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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

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  • Thousands face ash flight delays - 2 hours agoThousands of passengers in Scotland and parts of northern England struggle with flight cancellations as ash from an Icelandic volcanic eruption blows in.
  • Mubarak to be tried over deaths - 3 hours agoEgypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons are to be tried over the killing of anti-government protesters, judicial officials say.
  • Queen greets Obama on state visit - 17 minutes agoBarack Obama has met the Queen and senior royals at the start of a three-day state visit as he hails the "essential relationship" between the US and UK.
  • IAEA says Syrian site 'likely nuclear' - 2 hours agoA Syrian site bombed by Israeli jets in 2007 was "very likely" a nuclear reactor, says the UN's atomic watchdog.
  • Brisk walks fight prostate cancer - 2 hours agoMen newly diagnosed with prostate cancer can help keep their disease at bay by taking brisk walks, claim researchers.
  • BA pilot jailed for killing wife - 4 hours agoAn airline pilot who killed his estranged wife and buried her body on the Windsor Estate is found not guilty of her murder.
  • Man acquitted of murdering baby - 45 minutes agoA Gloucester man who said he was suffering from post-natal depression is found not guilty of murdering of his baby daughter.
  • Giggs reporters' cars vandalised - 39 minutes agoCars belonging to journalists camped outside the home of Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs are vandalised by a masked gang.
  • Thousands face ash flight delays - 2 hours agoThousands of passengers face flight cancellations because of an Icelandic volcanic eruption.
  • Davis wins 1975 conviction appeal - 6 hours agoA man who continually denied his involvement in an armed robbery in the 1970s has won an appeal against his conviction.
  • Kindle Recommendation - 3 days agoIn the spirit of 99-cent books on Kindle, I found an author on Kindle named John Locke , who has written about 6 books about his assassin-protagonist Donovan Creed (he also wrote a western, of all thi...
  • What Are You Doing After the Rapture? I’m Going to DisneyWorld - 3 days agoApparently, certain religious prognosticators are forecasting sunny weather with a chance of rapture this Saturday.  I have decided to enjoy the beginning of the end with my daughter at DisneyWorld.  ...
  • Israel - 3 days agoI don’t write about the Middle East much because its a big muddle that requires a lot more knowledge than I have to comment on seriously. I will say this about Israel, though:  I too would love to s...
  • When Real Estate Prices Rise… - 4 days ago… people can seek out some pretty amazing spaces to do business.  Not sure OSHA would be hip to this. Via Carpe Diem Update: Substituted a video I thought was better.
  • Another Problem With TSA Body Scanners - 4 days agoI can’t go anywhere without analyzing operations and workflow — there used to be a bagel store near my house whose work flow was so awful and inefficient it almost caused me physical pain just to be i...
  • Palestinian Prime Minister Suffered Heart Attack - 13 hours agoPalestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad suffered a heart attack while visiting the US and is recovering at a Texas hospital, a spokesman said. Fayyad, who was born in 1952, was in Austin to attend the...
  • Harold Camping Reschedules Doomsday for October - 13 hours agoAs crestfallen followers of a California preacher who foresaw the world's end strained to find meaning in their lives, Harold Camping revised his apocalyptic prophecy Monday, saying he was off by ...
  • Viagra May CURE Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms - 20 hours agoViagra May CURE Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona researchers have discovered that Viagra ® drastically reduces multiple sclerosis symptoms in animal models with the dise...
  • Warnings, Prophecy, and Predictions - 21 hours agoWarnings, Prophecy, and Predictions (This Blog Originally Posted 2011-05-23 05:15) These events will not happen in any particular order, and may not happen at all, it is up to you to decide the va...
  • President Obama on Sunday Refused to Back Away from His New Middle East Vision - 1 day agoPresident Barack Obama on Sunday refused to back away from his new Middle East peacemaking vision that has angered Israel, as he addressed the Jewish state's staunchest American supporters amid a ...
  • Rosling’s World - 1 hour agoHans Rosling is a professor in international health, who has made an unlikely global success. His presentations on global development evokes laughter, rejoice and reflections. In this SVT (Swedish Tel...
  • I Knew Bin Laden - 13 hours agoOn May 2, 2011, Barack Obama, the US president, announced that Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, was shot dead in a raid by US special forces on a compound about 60km north of Islamabad, Pakistan’...
  • Commando: On the Front Line - 1 day agoIn Commando: On The Front Line, director Chris Terrill embarks on a courageous 12-month journey to Afghanistan alongside Britain’s most elite front line troops – the Royal Marine Commandos. A division...
  • Derren Brown: The System - 1 day agoThe System, a Channel 4 special in which Brown shared his 100 percent guaranteed method for winning on the horses. The show was based around the idea that a system could be developed to guarantee a wi...
  • For Liberty - 2 days agoAs the 2007-08 presidential campaign cycle offered up the usual slate of Washington insiders, Ron Paul, an obscure Congressman from Texas brought an alternative voice that challenged the political est...
  • US drone strikes return to Pakistan with a vengeance as resistance grows - 3 days agoAfter something of a lull, US drone strikes have returned with a vengeance to Pakistan over the past two weeks, the latest of which, killed six  people this afternoon .  In addition strikes have taken...
  • British drones over Afghanistan to be piloted from UK - 1 week agoSTOP PRESS The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced today that it is forming a second, RAF drones squadron to be based at RAF Waddington in Lincs.  RAF pilots will control the UKs armed Reaper...
  • We mustn’t ignore the fact that British drones kill too - 1 week agoThis is my comment piece published in today’s Guardian  Ken Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions, is right to question the morality and legality of US drone strikes in Pakistan ...
  • Drone Strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, Proliferation Elsewhere - 2 weeks agoA US drone strike in Yemen on Thursday (5th May), was an attempt to assassinate US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki , said to be head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.  Two Saudi brothers were killed i...
  • Drone Laws - 2 weeks agoAn article by two senior MoD scientists in an obscure US military journal suggests that while the UK military says it has no intention of developing a fully autonomous armed drone, background research...
  • A theory about politics - 12 hours agoIt’s funny. I think academia is too theoretical, and politics isn’t theoretical enough. In this post I’ll defend the second proposition on politics, and if I manage it, a subsequent post will defend t...
  • #DSK - The hangover - 12 hours agoIn a piece published on The Drum , James Pender reviewed the downfall of Dominique Strauss-Khan and concluded that “the myth of the French political man, a man seemingly at the mercy of his sexual des...
  • The private vs public school equation - 13 hours agoThe Canadian author Malcolm Gladwell defines a tipping point as “that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behaviour crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire”. Based on the latest e...
  • Never mind slut, let's reclaim 'woman' - 16 hours agoFeminists have long known that part of the struggle for equality involves not just changing the behaviour of men, but also challenging women to reject misogyny. The current SlutWalk campaign with even...
  • The minefield of a second mining boom - 16 hours agoIn case you didn't get the picture painted by the budget papers, new treasury secretary Martin Parkinson underlined it last week in a widely reported speech . The rise of China and India, Parkinso...
  • Italian President speaks with Nespoli and Vittori - watch the replay - 1 day agoItalian President Giorgio Napolitano spoke to the two Italian astronauts, Paolo Nespoli and Roberto Vittori, aboard the Space Station, just before Paolo's departure. The President was welcomed by ...
  • Galileo: Europe prepares for October launch - 1 day agoESA PR 16 2011 - The European Space Agency, Arianespace and the European Commission announced today that the launch of the first two satellites of Europe's global navigation satellite system is pl...
  • Satellites monitor Icelandic ash plume - 1 day agoAs Iceland's Grímsvötn volcano spews ash high into the atmosphere, satellite observations are providing essential information to advisory centres assessing the possible hazards to aviation.
  • Papal call to the Space Station - 3 days agoIt was a first for the crew of the International Space Station: a papal call. His Holiness Benedict XVI talked with the astronauts in orbit for about 20 minutes on Saturday afternoon in an event webca...
  • Ariane 5’s third launch of 2011 - 3 days agoAn Ariane 5 launcher lifted off this evening from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites, ST-2 and GSAT-8, into their planned transfer orbits. Fl...
 

TODAY - May 24, 2011

B.C. man's treat for family after $36M win

Jackpot winner David Rennie is already planning a very Canadian excursion for his loved ones. » But, friends bought it
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