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Seeking to market its handheld game device to hip city dwellers, Sony has hired graffiti artists in major urban areas to spray-paint buildings with simple, totemic images of kids playing with the gadget. But the guerrilla marketing gambit appears to be drawing scorn from some of the street-savvy hipsters it's striving ... | A new advertising campaign in USA for the Sony PSP which looks like graffiti and is often sprayed on previously vandalized walls has come under attack from other graffiti artists. A collective group of graffiti artists and street artists are now banding together, vandalizing the look-alike graffiti advertisements. The ... |
Seven Iraqi athletes from five different sports qualified for the Olympics Athletes from Iraq have been banned from taking part at this summer's Beijing Games, the International Olympic Committee has announced. The team was already the subject of an interim ban after the Iraqi government replaced the country's Olympic ... | The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has told the Iraqi Olympic Committee that Iraq can not field a team in the 2008 Summer Olympics, which are due to open in Beijing, China August 8, 2008. The Olympic flag The International Olympic committee said that it took this action "as a consequence of the ongoing politica... |
TAYLOR, Mich. (WXYZ) - Taylor police along with friends of the Edwards family fanned out on Telegraph Saturday to collect donations for fallen officer Matthew Edwards. The 31 year-old Corporal was gunned down Friday morning at a Taylor apartment complex as he confronted a man trying to break into an apartment. The fund... | City of Taylor, within Wayne County, Michigan A Michigan police officer was shot and killed yesterday in an early-morning exchange of gunfire. Corporal Matthew Edwards, 31, of the Taylor Police Department, was responding to a call about a of a home in an apartment complex on Pine Street near Telegraph and Northline Roa... |
Borussia Mönchengladbach on Thursday made official what had been widely anticipated since they sacked Andre Schubert following Tuesday's 2-1 defeat at home to Wolfsburg, confirming that they have appointed Dieter Hecking as their new head coach. A statement posted on the club's official website said the 52-year-old for... | Yesterday, German football club announce their appointment of as manager until 2019. Hecking's predecessor was sacked the day before, after one year of service at . File photo of Dieter Hecking. Mönchengladbach has won only one out of its last eleven Bundesliga matches this season. Schubert began as an interim manager ... |
Detailed arguments over spending and tax will continue Labour unveiled a dossier claiming the Tory figures were an "incoherent mess". But the Tories retaliated with their own document saying they had already refuted all the claims. They accused Tony Blair of "losing the plot". The Lib Dems, whose leader Charles Kennedy... | The Conservative Party manifesto, launched earlier today, has been criticised by opponents as being unrealistic. The pledge of £35 billion of savings from "government slimlining", and subsequent tax cuts, has been attacked by Labour and the Liberal Democrats. The Conservatives plan to continue funding front-line servic... |
UNITED NATIONS: More people in India, the world's second most crowded country, have access to a mobile telephone than to a toilet, according to a new UN study on how to cut the number of people with inadequate sanitation. "It is a tragic irony to think that in India, a country now wealthy enough that roughly half of th... | Public toilet in India. According to a United Nations survey, more people in India, the second most populous country in the world, have access to mobile phones than to a proper toilet. Over half a billion cell phones are active in India, but only 366 million people there have access to a toilet. "It is a tragic irony t... |
The train hit a number of trees after being derailed, which stopped it from falling into a river below [AFP] The train hit a number of trees after being derailed, which stopped it from falling into a river below [AFP] The accident happened at peak commuter time on Monday morning near the city of Merano, in a mountainou... | At least nine people have died in northern Italy after a landslide caused the derailment of a passenger train. A further 25 people were injured, according to emergency services. The incident occurred earlier this morning near the border with Austria, in a mountainous region near Merano, a city around 300 kilometres nor... |
ASUNCION, Paraguay -- The father-and-son owners of a Paraguayan supermarket swept by a huge blaze in 2004 that left at least 374 dead were convicted of manslaughter and handed prison terms of 12 and 10 years respectively, a court announced Saturday. Relatives protested outside the court complex that the sentences were ... | A court in Paraguay has completed its trial over the worst fire disaster the country has ever seen. The Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire in Asunción left 374 dead, 450 others injured and nine missing, presumed dead. Store owner Juan Pio Paiva, 64, received 12 years imprisonment whilst his son Daniel Paiva, 40, was given 1... |
North Korea has fired artillery shots near the disputed sea border with South Korea and the South has returned fire, according to Yonhap news agency. It said the North fired several shells into the sea near the South Korean-controlled Baengnyeong Island off the countries' western coast. On Tuesday, North Korea declared... | The (disputed) sea line between North and South Korea. North Korea and South Korea have exchanged fire near the disputed sea-border between the countries. There are no reports of casualties. North Korea fired approximately thirty artillery shells into the water on their side of the border, near South Korea's Baengnyeon... |
The Associated Press FRESNO, Calif. — Investigators were mystified Wednesday as to why an 11-year-old boy was behind the wheel when the car ran a stop sign and crashed into another vehicle, killing him, his mother and younger sister. California Highway Patrol Officer Stefanie Buck said investigators have not yet been a... | A Honda, with eleven-year-old Jose Covarrubias behind the wheel, ran a stop sign in Porterville, California colliding with a Ford around 7:30 P.M. The eastbound 1993 Honda was sideswiped from the driver's side by a southbound 1999 Ford, killing Jose. His sister, 6-year-old Elizabeth Covarrubias, and mother, Maria Covar... |
SAN FRANCISCO, March 14 - In a victory for city officials here, a state judge ruled on Monday that California's ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, overturning a statewide proposition passed in 2000 that defined marriage as between a man and woman. In a tentative ruling, the judge, Richard A. Kramer of San F... | Superior Court Judge Richard A. Kramer struck down two California laws that limited marriage in the state to a union of opposite-sex couples. The ruling came one year after San Francisco made worldwide headlines when it opened its city hall to same-sex weddings over Valentine's Day weekend through March 11 2004. Kramer... |
Contador sweeps past the Arc de Triomphe on his way to victory The Discovery Channel rider maintained his 23-second lead over Australian Cadel Evans, with American team-mate Levi Leipheimer taking third place. Italy's Daniele Bennati took victory on the final stage into Paris. The race was marred by several positive do... | __noTOC__ Albi, France during stage 13. Alberto Contador of Spain has won the 2007 Tour de France general classification. He won by 23 seconds over Cadel Evans of Australia. Third place went Contador's team mate Levi Leipheimer of United States, 31 seconds behind. As a young rider, Contador also gets the white jersey t... |
South Pole Telescope To Help Astrophysicists Learn What Universe Is Made Of by Staff Writers Antarctica (SPX) Feb 28, 2007 Scientists aimed the South Pole Telescope at Jupiter on the evening of Feb. 16 and successfully collected the instrument's first test observations. Soon, far more distant quarry will fall under the... | The new South Pole Telescope has recently collected its first light in a long-term project to learn about the nature of dark energy. It will use the cold and dry conditions in Antarctica to detect cosmic microwave background radiation, which is said to be the afterglow of the Big Bang. The study will help determine if ... |
Impulsará nuestro país sistema operativo Linux Amaury E. del Valle Cuba está organizando la migración progresiva de las computadoras instaladas en los organismos de la Administración Central del Estado hacia el software libre, sobre la base del sistema operativo Linux, eliminando así la presencia casi exclusiva del Win... | 120px On Tuesday, Juventud Rebelde reported that the Central Administration of Cuba is organizing a migration to free and open source software. The announcement was made during a free software workshop organized at the "Convención Internacional Informática 2005" by the director of the state office of information techno... |
Now another generation has stories to tell. The Celtics ran roughshod over an overmatched Los Angeles Lakers team tonight at the TD Banknorth Garden, winning Game 6 of the NBA Finals, 131-92, to capture the 17th NBA championship in the franchise’s history. Once again, the Boston Celtics are on top of the basketball wor... | After 22 years of waiting, the Boston Celtics have won their 17th National Basketball Association championship, adding to the 16 that already hang from the rafters of the TD Banknorth Garden and before that, the old Boston Garden. The Celtics won the game 131 to 92 and won the series with 4 wins over their old rivals, ... |
Mayra stepped from her hiding place in the dense brush. The 17-year-old migrant from Guatemala had her one-year-old son on her back. They had crossed the river hours earlier in the dark on small rafts with 70 other migrants. She was hoping she’d be allowed to stay in the United States. ||||| Analysis: PM is on course f... | '''December 28, 2004''' The toll from the recent earthquake and tsunami disaster that affected coasts of a dozen Asian and African nations has risen to nearly 60,000 people reported dead. The nations struck by the catastrophe are struggling to bury the bodies of the dead before disease adds to the already high casaulty... |
Felipe Massa looks to be planning a repeat of his Valencia performance after he took a comfortable pole position for the Singapore Grand Prix on Saturday evening. The Brazilian upped the ante after McLarens Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari team mate Kimi Raikkonen had set the fastest times, lapping his F2008 in 1m 44.801s. ... | File photo of Felipe Massa (2008) Marina Bay Street Circuit Ferrari driver Felipe Massa won the second session and the pole position for the Sunday FIA 2008 Formula One SingTel Singapore Grand Prix on the street circuit at Marina Bay, Singapore. This will be the first nightly Formula One event that utilizes artificial ... |
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has arrived in Taiwan for a visit that has sparked anger from China. He travelled from Taipei to southern Taiwan to comfort to those affected by last month's Typhoon Morakot, the worst typhoon there in 50 years. ... | Dalai Lama in 2007 The spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, has begun his visit to Taiwan. He has travelled to southern Taiwan to offer condolences to victims of the recent typhoon, Morokot, which was the worst in 50 years. The visit has sparked condemnation from China, which regards the Dalai Lama as a rebel see... |
Sorry for inconvenience! You have been redirected to this page due to the following reasons:-- Your session has expired. You have closed the browser, without logging out. If the problem persists, kindly remove all the temporary files and cookies from your browser. For IE - 1. Click on tools from the task bar of browser... | Nearly two feet of the rail route in Kashmir, India was blown up by militants near the Pulwama district, affecting train services from north to south Kashmir. The blast came a few days after militants fought with the Indian army in the area, thereby killing fourteen people. "There were no casualties, as no trains were ... |
Your Blood Turns Cold... and only screams leave your lips. What's lurking in the shadows, hiding in the next room and waiting - only you can find out, if you dare. Visit Terror Nights Haunted House in Tyler, Texas and start your Halloween off right - full of fear and fright. Featuring 25 rooms spread across a staggerin... | With Halloween approaching, numerous haunted attractions all over Texas are preparing for the big "haunt" season. Directors and staff of such attractions must invest significant time preparing their buildings; such efforts gear up significantly during September. ''Wikinews'' caught up with some owners of these attracti... |
Estelle Getty, best known for her portrayal of acid-tongued Sicilian mother Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls, died Tuesday morning (July 22), three days short of her 85th birthday. She had been battling advanced dementia for years. According to her website, she passed away in her own home, surrounded by family. Born... | Getty at the 41st Emmy Awards. Emmy Award winning American actress Estelle Getty has died at the age of 84. Getty had been previously diagnosed with dementia which had been in its advanced stages. She died while at her home in Hollywood, California early Tuesday morning. "She was loved throughout the world in six conti... |
America's first Muslim congressman has provoked outrage by apparently comparing President George W Bush to Adolf Hitler and hinting that he might have been responsible for the September 11 attacks. Addressing a gathering of atheists in his home state of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, a Democrat, compared the 9/11 atrocities... | Congressman Keith Ellison Freshman Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN), the only Muslim in the U.S. Congress, has caused controversy after comparing President Bush to Adolf Hilter, and suggesting that the Bush Administration may have been complicit in the terror attacks of 9/11. Speaking to a group of atheists in his hom... |
Did Massimo Galioto a homeless Rome man murder Beau Solomon? How a scuffle which broke out led to a University of Wisconsin student found days later dead. Italian authorities have arrested 41 year old homeless man Massimo Galioto in connection to the murder of Beau Solomon, a 19 year old sophomore at the University of ... | Map showing locations pertaining to the robbery of Beau Solomon. Map showing scene and bar locations pertaining to the robbery of Beau Solomon. On Tuesday, police charged homeless forty-year-old Massimo Galioto with the aggravated murder of Beau Solomon, a college student from Wisconsin, US. The police arrested the man... |
Iran-backed Gaza Terrorists Kill Three in Continuing Rocket Attacks on Israel Share With Friends By Alan Gray, NewsBlaze Israel Continues Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, Despite Rocket Attacks Throughout the six month ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed Hamas, Hamas continued to fire rockets into Israel, from various pl... | Palestinian-Israeli conflict area and War on Terrorism around the Gaza strip Israel has launched with at least 30 simultaneous missiles strikes on Hamas installations in Gaza City, causing heavy damage. F-16 fighters targeted security compounds in the city’s centre. The “massive” air strikes on Saturday have claimed at... |
CTV Release 6/10/2008 12:05:48 PM Toronto, ON - CTV Inc., together with Copyright Music & Visuals, today announced that CTV Inc. has acquired all rights to 'The Hockey Theme' in perpetuity, preserving the song's legacy and ensuring it will be heard on national television for years to come. 'The Hockey Theme' song will ... | CTV has bought rights to broadcast The Hockey Theme The Hockey Theme was the former theme song of Hockey Night in Canada The CTV Television Network has acquired the rights to ''The Hockey Theme''. Composed by Dolores Claman, ''The Hockey Theme'' was the theme song of ''Hockey Night in Canada'', one of the most popular ... |
Deborah Smith, Science Editor November 28, 2006 Global efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions have had little impact with the rate of emissions more than doubling since the 1990s. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research scientist, Mike Raupach, said that from 2000 to 2005, the growth rate of carbon dioxide emissions ... | CO2 BubblesAtmospheric scientists warn that greenhouse gas emissions are increasing more rapidly, despite global efforts to curb the use of fossil fuels, new research by Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) shows. According to CSIRO research scientist Dr Mike Raupach, 7.9 bil... |
Ms Kelly apologised but said risks were not substantial Names, addresses and phone numbers - but no financial information - were among details on a computer hard drive which went missing in the US in May. It belonged to a contractor working for the Driving Standards Agency, she said. It is the second time in a month mi... | Some personal details of 3 million British learner drivers who had applied for the 'theory test' component of their Driving licence have been lost in Iowa, in the USA. The data was lost on a hard drive that was owned by Pearson Driving Assessments Ltd, a private contractor to the UK driving standards agency. Details we... |
Lahore, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistani air force planes swooped down on the country's troubled tribal region on the border with Afghanistan Tuesday, launching a blistering airstrike that left as many as 50 militants dead, Pakistan Army sources said. People flee Miran Shah, North Waziristan, after heavy fighting between Is... | thumb The Pakistani army says that at least 150 to 200 Taliban militants, along with 50 Pakistani troops have been killed in between al-Qaeda, Taliban fighters and Pakistani troops along the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan in an area known as . At least 20 other troops were injured and at least 15 are reporte... |
Since 2000, Warren Buffett has auctioned off lunches with himself to support a San Francisco nonprofit organization. Over the course of ten years, Buffett has brought in $5.9 million in donations through these charity auctions. According to Reuters, this year's auction has broken all previous records, bringing in a sta... | File photo of billionaire Warren Buffett. Billionaire Warren Buffett, Chief Executive of , auctioned lunch with himself on eBay for US$2.63 million. Bidding, which started on eBay a few weeks ago, attracted nine bidders, offering huge sums for the opportunity to have a steak lunch with the man said to be a "legendary i... |
S4C Viewing Figures Top 20 Welsh Programmes - Week ending 23/09/2007 Programme Title Transmission Date and Time Company Thousands of Viewers POBOL Y CWM Monday (20:25), Wednesday (18:00) and Sunday (18:20) BBC Cymru 101 POBOL Y CWM Wednesday (20:00), Thursday (18:00) and Sunday (18:45) BBC Cymru 95 POBOL Y CWM Friday (... | '''Friday, October 16, 2009''' Welsh language television soap-opera Pobol y Cwm celebrated the 35th anniversary of broadcasting on Friday. Pobol y Cwm — Welsh for "People of the Valley" — made its first broadcast on BBC One Wales on October 16, 1974. It was transferred onto the Welsh channel S4C in 1982 and has been br... |
Please Note: You've requested an ABCNews.com page that does not exist. If you've reached this page by selecting a bookmark that worked previously, it's likely the file moved to a new location because of our recent redesign. Please update your bookmarks. If you still can't find the page your looking for, check out our h... | The website of Hamshahri newspaper was brought down this week in response to an internet attack. Hamshahri Daily is an Iranian newspaper that sponsored a contest to produce cartoons denying the existence of the Holocaust. Service to the website was restored today, after several days offline. Hamshahri Daily sponsored t... |
Irish PM Bertie Ahern steered the EU through the treaty negotiations "We've made a decision based on the commitment that we gave when we put the constitution together in draft form," Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern said. He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the treaty could be modified in the light of the French and Du... | Despite the strong 'no' votes in both France and the Netherlands, the Irish foreign minister Dermot Ahern has confirmed that Ireland will still hold a referendum on the proposed European Union constitution. This comes following the Irish rejection of the Nice Treaty in 2002. Speaking to BBC radio Mr. Ahern said "We've ... |
Apple dived into the competitive social networking business on Wednesday, introducing Ping, a service geared to music lovers that is built into iTunes, as it revamped its lineup of iPods and other products. The company also introduced an upgraded version of its Apple TV set-top box that is smaller and, at $99, cheaper ... | In a music-themed media event yesterday, Apple Inc. unveiled three new portable music players, as well as an upgraded system. Apple also announced updates for its software and mobile operating system. The annual event started at 10 a.m. (1700 ) in the in San Francisco, California. Apple Steve Jobs, who led yesterday's ... |
Rock and jazz musician Jeff Healey died Sunday in a Toronto hospital after a battle with cancer, his publicist said. He was 41. Canadian musician Jeff Healey plays his unique sit-down style before a crowd in Windsor, Ont., in July 2001. (Chris Wattie/Canadian Press) Healey lost his sight at age one as a result of Retin... | Jeff Healey playing with his Jazz Wizards Band in Peterborough, Ontario on September 8, 2007. Musician Jeff Healey, 41, has died in Toronto, Canada from cancer, it was announced Sunday. Healey is internationally known for his 1988 album ''See the Light'' and for his appearance the following year in the movie ''Road Hou... |
(CNN) -- A collision involving two big-rigs and a car Wednesday caused an explosion that sent flames and clouds of smoke billowing and collapsed a highway overpass just north of Detroit, Michigan. Fire rages at the site of a tanker crash and overpass collapse on I-75 north of Detroit, Michigan, Wednesday. One of the ta... | A tanker explosion on Interstate 75 has destroyed a part of the Nine Mile Road overpass in Hazel Park, Michigan, a northern suburb of Detroit. One man, truck driver Ronald Martinez, has been killed and only 4 injuries have been reported. I-75 (red) in Michigan On July 15, 2009 at about 8:15 PM EST, a tanker carrying th... |
By Sushil Sharma BBC News, Kathmandu There have been a number of protests in Kathmandu They were protesting against his February take-over of the government. They are the biggest protests since the king declared a state of emergency and suspended civil rights. The king said the move was needed to combat Nepal's Maoist ... | '''April 8, 2005''' More than 500 activists, journalists, lawyers and students were arrested Friday in Nepal, whilst protesting against King Gyanendra's take-over of the country's government. Human rights groups have now called for a UN investigation into alleged abuses of civil liberties after King Gyanendra declared ... |
© WENN Will.i.am has revealed that the new Black Eyed Peas album will be "positive" and "feel-good".The singer and producer, whose sixth studio LP with the band is called The Beginning, said that the record provides reassurance in a time of "uncertainty".Discussing the new album, he told The AP: "It symbolises growth, ... | File photo of the Black Eyed Peas in Paris US hip hop group Black Eyed Peas has announced that it is almost finished with its new studio album, ''The Beginning''. The group's leader and producer, will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.), says that the recording "symbolizes growth, new beginnings and starts, fresh new persp... |
For such a little guy Samuel David Cheney, weighing in at 8 lbs., 6 oz., sure prompted a hefty debate in the run-up to his birth in Washington this morning. He’s the son of Mary Cheney, and his grandfather is Vice President Dick Cheney. Ms. Cheney, an executive at A.O.L. and official in her father’s reelection campaign... | Dick and Lynne Cheney pose with their grandson Samuel David Mary Cheney, the openly lesbian daughter of United States Vice President Dick Cheney, has a given birth to a son, named Samuel David Cheney. The baby was born weighing 8 lbs and 6 ounces (3.9 kg). Cheney intends to raise the child with her partner, Heather Poe... |
MIAMI (Reuters) - Strengthening far more swiftly and vigorously than predicted, Hurricane Bertha became a “major” hurricane in the open Atlantic on Monday, with sustained winds of at least 115 miles per hour (185 kph), U.S. forecasters said. Hurricane Bertha is seen in a satellite image taken on July 7, 2008. REUTERS/N... | Just hours after Tropical Storm Bertha became the first hurricane of the , Bertha strengthened to a "major" storm at category three on the five-step scale of hurricane intensity, the (NHC) said. Five-day track map of Hurricane Bertha.At 5 p.m. EDT, the storm was packing sustained winds of 120 miles an hour and was loca... |
The U.S. recovery is dismal when compared with other post-World War Two recessions and is far from where it should be in terms of growth and employment. But this may be the best that we can expect with the tools that the government has used. ||||| BAGHDAD, June 16, 2006 The new lead terrorist in Iraq is a founding me... | The U.S. identified the new Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, an Egyptian with ties to Ayman al-Zawahiri. Zawahiri was the number two in command of Al-Qaeda. "We think that Abu Ayyub al-Masri is in fact, probably, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir. They are probably one and the same" said Major General William Caldwell... |
Sun 25 Mar 2007 A file photo of a British patrol boat conducting a patrol in the Shatt al-Arab waterways of Basra, south of Baghdad, February 15, 2007. The British envoy to Tehran on Sunday requested access to 15 detained British naval personnel who Iran says entered Iranian waters illegally despite Britain's insistenc... | ''The Australian'' has reported that an internet website "run by associates of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" states that the 15 British sailors who were arrested by Iranian Revolutionary Guards could face charges of espionage. The source website for this claim remains unknown; however, ''Rajanews.com'', a news website run by so... |
Tensions over Iran's nuclear intentions rose sharply in the past week, after Iran, over the objections of Germany, France, Britain, the European Union and the United States, removed atomic energy agency seals from uranium enrichment equipment at the Natanz nuclear plant. On Saturday, Mr. Ahmadinejad would not say wheth... | Map highlighting Iran Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke out in a rare news conference on Saturday against statements made by Europe and the United States, saying that if any country refers it to the U.N. Security Council over its nuclear program, that it will end their voluntary compliance with surprise inspe... |
DENVER - Denver Broncos coach Josh McDaniels said in a tearful news conference Tuesday that nobody in the organization saw any hint that wide receiver Kenny McKinley was suicidal before he took his life."We've all seen him recently. He's been the same person every time we see him. Liked junk food and chips and things l... | McKinley while with the in 2009 , an American football player for the , has been found dead at the age of 23. The was found dead in the master bedroom of his home in the Denver suburbs. The cause of death is suspected to be suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. President and CEO of the Denver Broncos release... |
KHARTOUM - Sudan accused Chad today of mounting a second series of air strikes on its territory and said the conflict between the African neighbours must be resolved politically. "This morning at 10:30 local time (0730 GMT), another visit took place on the same location and using the same method," Sudanese army spokesm... | Sudan blamed Chad on Sunday of launching an air strike on its territory, a day after accusing the country of mounting two other raids. "This morning at 10.30 local time 0.730 GMT, another visit took place on the same location and using the same method," said Othman al-Aghbash, a spokesman for the Sudanese army. Sudan a... |
CHICAGO – Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's plan to auction off President Barack Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat marked the culmination of years of scheming for personal gain that included trying to extort a congressman and pressuring businesses to hire his wife, prosecutors alleged Thursday. A sweeping 19-count f... | Milorad "Rod" Blagojevich Rod Blagojevich, the former governor of the US state of Illinois, was indicted on Thursday on charges of corruption for allegedly planning to "sell" Barack Obama's Senate seat when the latter vacated it to become President. Five of his advisers, including Blagojevich's brother Robert, were als... |
Barack Obama announces 2012 re-election bid Mr Obama has seen his approval rating dip during two years in office Continue reading the main story Related Stories US President Barack Obama has announced his intention to stand for a second term in office in 2012. Mr Obama's team released a video on his official website an... | File photo of current US President, Barack Obama. US President Barack Obama has released details on his plan to run for re-election next year. A video was released on Obama's official website and e-mails sent to supporters. The announced plan to run for a second term was widely expected; the campaign team are expected ... |
Westchester to spend $50M on fair housing Text Size: Normal | Large | Larger Westchester County must spend millions of dollars to build affordable housing and integrate mostly white communities in a historic civil rights settlement stemming from a federal desegregation lawsuit. The landmark agreement that was announced... | In a settlement, hailed by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as a "historic civil rights settlement," the county government for Westchester County, New York has agreed to spend US$51.6 million to build 750 affordable housing units that will primarily be offered to non-white minorities.... |
Flood Hits Kakheti Region Several villages of the Lagodekhi district, in the eastern Georgian region of Kakheti, were flooded after the Kabali river burst its bank last night. No casualties were reported. Floods and landslides in Georgia have already affected the Svaneti, Racha-Lechkhumi, the mountainous districts of t... | map of republic of Georgia A shipment of humanitarian aid from the Italian government was delivered to Tbilisi, the capital of flood ravaged Georgia on Tuesday. Norway and the United States sent tents, clothes, food and generators for electricity. German and Latvian aid is expected soon. In the eastern region of Kakh... |
Ronaldo ruptured a tendon in his left knee in February Former Brazil striker Ronaldo has agreed to join Sao Paulo-based outfit Corinthians after fighting back from a serious knee injury. The 32-year-old, who left AC Milan last June, made his comeback in a charity match in Morocco last month. "We've reached a verbal agr... | Ronaldo, shown here in 2005. Three-time soccer world player of the year Ronaldo has agreed to return home to Brazil and join Corinthians in São Paulo. Ronaldo (born Ronaldo Luis Nazário de Lima), 32, is coming back from a major knee injury after rupturing a tendon in his left knee nine months ago - the third such injur... |
NEW YORK - Wall Street edged higher in choppy trading Monday, with investors making few moves as they waited for companies to start reporting their fourth-quarter earnings this week. advertisement With few firms issuing profit warnings and some forecasting year-over-year earnings growth as high as 20 percent, analysts ... | New York Stock Exchange The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 280 points, Friday, to 13181.91, just two weeks after soaring to a historic record of 14,000. Two other major indexes, the Nasdaq and the Standard and Poor 500, fell more than 2% in a widespread market sell-off. Shares of Bear Stearns, the largest ... |
Friday, May 16, 2008 - Page updated at 12:00 AM E-mail article Print view Share: Digg Newsvine Nigerian pipeline fire kills as many as 100 LAGOS, Nigeria — More than 100 people were feared dead Thursday after a construction vehicle struck an oil pipeline on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city, setting off an... | Roadworks have triggered a massive explosion and fire on a fuel pipeline running through Ijegun, a suburb on the outskirts of Nigerian capital Lagos. Although the Nigerian Emergency Management Agency puts the current death toll at ten, the Nigerian Red Cross says at least 100 people have died. The oil pipeline was frac... |
Ruling in a case that pressed the outer limits of free speech, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said that even anti-gay protesters who picketed the funerals of U.S. troops with signs reading, "Thank God for Dead Soldiers," cannot be sued.In an 8-1 decision, the justices upheld an appellate court's decision to strike down... | The United States Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the protects the free speech rights of an anti-gay church that pickets the funerals of U.S. soldiers, even if they use hateful and offensive language. In an 8 to 1 decision, the Court upheld a lower court's ruling that struck down an award of $5 million to a slain so... |
State College, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Joe Paterno, whose tenure as the most successful coach in major college football history ended abruptly in November amid allegations that he failed to respond forcefully enough to a sex abuse scandal involving a former assistant, died Sunday, his family said. He was 85. The longtime... | Joe Paterno (pictured in 2006) was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions football team from 1966 to 2011. A posting yesterday on the social networking web site Twitter by the 's student ''Onward State'', which incorrectly reported the death of former coach , has led to the resignation of one of its managing e... |
'Star Wars' is set to return to cinema screens this August in an animated movie titled 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars'. The 100-minute film from creator George Lucas takes place between the events of 'Attack of the Clones' and 'Revenge of the Sith'. It will feature a host of characters from the most recent 'Star Wars' movi... | George Lucas, creator of the ''Star Wars'' franchise. George Lucas has announced that there will be one last ''Star Wars'' movie to end the saga, but it won't have any actors visible. ''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'', an animated film is scheduled to be released into theaters on August 15 of this year. "I felt there were ... |
Mr Flight is consulting lawyers Howard Flight quit as a Tory deputy chairman after apparently suggesting the party planned extra spending cuts. But the South Downs and Arundel MP is fighting Mr Howard's decision to stop him being a Tory election candidate. Mr Howard defended the decision at a news conference on Monday.... | At a news conference intended to be on the Conservatives' childcare policies, Michael Howard's decision to sack Conservative MP Howard Flight has continued to dominate as the ex-Tory deputy chairman's expulsion from the party was the subject of every question. The affair began when the MP for Arundel and South Downs wa... |
Loud 'boom' heard at Georgia hostage standoff South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley fired several guns during a visit to FN Manufacturing in Columbia Friday. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley fired several guns during a visit to FN Manufacturing in Columbia Friday.A year ago officials announced Columbia Police Departme... | Map highlighting Bulloch County Georgia A male and a female took 3 people hostage at a law firm in Statesboro, Georgia. Police blocked off a part of this rural town on Monday. Two suspects , a man and a woman, took a lawyer hostage and claimed that they had explosives. The suspects, Robert Eugene Brower, 43, a former c... |
AFP Nineteen people died and three are missing after a boat carrying teachers and school children sank in Burma, an official said on Thursday. The students were travelling to a football tournament when the overloaded ferry sank early on Wednesday on a river in the flood-prone Irrawaddy Delta region. "The latest informa... | A view of the , in which the boat sank, killing at least nineteen people. Nineteen people were killed and three are unaccounted for after an overloaded sank in a river in a flooded region of Burma. Many young children, travelling to an inter-village football tournament in Michaungai, were killed when the boat sank. Dur... |
(Entertainment Weekly) -- NBC confirmed online reports today that Kevin Eubanks, Jay Leno's affable bandleader, will step down from his post sometime after original installments of "The Tonight Show" resume in March. Eubanks told the Peacock Network he wants to try other things, a network insider said, though it's stil... | Kevin Eubanks, the veteran bandleader to American late-night television personality Jay Leno, confirmed reports on Wednesday that he will, at least temporarily, leave the ''The Tonight Show''. According to an NBC spokesperson, "Kevin Eubanks has expressed interest in pursuing personal touring and recording opportunitie... |
The BBC Trust has suspended online educational service BBC Jam after UK commercial companies registered complaints of the site exercising unfair competition in the online games market to the European Commission. The online destination that offered games and activities with an educational bent to kids six to 16 will cea... | BBC Jam promotional image, with logo. Kids will have to look elsewhere for educational entertainment, after the European Commission received complaints that the British Broadcasting Corporation's website was "unfair competition" to the commercial online games market. The site, called BBC jam, will be suspended on March... |
Briatore out at Renault, team not disputing charge LONDON — Renault split with team principal Flavio Briatore on Wednesday and said it would not contest a charge that Nelson Piquet Jr. was ordered to crash during a Formula One race. Renault, however, still must attend a World Motor Sport Council hearing on Monday in Pa... | Renault F1 team boss Flavio Briatore and engineering director Pat Symonds have both split ways with the team. The move comes as Renault announce they will not fight a charge of race-fixing. Marina Bay Street Circuit while Alonso moves towards victory. Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) accused Renault of o... |
The Taliban remains undeafeted despite more US troops being drafted into the country [Reuters] The Taliban remains undeafeted despite more US troops being drafted into the country [Reuters] According to the Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM), civilian deaths have risen amid increased insecurity and the Taliban remains fa... | The Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM), an Afghan human-rights group, stated yesterday that 2010 was the worst year in terms of violence for the country since US-led troops occupied the country in 2001. The ARM says that civilian deaths have risen and that Taliban insurgents have not been defeated despite a surge in troo... |
POSTED: 11:44 am EST February 9, 2009 The mayor of Flint has announced his resignation, only weeks before he was to face a recall election. Don Williamson, 75, said Monday he is retiring because of health concerns. “My doctors have all told me that I should think about relaxing my schedule,” said the major. Williamson ... | Citing health reasons, the Mayor of Flint, Michigan, Don Williamson announced Monday at an 11:20 A.M. news conference that he was resigning from office effective Sunday February 15, 2009 at midnight. Williamson, age 75, indicated that he had multiple sinus infections and kidney stones since November 1 and his doctors w... |
By MICHAEL RIEDEL Actress Natasha Richardson is brain dead - after falling in a ski accident in Canada - and is now on sad journey home to New York, friends told The Post today. Richardson, who was being treated at a Montreal hospital, is being transported to New York this afternoon so her mom Vanessa Redgrave, two chi... | Richardson at the UK premiere of ''The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian''. According to conflicting reports, British actress Natasha Richardson is brain dead following a severe head injury from a skiing accident on Monday. The New York Post reported that friends of Richardson said she "was brain dead", after earlie... |
The six-nation talks with North Korea, stalled for more than a year, are expected to at an as yet unspecified date, probably in the Chinese capital. The chief US envoy dealing with North Korea is in Beijing for talks with regional allies on a framework for renewed dialogue over the North's nuclear weapons programme. No... | Graphic from the showing seismic activity at the time of the test The envoys of the United States, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea have reached Beijing. They will hold a meeting to negotiate over the North Korea's nuclear weapons programme. The US State Department has said that a meeting between Christopher Hill, U... |
More bombs, explosives, detonators turn up in and around shaken Beirut Incidents follow discovery of unarmed device earlier this week By Nour Samaha and Mira Borji Friday, February 23, 2007 ||||| Lebanese police find small amount of abandoned explosives on Beirut street, 2nd this week BEIRUT, Lebanon: Police found aban... | Map showing Beirut. In Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, the Internal Security Forces (ISF) found bomb-making equipment in three separate caches on Thursday, two days after a bomb was discovered in Beirut. This had stroke fears among many Lebanese who were still dramatized by recent bus bombings and street clashes. A woo... |
England coach Steve McClaren says his side must deliver England v Croatia Wembley, London Wednesday 21 November Kick-off: 2000 GMT Coverage: Live on BBC One & BBC Radio 5 Live (commentary on BBC Sport website for UK users only); Coverage on on BBC Sport website Steve McClaren admits England are under pressure to prove ... | England did win this October 13, 2007 match versus Estonia, 3-0 at Wembley Stadium. Steve McClaren and his deputy Terry Venables have both been sacked by the English Football Association after a unanimous decision by board members during an emergency meeting held earlier today. The decision was announced by the FA chie... |
Voters in Groom will cast their ballots in a federal by-election this Saturday — but in the conservative heartland, the result is all but a foregone conclusion. Key points: The federal seat of Groom in southern Queensland has only ever been held by the Liberals, Nationals or LNP The federal seat of Groom in southern Qu... | Groom, highlighted in green, within the state of Queensland. Portrait of Jephcott. Voters in the Australian of are scheduled to go to the polls in a this week following the resignation of MP for family reasons. Groom is located in the state of Queensland, and is centred around the city of . At the last , the Liberal Na... |
The coppery moon was clearly visible across much of Britain Enlarge Image The eclipse began at 2018 GMT, with the Moon totally immersed in the shadow of the Earth between 2244 and 2358 GMT. During "totality" the moon appeared reddish in colour, as only light that had been filtered through the Earth's atmosphere reached... | Graphical illustration of where the eclipse will be visible.Source: NASA, see here. Southampton, U.K.Photo credit: Rhys400D. Valladolid, Spain. There will be a full lunar eclipse starting on Saturday, March 3. Earth's passage between the Sun and the Moon will begin casting its shadow on the surface of the Moon starting... |
Cuba's Angel Valodia Matos, left, kicks match referee Sweden's Chakir Chelbat in the face during a bronze medal match against Kazakhstan's Arman Chilmanov in the men's taekwondo +80 kilogram class at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008. Matos attacked the official, throwing punches and kicks, ... | Cuban Taekwondo athlete Ángel Matos was banned for life yesterday after an assault on Swedish referee Chakir Chelbat during the 2008 Beijing Olympic games. Matos was competing in the bronze medal match against Arman Chilmanov of Kazakhstan when he sustained an injury. As he lay on the mat with medical attendants, Matos... |
EU wants Saudi gas price talks before WTO accession By Dominic Evans RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's trade deal with Washington removes its biggest hurdle to joining the World Trade Organisation but a European Union official said on Saturday the oil giant must still address EU questions over Saudi gas prices. The wor... | The current members of the WTO Saudi Arabia signed on Friday a trade agreement with the United States, which was considered to be one the last major hurdles to the World Trade Organisation membership of the kingdom. Now, Saudis have to complete negotiations at the Geneva-based WTO on the formal accession document. The ... |
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake which struck off the coast of Haiti is feared to have killed hundreds of people across the Caribbean country. In the space of a minute, Haiti's worst quake in two centuries wrecked the HQ of the UN mission, Haiti's national palace ... | Map of where the quake struck. A 7.0 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Haiti earlier today at 21:53 UTC, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, no tsunami warning was issued, contradicting some media reports that said there was o... |
By Phil McNulty England's Wayne Rooney is dejected at the final whistle Steve McClaren's side looked on course to qualify courtesy of Wayne Rooney's spectacular 29th-minute volley. Steven Gerrard missed a glorious chance before Roman Pavluchenko scored from the spot after 69 minutes following Rooney's foul on Konstanin... | England's qualification for UEFA Euro 2008 is in doubt after a 2-1 defeat to Russia. scored two goals in the second half today, although both sides had their chances. Russia had a penalty appeal turned down by the Spanish referee after eleven minutes, while Konstantin Zyrianov saw his drive pushed onto the goalposts by... |
Jason Hudson's white Chevrolet Suburban went missing from the home and was found on Chicago's West Side this morning. A spokesperson from the Cook County medical examiner's office told the Chicago Tribune the body of a black boy was found inside. Television news coverage showed the vehicle being towed away. William Bal... | The FBI has stated that they believe a dead body found in a white SUV in Chicago, Illinois, is that of 7-year-old Julian King. King was the nephew of American singer and Academy Award winning actress, Jennifer Hudson. King was kidnapped from his home in Chicago on Friday after someone shot and killed Hudson's mother, D... |
The row is seen by some as Gen Musharraf's biggest challenge Iftikhar Chaudhry was suspended by the president in March amid claims of corruption, but the Supreme Court on Friday quashed all charges. Mr Chaudhry has now become a focus of opposition to Gen Musharraf. Gen Musharraf, who seized power in 1999, is facing mou... | Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry The 13 member larger bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan reinstated Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as Chief Justice of Pakistan on Friday through a short order. The verdict was reached 10 to 3 in favor of Justice Chaudhry. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry through a panel of seni... |
A political crisis in Somalia deepened on Monday as parliament voted against the president’s attempt to sack his prime minister as his enfeebled government struggles to cling power. President Abdullahi Yusuf said on Sunday that he wanted to dismiss Nur Hassan Hussein, the prime minister, following a dispute over the cr... | Somalia's overwhelmingly voted Monday to keep as their prime minister, blocking President 's attempt at dismissing the prime minister and his "corrupt, inefficient" government. President Yusuf announced his motion to dismiss Hussein on Sunday, saying his government was "unable to perform its duties" in matters such as ... |
Telstra’s DC-HSPA+ upgrade promises extremely high-speed wireless broadband across much of Australia. As ever, capital city business types are the focus for its rollout, but how well does it perform in the rural areas which are suddenly the focus of national politics? Today I headed to Dubbo in the central west of NSW ... | Telstra logo. On Monday, Australian telecommunications company Telstra has introduced dual carrier standard for broadband Internet business customers in the network. This is the first time this technology is being introduced on national scale. The bandwidths the users can deploy increased into two to three times, with ... |
Indonesia threatens to close Adam Air in 3 weeks; airline has defaulted on debt payments JAKARTA, Indonesia: Indonesia threatened Monday to close low-cost carrier Adam Air after two of its largest shareholders announced plans to pull out of the beleaguered company. The airline has defaulted on debt payments to airplane... | This B737-400 is roughly comparable to the aircraft involved in all the accidents mentioned in this story. Indonesian budget airline Adam Air has been given a three-week ultimatum by the authorities to prove its economic stability or its license will be revoked, said Transportation Minister Jusman Djamal. This is becau... |
(Xinhua) Updated: 2007-07-08 13:58 Investigators said Wednesday's karaoke bar explosion which claimed lives of 25 people in Benxi, northeast China's Liaoning Province, was caused by explosives secretly stored by the bar owner Qu Yijie. "After more than three days' efforts, we found self-ignition of the explosives led t... | The Liaoning region of China More than a ton of TNT stored illegally in the basement of a karaoke bar caused the recent explosion that killed 25 people and injured 41 more in the north-eastern Chinese town of Tianshifu, news reports say. Qu Yujie or Yijie (known locally as Qu Hua), owner of the two-storey Tianying Kara... |
The adventurer was 63 when his plane disappeared in September 2007 DNA tests have confirmed two large bones found near the wreckage of a plane in California are those of US millionaire Steve Fossett, police say. The adventurer was 63 when he disappeared in September 2007 while on a solo flight from a Nevada ranch. The ... | According to California's Madera County Sheriff's office, DNA tests performed on bones found at the site of a plane crash in October, are confirmed to be those of adventurer Steve Fossett. Steve Fossett in 2006 Image: NASA/Kim Shiflett The last known whereabouts of Fossett was on September 3, 2007. He had taken a small... |
A still from the famous 1967 Bigfoot film, which may or may not show a man in a gorilla suit. The much-anticipated Bigfoot press conference Friday afternoon in Palo Alto, Calif., revealed little more than two men — introduced by a self-styled Sasquatch seeker — claiming to possess the 7-foot "body" of a "bipedal creatu... | During a press conference in Palo Alto, California, hunters of the mythical creature ''Bigfoot'' claimed to have found a corpse of the creature. Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer say that they were hunting for the creature in the forests of Northeastern Georgia in the United States when they came across the corpse of one of t... |
Mark Weiss/Getty Images Great White is hoping to make peace with the past—and put their legal problems behind them. The "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"-dispensing '80s hard-rock band will pay $1 million to settle lawsuits resulting from the deadly 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire that took the lives of 100 people, including t... | Location of Rhode Island within the United States United States hard rock band Great White has filed a settlement offer of US$1 million to families of victims of the Station nightclub fire. 100 people died including band guitarist Ty Longley and over 200 were injured in the February 2003 disaster in Rhode Island. The f... |
TB rate down in U.S., but drug-resistant cases rise elsewhere The CDC says tuberculosis prevalence dropped 11.8% last year, as the World Health Organization reports about 440,000 multi-drug-resistant cases worldwide in 2008, a third of them fatal. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last week that ... | Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' is the most common cause of tuberculosis The World Health Organization released their annual report on the world prevalence of tuberculosis in 2008. The report said that there were 9.8 million cases of tuberculosis, with 1.8 million resulting in death. The report also said that there were 4... |
Suspicious blaze breaks out at Bronx church St. Nicholas of Tolentine Harbus for News The two-alarm blaze broke out just before the noon Mass at St. Nicholas of Tolentine as the University Heights church started to fill up with parishioners, the pastor said. A suspicious fire ignited in a Bronx church Friday, filling t... | Second-alarm flames engulfed a Bronx, New York church, St Nicholas of Tolentine, just before noon on Friday, forcing its pastor and seven worshippers into the streets. The blaze began in a confessional-converted-storage room near the vestibule of the church. "I rushed over and smoke was billowing out," said Father Jose... |
BAGHDAD The United States urged Iran on Monday to stop supporting militias in Iraq in the most high-profile meeting between the two countries in almost 30 years that both sides later described as positive. The rare talks in Baghdad were narrowly focused on Iraq's spiralling sectarian violence and did not touch on Iran'... | Ryan C. Crocker, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq.In talks mediated by Iraqi officials on Monday, the United States Ambassador to Iraq Ryan C. Crocker met for approximately four hours with Iranian officials in Baghdad's Green Zone, in what Ambassador Crocker described as a "businesslike" meeting. It was the first formal meeting... |
Sri Lanka is returning to a state of war It said escalating violence had made the Norwegian-brokered truce redundant. The accord came into effect in February 2002 ahead of inconclusive peace talks. Since mid-2006 troops and rebels have fought regular clashes, despite the deal still technically being in place. There was... | The government of Sri Lanka says it is withdrawing from a cease-fire agreement with Tamil rebels because, in the opinion of the government, the pact has become meaningless. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi the withdrawal is largely symbolic because the Norwegian-brokered truce collapsed two years ago. There have ... |
Type in your email address to register upon upload (then check your email for your registration link). In order to be able to leave a comment you must be registered ImageShack user with username chosen. Please log in or register in order to continue.. Text comment Voice comment ||||| The actor Tom Cruise has been in da... | Administrators for ''711chan.org'', one of the websites responsible for starting Project Chanology, a "raid" or attack against the Church of Scientology and their website, slowed down their "attack". In an exclusive interview with ''Wikinews'', an administrator of ''711chan'' states that they will "probably stay away f... |
Canadian terror suspect Khadr was shot by U.S. forces before capture: witness GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A young Canadian terror suspect was shot twice in the back by U.S. forces during a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan after he allegedly killed an American commando, according to a U.S. fighter's eyewitness accoun... | Khadr, at the age of fourteen.A military tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp is hearing arguments today over the legality of trying Canadian Omar Khadr for alleged war crimes, given his status as a minor at the time of the incident. Khadr is charged with the murder of Sgt. Christopher Speer, in addition to at... |
BBC Television Centre up for sale The BBC has been making programmes at Television Centre for more than 50 years Continue reading the main story Related Stories Television Centre, the landmark west London home of BBC television and news, has gone on the market. The corporation said it was inviting bid proposals from pe... | The BBC Television Centre in 2007 The has been placed up for sale by the corporation. Plans to sell the centre originally came forward in 2007 but the BBC only appointed Lambert Smith Hampton, a commercial property consultant, in November of last year. The building which is based in , London was opened in 1960 and is t... |
Rooney ends Roma resistance Match report by Simon Hart from Old Trafford AS Roma avoided another embarrassment but they still left Old Trafford a beaten side after Wayne Rooney's second-half goal proved enough to earn Manchester United FC a 1-0 victory and a three-point advantage at the top of UEFA Champions League Gro... | Manchester United defeated AS Roma 1-0 in Group F of the UEFA Champions League 2007-08 at Old Trafford, Manchester, England. Wayne Rooney scored the only goal of the match, his first goal of the season for Manchester United, in the 70th minute. Manchester United currently lead Group F with two wins from two matches. AS... |
Keep up with local news and get breaking news alerts with our e-mail newsletter Tim Horton's and Cold Stone Creamery will soon be combining their menus at some locations. The Ontario, Canada-based coffee and doughnut chain announced a co-branding deal with Scottsdale, Ariz.-based ice cream chain Cold Stone, owned by Ka... | Tim Hortons, a popular Canadian express coffee and doughnut chain, has announced that they will be co-branding with another popular chain, Cold Stone Creamery, an American ice cream parlor chain. The deal includes a total of 100 new stores, at CA$121,690 (US$100,000) each. Each company will have 50 stores that they wil... |
At least 38 people have been killed after a fire engulfed a drugs-treatment facility in a city outside Kazakhstan's largest city Almaty, emergency officials say. The fire, whose cause has not been established, started at roughly 5:30am (2330 GMT) on Saturday in Taldykorgan. Officials said the blaze spread rapidly becau... | A fire at a drug treatment hospital near Almaty, Kazakhstan, killed it least 38 people on Saturday, authorities have said. Ten more people have been hospitalised, two of them in critical condition. The blaze started at approximately 05.30 local time (23.30 UTC) in Taldykorgan. The fire spread quickly, consuming almost ... |
In its long-lasting battle against YouTube, Turkey officials banned a new set of Google-owned IPs in an attempt to stop Turkish Internet users from accessing the dreaded video platform. According to the online edition of the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet, Turkey’s Telecommunications Communication Presidency (TIB) came out... | Access to search engine Google has been limited and most of Google's online services cannot be accessed in Turkey. The access limitation happened due to the blocking of an IP set that belongs to Google. These IP addresses were shared between YouTube and other Google services. The Turkish news site reports that Turkey's... |
Cindy Sheehan Urges Canada to Welcome US Deserters -- 05/04/2006 Cindy Sheehan Urges Canada to Welcome US Deserters By Howard Williams CNSNews.com Correspondent May 04, 2006 Ottawa (CNSNews.com) - America's so-called "Peace Mom" arrived Thursday in Canada's capital to urge politicians to give safe haven to U.S. militar... | Cindy Sheehan, a prominent U.S. anti-war activist, appeared at a news conference at the Canadian capital of Ottawa, Ontario on Thursday to speak being in Afghanistan, and in favour of Canada giving U.S. deserters refugee status. "I believe our war resisters are legitimate refugees," Ms. Sheehan said while also alleging... |
The captured sailors have been shown on Iranian television Iranian TV footage It also calls on Tehran to allow the UK consular access to the personnel, but stops short of "deploring" Iran's action, as requested by the UK. Iran, which the UK later confirmed had sent it a note, said it was not helpful to try to engage th... | The United Nations Security Council has issued a statement calling for a "early resolution" to the rising tensions between United Kingdom and Iran by releasing all 15 British sailors and marines who were detained by Iranian forces on March 23. "Members of the Security Council expressed grave concern at the capture by t... |
No Cookies To use this website, cookies must be enabled in your browser. To enable cookies, follow the instructions for your browser below. Enabling Cookies in Internet Explorer 7, 8 & 9 Open the Internet Browser Click Tools > Internet Options > Privacy > Advanced Check Override automatic cookie handling For First-part... | A spokesperson for the Australian , , announced plans this week to close four mainland immigration detention facilities — Scherger, at , Queensland; Leonora, in , Western Australia; Port Augusta, in , South Australia; and Inverbrackie facilities in , the , South Australia — by the end of February. The detainees would b... |
UK loses top AAA credit rating for first time since 1978 It is thought the downgrade will not have an adverse impact on the government's ability to borrow The UK has lost its top AAA credit rating for the first time since 1978 on expectations that growth will "remain sluggish over the next few years". The ratings agenc... | George Osborne: "Far from weakening our resolve to deliver our economic recovery plan, this decision redoubles it". The US-based agency announced on Saturday their decision to downgrade their rating of the United Kingdom economy from AAA to AA1 - stating that lack of economic growth and austerity continuing into 2016 a... |
Australian government forces refugee boats back to Indonesia By Mark Church 10 January 2014 Over the past month, the Australian navy has forced or towed at least two asylum seeker vessels back to Indonesia under the Abbott government’s so-called “turn back the boats” program. These highly dangerous operations, which co... | Christmas Island (left), Rote Island (right). The back arriving asylum seekers to , Indonesia, after claiming destination, reported Monday of last week. Last Thursday, Australian Prime Minister supported lack of transparency on the issue. Indonesian police found the two ships reportedly forcibly towed back from Austra... |
Mr Morrison used the 1950s' space-age craze to market the Pluto Platter The man who invented the Frisbee, one of the world's most popular toys, has died at his home in Utah aged 90. Walter Frederick Morrison conceived and developed his aerodynamic plastic disc in the 1950s, and hundreds of millions have been sold world... | Walter Frederick Morrison in the 1950s, with his invention that he originally identified as the "Pluto Platter". Inventor Walter Frederick Morrison has died of the age of 90. He was famous for being the inventor of the flying disc, more commonly identified as the frisbee. Kay McIff, a Utah House Representative and Morr... |
Federal police intervene in Mexico unrest President Fox dispatched forces this weekend in bid to quell violent protests in southern town of Oaxaca. | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor – Five months after leftist protesters occupied the center of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, President Vicente Fox sent federal ... | After five months of tense protests in the Oaxacan state capital, Oaxaca City, in Southern Mexico, Mexican president, Vicente Fox, ordered Federal forces to remove protesters and striking teachers from the city centre. On Sunday, Mexican police forces clothed in riot gear, armed with tear gas and assault rifles, and ba... |
US Unemployment Rate Edges Higher Unemployed Sergio Fuentes,(R)gets some help from state worker at State of California Employment Development Department in San Jose, 1 Sep 2009 Companies in the United States are shedding more jobs, pushing the country's unemployment rate to a 26-year high of 9.8 percent. The U.S. Labor... | Companies in the United States are shedding more jobs, pushing the country's unemployment rate to a 26-year high of 9.8%. The US Labor Department said on Friday that employers cut 263,000 jobs in September, with companies in the service industries — including banks, restaurants and retailers — hit especially hard. This... |
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