiate the development of an electric ver... | 2009 RAV4. Toyota Motor Company announced they have formalized an agreement to develop an electric version of the SUV with Tesla Motors. In May 2010, Akio Toyoda and Elon Musk, leaders of Toyota and Tesla, respectively, announced they would work together on electric vehicles. The agreement formalizes this announcement ... |
The island has been crippled by a month of strikes over the cost of living France is sending four military police units to Guadeloupe after one person was killed during month-long riots and strikes on the French Caribbean island. Interior minister Michele Alliot-Marie said 260 gendarmerie officers are being deployed to... | Violence has erupted in Guadeloupe after a month-long general strike protesting the high costs of food and fuel. A union official, Jacques Bino, has been reported killed by armed youths at a barricade in Pointe-à-Pitre, the largest city. Three police officers were injured when they tried to reach the scene. Map of Guad... |
Gov. Eliot Spitzer, whose rise to political power as a fierce enforcer of ethics in public life was undone by revelations of his own involvement with prostitutes, resigned on Wednesday, becoming the first New York governor to leave office amid scandal in nearly a century. The resignation will be effective on Monday, an... | Eliot Spitzer (D), Governor of New York New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has announced that he has resigned, effective Monday. Spitzer was recently discovered to have been a client of a prostitution ring on numerous occasions. In a press conference, Governor Spitzer said: "I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to wha... |
In order to finish first, first you have to be Finnish "Welcome to the world of winning, the first of many." That was how McLaren boss Ron Dennis greeted Heikki Kovalainen as the Finn scored a surprise victory on Sunday in a Hungarian Grand Prix that should really have been Felipe Massa's race. The Brazilian took his c... | File photo of Heikki Kovalainen (2008)Heikki Kovalainen driving at British GP, 2008 Hungaroring Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver Heikki Kovalainen won the FIA Formula One 2008 ING Magyar Nagydíj at the Hungaroring, Budapest, Hungary on Sunday. It was the first Grand Prix win of Kovalainen's driving career and he became... |
Learn about attacks, arrests and other major incidents in global terrorism since 1993. Click "Launch" to view. Click Launch to view images cleared by the U.S. military from within the prison at Guantanamo. Learn about attacks, arrests and other major incidents in global terrorism since 1993. Click "Launch" to view. GUA... | David Hicks of Australia who has been detained by the United States since 2001, pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of providing material support to terrorist organizations. Hicks answered "yes, sir," when the judge, Marine Colonel Kohlmann, asked if "guilty" was in fact his plea. The plea appears to be the result of a... |
The two crew members on the F-15E fighter jet both ejected, suffering minor injuries. One was quickly picked up by a US military helicopter. The other is said to be "safe" after being rescued by Libyan rebels. The US miltary said their forces were in the process of having him recovered. The crashed plane was discovered... | A F-15E Strike Eagle takes off from RAF Lakenheath in England. (File photo) A United States fighter jet has crashed in Libya the U.S. military said. The U.S. Air Force jet, flying in support of the over Libya as part of , crashed somewhere outside of Benghazi last night around 10:30pm CET (9:30pm UTC), according to the... |
After it was reported that Turkish President Recep Erdogan was considering converting Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia into a functioning mosque, many Orthodox Christians hoped he was just speculating. However, in an interview given yesterday, Erdogan confirmed that the historic site, which was previously a Christian cat... | On Wednesday, as a part of his pre-election campaign, the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pledged converting , formerly a church and now a museum, to a mosque, following the election today. He announced this change by live television on Wednesday and again verbally in a rally on Friday, despite criticism by the ... |
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement The US has carried out its first execution by firing squad in 14 years. Convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner, who had spent 25 years on death row, was executed soon after midnight local time (0600 GMT), after a final appeal had been rejected. ... | Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad in Utah at 0020 local time (0620 UTC) on Friday. His execution was performed by five volunteer riflemen. Gardner would not have seen his executioners due to bright lights during his final words before a bag was placed over his head. The execution was carried out at a pris... |
Paul Court & Chantelle Swanson - literally married the moment they lied eyes on one another Templeton, near Christchurch, horseman Paul Court has become a national celebrity overnight after taking part in a radio station promotion that saw him marry Canadian-born Chantelle Swanson just moments after first laying eyes o... | An Oakville, Ontario woman married a man on New Zealand radio station ''The Edge'' after winning reality show ''Three Strangers and a Wedding''. Chantelle Swanson, 26, had only talked to Paul Court, her husband and who is a 29-year-old horse driver, through the telephone. Invercargill Mayor and marriage celebrant Tim S... |
The Sirius Star made its maiden voyage in March of this year Pirates have seized a giant Saudi-owned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean off the Kenyan coast and are steering it towards Somalia, the US Navy reports. The US-bound tanker was captured on Saturday some 450 nautical miles (830km) south-east of Mombasa, and is no... | Pirates have seized control of the ''Sirius Star'', a Saudi-owned oil tanker off the coast of Kenya and are steering her towards Somalia, reports the US Navy. The ship was captured roughly 830 kilometers south-east of Mombasa and is reportedly heading towards the Somali port of Eyl. oil tanker of similar capacity as th... |
The lake where Sheikh Ahmed's body was found A search party has found the body of a member of Abu Dhabi's ruling family after his glider crashed in Morocco. Rescuers had searched a lake south of Rabat for Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed al-Nahayan for four days. The Spanish pilot of the glider survived the crash and is in a sta... | The body of Emirati Sheikh has been found in a lake near Rabat, Morocco. Sheikh Ahmed had been missing since his glider plane crashed four days ago. Sheikh Ahmed was the managing director of the at the time of his death. He was the son of , and although he was the brother of Sheikh he was not in the immediate line for ... |
Six members of Fifa’s executive committee — a quarter of the membership – were accused in Parliament of “improper and unethical behaviour” with two members, Issa Hayatou, of Cameroon, and Jacques Anouma, of Ivory Coast, alleged to received $1.5 million each in bribes from the Qatar 2022 bid in exchange for their votes.... | File photograph of FIFA Sonnenberg Convention Center, in Zurich. , the former chairman of , the governing body of football in England, has made new allegations of widespread corruption within the FIFA election process for the . The allegations are the latest in a line of embarrassments for FIFA, who have already been ... |
Local News Floods round-up: Reclamation work may be a cause 31 Jan 2007 JOHOR BARU: The massive land reclamation work by Singapore at Pulau Tekong may have contributed to the recent floods. The land reclamation is said to have narrowed the river mouth of Sungai Johor, causing the massive destruction in Kota Tinggi. Men... | Floods during the month of January have devastated Singapore. A major flood occurred from January 11 to January 12, 2007, during which almost 24 cm of rain fell, resulting in a landslide. A second major flood recently occurred at Kota Tinggi, leaving 17 people and 12 monkeys dead. As of January 31, 30,000 people still ... |
BANGKOK The Thai police said Friday that a Russian businessman regarded as one of the world’s most notorious arms dealers would be held here for investigation even as the United States sought his extradition. At a news conference, a police spokesman said the authorities were investigating whether the businessman, Vik... | , an international arms dealer, has been arrested in Thailand. Bout was arrested by the on Thursday, after checking in at a luxury hotel in the district of . Viktor Bout is suspected of supplying arms to the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, , as well as combatants on both sides of African civil wars. He has been dubbed the "Merchant... |
Register for NYTimes.com. Breaking news and award winning multimedia New York Times newspaper articles Arts & Dining reviews Online Classifieds It's free and it only takes a minute! Member ID or E-Mail Address: Password: Forgot Your Password? Remember me on this computer. ||||| The Space Shuttle Atlantis comple... | The ISS from Atlantis on June 10, 2007. NASA said yesterday that four lanes (processing channels) out of six on the two navigational and support computers that had crashed earlier in the week on the International Space Station (ISS) were now operational and may be put back online today. The two computers, the Russian C... |
Cameron faces defeat over Syria Jack Grimston, Isabel Oakeshott and Hala Jaber in Damascus David Cameron has been warned that he faces an embarrassing defeat in the Commons if he tries to... Poor white children do worst at British schools Sian Griffiths, Education Editor POOR white British children have become the leas... | '''April 7, 2005''' Four people were killed today after a bomb was hurled into a busy bazaar in Cairo, Egypt. The blast occurred near the al-Azhar mosque and injured at least an additional 18 people. The bomb is thought to have been thrown from a passing motorcycle, which then landed amongst crowds of tourists and shop... |
On the transmission, US soldiers on the ground can be heard establishing that there are two child casualties and agreeing to take them to hospital. ||||| US military detains soldier linked to Iraq video BAGHDAD — The U.S. military in Iraq says it has detained a soldier who has been identified as the source of a leaked ... | The United States military has arrested an intelligence analyst who may have been responsible for leaking classified combat video and documents to the whistle-blower website Wikileaks. Full audio transcript) Other video clips available by Wikileaks.|alt=Military helicopter video footage of civilian humans and vehicle b... |
It is with great sadness that I announce my resignation from the WWE, effective January 1, 2010. I have never even considered a future outside the walls of the WWE. However, sometimes life takes an unexpected turn and while it is the most difficult decision I have ever made, it is time for me to move on. First and fore... | Shane McMahon announced his resignation this morning Predicted heir to World Wrestling Entertainment Shane McMahon has announced he will leave the company on January 1, 2010. McMahon is the son of current owner Vincent K. McMahon and the current Executive Vice President of Global Media for the company. With the departu... |
Visit msnbc.com's Candidates + Issues Matrix to rate Obama's ideas about the key issues. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks to the primary themes of his presidential campaign. BREAKING NEWS NBC News GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - NBC News has confirmed that former Sen. John Edwards, who ended his bid for the Democratic nominatio... | Barack Obama John Edwards Former Senator John Edwards (D-NC) endorsed former rival Barack Obama (D-IL) on Wednesday, another sign that the party establishment is embracing the likely nominee for the United States 2008 Presidential election even as Hillary Clinton, Obama's opponent, refuses to give up her candidacy. Edw... |
Drillers coach struck by foul ball, killed Coolbaugh was knocked unconscious by line drive to head Mike Coolbaugh played in eight leagues during a 17-year careers in the Minors. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images) MiLB Headlines ADVERTISEMENT Mike Coolbaugh's Major League statistics Statements: Milwaukee Brewers Minor... | An United States man from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was killed by a baseball during a game in North Little Rock, Arkansas, against the Arkansas Travelers. Tulsa Drillers coach Mike Coolbaugh, 35, was struck and killed by a line drive while coaching first base. He leaves his wife, Mandy, and two young sons, Jacob and Joseph. Man... |
LES OGSÅ: - For sent å redde valgkampen Kvart på fire i ettermiddag ble det kunngjort at Oslos ordfører gjennom tolv år trekker seg. Klokken 17.30 var det pressekonferanse. Ditlev-Simonsen ga en muntlig redegjørelse på noen få minutter, og han ville ikke svare på spørsmål fra pressen. Bakgrunnen er avsløringen av hans ... | The mayor of the Norwegian capital Oslo, Per Ditlev-Simonsen, resigned today after massive critique following revelations that he used to have a Swiss bank account for which he did not pay taxes. Ditlev-Simonsen was elected mayor in 1995. Before that, he was the defence minister of Norway from 1989 to 1990. Allegations... |
The haul was salvaged using a tethered underwater robot The haul of coins US treasure hunters said the coins, worth an estimated $500m (£253m), were recovered in the Atlantic Ocean. But Odyssey Marine Exploration, who described it as the largest find of its kind, refused to pinpoint the location. US coin expert Dr Lane... | Map of Cornwall, United Kingdom. Reports say that a team of treasure hunters from the United States has recovered over 500 million U.S. dollars (£253m) worth of gold and silver coins off the coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom in what is being called the biggest treasure find ever, but the exact location of the treasure ... |
By Chris Michaud NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police manned checkpoints and set up radiological monitoring equipment in Manhattan and the city's other boroughs over the weekend in response to unverified threats by al Qaeda on the Internet of dirty bomb attacks. The moves stemmed from an "unverified radiological threat," a poli... | Times Square on a horse. A posting on the internet has stated that al-Qaeda is planning a dirty bomb attack on New York City, New York (NYC) in the United States. In a statement to the press, NYC police stated that the posting was an "unverified radiological threat" against New York City. Police also stated that the ci... |
The Canadian Press MONTREAL—Air Canada (TSX:AC.B) is laying off more than 1,000 machinists seconded to work at maintenance and overhaul company Aveos Fleet Performance in Montreal, Winnipeg and Vancouver. The layoffs, which will take place in April and June, include 195 permanent job cuts and 815 temporary job losses. ... | 777-300 landing at Montréal-Trudeau in 2007. Canadian airline Air Canada has said that it will be laying off 1,010 machinists seconded to work at the Aveos Fleet Performance aircraft maintenance company. The layoffs will take place in April and June, with 470 and 540 workers to be laid off in each month, respectively. ... |
A group of lawyers representing cholera victims in Haiti has threatened to take legal action against the United Nations. James Bays, Al Jazeera's diplomatic editor, reporting from the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday said the lawyers representing the victims and their families have "presenting a very clear mess... | Lawyers representing Haitian victims warned the United Nations (UN) on May 7, if they do not admit liability for the spread of cholera in 2010, they'll be sued. Lawyers demand the UN apologize to and compensate the victims and improve sanitation efforts. Lawyers claim the UN is breaking international law by failing to ... |
(Page 1 of 2) An Internet audio tape attributed to Osama bin Laden said Tuesday that Zacarias Moussaoui the only person convicted in the United States for the Sept. 11 attacks had nothing to do with the operation."He had no connection at all with Sept. 11," the voice, apparently of bin Laden, said."I am the one in ... | A new audiotape of al-Qaeda's leader, Osama bin Laden, has surfaced on the Internet. On the tape, bin Laden claims that it was him alone who assigned the hijackers to perform the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and that Zacarias Moussaoui had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks. "The truth is that he ha... |
Fire at Marconi House in London's West End Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Continue reading the main story Related Stories A fire at a well-known building in London's West End has been tackled by about 100 firefighters. Twenty fire engines were sent to put out the fire on top of Marconi Ho... | Smoke still coming from the roof of Marconi House at about 2.30 p.m. local time, over 3 hours after the alert was raised. A fire on , in central London, England, has led to serious traffic problems in the area since this morning. Many roads have been closed for some hours while firefighters attempt to extinguish the bl... |
“ We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. ” Anonymous By The Canadian Press ADVERTISEMENT Back Back to top © 2007 The Halifax Herald Limited ||||| View larger image Prime Minister Stephen Harper responds to reporters' questions in Ottawa on Monday after announcing new funding for aid in Afghanistan. (CP ... | Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Monday, announced CAN$200 million for the cleanup of war-torn Afghanistan. The money will be used for hospitals and broken roads as well as other important projects that will help Afghanistan. The $100 million has been added to the $100 million already used in the country, which ... |
advertisement Paris fire death toll rises, fourth girl held PARIS (Reuters) - The death toll in a suspected arson attack in a high-rise apartment block in Paris has risen to 16 and a fourth girl has been arrested in connection with the blaze, the police said on Monday. Sunday's fire was the third major one in the Frenc... | The death toll has risen to 16 confirmed dead and an unconfirmed number of people are injured in another fire south of Paris, France. Investigators say the fire was caused by arson. 4 people have arrested, 3 are teenage girls (18 to 16 years old). The fire occurred early Sunday morning in an apartment building in the s... |
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