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An undentified man walks away with a child after a stabbing incident at a daycare center in Dendermonde, Belgium, Friday Jan. 23, 2009. It was not immediately known the motive for the incident, when a man bicycled to the day care centre, walked in and began a stabbing spree killing two youngsters, a care giver and send... | Prosecutor Christian Du Four has released more details on the fatal stabbing in a day care center in East Flanders, Belgium, yesterday, in which two children (six and nine months old) and one employee were killed. Ten children and two adults were injured. The alleged perpetrator, a 20-year-old man from nearby Sint-Nikl... |
Robert A Iger became chief executive of Disney in 2005 The media giant's chief executive Robert A Iger said depictions of smoking in future Disney-branded films would be "non-existent". And smoking will be "discouraged" in films aimed at adults released under its Touchstone and Miramax banners. Mr Iger made the promise... | Disney studios have pledged to leave all forms of smoking out of their family films in a bid to discourage the habit. In a letter to US Congressman Edward Markey, Chief Executive Robert A. Iger stated that smoking in Disney brands will be "non-existent" from now on. He also stated that DVD's that show cigarettes will n... |
By Jared Keller Members of the digital encyclopedia's cult of knowledge are finding their way into some of America's most celebrated institutions Wikipedia's comprehensive entries have become the default source of collective knowledge on the Web as our attention spans and patience for deep archival research shrink in t... | Dominic McDevitt-Parks speaks during a January 2011 training event. The National Archives at , Maryland, known informally as Archives II, was built due to space constraints at the main building in Washington, D.C.. Dominic McDevitt-Parks, a prolific contributor to Wikipedia and a graduate student in history and archive... |
A trader looks at a monitor at the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchage Russia suspends stock trading to stop market meltdown MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia suspended trading on its two main stock markets for a second day Wednesday as shares nosedived and officials pledged 44 billion dollars to fight collapsing investor confidence... | Trading on Russia's major stock markets has been suspended for a second consecutive day due to the ongoing turmoil in the financial markets around the world. The suspension took place due to an order of the Russian government's Federal Service for the Financial Markets, which demanded the suspension. "It took too long ... |
Justice officials from western Canada met in Calgary Saturday to talk about gangs. It's the first time ministers from western provinces have met to identify priorities to combat organized crime and gang violence. Alberta Justice Minister, Alison Redford, says gangs recognize no borders, so provinces need to work togeth... | Western Canadian Justice ministers met Saturday to press for changes to the criminal code in regards to organised crime and crime violence. Said Alberta's Justice Minister, Alison Redford, "We need to cooperate, we need to have a western Canadian approach to ensure that we're sharing information, that police are cooper... |
Iraq Insurgents Intercepted Spy Feeds Using Cheap Software Photo: AP Photo/Sgt. Kimberly Snow, US Army U.S. defense officials have acknowledged that insurgents in Iraq had been able to intercept live video feeds from U.S. drone aircraft using widely available software. The Wall Street Journal first published the news T... | File photo of MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle. United States defense officials acknowledged that Iraqi insurgents successfully intercepted live video feeds from U.S. MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicles with widely available software. The story broke on Thursday in the ''Wall Street Journal'' with a defense off... |
News Corp withdraws bid for BSkyB Liberal Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes said that "the sun is now setting on the Murdoch empire" Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has announced that it is dropping its planned bid to take full ownership of satellite broadcaster BSkyB. It follows a scandal over phone hacking at New... | File photograph of . , owned by , has made the decision to abandon a deal to take full control of broadcasting company . The decision came amidst pressure from the British public and politicians, as British parliamentarians from the government and opposition parties prepared to vote in the in London to urge Murdoch to ... |
Henson's naked teen shots 'not pornography' Posted Updated Betty Churcher, former director of the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), says debate sparked by a Bill Henson exhibition is misguided. Twenty of Henson's photographs, featuring a naked girl under the age of 16, were confiscated during a police raid on Sydney... | The Rosley Oxley9 Gallery in Sydney, Australia was raided by police over the weekend following complaints of child pornography. The complaints related to an exhibition of works by photographer Bill Henson, which included several photographs of naked pubescent children. Twenty-one of the forty photographs in the exhibit... |
A French writer who claims Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her nine years ago is to file an official complaint, her lawyer has announced. Tristane Banon previously described the attack, which happened when she was in her early 20s, in a television programme in 2007, when she called Strauss-Kahn, whose name wa... | File photograph of Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, has been refused after appearing in court in New York charged with sexually assaulting a chambermaid at a hotel in . The decision by the judge to remand him in custody yesterday will likely disrupt emergency ... |
Central Media Centre Media Centre are on hand to answer any questions journalistes may have concerning any aspect of Ukrzaliznytsia and rail travel in Ukraine today. Head of Press Service (CEO press secretary): Lizunova Olena Viktorivna (CEO press secretary): Deputy Press Service director: Kozutska Tetyana Olexandrivna... | 2013 photo of a Ukrainian Railways train departing Kiev for the Crimea Despite the intervention in parts of Crimea, Ukraine by forces connected to Russia in the past few days, the rail border between the countries remains open today. Neither , the Ukrainian national railway, nor have any announcements on their website ... |
The report said some IRA members remain involved in crime Monitors' statement He was speaking after the Independent Monitoring Commission said the IRA had changed radically and some of its most important structures were dismantled. The prime minister said politicians now had a "unique opportunity" to reach a "final set... | Republican mural, Derry 1986, with evidence of vandalism. The Independent Monitoring Commission has reported that the Provisional Irish Republican Army has undergone major changes within their military structure and shows that the IRA Army Council wants to put its military campaign behind it. The Commission consists of... |
A statement from the ministry on Wednesday said the suspects were plotting attacks on oil and security installations in the kingdom. Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, has arrested more than 100 people suspected of having links with al-Qaeda, the interior ministry has said. One cell consisted of 101 people... | According to the Saudi Arabian interior ministry, over 100 people in the country have been arrested on suspicion of links to the al-Qaeda terrorist group. A statement, which was read read out over television, was released by the government on Wednesday. It said the arrested people were suspected of plotting attacks on ... |
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, Aziz Sancar Share this: Prize Announcement Announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 7 October 2015. See a Video of the Announcement 33 min. Copyright @ ... | Artist's rendition of damaged DNA being repaired. Yesterday, , permanent secretary of the , announced this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to three scientists for their work on . , and showed how damaged is repaired and is safeguarded by the cells at the level. Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl found that DNA ... |
A suspected US missile strike in north-west Pakistan, the second drone attack in four days, has killed 13 people. Local officials in North Waziristan, near the Afghan border, said the dead included women and children as well as militants - some of them foreigners. But a Taleban spokesman denied this, saying all those k... | Map of Waziristan, PakistanA suspected United States drone missile attack in northwestern Pakistan has left 13 people dead, local security officials say. The strike hit a town in the tribal area of North Waziristan, near the Afghan border, an apparent stronghold of Al-Qaeda militants. "Thirteen people were killed. Ten ... |
Merkel assured Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili of Germany's support and pressed for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgian territory. In an apparent change in stance, the chancellor also threw her weight behind Georgia's bid to join the NATO. "Georgia will become a member of NATO if it wants to -- and it... | German Chancellor Angela Merkel "Georgia will become a NATO member if it wants to, and it does want to," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an apparent change in Germany's position during her Sunday visit to Tbilisi, Georgia. Merkel's statement of support for Georgia's NATO membership was one of the strongest yet.... |
© (c) CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc. Three holes in one of the derailed CP Rail tank cars lying in the Thompson River north of Lytton, B.C., have been patched, and water quality tests taken earlier this week have shown the water is free of contamination, says a CP spokesman.CPR spokesman Mike LoVecchio said offic... | Overview of the Thompson River's path. Lytton is center-bottom-left on the mapChemicals in the Thompson River were said to be found after four Canadian Pacific Railway (CP Rail) cars containing chemicals derailed near Lytton, British Columbia, Canada on Tuesday night. The derailment occurred just northeast of Lytton wh... |
Mary Baker Eddy's pioneering daily is about to break more new ground, reports Matthew Bell Sunday, 2 November 2008 Its readers are a snapshot of a bygone age – retired diplomats, missionaries and maiden aunts – but The Christian Science Monitor has plans that many a forward-looking editor would blanche to think of. In ... | ''The Christian Science Monitor'' has announced plans to cease daily print publication. The newspaper employs 95 correspondents and 8 foreign bureaus and has won 7 Pulitzer Prizes, making it the most prominent newspaper to transition to online publication. It is due to celebrate its one hundredth anniversary later this... |
‘We did not implicate Aust & NZ’: PM ‘We did not implicate Aust & NZ’: PM Tuesday November 06, 2007 Fiji’s interim Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama says that at no time did his regime directly implicate Australia and New Zealand in the assassination plot against him and his Cabinet ministers. Bainimarama tol... | Six men were charged Monday with the attempted assassination of Commodore Frank Bainimarama, the commanding officer of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces and the interim Prime Minister of Fiji since January 5, 2007. Police Commissioner Commodore Esala Teleni said Monday that sixteen people were being detained in conn... |
Records show 85 per cent of the ice covering the 5,892m (15,092ft) mountain in 1912 had been lost by 2000. Since 2000, 26 per cent of the ice that was left has now gone. Although changes in cloudiness and rainfall play a part in the retreat of the ice, their roles are less important in recent decades, scientists claim.... | Kibo summit of Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Scientists at the Ohio University predicted that the ice sheets of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest mountain peak, will melt in the next twenty years due to global warming. The ice that was present in 1912 gradually decreased by 85% by 2000, and by 2007 another 26% of the amo... |
By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley Office 2010 will enhance video and picture capabilities in PowerPoint Microsoft has fired its latest salvo at Google, announcing a free web-based version of its Office software. Office 2010 will include lightweight versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and On... | Microsoft has announced they will launch web versions of their popular Office software in 2010. It will be included in all versions of Office 2010 when it ships next year. All Windows Live customers will also reportedly have access. Testers will be given access at the end of this year. Microsoft Office 2007 logo The se... |
By Chris Buckley BEICHUAN, China (Reuters) - China began three days of national mourning on Monday for more than 30,000 victims of an earthquake that struck a week ago. Public entertainment will be suspended, flags kept at half-mast and a three-minute silence observed to mark exactly a week since the quake, the governm... | The government of China announced it would begin three days of mourning on Monday, as the death toll from the 7.9 magnitude earthquake centered in the Sichuan province has been raised to nearly 32,500, with 220,000 injured. At 2:28 p.m local time, flags will be moved to half mast for three days, there will be three min... |
Camera retailer Jessops has closed the doors on its 187 stores for the last time and made 1,370 staff redundant after the administrators said the camera shop chain was unable to continue trading. The shock announcement on Friday, which came only days after the firm said it was in financial trouble, left staff stunned. ... | All 187 store locations of camera retailer are closing in the United Kingdom today. The business, which went into earlier this week, is to leave its workforce of approximately 1370 jobless. While staff at the business' top office in , in central England, are not being made redundant with immediate effect, they are in t... |
Rescue efforts have continued overnight after yesterday's 6.3 magnitude earthquake in Christchruch. Christchurch City Council says 220 search and rescue personnel will be deployed throughout Christchurch by midday today (Wednesday). It expects 700 of the rescue specialists could be needed in the coming days. Prime Mini... | The Piko Wholefood building in Christchurch was badly damaged by the earthquake. A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck the of New Zealand at 12:51 PM local time on Tuesday (Monday 23:51 UTC). At least 75 people have been killed by collapsing buildings in central , with more feared. Mayor said 55 bodies had been identified ... |
A police officer, foreground right, looks on, as last minute preparations are made inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen, Norway, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008. The "doomsday" seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened Tuesday deep within an Arctic... | Artist's conception of the vault. The entrance to the vault. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a vault containing millions of seeds from all over the world, saw its first deposits on Tuesday. Located 800 kilometers from the North Pole on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, the vault has been referred to by European Comm... |
Roller-skating baby advert has been watched over 4 mln times www.chinaview.cn 2009-07-10 08:24:18 Print Scroll down for the video: The video of babies performing skating stunts has been watched over 4 million times on YouTube lone in the last week alone. (Photo: CCTV.com) Photo Gallery>>> Scroll down for the video: The... | A baby laughing Registering 5,081,441 views in the past week alone, an international advertisement featuring roller-skating babies has become a YouTube sensation. French and US versions of the advert for Evian mineral water have also seen 500,000 and 1.5 million visitor hits respectively. "It's one of the cutest things... |
CNN name, logo and all associated elements ® and © 2020 Cable News Network LP, LLLP. A Time Warner Company. All rights reserved. CNN and the CNN logo are registered marks of Cable News Network, LP LLLP, displayed with permission. Use of the CNN name and/or logo on or as part of NEWS18.com does not derogate from the int... | The Group of Ministers which is overseeing the issue has decided not to resume the sealing of unauthorised commercial establishments until Monday. The decision came after seeing the current tense situation in New Delhi. The Group of Ministers is headed by Home minister Shivraj Patil and comprised of Law minister H R Bh... |
Human selection is alive and kicking This article is available in full to Premium plus subscribers Premium plus subscription you get full access to news@nature.com, the Existing personal subscribers to Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Biotechnology or Nature Reviews Drug Discovery now receive news@nature.com Premium Plu... | University of Chicago, Illinois biologists Dr. Benjamin Voight, Dr. Sridhar Kudaravalli, Dr. Xiaoquan Wen and Dr. Jonathan Pritchard have identified regions of human DNA showing the strongest marks of natural selection within the last 5,000 to 15,000 years. They found that many recent genetic changes are related to the... |
JOHANNA PARSONS/Southland Times TIME TO GO: The Dutch royals - Prince of Orange Willem-Alexander and his wife Princess Maxima - leaving their hotel after a three-day stay in Queenstown. Related Links Subscribe to Archivestuff • Have your say Media in Queenstown were surprised yesterday when the Crown Prince of the Neth... | The heir to the Dutch throne, Prince Willem-Alexander of Orange, left New Zealand onlookers bemused with an apparent snub as he and his wife Princess Máxima started an official visit to New Zealand on Tuesday. Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Máxima are visiting New Zealand after an official visit to Australia. An ... |
MYSTERY surrounds the death of an Australian soldier found shot in a barracks in East Timor. Military sources told The Age initial indications were that the soldier's death was an accident, but Australian Defence Force officers would not say yesterday whether a firearm was found with the body. It is understood the sold... | C-17 Globemaster III in May 2006. An Australian soldier has been found dead with a gunshot wound in a barracks area in Dili in East Timor. The soldier, working with the International Stabilisation Force in the turbulent country was found dead on the afternoon of November 5. The exact details of his death are still unkn... |
David Beckham and Jonathan Ross. Photograph: Brian J. Ritchie/Hotsauce/Rex Features Jonathan Ross called time last night on what has been nearly a decade of almost solid chatting on the BBC. His guests were the quiet David Beckham, the grizzled Mickey Rourke, and the unforthcoming Jackie Chan. Of course, any event in w... | (right) with his wife . presented his final episode of '''' on the after more than nine years. He also finished hosting his programme on . Ross announced his departure from the BBC in January 2010, having decided not to renew his contract with the broadcasting organisation. The guests that appeared on ''Friday Night wi... |
Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian has chosen Frank Hsieh, a leading member of his pro-independence party, as the government's new premier. Mr. Hsieh is promising to aid the president in mapping out more pragmatic policies toward China. Frank Hsieh replaces Yu Shyi-kun, who served as Taiwan's premier for three years. M... | Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian has chosen Frank Hsieh, a leading member of his pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party, as the new Premier of the Republic of China. Frank Hsieh replaces Yu Shyi-kun, who served as Taiwan's premier for three years. Mr. Yu and the entire 20-member cabinet resigned Monday to allo... |
Bell-bottoms came and went and came back again. But Dick Clark? He never left. With his toothpaste-ad smile and a microphone always ready, Dick Clark was a fixture in our pop culture for decades. Maybe you hear his name and think New Year's Eve stalwart, or American Bandstand host, or "World's Oldest Teenager," a nickn... | Dick Clark backstage during the Grammy Awards telecast February 21, 1990. , U.S. entertainment media cultural icon, died at St. John’s Hospital in , California on Wednesday of a heart attack, according to his publicist Paul Shefrin. He was 82 years old. "Attempts to resuscitate were unsuccessful," Shefrin said. In Dece... |
A fifth child has died after a stolen car fleeing police in California ran a stop sign and crashed into a pickup truck carrying a seven members of a young family, robbing a young couple of all of their children. Dinuba police say that a carjacked Dodge Neon carrying the suspects sped away from police when an officer tr... | A fifth child has died as a result of a police pursuit that ended in a crash in Dinuba, California on Sunday, August 9. Carlos Eric Salazar, aged 8, was the eighth victim to die as a result of the crash. Map highlighting location of Dinuba, California within Tulare County. On Sunday, four children were among seven that... |
Brumby's new Cabinet sworn in Victoria's new Cabinet has been officially sworn in, one week after the shock resignations of premier Steve Bracks and his deputy, John Thwaites. Victorian Governor David de Kretser swore in the reshuffled Cabinet under new Premier John Brumby, at a ceremony at Government House. The ceremo... | At 11:20 a.m. in the Australian state of Victoria, the Governor David de Kretser started the ceremony for the swearing in of the new Brumby's cabinet, attended by family and friends of the ministers. This comes a full week after the resignation of Steve Bracks from the top position, and his deputy John Thwaites. The mi... |
When early word of Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s latest picture – Ploy - began to circulate the speculation was immediate that the film would represent a return to the Thai auteur’s old form, a return to more straightforward storytelling. It’s a reasonable assumption to make since the film does reunite the director with the sta... | __NOTOC__ From left, Lalita Panyopas, Apinya Sakuljaroensuk and Pornwut Sarasin, chat with the press. Following a world premiere during the Director's Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, the latest film by Thai auteur Pen-Ek Ratanaruang made its Thailand premiere on Tuesday night in a screening for the press and cel... |
We've noticed you're adblocking. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism. We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. Thank you for your support. ||||| LONDON (Reuters) - British actor-comedian Sacha Bar... | Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat. Sacha Baron Cohen, the British actor and comedian known for his characters Borat Sagdiyev and Ali G, told Britain's ''Daily Telegraph'' on Friday that he was officially retiring both aforementioned characters. The reason for this, he said, is because of the public becoming too knowledgeable ... |
Un filmato autoprodotto della Svt mostra immagini del premier e di programmi "trash", con un sottofondo di mandolini Svezia, la tv di Stato si fa lo spot "Non siamo come Berlusconi" Silvio Berlusconi - Per farsi pubblicità, e sottolineare la sua indipendenza e obiettività, la televisione di stato svedese Svt usa l'imma... | The Italian government has criticized the Swedish public service broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) for their recently launched campaign called "Fri Television". One of the promotional films in the campaign refers to the media situation in Italy. The film says that president Sivlio Berlusconi was elected after a cam... |
MEXICO CITY A fire killed 35 children in a day care center in northern Mexico despite desperate attempts of firefighters and a father who crashed his pickup truck through the wall to rescue babies, toddlers and others trapped inside. The building had only one exit, according to the fire department official, who spoke... | Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. 35 children were killed and more than 40 were injured in a fire which roared through the ABC child care center in Hermosillo, Mexico on Friday afternoon. Among the injured were six adults, most who have yet to be identified. Over twenty other children have been hospitalized with burns. They ... |
SBS Sites - Dateline - Insight - Living Black - The World News - World View - World Watch - Alchemy Radio - Radio - Radio Language Programs - A Fork in the Mediterranean - Chappelle - Crank Yankers - Cutting Edge - Cycling Central - Desperately Seeking Sheila - Fashionista - Feast India - Fine Line - Food Lovers' Guide... | An Australian TV station has shown new photos allegedly showing more of the prisoner abuse in the Abu Ghraib prison. "Dateline", a current affairs programme broadcast on the SBS public network, claimed the images they displayed were examples of the range of abuses carried out at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and includ... |
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Wildcat strikes are "not defensible", Gordon Brown has told those angry at the employment of foreign workers. Hundreds of employees staged walkouts across the UK over the use of foreign staff at a Lincolnshire refinery. The PM told the BBC's Politics Show he... | British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has condemned the workers who staged mass walkout across the country on Friday. File photo of Gordon Brown Speaking to the BBC from the World Economic Forum in the Swiss skiing resort of Davos, he said that the walkouts were "not the right thing to do". Workers on industrial sites in... |
Please check this documentary filmmakers' network in India, Docuwallahs2: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/docuwallahs2 your call: is this comment useful? your take: fredericknoronha (India) · Feb 29th, 2008 7:21 amyour call: is this comment useful? Oops, forgot to add my name to the above comment. -- Frederick Noronha (a... | Rajagopal in the camera. New Delhi's struggle facing the medias. Recently the professional filmmaker association Loin de l'Œil started to produce a set of three documentaries (90~120mn) about nonviolent movements in India. From the 70's, to the largest nonviolent struggle (after Gandhi's one) that happened in October 2... |
Home||Local Taylor Bailey, 4, lifted his leg to show his bite marks while he and his mother, Melinda Walters, recounted the attack at midnight Wednesday by a neighbors dog. The 85-pound Staffordshire bull terrier mix broke free and chased the 4-year-old Columbia Heights boy, then knocked him to the ground and bit his ... | Just before midnight Wednesday, four-year-old Taylor Bailey, nicknamed Bucky, was attacked by a neighbor's dog. The Staffordshire Bull Terrier mix named Money chased the boy after he stepped out of his mother's car, eventually knocking the boy to the ground and latching onto his leg. The same dog had bitten the boy's f... |
Despite a rescue attempt, a man died after being swept out to sea at Blackpool (Alamy) The victim was standing on steps near the resort's Cocker Square, close to the water's edge, when he was swept away in front of shocked onlookers. Officials said a huge rescue mission was launched with coastguard officers from Blackp... | Blackpool's promenade, showing the treacherous sea conditions and the steps in the Cocker Square area. A man has died after he was hit by a large wave and swept out to sea in , England. The 44-year-old victim was reportedly stood on the steps near to when he was hit by the wave. Witnesses looked on as the man was swept... |
Photo taken on July 22, 2010 shows fishing boats anchored at Shapa Harbor in Yangjiang City, southern China's Guangdong Province. Chanthu, the third typhoon of the season, made landfall at the coastal area of Wuchuan City, southern China's Guangdong Province on Thursday afternoon, with winds near its center at 126 km p... | Satellite image of Chanthu before it made landfall Two people are dead and thousands of others lost their homes in southern China after . The Typhoon made landfall in the province with winds that reached 126 kilometers per hour (78 miles per hour). The storm caused approximatively 2.2 billion (325 million, 251 million)... |
The attack came hours after reports that 17 bodies had been found bound and killed execution-style in the same restive province, Anbar. In Baghdad, at least three Iraqis were killed and several wounded in a car bomb attack near a busy marketplace in the mainly Shia district of Shula. In Kirkuk and Basra, police colonel... | "Five marines were killed in action Thursday when their vehicle hit an explosive device while conducting combat operations near Haqlaniyah," the United States Military said in a statement on Friday evening. The attack itself came hours after reports that up to 17 bodies had been found killed in the same province. Repor... |
At Google, we are constantly experimenting with new products and technologies, and often ask employees to test these products for quick feedback and suggestions for improvements in a process we call dogfooding (from "eating your own dogfood"). Well this holiday season, we are taking dogfooding to a new level. We recent... | left The first widely available Android phone, the G1 Rumours have increased over the possible release of a Google branded smartphone in the New Year, running its Android mobile operating system. Speculation has been rife after it was reported that Google have distributed handsets to its employees for testing worldwide... |
Rhys Johnson was playing near his house in Llansamlet A coroner has urged parents to supervise children using air guns after a 10-year-old boy died after being shot at close range in the heart. Rhys Johnson of Llansamlet in Swansea died in hospital on 27 September. An inquest heard he and a friend were using his father... | An inquest was held this week after a 10-year-old boy died after being shot with an air rifle in Swansea, Wales. On September 27, 2009, Rhys Johnson and his friend, aged 12, took, without permission, an air gun which belonged to Rhys' father. The two boys played with it near to the location of the Johnson house in the ... |
Andy Harper and Robbie Slater preview all the action in round three of the Hyundai A-League. Cricket: Malaysian ODI series Australia, India, West Indies LIVE Sep 12 - 24, 4.30pm FOX SPORTS 2 11:00 pm - 07:30 am LIVE COVERAGE 02:30 am - 05:00 am Animal passion Want to become well educated and earn a salary at the same t... | Round 7 of the A-League 2007-08 has produced some interesting moments throughout the country. Accusations have been made that the A-League's 'thug-like' onfield play has decreased its good name, but all teams enjoyed a close-to satisfying game, whatever the result. WA team Perth Glory is still stalling in its win droug... |
Suspect in police custody; university to resume normal operations By Larry Hincker BLACKSBURG, VA., August 21, 2006 -- (Updated at 4:30 p.m.) Police have apprehended William Charles Morva, suspect in the fatal shooting of a security guard and a sheriff's deputy, and the wounding of another sheriff's deputy. Virginia Te... | Police at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA. William Morva, who escaped from a hospital in Blacksburg on Sunday, is in custody. He is a suspect in the murders of hospital security guard, Derrick McFarland on Sunday, and police officer Cpl. Eric Sutphin. Virginia Tech has closed their campus and cancelled classes on Monda... |
Vandals dig up grave of Hungary's communist-era leader Janos Kadar Vandals dug up the grave of Hungary's communist-era leader Janos Kadar, damaged his casket and stole the urn containing his wife's remains. "Not all the grave site was dug up," Budapest Police spokesman Endre Kormos said at the scene, adding that forens... | The tomb of former general secretary of the , , located in Budapest, Hungary in the , was vandalised on Wednesday night. Vandals accessed Kádár's casket by cutting a 40 cm hole into it and then removed some of his remains, police have confirmed. Reports say the urn containing his wife's ashes was also stolen. In additi... |
From Wikileaks {leak |country=United Kingdom |description=1. Released before? Not at time of upload. Currently attempting to obtain publicity for content through UK media, and will reference wikileaks in doing so. 2. Importance? The document is the Non-Disclosure Agreement that was signed by those companies bidding for... | The Non-Disclosure agreement for companies working with the UK Government on the National identity card has been leaked on WikiLeaks. The document states, among other things, what rights the Government has to search the properties of companies involved and the obligations on the companies to keep information secret. Wi... |
British scientists could treat or even cure cancer using a groundbreaking technique that finds and attacks the “Achilles’ heel” of tumours, they say. Research by University College London harnesses the body’s immune system to wipe out each cancer cell in a “potentially revolutionary” way. It promises to be effective ag... | A war crimes court trying seven British servicemen heard written evidence from Mr Kifah Taha Musa Mutairi, one of eleven Iraqi detainees allegedly abused by British soldiers in a detention camp in Basra in 2003. The court is also hearing evidence relating to the death, in custody, of an Iraqi hotel receptionist Mr. Bah... |
Home||Local|Crime Three Gophers football players remain jailed Police released few new details about the alleged rape, which reportedly occurred at the University Village Apartments. Printer friendly E-mail this story Save to del.icio.us E.J. Jones Keith Massey Related Content Arrests cast pall on spring 'celebration' ... | Three players for the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers football team have been arrested following a rape allegation. The three players have been identified as defensive end Alex Daniels, cornerback Keith Massey, and running back E.J. Jones, all sophomores. They are in custody at the Hennepin County Jail pending c... |
Billboard hijacked by porn hackers Drivers in downtown Moscow were squinting in disbelief when an electronic highway billboard blazed a two-minute pornographic video in place of regular advertising clips. Late-night traffic on one of the capital's busiest roads slowed to a crawl as a couple's explicit escapades appeare... | Drivers in the Russian capital, Moscow, were given an unexpected show courtesy of a 30-by-20 foot electronic highway billboard when an explicit pornographic video was played for nearly twenty minutes in place of the paid advertisement clips that are usually shown. The incident happened near the entrance into Serpukovsk... |
Adriano has slipped down the pecking order at the San Siro Adriano, 25, has also been linked with Manchester City, while Serie A side Lazio have also stated their interest in landing the Brazilian. A statement by the Hammers said: "We are investigating the possibility of a loan deal at this stage." But Curbishley said:... | The Premier League's Brazilian numbers could be getting larger as Manchester City and West Ham joined Chelsea in trying to sign a Brazilian superstar. Yesterday, Chelsea captain John Terry urged Roman Abramovich to buy Ronaldinho from Barcelona, while Manchester City were preparing to out-bid West Ham with a £12m bid f... |
Hammer of the Chimps? Julio Mercader, an archaeologist at the University of Calgary, has unearthed stone hammers that he says chimps used 4,300 years ago to crack nuts. If the findings hold up, it's another example in widening body of work that shows that other primates developed tools. The hammers were discovered in t... | Archaeologist Julio Mercader at the University of Calgary has discovered hammer-like tools dating back 4300 years. The tools are thought to have been used by non-human primates to crack nuts. The large size of the stones are of too great a weight to have been favoured as tools by humans. Further, humans are not believe... |
Switzerland has finally lifted a more than fifty-year ban on organising motor racing events such as formula one. A photograph in the country's national newspaper Blick showed politicians celebrating the occasion by spraying each other with champagne. The ban fell back in 1955, after more than 80 spectators died in an h... | Switzerland has lifted a 52 year old ban on any form of motor racing taking part in the country. The ban was first introduced following the more than 80 deaths in the disaster at the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans. The ban was lifted following heated discussions within the Swiss parliament with some arguing that the reintrod... |
James Doohan to be sent to his final frontier James Doohan as Montgomery Scott guest-starring on an episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation." RELATED YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS James Doohan Star Trek Gene Roddenberry William Shatner or or Create Your Own LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- He made his name in Hollywood beaming ... | Doohan 1997 James Montgomery Doohan, the Canadian actor best known for playing the role of ''Star Trek'''s "Scotty" the engineer died Wednesday of pneumonia after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. He was 85 years old. Now, Doohan's family is hoping to beam him up to the "Final Frontier" that Scotty loved so dearl... |
Major Flood Stage: 25 Moderate Flood Stage: 23 Flood Stage: 22 Action Stage: 21 Historical Crests (1) 0 ft on 1915/02/18 (1) 0 ft on 1912/04/4 (1) 0 ft on 1917/03/29 (1) 0 ft on 1911/02/17 (1) 0 ft on 1907/07/15 (1) 0 ft on 1910/03/9 (1) 0 ft on 1909/07/7 (1) 0 ft on 1913/03/24 (1) 0 ft on 1908/06/3 (1) 0 ft on 1934/07... | Interstate 80 is closed in Cedar County, Iowa, east of the Iowa City area, due to flooding from the Iowa River and Coralville Lake. The flooding that has devastated cities in eastern Iowa has travelled downstream and is now threatening Iowa City and Coralville, both of which have issued evacuations for low-lying areas.... |
China-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA) can be the most significant event of this decade – China pushes for FTA Sonal Joshi Mar. 25, 2005 China is pushing for a Free Trade Agreement with India, which will create the biggest free trade region in the world. Speaking to media persons at a round table on trade with China or... | In the wake of 's March 26 announcement that it intends to build its first indigenous aircraft carrier, and recent American overtures aimed at greater defense cooperation to help make India a "major power," speculation is rife as to the future geopolitical consequences for the Asian region and the world. India's rise t... |
Abby Dwommoh International Organization for Migration The neglected part of migration is one of the most important Migration is not a new phenomenon. It is actually as old as time, but to hear it discussed today, this is an easy fact to forget ||||| DA QAIDAM, Qinghai, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring6.3 on ... | Map highlighting Qinghai province. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), an earthquake with magnitude of 6.5 has struck China. ''Xinhua'', one of China's main news agencies, reports the quake at a magnitude of 6.3. According to the USGS, the quake was centered 55 kilometers (35 miles) East, Southeast... |
Court says Massey can appeal MSHA restrictions MCT REGIONAL NEWS By Taylor Kuykendall The Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va. (MCT) June 11--A federal appeals court says Massey Energy is entitled to appeal the restrictions federal investigators placed on its internal investigation. The unanimous decision, written by Judge ... | West Virginia. In a unanimous decision, a US federal appeals court issued a ruling Friday against the federal government, in favor of , owner of the Upper Branch Mine in West Virginia, the location of last year's that killed 29 workers. The court ruled the company may appeal the restrictions placed on it by a governmen... |
Exiled PM and his wife have to be present to receive charges on SC Asset : DSI Exiled prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife, Pojaman, have to be present to receive the formal charges on alleged share concealment in the case linking British Virgin Islands-registered Win Mark with his family's property company, ... | __NOTOC__ Ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in 2005. Ousted and living in exile, with assets frozen in Thailand, former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was ordered today by the Royal Thai Police to appear on charges related to the sale of some of his family's stock holdings. The order adds to mountin... |
Nobel Winner Chu To Land Top Energy Post Enlarge Ben Margot Enlarge Chip Somodevilla NPR.org, Steven Chu, a renowned physicist and green-energy advocate, has reportedly been tapped by President-elect Barack Obama to run the federal Department of Energy. Chu runs the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Califo... | According to reports, Barack Obama, the President-elect of the United States, will nominate Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, to be his Secretary of Energy. Steven Chu in 2005 Chu has been the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California for the past four years. He shared the Nobel Pri... |
Missing Afghan Passenger Jet Found Crashed in Mountains Afghan National Army patrol searches for missing Afghan plane in Khaki Jabar Afghan and foreign troops have found the wreckage of a passenger plane missing since Thursday. Authorities say there are no signs of any survivors. Afghan interior ministry spokesman Latf... | On Saturday NATO and Afghan troops located the wreckage of the missing since Thursday. Afghan interior ministry spokesman Latfullah Mashal announced the discovery. "The debris of the plane was found around 25 kilometers east of Kabul in a mountainous area called Band-e Ghazi." The jet had been enroute to Kabul from wh... |
I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and especially since I became the so-called "Face" of the American anti-war movement. Especially since I renounced any tie I have remaining with the Democratic Party, I have been further trashed on such "liberal blogs" as the Democratic Underground. Being ... | New Orleans in 2005. War protestor Cindy Sheehan, the mother of fallen soldier Casey Sheehan who was killed in Iraq 3 years ago, wrote on what has been published by the Daily Kos as a personal web journal on Monday morning, a day in observance of Memorial Day in the United States, that "This is my resignation letter as... |
Top Stories - Yahoo! India News Taliban demand Indians leave Afghanistan By Mirwais Afghan KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents on Saturday threatened to kill a kidnapped Indian telecommunications worker unless Indians left Afghanistan. The Indian and his Afghan driver were kidnapped after gunmen stoppe... | An Indian engineer working in Afghanistan was kidnapped on Friday evening while travelling from , the capital of province, to . A. Suryanarayana works for a Bahraini telecommunications and construction firm, ''Al Mayyad''. According to the Chinese news agency Xinhua, , a spokesman for the Taliban, has claimed responsib... |
Iran, Venezuela bash US, seek stronger ties Posted Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have slammed arch-foe the United States and pledged to boost trade ties. Mr Chavez arrived in Tehran on Saturday for a two-day visit on the last leg of a tour of nations at loggerheads wi... | Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez met Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. They pledged further cooperation of "independent nations." The visit of Chavez to Tehran, Iran, followed earlier ones to Russia and Belarus. Iran's state-run television reported that Hugo Chavez stated to Khamenei that Iran was an apt model for other na... |
Another 14 people were pulled from under the rubble of the residential block in the city's densely populated Idi-Araba neighbourhood on Tuesday, with others feared trapped, rescue workers said. Two people have died after a four-storey building collapsed in Lagos in southern Nigeria. One male and one female were killed ... | A residential four-storey building collapsed in , Nigeria on Tuesday. At least two people have died, and another fourteen people have been rescued from the debris. The building was located in the Idi-Araba neighbourhood, a densely populated area of the city. A spokeswoman for the Red Cross, Umo Okon, stated that "there... |
October 29, 2009 5:48 a.m. EST Anne Lu - Celebrity News Service News Writer Nova Scotia, Canada (CNS) - Canadian singer Taylor Mitchell has been mauled to death by coyotes. The 19-year-old up-and-coming star died hiking alone in Cape Breton Highlands National Park Tuesday. Mitchell was hiking alone in Nova Scotia and w... | Canada highlighting Nova Scotia Taylor Mitchell, a Canadian folk singer, was attacked by two coyotes while hiking alone in Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia on Wednesday, officials said. Another hiker nearby heard screams and contacted park rangers, where they found two coyotes attacking Mitchell. Rang... |
Rescue workers have searched through heavy mud and rock for dozens of people believed missing [AFP] Rescue workers have searched through heavy mud and rock for dozens of people believed missing [AFP] Firefighters used heavy machinery and shovels on Saturday to search for people who went missing when a massive slab of h... | At least sixty people have been confirmed dead after mudslides in southeastern Brazil, mostly on Ilha Grande, caused by torrential rainfall. Rescue efforts are still continuing in the state of Rio de Janeiro for people feared to be buried under houses, which collapsed due to the deluge of mud and rain. Rescuers used sh... |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As U.S. legislators consider a bill to force China to raise the value of its currency, a China trade expert and former International Monetary Fund economist warned that being confrontational would cause more harm than good. Yuan notes are counted at a currency exchange office in Hong Kong January... | Eswar Prasad, a professor at the trade policy from the Cornell University, warns the United States legislators, that their bill could poison the relationship between USA and China. This warning was given regarding the U.S. bill, which is meant to force China to raise the value of its national currency yuan. Currently y... |
Israeli authorities have torn down several Palestinian houses in occupied east Jerusalem, defying international calls to halt the demolitions in the disputed city. Gidi Schmerling, a Jerusalem municipality spokesman, said the houses in the Shuafat, Zur Baher, Silwan and Jabel Mukabar neighbourhoods were pulled down on ... | 2006 file photo taken in East Jerusalem Despite international calls for an end to home demolitions in East Jerusalem, Israeli authorities tore down five Palestinian homes yesterday; claiming they were built illegally. These home demolitions come after repeated calls from the UN and international community to stop settl... |
Swaziland democracy protests: '50 arrested' Police in Swaziland have arrested about 50 people ahead of protests against sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarchy, activists say. Most of those detained were later freed and hundreds of people marched through Manzini, Swaziland's commercial centre. Several South African... | King Mswati III has been criticised for having thirteen wives. Around 50 people have been arrested ahead of a planned human rights protest in Swaziland. The protest had been planned against the monarchy of Swaziland to call attention to the country's alleged lack of human rights. Many of those arrested have been releas... |
WASHINGTON – Behind-the-scenes Republican Party divisions over whether to allow Americans to import lower-priced medications from such countries as Canada exploded Tuesday in an unusually public and personal exchange between two New England lawmakers. At a contentious hearing, Sens. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., and Olympia Snow... | Olympia Snowe R-Maine In an unusually contentious hearing, Senators Judd Gregg (R-NH) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) argued the pros and cons of allowing the importation of drugs from countries where there are good safety controls and prices that are 50 to 70 percent below U.S. prices. Laws to legalize that practice, whic... |
A crude car bomb of propane, gasoline and fireworks was discovered in a smoking Nissan Pathfinder in the heart of Times Square on Saturday evening, prompting the evacuation of thousands of tourists and theatergoers on a warm and busy night. Although the device had apparently started to detonate, there was no explosion,... | Archive photo of Times Square. A car containing a bomb was discovered in , New York City, causing the evacuation of streets surrounding the area. Reports say the vehicle, a , parked outside a theatre on 45th Street and Seventh Avenue, had smoke coming out of the back at around 6:30 p.m EDT (10:30 p.m. UTC). Unconfirmed... |
Q&A; Jo Harlow heads up Nokia's smartphone business, and as such plays an integral part in the way the Finnish company develops and updates Symbian devices such as the consumer-orientated N8 and business-focused C7. On Monday, Nokia announced that it was bringing the development of Symbian back in-house after a two-yea... | Nokia 7710 using Symbian OS in 2006 On Monday, discontinued , as a result of its lost popularity since came to market. The Finnish telecommunications company Nokia, being one of the few hardware manufacturers who use the system on some of the models, announced that it has taken over the 's development. Nokia had acquir... |
Scorecard - Commentary - Wickets - 3D animation - Partnerships - Wagon wheels - Player v player - Over comparison - Over graphs - Career averages - Match home - Bulletin - Article index (9) - Photo index (33) ODI no. 2557 ICC World Cup - 27th Match, Super Eights West Indies v New Zealand 2006/07 season Played at , on 2... | New Zealand beat the West Indies by 7 wickets (with 64 balls remaining) in the Super 8 phase in the World Cup at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound, Antigua and Barbuda. This was West Indies second game of the Super 8 stage, having already lost to Australia only yesterday. For New Zealand it was their first g... |
ABC News More Than 50 Bodies Found in Iraq River Iraqi President Says More Than 50 Bodies Found in Tigris River; 19 Bodies Left in Soccer Stadium Iraqi President Jalal Talabani announcing that the bodies of more than 50 people have been recovered from the Tigris River and have been identified, during a news conference ... | Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in a press conference to reporters Wednesday was quoted saying: :"More than 50 bodies have been brought out from the Tigris and we have the full names of those who were killed and those criminals who committed these crimes. :… terrorists committed crimes there. It is not true that there w... |
coronavirus Patients whose vaccine appointment cards were lost in the post have been told they will have to wait another three weeks for the jab. Everyone over the age of 65 was due to receive a vaccine by early March but one GP practice in Fife disclosed that they had been “inundated” with calls from patients who had ... | The RBS headquarters The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has lost around 70% of its share price in a matter of hours, after news reports indicated a GBP 28 billion loss for 2008, and the UK government pledged to increase its stake in the company to 70%. The RBS shares in London opened today at 34.50, and apart from a smal... |
After being held captive for five days in Syria, NBC's Richard Engel and his team recount being ambushed, blindfolded and traumatized before being freed at a checkpoint. Updated at 8:15 a.m. ET: NBC News’ Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel and members of his network production team were freed from captors in Syr... | Video showing rocket strike near camera from a citizen journalist broadcasting live footage from Homs, Syria on February 9. At least two journalists were released after being held captive in Syria for approximately five days according to . Turkish journalist Aziz Akyavaş and journalist went missing on Thursday. Both wo... |
The move to shut the base comes at a critical moment for the US Kyrgyzstan says its decision to close a US base that serves as a vital supply route for US and Nato operations in Afghanistan is "final". It contradicts US statements that talks are ongoing about the base's future. Meanwhile, the US has asked to move suppl... | A spokesman for the central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan stated on Friday that its decision to close down a United States military base is "final". The base is an important supply route for NATO and U.S. operations in nearby Afghanistan. "The decision has been made," said Kyrgyz spokesman Aibek Sultangaziyev. "The U.S. ... |
GREAT Western Football Club will remain in the Horsham and District league next season. The Victorian Country Football League turned down its bid to switch competitions. The Lions appealed to the VCFL after their preferred new home, the Mininera and District league, rejected a transfer application in October. The club ... | Bairnsdale will host their first home game back in the major competition against Moe will return to Gippsland's major Australian rules football league after members voted to join the Gippsland League (GL). The GL, and the , regional Victoria's governing Aussie rules body, have all approved the move. '''Round 1, 2011'''... |
A Nobel Peace Prize laureate said it was undeterred by an Israeli move to ban it along with 19 other organizations advocating a boycott of Israel Sunday, as anger over the Israeli blacklist simmered. American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker group that won a Peace Prize in 1947 for assisting World War II refugees, s... | On Sunday, Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs published a list of 20 specific non-government organizations (NGOs) now forbidden to enter the country. These organizations were associated with the (BDS), which supports of Israel as a state and other actions as a means of protesting Israel's treatment of Palestine. "F... |
Font Size A A A Cell Phone Making You Itch? Nickel Allergy May Prompt Skin Rash in Some Cell Phone Users WebMD Health News By Miranda Hitti WebMD Health News Oct. 17, 2008 -- Some cell phone users may get a skin rash in reaction to the nickel in their cell phones, a condition that the British Association of Dermatologi... | A selection of cellular phones. The British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) has released a report saying that an illness they named 'mobile phone dermatitis', in which individuals owning a cell phone have developed a rash on the side of their face, is likely linked to nickel deposits in the metal of some cellular p... |
Login Enter your details below to login If you are an existing member of The Times and The Sunday Times enjoying the full benefits of thetimes.co.uk, then simply enter your Times+ login details below and press 'Enter' Enter your details to login Email address Password Keep me logged in information Keeps you logged in f... | British author James Graham Ballard, known as J. G. Ballard has died at the age of 78. Ballard died on Sunday after a long battle with prostate cancer. According to a spokesperson, Ballard had been sick "for several years" and that it was "with great sadness" to have to make the announcement of his death. He died at th... |
SUSSEX, Virginia (CNN) -- Suspended NFL quarterback Michael Vick must adhere to tightened restrictions after he tested positive for marijuana use, a federal judge said Wednesday. Suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick tested positive for marijuana in a September 13 drug test. Vick tested positive for the dr... | Michael Vick, of the Atlanta Falcons scrambles past Colts defensive end Dwight Freeney in the 2006 Pro Bowl. After testing positive for marijuana amid the latest drug test, former NFL star Michael Vick was placed under tighter restrictions by U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson. Vick must be home between between 10 p.m. a... |
Three teenagers were removed from a New Mexico doomsday cult compound after allegations of sexual abuse surfaced. The teens — two girls and a boy — were removed Wednesday after allegations of inappropriate contact between minors and the church leader, Michael Travesser, said state officials. Prudence Welch, who spent 1... | Three teenagers have been taken from a compound in New Mexico, United States after it was alleged that minors in the compond, called the Lord Our Righteousness Church were being abused. A person from the compound said, "Recently representatives from CYFD Children Youth and Family Department of New Mexico came to our la... |
“We want to make it more difficult for kids to access marijuana. That is why we are going to legalize and control marijuana,” the Prime Minister proclaimed in the Commons on the day before his government tabled two bills to implement his election promise. ( Ron Ward / THE CANADIAN PRESS ) Justin Trudeau wants Canadians... | In order to put the drug (marijuana) out of reach of minors, the Canadian federal government announced a bill to legalise cannabis for the age group of eighteen and above, on Thursday. The bill would allow adults to possess cannabis publicly, previously a criminal offence. Canada's health minister tweeted, The Canadian... |
Oracle Profit Jumps 29 Percent September 20, 2006 by The Associated Press Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Larry Ellison showed his notorious competitive streak Tuesday, when the business software maker reported first-quarter profit jumped 29 percent and revenue soared 30 percent. In a conference call with investors, Ellis... | "There's no doubt we're gaining share across all product lines," said Oracle's CFO, after a quarter where net income grew 29% and revenue grew 30% to $3.6bn. Applications license revenue climbed 78% on a constant currency basis. CEO noted that, in comparison, saw its application license revenue grow a more modest 8%. ... |
The World Today - Friday, 18 November , 2005 12:18:00 Reporter: Daniel Hoare ELIZABETH JACKSON: Supporters of the convicted Australian drug trafficker, Van Nguyen, have gathered outside the State Library in Melbourne to display thousands of messages of opposition to his death sentence. Singapore officials have advised ... | Supporters of convicted Australian drug trafficker, Van Nguyen, gathered outside the State Library in Melbourne yesterday to display thousands of messages of opposition to his death sentence. Callers to talkback radio in Melbourne were overwhelmingly against the death penalty of Nguyen, who immediately admitted his gui... |
Japan teen 'took mum's head to Net cafe' A 17-year-old Japanese boy suspected of killing and beheading his mother went to an internet cafe with her head in a bag and watched a music DVD before turning himself in, media reports said on Wednesday. The teenager, arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of murder, spent about two ... | Map highlighting the Fukushima prefecture. A boy from Aizuwakamatsu, Japan a town just north of Tokyo, walked into the local police station with a sports bag which police say contained the severed head of his mother. "If it's true, then it is horrendous," said Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki, the head spokesman for... |
The 2007 Tour de France begins in London on Saturday Some 189 riders will compete in a 7.9km time trial on Saturday as the famous race makes its third visit to Britain. The winner will wear the leader's yellow jersey as the peloton rides 203km to Canterbury in Kent on Sunday. Mayor Ken Livingstone said the tour's Grand... | London is preparing for ''Le Grand Départ'' of the 2007 Tour de France. The route, which will run through the Greenwich Millennium Village, is being prepared for the ''Départ''. The Tour de France will be in London and the South East for the two days of the 7th and 8th of July. The event will start in Trafalgar Square ... |
Image copyright EPA, Getty Images, Reuters Forty-nine people have been killed and 48 wounded in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in the deadliest attack in the country's history. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called it one of New Zealand's "darkest days". Here's what we know so far abo... | An Australian, , aged 28, appeared in District Court, New Zealand yesterday, charged with one count of murder pertaining to a on Friday, which caused the death of at least 50 people. Judge Paul Kellar ordered the accused remain in custody until his next court appearance on April 5. Police alleged the accused performed ... |
WASHINGTON -- The federal government will have to borrow $1.6 trillion this year to finance its operations, the highest single-year budget deficit in the post-World War II era, the Congressional Budget Office said in a mid-year update Tuesday. New spending by Congress since the CBO last updated its projections in March... | The United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is predicting that the national debt of the US will double in 10 years. Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has raised its forecast of the 10-year cumulative budget deficit to US$7.137 trillion, due to increased spending. Both offices released reports... |
FBI Probes AT&T Network’s IPad E-Mail Security Breach (Update2) (Updates share prices in penultimate paragraph.) By Karen Gullo and Greg Bensinger June 11 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation started an investigation of a security breach in AT&T Inc.’s wireless network that exposed the e-mail addresses of... | The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has launched a probe into a security breach that allowed hackers to retrieve 114,000 addresses of users on the network. The FBI announced the investigation Friday, which will determine exactly what allowed a group of hackers using the name "Goatse Security" to acc... |
By Theo Leggett BBC European business reporter A Luxembourg courtroom is to play host to a crucial showdown between the European Commission and Microsoft. Microsoft says the EC's ruling is unfair The software giant is appealing against the commission's decision to fine it hundreds of millions of dollars for allegedly b... | Microsoft Windows Logo Today, court proceedings in the European Union's Court of First Instance in Luxembourg began as Microsoft Corporation filed an appeal against the European Union Commission's decision in an anti-trust case, commenting that the Commission made several mistakes in its decision to fine Microsoft 497 ... |
The gap in mortality rates between Aboriginal and non-indigenous Australians is growing wider, underlining the greatest failure of the nation's health system, a major conference has heard. Seventy-one per cent of indigenous people die before they reach 65, compared with just over one fifth of other Australians, the Aus... | The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) conference, held in Canberra, Australia, received mixed messages on Tuesday about the health of Australians. While average life expectancy is 81.4 years, second only to Japan's 82.2, and rates of cancer, heart disease and stroke are dropping, incidence of obesity, a... |
Gen Pinochet celebrated his 91st birthday a week ago The 91-year-old needs a second intervention, state media has reported medics treating him as saying. The former leader, who was put under house arrest a few days ago, is in a military hospital in Santiago. Gen Pinochet was in power from 1973-90, during which time mor... | A map showing the location of Chile Former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet, 91, has suffered a heart attack early this morning. His son, Marco Antonio, declared that his father had received his last rites from a Catholic priest and that "he is in the hands of God and the doctors". Pinochet underwent a bypass surgery... |
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