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The third major release of OpenOffice.org’s free software suite comes as the group celebrates its eighth birthday. OpenOffice.org released the third version of its free office software over the weekend – it can be downloaded free here. New features in the word processing software ‘Writer’ include multilingual support, ... | OpenOffice 3.0 comes with new features and performance enhancements. Sun Microsystems released version 3.0 of its free and open source (FOSS) office suite Openoffice.org on Monday. It has been reported that the new version comes with a number of performance enhancements and new features. Openoffice.org 3.0 now claims t... |
USA 16 February 2005 Court of Appeals upholds jail sentence for two journalists who protected their sources Reporters Without Borders voiced deep concern over the Washington D.C. circuit's U.S. Court of Appeals' decision today to uphold a jail sentence for journalists Matthew Cooper of Time magazine and Judith Miller o... | '''February 19, 2005''' Judith Miller of The New York Times and Matthew Cooper of Time magazine can be jailed for refusing to reveal their sources to a U.S. federal grand jury, according to the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. The reporters were among those approached with information about Va... |
Story Highlights • At least 3 killed as tornadoes hit southern Georgia • 7 die in Alabama twister; five at Enterprise High School • Alabama governor declares state of emergency • Dusk to dawn curfew is in effect for Alabama town Adjust font size: ENTERPRISE, Alabama (CNN) -- Storms stampeded throughout the central and ... | Large tornadoes swept through Georgia, Alabama, and Missouri yesterday, part of a large line of storms that stretched across the United States. Thunderstorm supercells spawned dozens of tornadoes in at least 6 states; the received 31 reports of tornadoes in all on Thursday, March 1, 2007. In , Alabama, a tornado tore t... |
My first computer was a Mac Plus. Loved it. My second computer was an AT&T Unix PC running System V. Loved it long time. My third computer was a Sparc running Solaris or SunOS. Loved it. At work I run Linux, Open Office, Firefox, Eclipse, etc. No drama. For the last six years I have been running a little company making... | left Software giant Microsoft has attempted to correct a Wikipedia article concerning the Microsoft Office Open XML format. Wikipedia strongly discourages contributors involved with the subject of an article from editing the article, when a conflict of interest is likely. Instead, such contributors are advised to comme... |
After bringing down their government, launching dozens of new television and radio stations and about 70 new political parties all the while working on rewriting their constitution, many Tunisians are now politely agreeing to meet the endless flood of people coming to their country to learn more about the revolution. |... | Filipino president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared a state of emergency Friday following reports from security forces on a foiled coup attempt. Arroyo's emergency powers allow arrests without warrants and the extended detention of prisoners without charges. Brigadier General Danilo Lim, the commander of the 1st Scout ... |
Croatia's ruling party has kicked out the country's former premier after he criticized his successor and announced a return to politics. Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said Monday her conservative Croatian Democratic Party ousted Ivo Sanader because he was harming the party. Sanader had led the party since 2000 and was ... | Ivo Sanader in April 2009 Croatia's ruling Democratic Union (HDZ) party expelled the former prime minister Ivo Sanader following his political comeback Sunday. The decision was made after a day-long intra-party meeting led by the party's president and current prime minister Jadranka Kosor, who accused him of trying to ... |
At least 23 people were rescued when the boats capsized in high winds [AFP] At least 23 people were rescued when the boats capsized in high winds [AFP] At least 21 bodies were found on Tuesday after the vessels capsized in high winds and heavy rain off the coast of Libya, the IOM officials said. More than 200 would-be ... | The (IOM) stated that over 200 Arab and African migrants are feared drowned after three boats, bound for Europe, sank in the Mediterranean in separate incidents. No less than 21 bodies were recovered on Tuesday when the boats capsized in heavy winds and rain near Libya's coast. 23 were rescued by workers on a oil rig c... |
Pak govt. may appeal against A.Q. Khan's release Islamabad (IANS): Bowing to international pressure, the Pakistani government may appeal against the release of A.Q. Khan, the scientist who mentored the country's nuclear programme and who was accused of running an illegal proliferation network. Quoting government source... | Last Friday, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, a Pakistani nuclear scientist, was freed from detention. Khan was detained under house arrest since 2004, he made a televised confession of selling nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea. He is widely regarded as the founder of Pakistan's nuclear program, and most famous as a... |
Thursday, April 28, 2005 Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal STRIP MEGARESORT: Wynn creation opens Countdown inaugurates hotel's start By HOWARD STUTZ GAMING WIRE Crowds file into Wynn Las Vegas today after the marquee counts down just after midnight. Photo by K.M. Cannon. Salon Suites, left, are equipped with a confe... | __NOTOC__ The hotel stands nearly fifty stories above the Las Vegas valley, with a 180-foot tall mountain in front of the main entrance. The world's most expensive hotel-casino ever has opened in Las Vegas, Nevada. The casino, which was designed and built over a period of five years, cost US$2.7 billion to construct. T... |
Sarah Telford United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) In a world awash with data, aid workers contend with gaps With nearly 168 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in 2020 -- the highest figure in decades -- there is no time, or data, to lose ||||| Rescuers had to use lad... | Location of Lathen, Germany Twenty-three people died when a Transrapid maglev train travelling on the system's test track in Lathen in Germany, near the Netherlands border, collided with a maintenance vehicle on the track. Ten others were severely injured according to Karl-Heinz Brüggemann, a spokesman for the rescue e... |
AUSTRALIANS are being warned to ignore a scam email claiming to be from the tax office and offering refunds. The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has issued the warning, saying the email includes realistic-looking features - including the tax office logo - to make it look genuine. Bogus emails sent to people have included t... | 200px The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has warned against a fraudulent email claiming to be from the ATO. The email, which is similar to previous scams, uses the ATO logo and has the subject line of ‘Notification - Please read’, ‘Australian Taxation Office - Please read’ or other variations. The email directs recipients... |
By choosing “I agree” below, you agree that NPR’s sites use cookies, similar tracking and storage technologies, and information about the device you use to access our sites to enhance your viewing, listening and user experience, personalize content, personalize messages from NPR’s sponsors, provide social media feature... | Violence broke out on Saturday when several thousand people rallied at in the US capital city of Washington, DC in support of US President to protest the results of the 2020 US Presidential Election, where former has been projected to have defeated the incumbent in both the and the . The demonstrations were initially ... |
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner likes to be known as the "first citizen" Mrs Kirchner promised change but also pledged to continue what she called the re-founding of the nation. She announced her candidacy in July after President Nestor Kirchner said he would not be standing for re-election. Polls say she has a good cha... | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Current senator and Argentine First Lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced her presidential candidacy yesterday evening in La Plata, a city 50 kilometers (31 miles) away from Buenos Aires. Mrs. Kirchner announced her intention to run for president at the ''Argentine Theatre'', the ... |
Yemen says more than 100 Shiite rebels killed (AFP) – Aug 23, 2009 SANAA — Yemeni troops have killed more than 100 Shiite rebels, including two of their commanders, in an operation to recapture a small town in the northern mountains, the government said on Sunday. "The bodies of more than 100 rebels have been recovered... | Yemeni government officials reported that Yemeni armed forces have killed over 100 Zaidi Shia rebel fighters following a battle to capture a town in the country's north. In a statement, the government said that "the bodies of more than 100 rebels have been recovered from the roadside outside the town of Harf Sufyan. It... |
New Launch Period for Zvezda Service Module Technical representatives from NASA and the Russian Aviation and Space Agency have completed a Joint Program Review of issues related to the International Space Station Program. The partners agreed to move the projected launch window for the Zvezda Service Module to a period ... | __NOEDITSECTION__ Chiao (right) and Sharipov on the ISS Expedition 10 Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov deploys the Nanosatellite while Commander Leroy Chiao (below) photographs. ISS Zvezda module where spacewalk took place Commander Leroy Chiao (U.S.A.) and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov (Russia), suited in Russian... |
By Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter, BBC News Boy Van Amstel created pleaserobme.com to make a point. A website called PleaseRobMe claims to reveal the location of empty homes based on what people post online. The Dutch developers told BBC News the site was designed to prove a point about the dangers of sharing precise... | A new website, PleaseRobMe.com, was created earlier this week, claiming to indicate the location of empty homes based on social networkers' posts online, especially Twitter. The developers of the site told the BBC they had intended to display how dangerous it is to share one's precise location over the Internet. The si... |
Scripts were written to reassure the public the BBC was "still there" A script written by the BBC and the government to be broadcast in the event of a nuclear attack has been published. The script, written in the 1970s and released by the National Archives, included instructions to "stay calm and stay in your own homes... | The nuclear bombing of Nagasaki A script prepared by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the Government of the United Kingdom in the 1970s, and released today, shows the text of the radio announcement that would be made in case of a nuclear attack on Britain. The script was released by The National Archives,... |
The opium from poppies is made into heroin that makes its way to many Western countries [GALLO/GETTY] Afghanistan's production of poppies is expected to hit a record high this year and will produce nearly all of the world's opium, a United Nations report is expected to reveal. The report is also expected to criticise t... | Opium Poppy According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report released Monday, the opium produced in Afghanistan has doubled in the past two years, reaching record highs. The United Nations' report determined that 93% of the world's opium is now produced in Afghanistan, up 1% from last year. In 2... |
Membership Drive Recruitment is one of the toughest things any organization has to do. You have something that the people want or need. You have to be able to offer your members what they need when they need it. And you have to constantly reenforce the values and the intergrity of your organization. These are not small... | The "grievance" against a Teamsters Union Local 385 person named "Michael Fedelem", "was resolved prior to Step 3." It is presumed, but not known, if this website mention relates to the employee who played Tigger at Walt Disney World, as he is mentioned on the "Character Team" page of the website. Teamsters representat... |
Politics Karamanlis Message to Skopje Deliberations Completed 01 Mar 2008 10:05:00 (Last updated: 02 Mar 2008 12:02:30) Ε-mail Print Sources: NET 105.8, ΑNA-ΜPA The 2 hours meeting with FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) representative Nicola Dimitrov UN mediator Matthew Nimetz and Greek Ambassador Adamantio... | Map showing the Greek province of Macedonia(white/blue) and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia(red) in the Balkans. The first part of the bi-lateral negotiations regarding the naming-dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, under the United Nations mediation, ended without agreement ... |
Story highlights "Everyone get out ... and keep running," club posts on social media Police warn residents to stay away from area (CNN) Gunfire erupted at a gay nightclub in Orlando early Sunday, with multiple injuries reported, Florida authorities said. "Everyone get out of Pulse and keep running," the club posted on ... | In the early morning hours of today, according to police, a man by the name of entered , a gay club in Orlando, Florida, and opened fire. 50 people were killed and 53 were hospitalized. It is now the largest in United States history, with the and Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting shootings the closest behind. The s... |
Charges dropped for 20th alleged 9/11 hijacker But five other suspects, including the alleged mastermind, face the death penalty at the troubled Guantanamo Bay tribunal. One judge in the Guantanamo Bay military tribunal has threatened to suspend the case against a Canadian terrorism suspect if Pentagon prosecutors cont... | Five men out of six accused of involvement in the September 11 attacks have been referred to trial by the Guantanamo military commission. The war crimes tribunal also dropped charges against Mohammed Qahtani, who is alleged to have been the '20th hijacker', although they were dropped "without prejudice" so the Saudi Ar... |
Print Mail Wikipedia DPP pushes law against China threat COUNTER-LEGISLATION: The DPP will release a bill today that would give the president the power to act against China without prior legislative approval By Ko Shu-ling STAFF REPORTER Monday, Mar 14, 2005,Page 1 Stepping up its opposition to China's "anti-secession"... | Two Taiwanese political parties of the independence-leaning "pan-green alliance" unveiled new bills today in response to the new "anti-secession" law passed earlier this week by the People's Republic of China. The Democratic Progressive Party is expected to introduce a bill giving the President of the Republic of China... |
Leyte Gulf catches fire in Norfolk shipyard Contractors hurt in blaze Norfolk, Virginia - The U.S.S. Leyte Gulf had a fire aboard Saturday morning that was quickly extinguished - but not before five civilian contractors were hurt. A large explosion at 9:29 AM came from the Navy ship's berthing area were some welding wa... | USS Leyte Gulf Five civilian contractors have been injured after an explosion and fire onboard the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf at 9:25 a.m. today. A large explosion erupted from the ship's berthing area where welding work was being conducted during a stop in Norfolk, Virginia. A fire broke o... |
DE LA HOYA v PACQUIAO ROUND-BY-ROUND Round 1: We're under way and this is a real journey into the unknown. Will it be worth the weight? Let's find out now. Cagey opening with Pacman staying on the outside and Oscar sizing him up. De La Hoya on the front foot trying to establish his stiff jab. Pacman trying to get off e... | Las Vegas, Nevada hosted the De La Hoya-Pacquiao match Filipino WBC Lightweight Champion, Emmanuel "The Pacman" Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs) stopped American boxer and promoter Oscar "Golden Boy" De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KOs) after eight rounds of the "The Dream Match" in MGM Grand Garden Arena, at Las Vegas, Nevada on Decemb... |
LOS ANGELES On Tuesday the monks met with their insurance agent. Like thousands of other residents of Southern California, the seven Benedictine Anglican monks who lived at Mount Calvary Monastery and Retreat House, on a breathtaking ridge 1,250 feet above the Pacific in Montecito, were coming to terms with what they... | The recent wildfires in Los Angeles, California, have burned more than 42,000 acres (17,000 hectares) of land. Nearly 1,000 homes were destroyed, and more than 10,000 residents were evacuated. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa expressed concerns that Los Angeles was on the verge of a blackout, and California Gover... |
Lobo Wins Honduran Presidential Vote Wealthy rancher Porfirio Lobo declares victory after election results showed broad lead for the candidate from the opposition National Party. The outcome was a vindication for Lobo, who narrowly lost to ousted President Manuel Zelaya in the 2005 vote Photo: AFP Porfirio Lobo has won... | Porfirio Lobo, a wealthy rancher, has won the presidential election in Honduras, with about 56% of ballots cast, according to results. Election officials say voter turnout was high, in spite of a call by ousted President Manuel Zelaya to boycott the poll. Lobo declared victory after election results showed a broad lead... |
Sen. George Allen, R-Va., shakes the hand of Sen. John Warner, R-Va., left, as his wife, Susan, right, looks on as he delivers his concession speech in Alexandria, Va., Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006. Allen conceded defeat Thursday to Democrat Jim Webb, sealing the Democrats' control of Congress and the political downfall of a... | Sen. George Allen (R-VA) today conceded the senatorial race to Democrat James Webb, confirming that there would be a Democratic majority in the Senate and the House for the first time in over a decade. With this win, the Democrats have now gained more seats in Congress than the Republicans did in the 1994 'Republican R... |
UN envoy sees more violence in Darfur if peace talks delayed KHARTOUM (AFP) — UN envoy to Darfur Jan Eliasson warned on Thursday that any delay to peace talks between Khartoum and rebels from the western Sudanese region will lead to more violence. The warning came as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon accused Khartoum of... | Map showing location of Sudan. United Nations Envoy Jan Eliasson said Thursday that negotiating a ceasefire in the conflict occurring in the Darfur region of Sudan will be the main goal of the peace talks scheduled for later this month. "The first very concrete step ... is that we will go for and hopefully achieve a cr... |
Next Article: Duchess Kate bowls them over with NZ clover The King of Tonga has died in Hong Kong, sparking an outpouring of grief in the Pacific nation. King George Tupou V, 63, went into an intensive care unit in a Hong Kong hospital about 10 days ago but his condition rapidly deteriorated and he died last night. Las... | , the king of Tonga, has died after ten days in intensive care in a Hong Kong hospital. The 63-year-old brought democracy to his nation of 115,000 people. The reformist swore into power in 2006 but his coronation was pushed back two years in the wake of rioting. Eight died in violence stirred up in response to perceive... |
WACO (February 16, 2009)--The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday the fireball that streaked across the Central Texas sky Sunday, producing a series of window-rattling sonic booms, was a natural phenomenon and not debris from two satellites that collided in orbit last week. Astronomer Preston Starr, the observa... | On Tuesday, February 10, the American civilian communications satellite Iridium 33, launched in 1997, and the defunct Russian military communications satellite Kosmos-2251, launched in 1993, collided over Siberia. Five days after the collision, reports have surfaced that burning debris from the collision has been spott... |
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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. ||||| Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- One person died and Tokyo commuters struggled to get to work as Typhoon Fitow blew ... | Typhoon Fitow has struck Japan, leaving two people dead and a third missing. The storm moved through Tokyo yesterday. The Japan Meteorological Agency released the information on the storm's effects in the country yesterday. The deceased are a 50-year-old construction worker who died after a landslide at a dam construct... |
By Martin Gough Gerdemann went it alone over the last 20km of the stage German Linus Gerdemann took the yellow jersey of the Tour de France from Fabian Cancellara by winning the first mountain stage of this year's race. The Tour novice was in a 15-man break for much of the 197.5km stage from Bourg-en-Bresse to Le Grand... | __noTOC__ Vattenfall Cyclassics. Linus Gerdemann of Germany took a large lead up the Col de la Colombière and has won stage 7 of the 2007 Tour de France. Gerdemann won by 3:38 over the chasing peleton and took over the yellow jersey from Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland. As a young rider, Gerdemann also gets the white ... |
It's official. Controversial talk show host Jerry Springer will become part of the Air America Radio lineup. Beginning April 1, the former mayor of Cincinnati and unsuccessful candidate for governor of Ohio, will be heard on the national liberal talk radio network. He is already heard on a handful of stations owned by ... | Television star has signed a contract to join the year-old political network starting April 1. He says the new deal will not affect his popular television program, which will continue to be produced. After initially being carried by only 45 stations nationwide, the host of the long-running syndicated program, '''' wil... |
(CNN) -- It was only after a crowd of screaming students ran past Darnell Rodgers in a stairway at his Cleveland, Ohio, high school Wednesday afternoon that he realized he had been shot. A shooting victim gives the thumbs up as he is carried out of SuccessTech Academy. more photos » "They were screaming, 'Oh my God! Oh... | Location of Ohio within the United States. A 14-year-old student opened fire in a Cleveland, Ohio high school today, wounding four people. The gunman then fatally shot himself. Police were called to the scene at 1:15 p.m. EST, with reports of a gunman in the school. The gunman, 14-year-old Asa H. Coon, entered the scho... |
(CNN) -- The North Pole may be briefly ice-free by September as global warming melts away Arctic sea ice, according to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado. Scientists say it's a 50-50 bet that the thin Arctic sea ice will completely melt away at the geographic North Pole. "We kind... | An azimuthal map of the North Pole The National Snow and Ice Data Center based in Boulder, Colorado said that there will be a 50% chance that the already thin ice on the North Pole will melt away this September as a result of the on-going global warming. The center's senior researcher Mark Serreze said that in Septembe... |
PRESS RELEASE: Rocky Anderson, the Justice Party’s candidate for President, declared his candidacy on the Americans Elect website today. The announcement comes in the midst of the Justice Party’s effort to gain ballot access across the country. Although the Justice Party has had some recent setbacks in ballot access ac... | Rocky Anderson in 2009 Former announced yesterday that he will seek the U.S. presidential nomination of Americans Elect, an independent organization hoping to field a nonpartisan presidential ticket. Anderson is already the nominee of the , which he founded late last year. Anderson served as mayor of Salt Lake City fr... |
Europe EU, Canada Impose Retaliatory Duties on U.S. Goods (Update10) March 31 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union and Canada will impose a 15 percent duty on some U.S. imports after the Congress failed to repeal a four-year-old law that has illegally handed companies including Timken Co. and Nucor Corp. more than $1 bill... | The European Union (EU) and Canada announced they will impose a 15% tariff on some United States (U.S.) imports. Permission for the sanctions was granted by the World Trade Organization (WTO) due to the U.S. maintaining a law known as the Byrd Amendment, which gives its companies billions of dollars collected from fore... |
Zoe Saldana: Boldly going where no one has gone before Zoe Saldana has played a blue-skinned alien and a green-faced warrior, and is now set to make her third appearance as communications officer Lt. Nyota Uhura in this summer's "Star Trek Beyond." Her dream: being able to use a real-life transporter. ||||| As you may ... | EGM was to be closed after sale of 1UP to Hearst Corporation (Hearst Tower, New York). Electronic Gaming Monthly is now dead. EGM was one issue away from its 20th anniversary in February 2009. An internal email leaked to industry website Gamasutra on Tuesday revealed that EGM was to be closed following the acquisition ... |
Renault's race-fixing scandal refused to die down with former F1 driver turned TV pundit, David Coulthard, the latest to give his thoughts on the subject. Prior to this year's Singapore Grand Prix, Renault were slapped with a two-year suspended sentence after the team found guilty of race-fixing. Disgraced former team ... | David Coulthard, a former driver for the McLaren and Red Bull Formula One teams, has said the sport's governing body should have punished a Renault driver for cheating. Nelson Piquet Jr. was granted immunity as a whistleblower. The deliberate crash behind the scandal Renault ordered Piquet to crash his car during the 2... |
Link To Article Print Article Email Article News of the weird "Intelligence": An exhaustive report in December on CIA operatives who staffed the so-called ''rendition'' program, secretly transferring suspected terrorists from U.S. custody to foreign governments, revealed sometimes-sloppy undercover work of the agents. ... | A December CIA report revealed several incidents of sloppy undercover work by agents. In one humorous series of incidents, a clandestine operative booked herself at foreign hotels under aliases, but insisted that frequent-flier miles earned at the hotels be credited to her personal frequent-flier account. Other inciden... |
El presidente del directorio de TVN, Leonidas Montes, reconoció que el canal público cometió un "error" al usar imágenes de encapuchados para describir las movilizaciones estudiantiles, informó el Colegio de Periodistas. Según el comunicado del órgano, el directorio de TVN analizó la denuncia realizada por el sitio Otr... | Journalist Amaro Gómez-Pablos presenting a news report on the Chilean student protests, with the 'hooded delinquent' video in the background. Leonidas Montes, president of the executive board of Chilean television channel '''' (TVN) said on Tuesday in a statement to the Chilean Journalists Association that he acknowled... |
Esportes Dom, 14 Nov - 14h08 Robinho desfalca o Santos contra o Goiás Lance! Futebol LANCEPRESS! O atacante Robinho desfalcará o Santos na partida deste domingo, contra o Goiás, em Presidente Prudente (SP). O jogador permaneceu na Baixada Santista acompanhando o caso do seqüestro da mãe, ocorrido há uma semana, e não v... | Miss Marina Souza, aged 43, was kidnapped last Saturday, November 6, in Praia Grande, , during a barbecue with her relatives. She is the mother of Robson de Souza, known as (Little Robin), a Brazilian player for the . Since the incident, Robson De Souza ('Robinho') has made few public appearances and stopped playing so... |
Coalition keeps up pressure on Labor over tax Posted John Howard and Peter Costello have used a visit to a small business in the marginal New South Wales electorate of Eden-Monaro to push the Coalition's plan to progressively reduce the tax rates. Mr Costello says the Coalition is the only party to release a plan for A... | With the election campaign just beginning, Australian Prime Minister John Howard has promised AU$34 billion in personal income tax cuts over the next three years. That is on top of $31.5 billion announced in May, and $36.7 billion announced in 2006. The new tax cuts are based on new projections for growth in the Austra... |
(RTTNews) - Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan man convicted for blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland in 1988, has withdrawn his second appeal against his conviction, said his lawyers on Friday. A spokesman for the legal firm Taylor and Kelly, which is representing al-Megrahi in the case, said Friday that his ... | The Lockerbie memorial Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was revealed today to have requested his second appeal to be dropped. Al-Megrahi was convicted of planting a bomb on Pan Am Flight 103, which detonated as the aircraft flew over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 killing all 259 people on board and eleven more on the ground. Me... |
Local residents walk in the rain in Danzhou, south China's Hainan Province on Aug. 7, 2009. Strong rainstorms brought by the tropical storm Goni caused great disaster to the western Hainan areas and the villagers suffered a heavy loss. (Xinhua/Guo Cheng) Photo Gallery>>> FUZHOU/TAIPEI/HANGZHOU, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- A fis... | A has killed dozens of people, affected over 28,000 people in the Philippines, and caused the evacuation of 21,190 people from south east China. Track map of Tropical Storm Morakat (Kiko) of the 2009 Pacific typhoon season. Some villages are inundated with five feet high floods. The Philippines were hit by 175 kilomete... |
The freeze to be proposed would exclude spending on defence and international affairs [AFP] The freeze to be proposed would exclude spending on defence and international affairs [AFP] The freeze, to be announced in Barack Obama's State of the Union speech on Wednesday, would exclude defence, veteran affairs, homeland s... | Official portrait of President Obama. According to administration officials, US president Barack Obama is to announce a partial government spending freeze to try and lower the country's current US$1.4 trillion deficit in the 2011 budget. Obama is due to make the announcement tomorrow, in his State of the Union address.... |
In high school he formed a group called the Kings of Rhythm. B. B. King helped that band get a steady weekend gig and recommended it to Sam Phillips at Sun Studios in Memphis. The band had been performing jukebox hits, but on the drive from Mississippi to Memphis, its members decided to write something of their own. Th... | Ike Turner in 1997. United States musician and songwriter, Ike Turner, who was married at least 14 times, died Wednesday at his home in San Marcos, California. His wife did not give a cause of death, but mentioned that he suffered from emphysema. Ike Turner was perhaps best known as one half of the Ike & Tina Turner du... |
The Globe and Mail Leo Obstbaum, the director of design for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games who envisioned both its mascots and medals, passed away suddenly at the age of 40, Thursday. "Leo's passing is a deep loss to the VANOC team and the entire organization's thoughts and prayers are with the Obstbaum family," VANO... | Clock counting down to the 2010 Winter Olympics The director of design for the 2010 Winter Olympics being held in Vancouver, Leo Obstbaum, has passed away suddenly in his home. He designed both of the mascots as well as the medals for next year's games. Obstbaum previously designed the wardrobe for the anniversary of t... |
Hundreds of Haitians joined open-air church services in the capital The confirmed death toll from Haiti's devastating earthquake has risen above 150,000 in the Port-au-Prince area alone, a government minister has said. Communications minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue told AP the count was based on bodies collect... | A Haitian killed in the quake The Haitian government Communications Minister states that over 150,000 people in Port-au-Prince, the country's capital, are confirmed dead from the recent magnitude 7.0 earthquake there. Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue commented that the figure is based on corpses found and colle... |
By ERIC WAINAINA Two people died and four others were injured on Sunday morning when another building collapsed in Kiambu town. And for the second time, the efficiency and preparedness of the area council in handling disasters was put to the test, with the Municipal Council of Kiambu lacking equipment. Excavators to di... | Two people in Kenya died earlier today after a five-storeyed building under construction in the town of Kiambu collapsed. Four others were said to have been injured. The incident occurred in the middle of the night, at 02:30 local time (23:30 UTC), on Sunday morning. The building was only a few metres from another buil... |
Microsoft is shaking up its plans for the next version of Windows to get the software off the drawing board and into PCs by the end of 2006. As expected, the company on Friday announced a new road map for Longhorn, its revision to Windows XP. The changes - removing some features and altering others - are designed to le... | At Microsoft IT Forum 2004 Copenhagen technological conference Bill Gates, founder and current Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft, has said the future operating system of Microsoft called Longhorn will be released in 2006. There had been fears that Longhorn would not ship until 2007 or later. Microsoft ... |
Russia: Protest In St. Petersburg Over Skyscraper Thousands Of Russians Rally In St. Petersburg To Protest Planned Skyscraper About 3,000 protesters rallied in Russia's former czarist capital on Saturday to protest a plan to build a hulking skyscraper for state energy giant Gazprom.The protesters urged Russian Presiden... | Nearly 3,000 people demonstrated in Saint Petersburg, Russia on Saturday to oppose a proposition to construct a skyscraper in the city. The demonstrators were protesting against the , a proposed supertall 77-story skyscraper for the gas company Gazprom measuring 400 metres (1,300 feet). They said that the tower would r... |
Ilta-Sanomat reveals embarrassing error in Reuters feed on Russian North Pole sub expedition Finnish-built submersibles caused Cold War storm in 1987 print this MIR-1 and MIR-2 submersibles during a recent Russian scientific expedition to the sea bed 4.3 kilometres below the Geographic North Pole, have been shown to be... | Part of the video footage of the Russian submarines (MIR 1 and 2) planting a flag on the sea bed at the North pole, shown by Russian state TV channel Rossiya and re-broadcasted by Reuters, included shots from the James Cameron film ''Titanic'', according to a Finnish newspaper. The inclusion of the Titanic fragment was... |
Go to: Guardian Unlimited home UK news World news Comment is free blog Newsblog Podcasts ---------------------- Archive search Arts Books Business EducationGuardian.co.uk Environment Film Football Jobs Life and health MediaGuardian.co.uk Money The Observer Politics Science Shopping SocietyGuardian.co.uk Sport Talk Tech... | George Galloway, an MP in the British Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow, has won a court battle allowing him to publish photos of the infamous News of the World "fake sheikh", undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood famed for setting up high-profile figures. George Galloway had a meeting with the reporter after being app... |
The supermarket giant was forced to temporarily shut 14 stores Philip McHugh, 51, of Clitheroe, Lancs, was remanded in custody until 8 August by magistrates in Stevenage. He faces two charges of blackmail and two of making bomb hoaxes. Hertfordshire police said no other person was being sought in connection with the in... | Hereford was one of those affected by the incident Hertfordshire police have charged a man with four offences after 14 Tesco supermarkets in the United Kingdom were closed after the company received threats. Stores across the country were affected by the security alert earlier this month. The man has been named as Phil... |
As if going to Hawaii isn’t enough. Today, Hawaiian Airlines announced that, starting Sept. 1, every one of its Boeing 767-300 aircraft will be fully equipped with an iPad for every passenger. The iPad mini program will replace all in-flight portable entertainment systems across the airline’s 14 B767 aircrafts with 1,5... | A Boeing 767-300 of Hawaii Airlines in 2003. On Thursday announced all their aircraft would be fitted with made by Apple for in-flight entertainment from September 1. The new gadget would be served on 14 routes connecting with mainland , , and the . Passengers in would be able to use the tablet for free while passenge... |
Madagascar Leader Names Army Officer As Prime Minister Colonel Vital calls on the people of Madagascar, including political rivals, to work with his government Madagascar's leader, Andry Rajoelina, has named a high-ranking army officer as the country's new prime minister. Mr. Rajoelina's office announced Sunday that Co... | Andry Rajoelina Madagascar's leader, Andry Rajoelina, has named a high-ranking army officer as the country's new prime minister, and announced he is abandoning a power-sharing deal with the opposition. Mr. Rajoelina's office announced Sunday that Colonel Camille Albert Vital would serve as the new prime minister, repla... |
Login Enter your details below to login If you are an existing member of The Times and The Sunday Times enjoying the full benefits of thetimes.co.uk, then simply enter your Times+ login details below and press 'Enter' Enter your details to login Email address Password Keep me logged in information Keeps you logged in f... | British television celebrity of '''' fame has been diagnosed with . Goody, 27, arrived in on Tuesday night, having cut short her stay in the Indian version of Celebrity Big Brother, known as ''''. Goody was a controversial character in last year's Big Brother, sparking over 40,000 complaints to , the British broadcasti... |
The agency that governs educational technology in the United Kingdom has advised schools in the country to keep Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system and its Office 2007 software out of the classroom and administrative offices. "Upgrading existing ICT systems to Microsoft Vista or Office 2007 is not recommended," ... | Schools advised not to upgrade Schools in the United Kingdom have been advised not to upgrade to the newest Microsoft products, Vista and Office 2007, according to a report by the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA). Becta said that there were no "appropriate benefit" that would offset the ... |
The two sides have had troops and equipment in the area since July Generals from Thailand and Cambodia are to hold talks in an attempt to resolve a border dispute which led to soldiers exchanging shots and rocket-fire. Cambodia claims two of its soldiers were killed on Wednesday in clashes near the ancient Preah Vihear... | Preah Vihear Temple (Kao Phra Viharn) Today saw high-level talks between Thai and Cambodian military leaders following a border skirmish yesterday which left two Cambodian soldiers dead, injuries on both sides, and ten Thai troops captured. Several hours of talks have led to an agreement for joint military patrols alon... |
For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary September 30, 2008 President Bush Discusses Economic Rescue Plan In Focus: Economy 8:45 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted on a financial rescue plan that had been negotiated by Congressional leaders of both parties and... | George Bush making the statement at 12:45 today. George W. Bush vowed to get the 700 billion economic rescue plan through congress in a statement to the media made today. "Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted on a financial rescue plan that had been negotiated by Congressional leaders of both parties and my ad... |
Boston Marathon hit by explosions Continue reading the main story Related Stories Two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon race have left an unknown number of people injured. Video and photographs from Boston show a scene of confusion, with emergency services descending on the scene and bloodied spectat... | Last year's finish line showing the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel in the background Earlier today, multiple explosions have occurred in Boston resulting in two confirmed deaths and hundreds injured at . Two explosions within seconds of each other tore through the finish line at the Boston Marathon, approximately four hou... |
Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved. Short communication Decreased depression in marijuana users Thomas F. Densona, , and Mitchell Earleywineb aUniversity of Southern California, Seeley G. Mudd Building, Room 501, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-1061, United States bUniversity at Albany, State University of New Yo... | right New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma has proposed strengthening the states anti- laws. The government is undertaking a complete rewrite of such laws in response to concerns voiced by some health professionals about the link between the drug and mental health issues. The proposed legislation will also increase jai... |
Hill fries free to be French again The fries on Capitol Hill are French again. So is the breakfast toast in the congressional cafeterias, with both fries and toast having been liberated from the appellation "freedom." Three years after House Republicans trumpeted the new names to get back at the French for snubbing the... | Belgian pommes frites, popularly referred to as "French fries" in the USA. With an absence of fanfare, the foodstuffs renamed three years ago to "Freedom fries" and "Freedom toast" have reverted to their previous names of "French fries" and "French toast" respectively, for food service of the United States Capitol and ... |
Vestas, the wind-turbine maker, closed two factories on the South Coast yesterday with the loss of 425 jobs. The Danish company ceased blade production at its sites in Southampton and on the Isle of Wight. Workers had occupied the Isle of Wight plant for 18 days in protest at the closures until last week. Vestas Wind S... | Vestas Wind Systems confirmed yesterday that its plant in Newport, Isle of Wight, England has closed. The workers employed there have received their redundancy notices. 425 jobs were lost in the factory closure and that of Vestas's Southampton facility, with a further 40 employees beginning work at Vestas's research & ... |
At youtube.com you’ll see an interesting set of videos dealing with the last Phenomenon episode, the second in the series. Here, all three actors – Geller, Angel, and Callahan – get to expound on what they think took place. Video also Here → First was Geller (misspelled “Gellar” in the heading) who of course declared h... | On Halloween night, October 31, during a 2-hour long live episode of NBC show ''Phenomenon'', famed magician Criss Angel told Uri Geller and Jim Callahan, "I will give you a million dollars of my personal money right now if either one of you can tell me specific details of what’s in this envelope right now." While Gell... |
Published online 14 July 2010 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2010.354 News Find in Saudi Arabia sheds light on primate lineage. Front and side views of the skull of Saadanius hijazensis , an early primate that has ape and monkey characteristics. Zalmout, Is S. et al, Nature The rust-coloured plateau above Mecca in Saudi A... | '''', a new species of fossil primate closely related to and . Researchers have unearthed a new fossil that they think may be closely related to the common ancestor of and , collectively known as primates. Paleontologist Iyad Zalmout of the discovered the new species, '''' near in ; the discovery gives new insights int... |
ISTANBUL, Oct. 17 — Turkey’s Parliament voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to authorize sending troops into northern Iraq to confront Kurdish rebels in hide-outs there, sending an angry message to the Baghdad government and its Washington sponsor. But Turkey, a member of NATO, made it clear that it would not immediately... | Turkey. On Wednesday, Turkey's Grand National Assembly voted 507-19 to authorize sending troops into northern Iraq to pursue Kurdish rebels. Although the authorization is valid for one year, Turkish officials made clear that it would not necessarily result in military action. Both the United States and Iraq have recent... |
Scorecard - Commentary - Wickets - 3D animation - Partnerships - Wagon wheels - Player v player - Over comparison - Over graphs - Career averages - Match home - Bulletin - Article index (8) - Photo index (13) ODI no. 2592 - 1st ODI India v South Africa 2007 season Played at (neutral venue), on 26 June 2007 (50-over mat... | In the 2007 Future Cup, South Africa beat India in the first One-Day International (ODI) held at the Civil Service Cricket Club Ground, Belfast, Ireland. After South Africa won the toss and chose to field first, Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly opened India's innings. Ganguly left quickly and Gautam Gambhir left wit... |
TAIPEI/SHANGHAI At shops in Shanghai's bustling Xinyang market, fake Apple iPhones and Bose speakers sit neatly alongside bootleg copies of Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system, a week before its official launch. "Which version do you want? Ultimate? Normal? English or Chinese?," beckons one shopkeeper, proudly p... | In Shanghai, China, bootleg copies of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system were displayed a week before the official date of sale. People in mainland China have been able to buy copies of the newest version of Microsoft’s Windows franchise for 20 yuan ($2.93) each — less than one percent of list prices, which are $32... |
Mr Maliki said the men had been hiding in a hole in the ground Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki and US officials say two leaders of al-Qaeda in Iraq have been killed in a joint Iraqi-US operation. Mr Maliki said on national TV that the Iraqi al-Qaeda leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who led an affil... | A joint military operation by Iraqi and American forces has killed two senior al-Qaeda leaders in Iraq, according to Iraqi Prime Minister and US officials. The leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, , and the leader of an affiliate group, , were killed by Iraqi military forces with assistance from US forces in a night-time attack... |
Six killed in Moscow fire 02/10/2007 16:25 - (SA) Moscow - Fire broke out Tuesday at a five-story institute in Moscow, killing at least six people and injuring more than two dozen, Russian emergency officials said. The blaze, which started about 13:00 (09:00 GMT) at the Moscow State Institute of State and Corporate Man... | A fire has broken out at the Moscow State Institute of State and Corporate Management, a five-story university, claiming at least six lives. More than two dozen are said to be injured. The fire started around 13:00 (09:00 GMT). Some students and teachers were trapped and had to climb out onto trees, jump four or five s... |
Article from: Agence France-Presse PLUNGING temperatures sent shivers across Europe today, leading to the deaths of several people and a record number of calls to power companies in Britain because of heating problems. As the Paris area dug out from a rare snowfall, the Eiffel Tower remained closed for a second morning... | Snow in Birmingham, one of the many European cities affected by the storm. Freezing temperatures, combined with snow over the past few days, have caused travel problems throughout Europe and been responsible for the deaths of 10 people. On Monday a strong winter storm moved across Europe, covering parts of France and t... |
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- The failure to release the results of last month's Zimbabwe elections could cause the situation in that country to deteriorate further with "serious implications" for its people, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Wednesday. Riot police patrol in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Wednesday. ... | Ban Ki-moon United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon remarked on the post-election situation in Zimbabwe on Wednesday, expressing concern about the failure of the election commission to release the results. He believes the delay could have "serious implications" for Zimbabwe's people. At a summit in New York City, ... |
1/27 Ethnic Yemenis and supporters protest against President Donald Trump's executive order temporarily banning immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Yemen on February 2, 2017 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. At least 1,000 Yemeni-owned bodegas and grocery-stores across the ci... | On Friday White House Press Secretary held an informal "gaggle" press briefing but made a point of excluding certain news outlets. The White House's decision has drawn ire from across the field, including organizations invited to the briefing, such as and ''''. Sean Spicer, from file. ''The New York Times'' and CNN, a... |
The online auction house eBay has put on sale three pairs of shoes that were reportedly custom-made for Margaret Thatcher when she was British Prime Minister. The minimum bid for the Rayne shoes - coloured silver, gold and black suede - is 2,930 pounds ($7,037) but owner Eleanor Graham, 65, said she expects to fetch so... | There are often odd, unusual and controversial items up for sale on eBay - multi-million euro planes, the Pope's old car and a young woman's virginity, to name just a few. But how about the Prime Minister's shoes? Shoes custom designed for former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have been put up for sale on eBa... |
By Monday's end, 129 children were returned to their parents, reports say More than 400 children who were seized from a polygamist sect in Texas have begun returning home. A judge in Texas signed an order allowing parents to take the children, who were removed from the sect's ranch by state authorities in April. Offici... | A Texas court has announced that all children taken from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) compound in Texas are being returned to their parents. Beginning today, parents have been allowed to collect their children, all of whom were in state custody before the announcement. The more ... |
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Sales of U.S. existing homes plunged 16.7% in December to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.45 million from 6.54 million in November as a popular tax credit was set to expire, a national real estate trade group estimated Monday. The 16.7% percentage decline from November to December was... | Sales of previously owned homes in the US fell at the fastest rate ever recorded last December, according to data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). According to the association, existing home sales fell 16.7% last month, to an annual rate of 5.45 million, the largest crash since 1968. The figure was less... |
Sigurdardóttir Ready to Become Iceland's PM The current Minister for Social Affairs, Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir of the Social Democrats, said she is prepared to assume the position of prime minister as long as she senses that her position is backed by sufficient trust. Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir speaking at parliament. Photo b... | Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, an openly gay Icelandic politician currently serving as the nation's Minister for Social Affairs, is soon to be appointed prime minister. The appointment will mark the first time ever that an openly gay individual has been appointed head of a national government. She will ... |
Analysis: As the Nation Reels, Trump Tries to Rile It Up Smearing opponents, pushing conspiracies, pursuing vendettas: President Trump is stoking the country’s divisions in spite of the pandemic. ||||| Sinn Féin endorses PSNI by overwhelming majority Mark Hennessy, Gerry Moriarty and Dan Keenan Sinn Féin has voted by a... | Badge of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Sinn Féin's support of the PSNI is considered crucial to getting devolution working again.Sinn Féin, the Irish political party widely regarded as the political wing of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, has voted to accept the Police Service of Northern Ireland at an... |
BAGHDAD At least 40 people, 16 them Iranian pilgrims, were killed and 72 were wounded Sunday in a suicide bombing in Baghdad at the doorstep of one of Iraq’s holiest Shiite shrines, government and hospital officials said. The attacker appeared to have singled out a procession of Iranian pilgrims visiting the shrine o... | Site of the Suicide bombing - outside the Imam Moussa Al-kadhim shrine in the Kadhimiyah neighborhood: Kadhimayn Mosque - Shrine of the 7th and 9th Shia Imams: Musa al-Kadhim & Muhammad at-Taqi. A suicide bombing in Iraq has killed at least 40 people and injured at least 72 more, according to local police. The suicide ... |
Access This article is part of Nature's premium content. Published online 26 January 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070122-11 News Targeting fake drugs Chemists develop method for spotting counterfeit pharmaceuticals. Pharmaceutical fraudsters have had an easy ride for years — counterfeit drugs are notoriously difficu... | A recent improvement of an old technique in spectroscopy sparks hope for detection of counterfeit drugs, an article in the journal ''Analytical Chemistry'' published by American Chemical Society said. Such technique could make fake drugs detection a lot easier and faster than it is currently practiced, according to the... |
April 29 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy plunged again in the first quarter, making this the worst recession in at least half a century. Gross domestic product dropped at a 6.1 percent annual pace, weaker than forecast, after contracting at a 6.3 percent rate in the last three months of 2008, the Commerce Department sa... | The United States Gross Domestic Product (GDP) plunged at an annualised 6.1%, after shrinking by 6.3% in the last three months of last year, according to a report released by the US Commerce Department, making the ongoing recession the worst in at least fifty years. The report was released just hours before Federal Res... |
Japan's first bullet train, the Series 0, made its final "sayonara" run between Shin-Osaka and Hakata stations on Sunday. Though the series had already wrapped up its regular operations at the end of November, it was brought back for three final runs as the Hikari 347 (san-yon-nana) -- a pun on "sayonara," or good-bye ... | The final 0-Series train entering Shin-Osaka Stn. This end was the tail on departure. - 14:44, 14 Dec. 2008 JST The head car of the final 0-Series train ready as HIKARI 347 in Shin-Osaka Stn. - 14:47, 14 Dec. 2008 JST The final farewell train in the first series of Shinkansen super-express, called ''zero-kei'' (0 Serie... |
Juan Alvarez could face the death penalty Juan Manuel Alvarez, 25, could face the death penalty as he is charged with murder with "special circumstances". Police believe Mr Alvarez, who was not injured, left his Jeep on a railway line in a suicide bid before changing his mind at the last moment. He may appear in court ... | Eleven charges of murder have been brought against the driver who caused the Glendale train crash, in which 11 people died. Juan Manuel Alvarez, 25, could well face the death penalty for his actions. It appears he parked his Jeep Cherokee on the railway line with the intention of committing suicide, but then changed hi... |
NYC Radio reporter found dead with stab wound NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a longtime New York City radio reporter was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment with a stab wound to his neck. Police have declared George Weber's death a homicide. His body was found Sunday after he failed to show up for work. Autopsy results we... | According to the New York City Police Department (NYPD), George Weber, a longtime radio reporter for WABC in New York City, was found dead with several stab wounds to his body yesterday morning at his home in Brooklyn, New York. He was 47 years old, and would have turned 48 today. The NYPD has confirmed Weber's death a... |
Syria: US choppers attack village near Iraq border DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's government says U.S. military helicopters have attacked an area along Syria's border with Iraq, killing eight people. A government statement carried by the official Syrian Arab News Agency said the attack was on the Sukkariyeh Farm near t... | According to the Syrian government, United States military helicopters attacked a farm on the Syria-Iraq border. Earlier media reports called the helicopters "unidentified" which came into Syria from Iraq. The attack has caused some diplomatic stirs, and the Syrian government has called in a diplomat from the U.S.. The... |
Anthony Mundine celebrates after beating Danny Green at the Sydney Football Stadium (Getty Images) It was billed as man versus machine, speed versus power, but after 12 rounds at the Sydney Football Stadium Anthony Mundine had the bragging rights. Mundine beat Danny Green by unanimous points decision in their blockbust... | Former world champion boxer Anthony Mundine has beaten long-time rival Danny Green on a unanimous points decision in a non-title World Boxing Association (WBA) super middleweight bout. Mundine, an ex-rugby league star promoted the much-anticipated fight that attracted around 40,000 spectators and a national record for ... |
Watch The 700 Club Now! Pat's Web Site www.patrobertson.com HOST BIOGRAPHY Pat Robertson The 700 Club Founder and Chairman, The Christian Broadcasting Network CBN.com - M. G. "Pat" Robertson has achieved national and international recognition as a religious broadcaster, philanthropist, educator, religious leader, busin... | Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and outspoken televangelist, has once again created political waves after saying that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke because he tried to "divide God’s land." The comment was made during Robertson’s 700 Club program last week. Ro... |
NAVAJO CHIEFTAIN: Luggage panel suspected in Kodiak crash; airline doubts it's the sole factor. A plane crash in Kodiak that killed six people and injured four more this weekend may have been precipitated by a luggage panel unexpectedly swinging open minutes after the plane took off, according to the National Transport... | Survivors of this weekend's airplane crash in Alaska, United States say they saw the forward cargo door of their Piper Piper PA-31 Navajo Chieftain swing open shortly after takeoff. The plane crashed into frigid waters a short distance from the runway, killing six of the ten on board, including the pilot, and leaving t... |
Beasley strikes as Rangers progress - DaMarcus Beasley scored the only goal (©Getty Images) Rangers FC advanced to the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League with the minimum of fuss, winning 1-0 against FK Zeta in Montenegro to seal a 3-0 aggregate triumph. Comfortable Only once had Rangers lost a Europea... | Rangers, Copenhagen, Tampere United and Dinamo Zagreb advanced to Third Qualifying Round of this season's UEFA Champions League. Rangers beat FK Zeta 3-0 on aggregate. Rangers lost a European round once after winning the first leg 2-0 at Ibrox. this was to Borussia Dortmund in December 1999. The only goal of the 2nd le... |
President Bush urged Congress not to miss out on a historic opportunity The bill is supported by President George W Bush, who has said the issue is at the top of his domestic agenda. The legislation would bring in tighter border controls but offer 12m illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. The bill faltered in the S... | President George W. Bush. The discussion on the , which, if passed, would result in a temporary worker program, was put back on the political agenda. The voted 64–35, which, though not sufficient to pass the bill, was enough to resume debate on the subject. President Bush has been working to get the bill back into the ... |
MONTEVIDEO, March 17 (Xinhuanet) -- A locomotive lost control in a reality television show in Uruguay on Friday, killing seven people,police said. About 200 residents in Young, a Uruguayan town about 380 kilometers west of the capital of Montevideo, wer e invited to push the locomotive as part of the TV program "Desafi... | A runaway train killed seven people and injured eleven more today in the small town of Young, Uruguay, about 235 miles west of Montevideo. The victims were taking part in an Uruguyan reality game show, Desafio al Corazon, or "A Challenge to my Heart," where communities can raise money by performing tasks. The task in t... |
Ontario police scour countryside for missing girl The family of Victoria Stafford and local residents of Woodstock, Ont., attend a candlelight vigil Sunday evening for the girl, 8, who disappeared Wednesday. (CBC) The family of Victoria Stafford and local residents of Woodstock, Ont., attend a candlelight vigil Sunday ... | Victoria Stafford, eight years old, was sighted leaving her Woodstock, Ontario school on Wednesday afternoon with an unknown woman caught on video camera. She has not been seen since. Woodstock. Victoria (Tori) attended grade 3 at Oliver Stephens Public School, and the video is from the College Avenue secondary school ... |
Preferences | Personal information | Change password | Logout World News Galeras volcano erupts in southwestern Colombia Print article Refer to a friend © AP 2009-02-15 04:22:01 - BOGOTA (AP) - A volcano in southwestern Colombia erupted on Saturday, blanketing the nearby provincial capital of Pasto in ash and prompting... | Galeras in July 2006. Thousands of people in Pastos, Colombia have been ordered to evacuate after the Galeras Volcano began to "explosively" erupt, according to reports. According to Colombia's Institute of Geology and Mines, the eruption began at about 7:10 p.m. local time (00:10 GMT). An estimated 8,000 people have b... |
Japan declares nuclear emergency Pressure in several reactors is considerably higher than normal, Japan's nuclear agency says Japanese authorities have declared a state of emergency at two nuclear power plants, after Friday's devastating earthquake caused malfunctions. Cooling systems inside several reactors at the Fuk... | An explosion has been reported at Japan's stricken nuclear power plant after its cooling system was damaged by a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit off the North-East coast of Japan on Friday. The explosion occurred at around 3:00pm local time (6:00am UTC). According to the plant's operator, , four workers were ... |
Philippines sees growth rate slow in second quarter Electronics exports from Philippines have been hurt by a slowing global demand The Philippines economy grew at a slower pace in the second quarter as a fall in global demand hurt its exports and industrial output. Growth was 5.9% in the April to June period, compared ... | left The economy grew by 5.9%, annual rate, during the second quarter of 2012 which is less than the first quarter's figure of more than 6% annual rate, as reported by . According to , strong domestic demand from the services sector and spending from money remitted by expatriate Filipinos helped boost the nation's econ... |
Daily double: Argentina wing Lucas Borges scores the second of his two tries LYON, 11 September - Argentina remain on track for an IRB Rugby World Cup quarter-final berth after defeating a tenacious Georgia 33-3 in the Pool D match at Gerland Stadium on Tuesday night. Ranked fourth in the world, Argentina struggled to ... | 200px In Pool D of the 2007 Rugby World Cup, Argentina defeated Georgia 33-3. Merab Kvirikashvili opened the scoring for Georgia early on with a penalty in the second minute. Argentina struggled to break through the Georgian defence, with Felipe Contepomi scoring just two penalties in the first half taking Argentina to... |
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