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TheStar.com | Business | Air Canada cuts 632 jobs Air Canada cuts 632 jobs RICK MADONIK/TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO Two Norwegian women try to find a flight to Cuba at Pearson airport on June 17, 2008. Travelling could be more difficult once layoffs at Air Canada take effect. Jul 10, 2008 02:14 PM THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTRE... | 632 Air Canada flight attendants will lose their jobs in November as the airline is eliminating flights and routes. 332 of the jobs will be lost due to the closure of flight attendant base offices in Halifax and Winnipeg. Another 300 jobs will be lost at Vancouver due to major reductions in Air Canada's Pacific-based i... |
Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Greeted by throngs of Catholic worshipers from across the region, Pope Benedict XVI ended his two-country tour in Havana's Revolution Plaza with a reference to what he described as a need for "authentic freedom." Changes between Cuba and the world can come only if "each one is prepared to ask for ... | Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Cuba on Monday beginning a three day trip in which the leader of the Catholic church met with Cuban leaders and publicly spoke on the need for religious freedom. Pope Benedict spoke before a large audience yesterday in the in . Benedict called for change in Cuba and the rest of the world. P... |
Speaking after Hans Blix's report to the UN security council, in which he called for more time for inspections, the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, told the council that Saddam Hussein should be set a March 17 deadline to comply with UN demands on disarmament or face the prospect of military action. Mr Straw was tabling... | President Bush in the James S. Brady Briefing Room during the press conference. During a press conference on Tuesday, President George W. Bush called on veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas for the first time in three years. She asked, "... your decision to invade Iraq has caused the deaths of thousands of America... |
Censorship in the United Kingdom disenfranchises tens of thousands of Wikipedia editors Wikimedia Foundation opposes action by internet watchdog group to blacklist encyclopedia article San Francisco CA, December 7, 2008: As of December 6, 2008, most Internet users in the United Kingdom no longer have full access to Wik... | On December 7, ''Wikinews'' first reported that some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the United Kingdom, were filtering access to an image and an article on the popular, free online encyclopedia ''Wikipedia'', amid allegations that they contain child pornography. The filter was brought into play by the Internet Wa... |
'); //--> Associated Press Update 10: Capsule With Comet Dust Lands in Utah By ALICIA CHANG , A space capsule ferrying the first comet dust samples to Earth parachuted to a pre-dawn landing in the remote desert Sunday, drawing cheers from elated scientists. The touchdown capped a seven-year journey by NASA's Stardust s... | An infrared camera captures a recovery helicopter at the landing site of the Stardust sample return capsule. An infrared camera captures the Stardust sample return capsule as it descends to the Utah Test and Training Range. Capsule after landing "All stations, we have touchdown," an announcer declared. Stardust, a caps... |
News: Advts: Front Page Lok Sabha elections from April 16 to May 13 Photo: S. Subramanium SET THE BALL ROLLING: Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswami and Election Commissioners S.Y. Quraishi (left) and Navin Chawla (right) at a press conference, when the Lok Sabha election schedule was announced, in New Delhi on M... | India, the world’s largest democracy, will go to polls in 5 phases to elect the 15th Lok Sabha (lower house) of the Parliament of India. The polls will take place on April 16, April 23, April 30, May 7 and May 13. This was announced by the Chief Election Commissioner of India N. Gopalaswami at New Delhi. The counting w... |
Kyrgyzstan takes tougher line against protesters challenging election results 02:22 AM EST Mar 24 BAGILA BUKHARBAYEVA BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) - Authorities raised the stakes Wednesday in a standoff with opposition groups that have seized control of large parts of southern Kyrgyzstan, with riot police breaking up a pro... | SKopp''About 200 riot police violently broke up a peaceful, anti-Akayev protest of some 300 to 400 people and arrested 20 to 30 protesters in the capital city of Bishkek on Wednesday, just hours after President Askar Akayev appointed head of police in the city, Keneshbek Dushebayev, as new interior minister. "Our prima... |
A US airliner en route to Las Vegas was diverted to Denver after a passenger tried to open an exterior door on the plane, officials say. They say the United Airlines flight from Washington with 134 people aboard landed in Denver on Saturday evening and police detained the passenger. The man had reportedly consumed alco... | A United Airlines Airbus A320-200, similar to the one mentioned in the story A US flight en-route from Washington, D.C. to Las Vegas, Nevada was diverted to Denver, Colorado yesterday, after one of the passengers tried to open an exterior exit while in flight, according to reports from officials. The authorities said t... |
A judge has issued a ruling in the 1998 bombing in the Northern Ireland town of Omagh. Defendant Sean Hoey, who faced 56 charges relating to a car bomb that killed 29 people and injured more than 200, has been found not guilty. For VOA, Tom Rivers reports from London. Families of victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing comfo... | This photo was taken shortly before the explosion, the camera being found in the rubble afterwards. The red Vauxhall Cavalier carrying the bomb can be seen on the right side of the picture. A judge has issued a ruling in the 1998 bombing in the Northern Ireland town of Omagh. Defendant Sean Hoey, who faced 56 charges r... |
The bodies of two men from the Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil have been found by search teams. Search teams have been looking for the missing plane Debris from the flight has also been located following days of intensive searching by air and sea. "We confirm the recovery from the water o... | Flight path of Air France Flight 447 on 31 May/1 June. The solid red line shows actual route, the dashed line is the planned route after the last radar contact. The Brazilian Air Force has located bodies and wreckage of in the . At least two bodies have been recovered so far. Brazilian Air Force Colonel Jorge Amaral co... |
Australian to Serve 9 Months in Terrorism Case Under the terms of the deal in which David Hicks pleaded guilty on Monday, all but nine months of his seven-year sentence will be suspended. ||||| GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Australian al Qaeda foot soldier David Hicks was sentenced to seven years in ... | David Hicks supporterPhoto by Karen Eliot Australia Guantánamo Bay prisoner David Hicks was sentenced Friday by a special military court after pleading guilty to providing material support to the Taliban. He was sentenced to seven years in prison, but will only need to complete nine months of his penalty, most of it ba... |
YANGON, Myanmar (CNN) -- The death toll from the Myanmar cyclone is more than 15,000 people, Myanmar's government has said. People in Yangon queue for drinking water. more photos » Survivors were facing their third night without electricity in the aftermath of the historic cyclone that also clogged roads with thousands... | At least 10,000 people are dead and another 3,000 are missing after Cyclone Nargis hit the country of Myanmar, according to Foreign Minister Nyan Win, who spoke on state television. Just hours later Xinhua News Agency reported that government officials had told them that 15,000 were dead. The United Nations (UN) calls ... |
Great Manchester Run Date: 1000 BST, Sunday 17 May Coverage: Highlights on BBC Two (1700-1830 BST) and the BBC Sport website Bolt won three gold medals at the Beijing Olympics Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt will compete in a 150 metre street race in Manchester on 17 May. The race, which will be Bolt's first in Euro... | Triple Olympic champion of Jamaica will run in a 150 metre street race in Manchester, England on May 17. The race will be conducted as part of the inaugural "Great Manchester 150." Bolt won gold medals in the , and race in the held in Beijing, China. He set world records in both the 100- and 200-meter races. This will ... |
Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman and former state Senator Bill Gwatney of Jacksonville died after being shot at the party's headquarters on Wednesday, according to Little Rock Police. ||||| Bill Gwatney, the chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party, was fatally shot in his office in Little Rock on Wednesday morning,... | Bill Gwatney, chairman of the Democratic Party of Arkansas, died this afternoon at 3:59 pm CDT (UTC-5) after having been shot earlier this morning. Bill Gwatney "He the gunman came in and went into this office and started shooting," said police Lt. Terry Hastings, speaking to reporters outside the party headquarters. T... |
Official Awards of the 12th Intl. Architecture Exhibition Announced during the official ceremony on August 28th 08 | 28 | 2010 Rem Koolhaas Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement The International Jury of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition composed by Beatriz Colomina (Spain) President of the Jury, Francesco ... | The Seattle Central Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas architect has been awarded the "Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement" at the opening ceremony of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of the , on August 28th. The decision was taken by the Board of the Biennale, upon the proposal of the Director of this y... |
Parts of Iqaluit looked and sounded like an emergency zone Monday, but military officials said all the helicopters and emergency vehicles were part of an exercise to train soldiers and emergency crews. Monday's simulation, which was part of the Canadian Forces' annual Operation Nanook exercise, involved a mock fire on ... | Canadian Museum of Nature or Victoria Memorial Museum Building Scientists of the United Kingdom-based Royal Society released a paper August 1, 2008 which studied Cretaceous era fossil finds found at the northern area of Devon Island in the 1980s. ''Nunavutospongia irregulara'' is the name of the new species of sponge f... |
March 26: New York Times’ Aaron Ross Sorkin offers perspective on how Wall Street's culture of bonus compensation contributed to the current economic crisis and how it's likely to change. The economy shrank at a 6.3 percent pace at the end of 2008, the worst showing in a quarter-century, and probably isn’t doing much b... | USPS headquarters in Washington, D.C..Tensions are running high at the U.S. Postal Service as it faces an enormous budget shortfall. Even after announcing it was cutting 3,000 jobs, the beleaguered government agency is still quickly running out of money. Postmaster General John Potter asked the United States Congress f... |
Hawthorne (CA) - Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), a company that may play a critical role in providing NASA an opportunity to continue its space flights when the Space Shuttle retires in 2010, made another step toward a functional space craft. The company said that it successfully conducted a full mission-lengt... | A Merlin rocket engine. Each Falcon 9 rocket uses 9 Merlin engines A computer simulation of a Falcon 9 launch At 10:30pm on November 23, 2008, near the airport in , Texas, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) tested their new Falcon 9 rocket at full thrust for nearly 3 minutes (160 seconds). The engineer... |
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. ||||| The former Colombian presidential candidate is reported to be seriously ill The French humanitarian missio... | Cristina Fernández, Astrid Betancourt, and Lorenzo Delloy march for the liberation of Íngrid Betancourt in Argentina on April 6, 2008. France is recalling the mission it recently sent to Colombia in hopes of freeing Íngrid Betancourt, who is a hostage of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). "The French me... |
Image copyright JEFF OVERS Image caption Andrew Marr presents a Sunday morning political programme on BBC One Political sketch writer Quentin Letts has apologised for an article he wrote mocking the disability of broadcaster Andrew Marr. In a Daily Mail review of the new Robert Peston show on ITV, Letts described Marr ... | File photo of Quentin Letts, 2009. , a UK political columnist and sketch writer, publicly apologized yesterday after he mocked disabled broadcaster . Letts was reviewing former BBC business editor 's new ITV television show for the ''Daily Mail'' on Sunday when he made the comments. In his column he said Marr, who suff... |
Photo: AP The evidence comes from the discovery of seawater salt in ice grains forming Saturn's outermost ring. Scientists know the "E-ring" is replenished by jets of water and ice spurting hundreds of miles into space from Saturn's sixth largest moon, Enceladus. The geyser-like plumes erupt from fracture lines known a... | Enceladus from Voyager 2 A report published in the scientific journal ''Nature'' of results from the Cassini probe indicates the discovery of the existence of liquid water on Saturn's moon Enceladus, and with it the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Analysis of ice particles once thought to be emitted by geysers fr... |
Mr Blair currently uses charter planes and the Queen's Flight One is likely to be a long-haul plane with 70 seats, while a 15-seater jet will be ordered for shorter flights, BBC correspondent James Hardy says. Since 1944 US presidents have had their own plane for presidential travel. Although the Queen will have first ... | UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is set to give the go-ahead for an order of two government jets. One jet is likely to contain 70 seats, whilst the other will be smaller with around 15 seats. Previously the Prime Minister has chartered aircraft or used a royal plane. Both planes would be second hand and not bought outright... |
The magnitude 4.3 quake occurred at 10:40 a.m., and the U. S. Geological Survey pinpointed its location at 11 miles north of Morgan Hill, seven miles east of Seven Trees and 16 miles east-southeast of San Jose's City Hall. There were no reports of damage. David Oppenheimer, a seismologist with the geological survey in ... | Location of Morgan Hill within California.A light earthquake, measured at a magnitude of 4.3, struck the San Francisco, California region at 10:40 AM Pacific Standard Time (PST) on Monday morning. The earthquake was described as "short, but strong" by a dispatcher for the Morgan Hill Police Department. The quake was or... |
Photo taken on April 28, 2008, shows the site of the trains colliding accident, in east China's Shandong Province. Passenger train T195 en route from Beijing to Qingdao city in eastern China derailed and hit train 5034 early on Monday, causing "heavy casualties", witnesses and a government spokesman confirmed.(Xinhua P... | Location of Shandong within China. Two trains collided in Shandong, China 4:41am local time on Monday killing at least 71 people and injuring over 400, including four French citizens. It is still not known exactly how many people were on either of the trains. The collision occurred in Zibo when one of the trains travel... |
e mime français Marcel Marceau est mort, samedi 22 septembre, à l'âge de 84 ans, ont annoncé, dimanche, deux de ses enfants à l'AFP. Né le 22 mars 1923 à Strasbourg, Marcel Marceau est devenu célèbre avec son personnage de Bip. Apparu en mars 1947, Bip est un clown blanc poétique coiffé d'un haut-de-forme orné d'une fl... | The French mime died at age 84 yesterday in . Emmanuel Vacca, Marceau's former assistant, announced his death on a French-Info radio station. Media reports also indicated his death was announced by his family. Marceau appeared on stage for over 50 years without uttering a word. But, the off-stage chatty Marceau once sa... |
On Friday 14,700 signatures were handed in to Downing Street, part of 5 million signatures worldwide calling for an end to nuclear weapons. The same day the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference ended in New York with no consensus on how to disarm nuclear weapons(i). Only a total lack of political wi... | The month-long 2005 Review Conference on the (NPT) was concluded in May this year. It was generally considered disappointing. The representative, Mr Labbe, stated that the outcome ''could only be described as a failure''. The point of view of some state representatives was that the meeting failed because of possible vi... |
Joining hands to Condemn Censorship of Blogs in Pakistan LAUNCHED BY THE ALVI-E TEAM (Awab Alvi & Omer Alvie) on March 3rd 2006, this is an online campaign to support free speech of Pakistani bloggers and internet free speech in general. Support our cause by copying the banner code (below) to your web site. Since 28th ... | As of 6th May, 2006, the Pakistani government has once again put a ban on Blogspot. This has been confirmed by numerous bloggers across Pakistan. The banned blogs can now be accessed through an alternative sites such as PKBlogs.com - Blogspot Proxy and other proxy servers. Since the morning of May 2, 2006, the blanket ... |
Tuesday, 8 September 2009 British army bomb disposal experts have defused a large explosive device found planted close to the border in south Armagh today. The 600lb device was found on a roadside near the village of Forkhill and had a command wire leading to a firing point on the other side of the border. Dissident re... | A 600 lb bomb which was found in Northern Ireland has been defused by a bomb disposal team. A map of the British Isles with Northern Ireland in red. The bomb was found on the side of a road near the village of Forkhill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, close to the border with the Republic of Ireland. It was defused ... |
The problem with the plane trip When Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka was appointed deputy president, she was said to be flabbergasted by the number of bodyguards and shiny vehicles that made up her new travelling entourage. For the girl who had grown up in a religious KwaZulu-Natal home where service to the community was the hi... | The South African Presidency today denied that it had been inconsistent with its explanations and defense of a holiday trip undertaken by the South African deputy president, Phumzila Mlambo-Ngcuka, during December last year, which was funded by the state. Mlambo-Ngcuka, who was appointed as deputy president of South Af... |
TORONTO – Three women have now filed abuse complaints against fired CBC star Jian Ghomeshi and investigators are looking into the possibility of a “graphic” video in the network’s possession,… ||||| B.C. Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell Gordon Campbell takes aim at NDP in B.C. campaign Canadian Press COLWOOD, B.C. Pre... | '''May 10, 2005''' __NOTOC__ With a less than an impressive outcome from the Leadership Debate, the ruling British Columbia Liberal Party came out with a very aggressive strategy over the weekend, stalking the campaign of rival New Democratic Party of British Columbia (NDP). In a clear shift of tactics away from promot... |
Libya: French plane fires on military vehicle Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. A French plane has fired the first shots in Libya as enforcement of the UN-mandated no-fly zone begins. The UK prime minister later confirmed British planes were also in action, while US media reports said the US... | left French military aircraft began flying missions over Libya today in support of a no-fly zone the United Nations approved Thursday. President Nicolas Sarkozy said that "our air force will oppose any aggression by Colonel Gadhafi ... As of now, our aircraft are preventing planes from attacking the town and are prepar... |
By Andrew Grice, Political Editor Alan Johnson failed in an attempt to defuse the damaging row between the Government and Britain's top scientists after three more of his drugs advisers resigned last night. The Home Secretary suffered a setback when another three members of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs r... | In the wake of the sacking of Professor David Nutt as chairman of the United Kingdom's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) by Home Secretary Alan Johnson and the subsequent resignations of Dr Les King and Marion Walter, three more scientists have now resigned. This follows a meeting on Monday between the Cou... |
In a nationally televised address, Abhisit Vejjajiva said a state of emergency would help authorities arrest leaders of the so-called red shirt movement which has been staging protests in Bangkok for more than three weeks. Thailand's prime minister has declared a state of emergency in the capital and surrounding areas ... | Red Shirts march through Bangkok on March 20, 2010. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva declared a state of emergency in Bangkok, Thailand and its surrounding areas today with the intention of combating anti-government protesters. The proclamation was made shortly after a group of Red Shirts, the common name for a politic... |
- Politics/Diplomacy - Society - N.K this week - Vantage point - Industry - Economy - Market - Culture - Sports Home National Politics/Diplomacy Politics/Diplomacy (3rd LD) Roh left behind suicide note, family lawyer says SEOUL, May 23 (Yonhap) -- Former President Roh Moo-hyun died after falling from a mountainside beh... | Former South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun died after falling from the side of a mountain near his house in an apparent suicide, the state-run Yonhap News Agency reported early Saturday. Roh Moo-Hyun, 2004 Roh, who was facing an investigation into allegations of bribery, fell at about 6:30 a.m. Korea Standard Time (9:0... |
Premier Ed Stelmach overtakes Dinning to become Albertan's new premier Larry Johnsrude, Andrea Sands, edmontonjournal.com Published: Sunday, December 03 2006 Sometimes, nice guys do finish first. Ed Stelmach, the farmer who was often called too nice a guy to be a good leader, has been chosen Alberta's new premier. "I p... | Ed Stelmach has won the race to lead Alberta's governing Progressive Conservative party beating out former Treasurer Jim Dinning and Ted Morton. Stelmach, now premier-Designate of Alberta, will be sworn in as Premier of the Canadian province once outgoing leader Ralph Klein leaves office later this month. Stelmach plac... |
Related: Bermuda to face approaching Hurricane Florence Bermuda (File Photo) Photo Gallery >>> BEIJING, Sept.12 (Xinhuanet) -- Hurricane Florence knocked out power to about 25,000 homes and businesses in Bermuda, the mid-Atlantic British island, on Monday, according to Bermuda's electric company. "No reports of major d... | was positioned at 35.8 N 63.9 W, at 11 p.m. ( - 4 hr), with maximum winds blowing at 85 mph and gusts of up to 105 mph. The hurricane is moving in a north-easterly direction at 18 mph and is showing signs of weakening. The government of Bermuda has discontinued the Tropical Storm warning it issued only after it blew aw... |
Mr Allawi was not in the area at the time of Monday's blast Sami Mohammad Ali Said al-Jaaf, also known as Abu Omar al-Kurdi, is accused of many bombings, including a blast at the UN headquarters in Baghdad in 2003. The arrest was reportedly made on 15 January, but not immediately revealed. A BBC correspondent says one ... | Sami Mohammad Ali Said al-Jaaf, also known as Abu Omar al-Kurdi, accused of many bombings, has said to have been captured by US and Iraqi security forces. He was arrested on the 15th of January, but his arrest has not been revealed until now. Al-Jaaf was said to have been a threat to security because of his ties to the... |
Featured Video Close More Video Goodness. As the mayor likes to say: enough’s enough. On Thursday I served Rob Ford with a libel notice, the first step in the process of pursuing a defamation lawsuit. I also served Vision TV, which twice broadcast Ford’s vile and defamatory remarks to Conrad Black even though their int... | Daniel Dale, a reporter for the , served notice on Thursday to , the Mayor of Toronto, Ontario in Canada, of libel proceedings based on allegedly defamatory comments made by Mayor Ford against Mr. Dale on the program "theZoomer", broadcast on Monday. During the interview, Ford is alleged to have made an insinuation of ... |
New king vows to shield Bhutan in globalised world THIMPHU (AFP) — Bhutan's new king vowed Friday to shield his remote, staunchly traditional and insular Himalayan nation from the negative forces of globalisation. In a speech the day after his lavish coronation ceremony, 28-year-old Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck said ... | The new king of Bhutan Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck yesterday became the new king of Bhutan following the abdication of his father, who started the country's transition to democracy two years ago. The new king, who is the world's youngest monarch at age 28, gave his accession speech to around 30,000 people, and celeb... |
Dejagah, who plays for Bundesliga club VfB Wolfsburg, asked his national team managers to withdraw him from Germany's European Championship qualifier against Israel, to be played in Tel Aviv on Friday, citing "personal reasons." "He came to us citing personal reasons that seemed very plausible," DFB spokesman Jens Grit... | Wolfsburg player Ashkan Dejagah drew criticism today for planning to not participate in Germany's 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification match against Israel, which is scheduled to be played on October 12 in Tel Aviv. The issue stems from the fact that Dejagah is an Iranian-born citizen. Dejaga... |
By Gina Keating Reuters Oct 27, 2006 BEAUMONT, California (Reuters) - Thick smoke and hot winds hampered firefighters struggling on Friday to get the upper hand on a deadly wildfire in mountains near Palm Springs, California, while the reward for information on those who started it rose to $500,000. Four firefighters... | A wildfire in the Bitterroot National Forest in the State of Montana. A wildfire has been reported near Palm Springs, California. At least 4 United States Forest Service firefighters were killed and 1 seriously injured, with burns on nearly 95% of his body. The firefighters were overcome by fire while attempting to put... |
The fatal shooting of eight people at day spas in and around Atlanta have intensified fears in Asian-American communities that have been the target of attacks since the onset of the coronavirus. Six of the eight victims were Asian women. The 21-year-old suspect, Robert Aaron Long, has been charged with four counts of m... | 100px 100px 20th Century Fox will produce at least 13 new episodes of the animated series Futurama, scheduled to air on Comedy Central in 2008. Futurama, an animation from The Simpsons creator Matt Groening, was canceled by FOX in 2003. Comedy Central has recently acquired the rights to the back catalogue of 72 Futuram... |
Google enters the dictionary Google is now official! For several years we have been hearing people say "Google this, Google that," whether online or in the real world. Finally, Google has reached the dictionary - and about time too.After being first founded back in September 1998, Google quickly became a phenomenon, ov... | Google logo. Google became a verb in the Merriam-Webster dictionary yesterday. First founded in September 1998, Google quickly became a phenomenon, overtaking the then top search engines Yahoo and Lycos etc. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has added Google, along with Googling, to their dictionary. According to... |
WEST COAST says the police's decision to drop Ben Cousins' drug charge won't affect the decision to sack its former captain. He still faces one charge of failing to take a blood test. "The West Coast Eagles have today been informed that police will drop the charge against Ben Cousins of being in possession of a prohibi... | Ben Cousins, the former West Coast Eagles AFL team captain has been forcedly removed from the West Coast Eagles and is 'no longer a registered player', according to an AFL spokesperson. Cousins was pulled over by police on Tuesday for erratic driving. Police charged the player with one drug charge and failing to provid... |
Hillary Clinton's team have denied she was about to concede Hillary Clinton has said she is "open" to becoming Barack Obama's Democratic vice-presidential running mate, as the US primary elections draw to a close. Mrs Clinton made the comments in a conference call with other New York lawmakers, US media said. Earlier h... | According to the Associated Press (AP), 2008 United States Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has told lawmakers in New York that she is "open to being Obama's vice presidential candidate". A file photo of Clinton Earlier, the AP reported that Clinton would concede her race for the tonight during a speec... |
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement The recently freed French-Colombian politician, Ingrid Betancourt, has urged her former captors, the Marxist Farc rebels, to release all hostages. Ms Betancourt was leading a rally in the French capital, Paris - one in a series of global demons... | Hundreds of people marched in support of Betancourt during her time in captivity Íngrid Betancourt, a former Senator in Colombia who was being held captive by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) until her rescue as part of Operation Jaque, has called for FARC to release all its hostages. "We want freedom ... |
WUHAN, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Local government is working on plans to contain and retrieve industrial chemicals sunken on a section of the Yangtze River in central China's Hubei Province after two cargo ships collided early Sunday, local officials said. The collision left one ship, registered in eastern Jiangxi Province, s... | According to Chinese state media ''Xinhua'', a ship carrying a hazardous cargo has sunk into the Yangtze river. The vessel took its cargo of 100 tonnes of highly corrosive hydrochloric acid down with it after colliding with another vessel today. The report cited an official with the Hubei Provincial Environmental Prote... |
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An organisation calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen has claimed it was behind attacks in India's financial capital Mumbai that have left at least 80 people dead, television channels reported on Thursday. The previously unknown or little known group sent an email to news organisations claiming res... | __NOTOC__ One of the scenes of the attack. Credit: Vinukumar Ranganathan Scores of people have been killed, and many more wounded, in what appear to have been coordinated attacks by gunmen wielding automatic weapons and hand grenades. The attacks began around 10:30 p.m. IST in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Police reports... |
Tsunami warning cancelled after Tonga earthquake THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga - A strong 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck Friday near Tonga, generating a tsunami with the potential of striking coastlines in the South Pacific, officials said. There were no immediate reports of injury or damage and the country's... | According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), a magnitude 7.9 earthquake has struck in the Pacific Ocean approximately south-southeast of Nuku'Alofa, Tonga, generating a tsunami. It struck at 6:17 a.m. (local time) and was registered at a depth of only 6.2 miles (10km). The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PT... |
A Toronto judge has ruled that Canada's pot possession laws are unconstitutional after a man argued the country's medicinal marijuana regulations are flawed. Lawyer Brian McAllister says the potential ramifications of a ruling that Canada's pot possession laws are unconstitutional are 'pretty big.' (CBC) The 29-year-ol... | A judge in the province of Ontario, Canada dismissed marijuana possession charges against a Toronto man, ruling that Canada's laws governing possession are unconstitutional. The unidentified defendant, 29, had been charged with possession after police had found him carrying 3.5 grams of marijuana. Since July 30, 2001, ... |
POLICE are hunting sick thieves who stole a fatally injured pensioner’s purse. And onlookers have also been blasted for taking pictures of the elderly woman’s body and posting it on social media. The two acts of repulsive behaviour came just moments after the woman, 82, had been knocked down by a lorry on Leigh Road, L... | England's yesterday appealed to the public for information to track down a man who stole a woman's purse after she was fatally injured by a lorry. Police were alerted to the collision between the truck and the 82-year-old woman, in the town of , at approximately 1145 on Wednesday. The woman died at the scene, in what o... |
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [This is a proposed article to link to on the Wikipedia main page] [Can anybody help create a function for {NUMBEROFWORDS}, similar to {NUMBEROFARTICLES} (as used below)?] Wikipedia currently has a total of 420701 articles and 135 million words in its english edition, which is not... | 160px The English version of Wikipedia has reached 865,835 articles, 220 million words, 389,591 illustrations and pictures since January, 2001.. Compared to the Spanish language Encyclopedia ESPASA, which has 117 volumes, 175,000 pages, 200 million words, 197,000 black and white illustrations, 4,500 color illustrations... |
LONDON: A 15-year-old boy was stabbed to death in a London street in the latest teenage murder in the British capital, police said. Police said Adam Regis, from Plaistow, east London, collapsed on the pavement before horrified passers-by near West Ham's football stadium in east London on Saturday evening. The black tee... | London Police are looking for two men seen running away after a 15-year-old boy was stabbed to death in a London street in the latest teenage killing to hit the British capital. The victim, Adam Regis, from Plaistow, east London, collapsed on the pavement before horrified witnesses on Saturday evening. Witnesses saw tw... |
Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email More than 10,000 people flocked to Anfield this afternoon to remember the 96 victims of the Hillsborough disaster. The annual memorial service is one of a series of events taking place in L... | Anfield Memorial Thousand of people have met at Liverpool Anfield Football ground to mark the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough Disaster which claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool FC fans. A minutes silence was held at 15:06 in Liverpool, Nottingham and Sheffield. In the 20 years that have passed but the families of th... |
Login Enter your details below to login Email address Password Keep me logged in information Keeps you logged in for a rolling 15 days or until you logout Forgot your password? ||||| Scotland's economy will retract next year, the report pedicted Scotland is about to enter its worst recession since 1980, but will still ... | A study by the Ernst & Young Scottish ITEM Club has predicted that Scotland will enter the worst recession seen in the nation since 1980, but that the rest of the United Kingdom will fare worse. Scottish GDP is expected to contract by 0.4% in 2009, compared to 1% for elsewhere in the UK. The report expects this to acco... |
By Patrick Lannin and Toni Vorobyova REYKJAVIK/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is not yet convinced it should make a loan to Iceland to help dig it out of a financial crisis, a Russian source said on Friday. But as the island ran down more of its meager foreign reserves, Iceland said it hoped its biggest bank, Kaupthing, wou... | Russia has requested Iceland give them more details of the island nation's plan to rescue the banking sector and thus the entire national economy before granting them a loan. Two weeks ago, Iceland's banking sector collapsed and was largely nationalised. Icelandic banks are in significantly more debt than the country c... |
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... | Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden has appeared in a new but undated video praising martyrdom. "The happy (person) is the one chosen by Allah to be a martyr," he could be seen saying. The video had the insignia of the As-Sahab group, considered the media production house of Al-Qaeda. The background looked similar to that ... |
Mr Kennedy was Lib Dem leader from 1999 to 2006 MPs are to pay tribute to former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy, after his sudden death on Monday aged 55. There will be a dedicated session in the House of Commons at 12:30 BST immediately after the first Prime Minister's Questions of the Parliament. Mr Kennedy ... | The Right Honorable Charles Kennedy, pictured in 2009 , British former who once led the Liberal Democrats, has died at age 55. He was found dead on Monday at his home in , Scotland by his partner, Carole Macdonald. Kennedy was a Member of Parliament for 32 years, losing his seat in the to the Scottish National Party ju... |
This post has been corrected. See below for details. A teacher who taught for three decades at Miramonte Elementary School in South L.A. has been arrested and charged with lewd acts on 23 children for allegedly tying them up, placing giant cockroaches on their faces and possibly feeding them his semen from a spoon. Mar... | Photo:L.A. County Sheriff's Dept. An elementary school teacher of 30 years was arrested Monday in Los Angeles, California on the charge of 23 counts listed in the arrest warrant of performing a "lewd act on a child". The bail for Mark Berndt, 61, was raised from $2.3 million, which is $100,000 per count, to $23 million... |
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement Former Philippine leader Corazon Aquino, Asia's first female president, has died at the age of 76. She had been suffering from colon cancer for more than a year and recently refused further treatment. Her family had said she was leaving her fat... | Corazon Aquino, 1933 - 2009 Corazon Aquino, the 11th president of the Philippines, has died today at Makati Medical Center of complications from colon cancer. She was 76. She had been in the hospital since June. She was the first female president of the Philippines and Asia's first female President. She was born María ... |
A worker operates a crane near the damaged Antonov 24 turboprop plane near the airport in Donetsk, February 13, 2013.(Reuters / Stringer) Five people have been killed after a Ukraine Southern Airlines plane crashed and caught fire during an emergency landing near the city of Donetsk. A rescue operation has been suspend... | A passenger plane broke apart and caught fire after an emergency landing yesterday at in eastern Ukraine, causing at least five fatalities. Twelve were also injured in the incident, although "most of the survivors were able to walk off the plane by themselves" according to Svytlana Borodyna, an emergency ministry spoke... |
Apr 29, 2007 5:12 pm US/Pacific (CBS) KANSAS CITY, Mo. A gunman shot a police officer, then opened fire in a parking lot and a mall Sunday, authorities said. By the time the violence was over, he and two other people were dead. The man was shot to death inside Ward Parkway Center in south Kansas City, police spokesman ... | Ward Parkway, split by Brush Creek in the Country Club Plaza near its eastern terminus A gunman killed three people and wounded two others Sunday after a shooting occurred at the Ward Parkway shopping center in Kansas City, Missouri. The shooting took place at around 4 p.m. local time (2200 UTC). The gunman fired shots... |
Finau Maka crossed over for Tonga in the first two minutes USA: (3) 15 Tries: MacDonald, Stanfill Con: Hercus Pens: Hercus Tonga: (13) 25 Tries: Maka, Vaka, Vaki Cons: Hola 2 Pens: Hola 2 Tonga got their World Cup campaign off to a winning start with victory over a battling USA in Montpellier. The Americans found thems... | 125px In the 2007 Rugby World Cup, Tonga started their campaign with a 15-25 win over the United States. Fiji won their opening match by four points in a close contest against Japan. Romania, playing their first match of the tournament, led Italy just after half time but eventually fell to a 24-18 defeat. ---- In Pool ... |
Cuba return to OAS not automatic: Clinton WASHINGTON (AFP) — Cuba's return to the Organization of American States will not be automatic, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday after the body voted to lift a 47-year ban on Havana. "Cuba can come back into the OAS in the future if the OAS decides that its p... | News outlets are reporting that the Organization of American States (OAS) has voted to rescind the 1962 suspension of Cuba. The Washington D.C. based organization had suspended the island nation in 1962, three years after Fidel Castro led the successful overthrow of the U.S. backed Batista government. At the time, the ... |
PARIS, May 18 (Reuters) - Daniel Carasso, whose father named Danone yoghurt after him in 1919 and who set up the brand in France 10 years later, died on Sunday aged 103, French food group Danone said on Monday. Carasso, born in 1905 in Thessaloniki, went on to set up Dannon in the United States, expand in countries inc... | Logo of Groupe Danone Daniel Carasso, for whom his father, Isaac Carasso, named the famous yoghurt-producer Danone in 1919 in Spain, died on Sunday aged 103. "Danon" is a diminutive form for "Daniel" in Catalan. Daniel Carasso moved the company to France in 1929. Later, with the onset of World War II, Daniel Carasso, a... |
Casey Stoner mastered dreadful conditions to win the British MotoGP at Silverstone and overtake Jorge Lorenzo at the top of the standings. The Repsol Honda rider started from pole position and was untroubled as he made light of pouring rain to win by 15.159 seconds from Andrea Dovizioso. Defending champion Lorenzo suff... | Stoner after the 2010 Qatar MotoGP has won the 2011 British MotoGP placing him at the top of the championship table. The Australian rider started in pole position and finished 15.159 seconds ahead of second place . American claimed third place despite riding with a broken collarbone. The win at gives Stoner his forth w... |
Egypt protests: Curfew in cities as army deployed Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Egypt has extended its curfew to all cities as anti-government demonstrators in Cairo besiege key buildings, including the foreign ministry and the state broadcaster. The headquarters of the governing NDP par... | Anti-government protestors in Egypt rallying against the rule of president Hosni Mubarak took to the streets for a fourth straight day, demanding the long-time leader step down and complaining of poverty, corruption, and oppression. The demonstrations were supposedly inspired by a popular uprising that saw Tunisian pre... |
Aug 9, 2006 Firefighters responded in force to deal with a blaze at Southland Hospital in Invercargill on Tuesday night which destroyed a laundry building. Fire Chief, Morris Robertson, says the building was well ablaze when they arrived at about 9.30pm and volunteer crews had to be called-in from other towns. He said ... | A fire on Tuesday night at Southland Hospital, Invercargill has destroyed a two-storey building which was used for laundry and cleaning by the cleaning company Alsco. Junior doctors and interns were evacuated from the nearby hospital campus. A dangerous goods store nearby nearby was saved from the fire. The building wa... |
Publicatie: vrijdag 23 juni 2006 - 08:26 EINDHOVEN - Op Eindhoven Airport is donderdagavond groot alarm geslagen toen een KLM Cityhopper uit Londen met een kapot landingsgestel moest landen. Het neuswiel haperde en bij de landing klapten twee banden. Het vliegtuig kwam slingerend en schokkend tot stilstand, aldus een v... | Authorities were on high alert as a KLM Cityhopper flight from London made an emergency landing at Eindhoven Airport. The plane was forced to land with broken landing gear. During the landing, two tires broke and the plane was violently shaken. Four crew and 50 passengers were on board at the time. During the emergency... |
Note - Liuzzi finished eighth, but had 25 seconds added to his race time for passing under yellow flags. ||||| By Andrew Benson Hamilton drove a brilliant race in awful conditions at Fuji The Englishman drove a masterful race in treacherous, wet conditions as his chief rival and McLaren team-mate Fernando Alonso crashe... | Fuji Speedway 2007 British GP). Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton starting from pole wins the FIA Formula-1 2007 Japanese Grand Prix at the Fuji Speedway, Oyama, Japan. It was the first race on this circuit since 1977, when James Hunt won the race for McLaren-Ford. A rainy and foggy weekend at Fuji appear... |
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement US President Barack Obama has ordered 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan but warned America would begin to withdraw its military by 2011. The new deployment over six months will bring America's troop strength in the country to more than 100,0... | U.S. President Obama delivers his speech. Tuesday evening, United States President Barack Obama went to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, to deliver a televised address to announce his new approach to the War in Afghanistan. President Obama announced an increase of 30,000 US troops to be sent ... |
The U.S. Congress is wasting no time launching its own inquiry into a decision by the U.S spy agency to destroy tapes of interrogations of terror suspects. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports Central Intelligence Agency chief Michael Hayden will testify before lawmakers this week. The Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Commit... | Central Intelligence Agency chief The United States Congress has launched its own inquiry into a decision by the U.S spy agency to destroy tapes of interrogations of terror suspects, with Central Intelligence Agency chief testifying before lawmakers this week. The Chairman of the Senate , Democrat of West Virginia, say... |
At least three Yemeni soldiers have been shot dead in an attack southeast of the capital, Sanaa, a government official has said. Armed men opened fire on a checkpoint in Shabwa province, where the military is carrying out operations against suspected fighters from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, early on Sunday. "Th... | A Yemeni government official has said that three soldiers with the national army were killed in an attack earlier today, southeast of the capital, . According to reports, armed men started firing at a checkpoint in the province of Shabwa, where security forces are conducting operations against suspected rebels for al-Q... |
AVAX:4,78 ( -1.24 ) AVE:3,16 ( 0.00 ) BASIK:46,72 ( -0.38 ) AGRI:2,78 (+3.35) AGRAS:3,30 (+7.14) AEGEK:0,28 (+12.0) ATHINA:1,31 ( -0.76 ) AIOLC:2,80 (+1.82) AKRIT:1,97 (+4.23) ALKA:5,18 ( -0.38 ) ALCO:0,97 ( -1.02 ) ALLAK:1,65 ( -6.25 ) ALMY:3,36 ( 0.00 ) ALTEC:1,19 (+0.85) ALTER:6,04 ( -0.33 ) ALPHA:20,78 (+3.49) ANDR... | Zakynthos, Greece. The huge forest fires that blazed across southern Greece on Friday and Saturday were stabilized for a few hours today. Fire Brigade Officer Nikos Tsogas said, "It's not getting worse...we have to act fast because the winds might pick up." However, the winds have reportedly intensified. Fire departmen... |
The legal drink-drive limit is being examined for a possible change The government has asked a legal expert to examine the case for lowering the legal alcohol limit for drivers and tightening the laws on drug-driving. Sir Peter North will give a report of his independent research to Transport Secretary Lord Adonis befo... | File photo of Transport Secretary Lord Adonis. The U.K. Government announced today it has commissioned a report on whether the legal alcohol limit for driving, and whether the laws on driving under the influence of drugs, should be tightened. The report, by Oxford University academic Sir Peter North, should be complete... |
As a result, his health suffers from frequent “ups and downs,” the person said. Mr. Jobs, who has tried to keep his condition private, has in recent weeks begun a down cycle. Mr. Jobs has reduced his trips to the office, coming in about two days a week, and has appeared increasingly emaciated, the person said. He has f... | Jobs in June 2010 Steve Jobs, the chief executive officer of Apple Inc., announced Monday in an internal memo that he would be on medical leave for an undetermined period of time. The statement caused a sharp decrease of Apple in foreign markets, while US markets were closed in honor of . Monday's email announcement ma... |
Show us the best and worst — from the brutal to the beautiful BERKELEY, Calif. - Hundreds of firefighters worked Thursday to protect the scenic community of Big Sur from a lightning-sparked wildfire that inched closer to historic structures after burning 16 homes and threatening another 500 houses. The blaze in the Los... | A large lightning storm this week sparked over 800 wildfires in northern California. A lightning storm this past Friday caused wildfires burning from Mendocino County to Monterey County, the latter a county that has been declared an emergency zone, along with Trinity County. Of the 800 wildfires burning, recent numbers... |
Attention random asshats emailing me and asking me how to cosplay: go here For visual Stimuli, here. Someone emailed me earlier today talking about a tool a group’s been using to attack the scientology website. It’s an interesting tool, created to overload/create malformed strings and crash a website’s database. I don’... | ''Wikinews'' has learned that according to an Internet posting made just over 24 hours ago, the Church of Scientology's website is being attacked by hackers, causing the site to shut down. The attack was launched on Wednesday by a user labelled "Anonymous", on the website "Insurgency Wiki", a spinoff of 4chan. The "His... |
A high resolution camera mounted on a spaceship orbiting Mars has found evidence that water once ran under the planet's surface. The geological features could be probed for fossil evidence for past life or used to point to other regions of the planet where running water - and maybe life - can be found today. The pictur... | Tectonic fractures within the Candor Chasma region of Valles Marineris, Mars, retain ridge-like shapes as the surrounding bedrock erodes away. This points to past episodes of fluid alteration along the fractures and reveals clues into past fluid flow and geochemical conditions below the surface. NASA's Mars Reconnaissa... |
Adam Aircraft’s $105 Million to Boost A700 and A500 Planes 20-Jun-2007 By Karen Di Piazza Adam Aircraft Inc. is getting closer to being able to certify its AdamJet A700, a seven-place, twin-engine very light jet, and to make good on delivery promises of its 2005 certified twin-engine piston A500, as a round of funding ... | Adam Aircraft A500 during flight test program at the Mojave Spaceport. US aircraft manufacturer Adam Aircraft have received US$105 million in funding for two aircraft that they currently produce, namely the Adam A500 and the Adam A700 AdamJet. Both are carbon-bodied six-seat civil utility aircraft. The A500 is piston-e... |
Exclusive: Venezuelan ministers were informed of deal 'Citgo Six' were jailed for, documents show Six executives of U.S. refiner Citgo have been jailed in Caracas on graft charges since 2017, but court documents seen by Reuters show that top Venezuelan officials were made aware of the deal that the country's top prosec... | Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon Organizers of the upcoming London Live 8 concert have announced that legendary rock band Pink Floyd plans to perform on July 2. Guitarist David Gilmour, bassist Roger Waters, drummer Nick Mason, and keyboardist Richard Wright will play their first performance together since playing a... |
ISRAELS armed forces have been ordered by Ariel Sharon, the prime minister, to be ready by the end of March for possible strikes on secret uranium enrichment sites in Iran, military sources have revealed. The order came after Israeli intelligence warned the government that Iran was operating enrichment facilities, bel... | ''The London Times'' has reported that, according to military sources, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ordered Israel's armed forces to be prepared by the end of March for an attack on alleged secret uranium enrichment sites in Iran. Israel has officially denied that it plans to attack Iran. However, Sharon war... |
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. ||||| WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's nominee for Treasury secretary accused China on Thursday of "manipu... | Timothy F. Geithner, Barack Obama's nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, had his confirmation hearing on Thursday in the United States Senate. If confirmed he will succeed Henry Paulson in this position, which is analogous to the finance minister in other nations. Tim Geithner During Geithner's testimony in the Senat... |
The IEEE has finally approved the 802.11n high-throughput wireless LAN standard. There’s been no public announcement yet by IEEE. But Bruce Kraemer, the long-time chairman of the 802.11n Task Group (part of the 802.11 Working Group, which oversees the WLAN standards), has sent out a notification to a listserv for task ... | A router and wireless access pointOn Friday, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ratified the next generation of Wi-Fi Alliance certification known as 802.11n. The path to ratification began on September 11, 2003 with 11 major drafts of the specification over the course of six years. Even thoug... |
Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS -- The hard-driving Phoenix Suns had been blowing through the NBA in January, piling up points, highlights and victories at breakneck speed. They finished the month just one win away from perfection after crashing into a 6-foot-11 road block named Kevin Garnett Longest NBA Winning Streaks W... | The Suns had been on fire for the entire month of January. Unfortunately for them, Kevin Garnett was holding the extinguisher when the Suns came into the Target Center on Monday night. Garnett posted a double-double, scoring 44 points and snaring 11 rebounds, as the Minnesota Timberwolves defeated the Phoenix Suns 121-... |
Reuters Posted Saturday , May 06, 2006 at 10:27Updated Saturday , May 06, 2006 at 11:05 London: Crew members managed to put out a fire in the engine room of a cruise liner with 708 people aboard off the coast of southeast England early on Saturday, a British coastguard official said. "They smothered the engine room and... | A cruise ship caught fire 32 km (20 miles) off the southeast coast of England. The blaze started in the engine-room of the Calypso, which had 708 passengers and crew onboard. The passengers were mainly Dutch. Specialist firefighters transported by helicopter from the East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service tackled the fire... |
Select a country - Afghanistan - Albania - Algeria - Andorra - Angola - Antigua - Argentina - Armenia - Australia - Austria - Azerbaijan - Bahamas - Bahrain - Bangladesh - Barbados - Belarus - Belgium - Belize - Benin - Bhutan - Bolivia - Bosnia- Herzegovina - Botswana - Brazil - Brunei - Bulgaria - Burkina Faso - Buru... | __NOTOC__ The Iranian newspaper Hamshari daily has stated that it will publish anti-Semitic cartoons in response to the Danish Mohammad cartoons. The newspaper, owned by the Tehran city council, says that the anti-Semitic cartoons will lampoon the Holocaust, following denials by the Iranian government that the Holocaus... |
Halemaumau Crater belched a large sulfur dioxide plume yesterday. C. HELIKER / HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORYHalemaumau Crater belched a large sulfur dioxide plume yesterday. Fumes shut volcanoes park 2,000 evacuated as haze coats east Hawaii STORY SUMMARY » The National Park Service closed Hawaii Volcanoes National Park... | Hawaii Volcanoes National Park remains closed today after high levels of sulfur dioxide vented from Kilauea. Continuing southeastern winds will exist through most of the day, causing much of the contamination to exist elsewhere on the Big Island. In addition to the park, the Volcano House hotel and Kilauea Military Cam... |
Life Encyclopedia: Too Popular to Live WASHINGTON (AP) — The concept of a comprehensive encyclopedia of life on the Internet proved too popular. Its computers were overwhelmed and couldn't keep it alive when it debuted Tuesday. The encyclopedia, which eventually will have more than 1 million pages devoted to different ... | Kiwa hirsuta. While it has taken almost a year, the non-profit Encyclopedia of Life project launched yesterday. It gained so much attention, that the site quickly crashed. It went back online Tuesday afternoon (EST), but went down again the next morning. During five-and-a-half hours, the site logged 11.5 million hits, ... |
Norwegian utvider innenriksrutenettet fra Moss Lufthavn Rygge med fire nye destinasjoner. Moss Lufthavn Rygge får svært gode tilbakemeldinger fra Norwegian. Se video fra pressekonferansen. Disse rutene ble bekreftet tirsdag med start 30. oktober: Stavanger Trondheim Bodø Tromsø (via Bodø) Det er aktuelt å splitte opp r... | Norwegian Boeing 737-300. The airline company Norwegian Air Shuttle is opening four new domestic destinations from Moss Airport. The new destinations are Stavanger Airport, Trondheim Airport, Bodø Airport and Tromsø Airport. Flying commences on 30 October. Tickets for the new destinations will be put up for sale today.... |
Greens call on Bishop to rule out HECS and FEE-HELP changes Senator Nettle, 27th February 2006 Greens Education Spokesperson, Senator Kerry Nettle, has called on Education Minister Julie Bishop to rule out changes to student fee arrangements as recommended by rightwing think tank the Centre for Independent Studies toda... | The Centre for Independent Studies has released a paper calling for reform of university student fees system. The paper, authored by Andrew Norton, argues that the cap on loans to full fee paying students is too low. The current cap allows for loans during a lifetime of AU$50,950. "Setting the FEE-HELP limit at this am... |
(04-01) 01:40 PST BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) -- The speaker of Kyrgyzstan's new parliament traveled to the United States last year on a U.S.-government-funded program to observe the presidential election. So did the acting president. Newspapers that railed against President Askar Akayev in the months before his ouster la... | Shortly before parliamentary elections were held in Kyrgyzstan, an opposition-run newspaper ran photographs of a palace under construction for since-deposed president Askar Akayev. This newspaper received grants from and was printed on a printing press financed by the US government. The US government itself confirms th... |
Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf held talks with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London, reassuring his host that Pakistan will hold free and fair election next month and is ready to continue a sustained fight against terrorism and extremism. VOA's Sonja Pace reports from London on this final leg of Preside... | Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf held talks with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London on Tuesday, reassuring his host that Pakistan will hold a fair election next month and is ready to continue a sustained fight against terrorism and extremism. Gordon Brown The visit has been widely called President Musha... |
Chisinau, 25 May /MOLDPRES/ - The Acorex Wine Holding has been awarded two medals at an international wine contest, International Wine Challenge, recently conducted in London. The company's public relations manager, Andrei Agarcov, has told MOLDPRES that the wines Pinot Grigio and Pinot Gris have been appreciated with ... | Bordeaux, France Moldovan wine producers took three silver medals at the third annual international contest of wine tasting and judging of strong alcoholic beverages, the "Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2008". This year the event was held in Bordeaux, France. Previously, the event was held in Portugal and in Maastricht ... |
NASA Television provides real-time coverage of Agency activities and missions as well as resource video to the news media, and educational programming to teachers, students and the general public. NASA Television is broadcast on AMC-2, transponder 9C, C-Band, located at 85 degrees West longitude. The frequency is 3880.... | 160px This morning, the Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan, with three cosmonauts aboard. Russian Yuri Malenchenko, and American Peggy Whitson were returning from the International Space Station, where they had spent six months as the Expedition 16 crew. South Korean Yi So-yeon, the first South Korean to fly ... |
Below is a monthly update on progress at the SpaceX Rocket Factory from our CEO, Elon Musk. There is a great deal that happens in any given month, but to keep it an interesting read, brevity is favored over detail. Also, we intend to report negative news, which can be quite exciting in a rocket development. APRIL Much ... | TacSat-1 spacecraft (scheduled for SpaceX's second launch) Rocket company SpaceX, notorious for repeatedly pre-announcing its first flight on Wikinews, cancels its latest attempt and defers further flights until 2006. This latest launch attempt on the 19th December was cancelled due to structural issues with the first-... |
DALLAS—The family of a 14-year-old Muslim student who got in trouble over a homemade clock mistaken for a possible bomb withdrew the boy Monday from his suburban Dallas high school. Ahmed Mohamed’s father, Mohamed El-Hassan Mohamed, said he has pulled all of his children from their Irving Independent School District sc... | News of police response to a boy's digital clock in Texas last week has inspired a global in support of the youth. , a 14-year-old boy from , Texas, was arrested at his school by police after he brought a digital clock he had made to school. After news of the police response was reported, Mohamed received support onlin... |
@terry flores Open Letter To News Corp: Dear Rupert, Chase, and Jonathan, Bet you never thought your mistakes, as well as your practice of lying to people, would ever become public did you? Would assume it is hard to dispute the facts when there are correspondences and audio recordings of all communications that suppor... | Social networking website MySpace lost over ten million users between January and February 2011, according to . In February 2011, the Internet website had less than 63 million users, down from a previous total of approximately 73 million. In the same month, 2.3 million individuals were on the site in the United Kingdom... |
The chains operate a total of 400 stores nationwide and employ 5,450 staff. Deloitte, the administrators, said the shops had not been closed and were continuing to trade as normal. Barratts and PriceLess are subsidiaries of Stylo, the Aim-listed company run by the Ziff family. The parent company is not in administratio... | Two British footwear chains have entered , a form of company liquidation in the United Kingdom. Both Barratts and PriceLess are owned by parent company . Stylo has not entered administration itself but shares have been suspended. The chains have a joint workforce of around 5,450 employees and operate 400 stores around ... |
Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built a synthetic chromosome out of laboratory chemicals and is poised to announce the creation of the first new artificial life form on Earth. The announcement, which is expected within weeks and could come as e... | Venter in 2004. According to reports, American biologist is going to announce that he has created the first ever "artificial life form" on Earth at the , a U.S. and research center, using synthetic made from chemicals. The ''Guardian Unlimited'' reports that Venter may announce the discovery on Monday, but could publis... |
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