Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Being avid consumers of news, most of us are aware of the consistent stream of negative reporting coming out of Iraq. Death, violence, terrorism, precarious political situation, problems with reconstruction and public frustration (both in Iraq and America) dominate, if not overwhelm, the mainstream media coverage and commentary on Iraq. ...
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Big Dig tunnels were closed for several days for inspections and repairs after ceiling panels fell, killing 38-year-old Milena Del Valle as she and her husband drove through the tunnel July 10 on their way to the airport.Link
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
The vast majority of the journalists in Iraq are courageous professionals working hard to do their job in extremely adverse circumstances. I know - I lived in a hotel with journalists from a major news network, several nationwide major newspapers, radio networks, newspapers from major cities and numerous freelancers. ...
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
This page brings Links to the latest in the conflict, evacuation, and background links to stories and videos links on the topics Link
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Tuesday, July 25, 2006 Posted: 2138 GMT (0538 HKT) BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- An airstrike hit a U.N. post in the southern Lebanese city of Khiyam late Tuesday, causing casualties, according to the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon.Link
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge to stop the Miami-Dade County school district from removing a series of children’s books from its libraries, including a volume about Cuba which depicts smiling kids in communist uniforms.Link
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
Netscape Offers To Hire Digg Users by Wendy Davis, Thursday, Jul 20, 2006 8:14 AM ET IN AN ATTEMPT TO JUMP-START its new site, AOL's Netscape is offering to pay the top users of Digg and other collaborative news sites $1,000 a month to migrate to Netscape.com. ...
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
A superbug in British hospital claims multiple lives.Link
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
Some news casts from Israeli television channel 2. A view of the war from the Israeli press point of view. Note: This video updates once daily from the nightly news cast in Israel, so you can come back the next day and view the updated newscast.Link
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has been taken to hospital after suffering from the effects of a hunger strike, launched in protest of his ongoing trial, the chief prosecutor in his trial said.Link
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
The Lebanese government estimates that half a million people have been forced from their homes by Israeli airstrikes targeting Hezbollah strongholds in southern Lebanon and south Beirut. Many of the Shiite refugees are taking shelter in Christian villages, an idea unimaginable 25 years ago when Lebanon was enmeshed in a ...
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
Thousands of pieces of excess military property — including items that could be used by terrorists — are being offered for sale to the public.Link
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
Interesting approach to curbing the tailgating problem. Link
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
As if the heat is not bad enough, now 25,000 New Yorkers have to survive it without air conditioning.Link
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
What was your score?Link
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Thursday, July 20th, 2006
Introducing lions, cheetahs, elephants, camels and other large non-indigenous animals to the U.S. Great Plains and Southwest -- a plan proposed in the journal Nature last year -- wouldn't work, several Cornell researchers argue.Link
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
Northrop Grumman Corporation formally proposed a ground-based, high-energy laser system, Skyguard, as part of a layered airport defense against the man-portable air defense systems (MANPADs) threat to commercial aviation.Link
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
A new research paper seeks to answer a riddle for publishers, editors and even readers: when does new news become old news? — In the case of a news article on the Internet, the answer is surprisingly long: 36 hours on average.Link
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
Dow Jones, owner of The Wall Street Journal, has announced the creation of a committee to reassess the way it delivers its news across all its print and online publications, The New York Times reports.Link
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
The terror attacks challenge the security of investments in the country's burgeoning economy. Yet, many say business as usual will return STORY TOOLS Printer-Friendly Version E-Mail This Story Reader Comments RELATED ITEMS News Analysis Archive PEOPLE SEARCH Search for business contacts: First ...
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Studies by statistical physicists in the United States and in Hungary have found that the readership of a particular article declines with time, the science site PhysicsWeb reported.Although the study focused on news, and used a popular Hungarian web portal as its testing ground, the findings apply to those who ...
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Today the United States vetoed the Arab-initiated resolution against Israel’s action in the Gaza. This resolution would have demanded Israel halt all military action they’ve taken in the Gaza Strip.Link
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
An indigenous man in Malaysia's Sabah state on Borneo Island was fined a buffalo and a pig for breaking a tribal custom by secretly marrying a second wife, a tribal court official said Wednesday. Link
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Monday, July 10th, 2006
It will complement Europe’s already highly successful Meteosat satellites in geostationary orbit and form part of an integrated system to be run with the USA to provide better weather and climate information.Link
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Saturday, July 8th, 2006
police though there was a bomb in a shopping cart belonging to shop rite. luckaly police and investigators have found out and there is no bomb. police have arrested 2 men for saying they have put a bomb in shopping cart and threating to explode it if the workers dont ...
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Thursday, July 6th, 2006
North Korea has another missile ready to launch, after problems are fixed. They believe they are within their rights, of the 1999 bi-lateral agreement, due to the lack of bi-lateral talks that have not happened. This agreement alows wiggle room for North Korea, if dilect between the parties, is not ...
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Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
A television news cameraman paid a $145 fine after police said he enticed three teenagers to ride their bikes through waist-high floodwaters. Link
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Monday, July 3rd, 2006
Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinian gunmen yesterday in a confrontation in the southern Gaza Strip, the Israeli army and medics said. The violence occurred at Gaza's disused international airport where Israeli forces have been deployed since an incursion last week in a bid to free a soldier kidnapped ...
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Monday, July 3rd, 2006
A suspected Tamil Tiger blast killed two members of Sri Lanka's security forces and one civilian in the northeastern port of Trincomalee, the military said. The spokesman said one policeman, one Home Guard trooper and one civilian were reported dead in a blast at a road junction in the ...
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Monday, July 3rd, 2006
The Jammu and Kashmir government has distributed about Rs 22 lakh among 189 militancy-affected families under the rehabilitation scheme, an official spokesman said today. Similarly, he said Rs 30 lakh have been disbursed among 300 beneficiaries under the national family benefit scheme. Link
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Monday, July 3rd, 2006
Iraq today named Saddam Hussein's eldest daughter and his first wife on a list of 41 ''most wanted'' in connection with terrorism. Saddam's daughter, Raghd, has taken a leading role in organising her father's legal defence for crimes against humanity. She is believed to spend much of her time ...
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Monday, July 3rd, 2006
Storms in southwest China's Yunnan province have killed 11 people, adding to a trail of havoc from heavy rains lashing parts of the country, state media reported today. In Zhaotong in Yunnan, thousands of villagers have been hit by heavy rains, hail storms, flash floods and landslides since June ...
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Monday, July 3rd, 2006
After making yoga a household name in the country, yoga guru Swami Ramdev is all set to take yoga and ayurveda to foreign countries. As part of the mission to make people lead a disease-free life, Swamiji will give tips about yoga and ayurveda to the NRIs and citizens ...
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Monday, July 3rd, 2006
The Tamil Nadu Government today filed its reply before the Madras High Court in 'The Da Vinci Code' case, stating that to avert communal tension and potential violence the screening of the film was ordered to be suspended in city theatres.Link
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Monday, July 3rd, 2006
China has squeaked by Britain by the tiniest of margins to become the world's fourth-largest economy, according to the World Bank's latest calculations. The World Bank said that by its official measure China produced $2.263825 trillion in output in 2005. That was just $94 million, or 0.004 percent, more ...
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Friday, June 30th, 2006
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez challenged the United States to try to block his attempt to secure a UN Security Council seat as he seeks to curb Washington's ''imperialist'' influence. A UN General Assembly vote set for October to award two-year Security Council seats to five nations is the latest ...
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Friday, June 30th, 2006
Doctors remove 119 rusty nails from Vietnamese woman's stomachLink
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Kuwait holds parliamentary elections today in which women can run for office and cast votes for the first time in a national poll in the oil-producing Gulf Arab country. The poll was called after Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah dissolved parliament last month following a standoff between the ...
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
An earthquake of magnitude 5.4 struck the southern Iranian province of Hormuzgan, but there were no immediate reports of casualties, the semi-official Fars news agency said today. Link
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
Japan is set to agree on the resumption of U.S. beef imports, suspended for five months due to concerns about mad cow disease, when senior officials of the two governments hold talks later on Tuesday, Japanese officials said. A health ministry official said the talks, to be held by ...
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
Over 1,000 acres burn Sunday as crews work on containment.Link
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
They can't get their act together on Iraq - and the effect looks to be like they'll miss an opportunity in November.Link
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
AOL /discuss reminds me of Comment is free (http://co... and I just learned today that the Washington Post launched PostGlobal (http://bl... or reinvention?Link
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
Firefighters worked feverishly Monday to keep the fast-moving Brins Fire from gaining a foothold in Oak Creek Canyon, where it could be fueled even more by untamed wilderness and possibly make a run towards Flagstaff. Link
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Sunday, June 18th, 2006
Cool Videos mashed up with News RSS, you get Videws. I get a big kick out of it when browsing World Cup news and see videos of great players like Ronaldhino, Ronaldo, Ballack.Link
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Sunday, June 18th, 2006
She stepped over retaining wall to take picture.Link
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Saturday, June 17th, 2006
If you're going to murder your wife and drive around with her head in your car, please don't get in a head-on car collision.Link
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Saturday, June 17th, 2006
Watch for flying heads in Boise, Idaho.... A man transporting his wife's severed head in a pickup truck collided with an oncoming car, killing a woman and her 4-year-old daughter, police said. The impact sent the head flying onto the road.Link
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
The US Army general that was investigating whether a group of US Marines tried to cover up an alleged massacre last year in Haditha has just completed his report. For more information on this story, click on the link.Link
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Thursday, June 15th, 2006
At least 58 people have been killed after their bus struck a mine in north-eastern Sri Lanka, police say.Link
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Monday, June 5th, 2006
Serbia has finally passed the official vote to let Montenegro be a separate country. A forty-five day period to split government institutions has been given. Montenegro will now apply for membership with the UN and renew an application for belonging to the European Union.Link
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Saturday, May 20th, 2006
A man allegedly from the Czech Republic was found floating on a makeshift raft between Denmark and Norway. After being rescued by Swedes, the man was found to be lying about his British citizenship and was send home to the Czech Republic. It is still a mystery as to why ...
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Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
Just when you thought you were the only citizen being snooped on...Link
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Thursday, May 4th, 2006
One of the world's hardest-won and most bullied new democracies is in serious trouble. The brutal military government of Myanmar (formerly Burma) has a plan to wipe out the legally elected democratic party of iconic Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.Link
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