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A man accused of chaining a 'collar bomb' to the neck of a teenage girl in Australia earlier this month has been arrested in the US, officials said. The 51-year-old man was arrested near Louisville, Kentu...
A 16-year-old boy will appear in court charged with the murder of a man attacked during the London riots,
Scotland Yard said. Richard Bowes, 68, died on Thursday after being assaulted during disorder in ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the
Carlsberg Ridge at a depth of 10.2 km ( 6.3 miles), the quake hit at 03:39:47 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 1257 km (781 miles) NNE of Victoria, ...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the
Bonin Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 33.8 km ( 21 miles), the quake hit at 03:36:35 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 236 km (146 miles) Northe...
U.S. and
South Korean troops began a 10-day military exercise around Seoul on Tuesday, maneuvers the U.S. commander called "defense-oriented" during a period of heightened tensions with the communist North...
At least four airstrikes hit Gaza early Tuesday, leaving two people critically wounded and a third on life support, Palestinian medical and security sources said. All three injuries occurred in a strike ...
Billionaire investor
Warren Buffett, saying he doesn't want to be "coddled" by Congress, says that wealthier Americans should pay higher taxes, and that higher taxes do not dampen job growth. Buffett, ch...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Central Alaska at a depth of 88.7 km ( 55.1 miles), the quake hit at 03:18:52 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 36 km (23 miles) Northwest of Petersville...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 202.2 km ( 125.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:07:43 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 179 km (111 miles) NNW of Nuku' Alofa, Tonga No...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 109.6 km ( 68.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:26:15 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 33 km (22 miles) Southwest of...
*"While [Rabbi Yisroel] was on his way to synagogue to celebrate the sacred Jewish holiday commemorating God's reneging on every promise, a woman stopped him and asked the following question: 'Rabbi, why...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 53.2 km ( 33.1 miles), the quake hit at 22:24:19 UTC Monday 15th August 2011. The epicenter was 117 km (72 miles) South of B...
[image: Video: Wettest day in NYC, 14 August 2011. Torrential rainfall in New York City rerouted subways, delayed commuter trains, flooded low-lying roads, and set records Sunday. AP] By Barbara Goldber...
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Even the front page of the *Royal NZ Herald’s* Business section went gaga this morning over Warren Buffett. Why? Because the billionaire is calling for bigger taxes on billionaires like him and Bill Gate...
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*All the major players in Washington know that AT&T is fabricating its case for the T-Mobile takeover. But it seems that if you spread enough cash around, people are willing to pretend they buy your fairy ...
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[image: UoA-DavidSeymour] Here’s the note from our friends at the UoA Economic Group about tonight’s seminar, featuring another guest speaker: Hello Everyone. Hope you’re surviving the wintery blast. ...
A police dog is recovering after being struck by a brick in the Tottenham riots and suffering a fractured skull. Three-year-old German Shepherd Obi was with trainer Constable Phil Wells in the midst of t...
Dramatic CCTV footage of two police officers being knocked down by a car as they chased looters during last week's riots has been released. The pair were hit by a green Citroen travelling at high speed in...
A pregnant woman who was advised to have a termination after an NHS ultrasound indicated she had suffered a miscarriage only found out her baby was still alive after requesting another scan. Chelsea Muff...
Over the course of one day, during the height of the Niagara Falls tourism season, three incidents have reminded visitors that the famous horseshoe can prove dangerous and deadly. A 19-year-old internati...
Liberia has seized a "worrisome" amount of arms and ammunition in the south of the country near the border with Ivory Coast, an official told a press conference Wednesday. "The Bureau of Immigration with...
South Korean activists on Friday launched helium balloons across the North's border carrying millions of leaflets calling for the overthrow of leader Kim Jong-Il. A conservative group called National Act...
Forces loyal to Moamer Kadhafi are no longer able to launch a credible military offensive, NATO's top Libya commander told AFP Thursday, as rebels look to gain momentum in overthrowing the strongman. "Th...
America's covert drone war on Al-Qaeda and the Taliban has killed up to 168 children in Pakistan over the last seven years, according to an independent study released Thursday. The London-based Bureau of...
A news website run by China's defence ministry said Thursday the nation's aircraft carrier should handle territorial disputes, despite government assurances the vessel posed no threat to its neighbours. ...
Three days after U.S. Navy SEALs assassinated Osama bin Laden in May, the Americans mounted a major air operation in Yemen to kill a U.S.-born Muslim cleric they've branded one of al-Qaida's most dangerous...
Brazil plans to clean up its notorious favela slum dwellings in Rio de Janeiro and other cities as part of a major security augmentation program before the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. The ...
The bright red skull-and-crossbones signs are hard to miss and increasingly common on Pacific Northwest beaches. A whole new fleet just popped up along the shores of a small bay between the Pacific Ocean a...
For years, Native opponents of a massive strip mine on Black Mesa in northern Arizona have said longstanding extractive practices of Peabody Energy Corp. (formerly Peabody Western Coal Co.) have depleted a...
Taiwan is developing a new mobile version of its supersonic "aircraft carrier killer" missile, a legislator said Sunday, after China sparked regional concerns with sea trials of its first carrier. Resear...
Japan's defence minister called on China Friday to explain why it needs an aircraft carrier, after Beijing sparked increased concerns over its military expansion by starting sea trials for the vessel. "A...
Technology has empowered all sides in the London skirmish: the rioters, the vigilantes and the government. Did the youthful rioters who roamed the streets of London, Manchester and other British cities e...
Heavy Rain Caused Problems for Drivers, Power Outages: MyFoxDC.com Heavy rain and thunderstorms caused problems for drivers in our area Sunday. In Montgomery County, several people were stranded by hi...
New York broke an all-time record for a one-day rainfall Sunday as up to 8 inches of water soaked the city, snarling trains and flooding roadways. By 9 p.m., 7.7 inches of rain had fallen at Kennedy Airpo...
A family in Essex says someone killed their dog in the middle of the day, and now they’re trying to find out who and why. The owners of 3-year-old Princess are heartbroken. Their dog was stabbed Wedne...
The Burger Bar Boys. The Cash or Slash Money Crew. The Bang Bang Gang. These names sound straight out of a dime-store novel, but they're real-life Birmingham gangs — some of the underground armies that spe...
The District of Columbia is not thrilled that its residents are traveling to Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia to gamble in casinos. Starved for cash, like states across the country, the district wa...
ust a month before the Berlin state elections, the German capital has been flooded with posters issued by the far-Right National Democratic Party (NPD) with the shocking slogan: "Step on gas." The electi...
Kansas City Mayor Sly James vowed Sunday that he’d take steps to end large, nighttime gatherings of unsupervised teenagers and preteens on the Country Club Plaza by holding parents to account. How, he di...
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich gave a bipartisan message, urging Republicans and Democrats to find common ground to solve the nation’s economic woes and to address other critical policy issues. ...
I wrote an article called 5 Places NOT To Be When The Dollar Collapses. In it I wrote that societies that benefited the most from the dollar would be the worst places to be when it fell apart. While the...
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I’ve read a lot of cant about the “riots” in the UK [and Philadelphia and Washington DC and…]. So I had to post a comment of my own. The most apposite comment I’ve seen however came from one of the riote...
"It may be that the present system, with no modifications and no experiments, can survive. Perhaps the money-making machine has some kind of built-in perpetual motion, but I do not think so. To a very co...
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Not PC - 5 hours ago
From a government that increasingly believes in style over substance comes two announcements making clear that image is more important, to them, than reality. At least in their minds. We have the report...
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Not PC - 5 hours ago
Expat Canadian Eric Crampton—from a place where they get *real *snow—muses on supply and demand in a time of snow. Where are all the rosy-cheeked youngsters when you need them to shovel the stuff? *Rea...
Back in 1884, a Swiss astronomer by the name of Arndt made headlines when he claimed to have discovered a very curious planet in an orbit beyond Neptune -- a surprisingly cubical planet.
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Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE Please forward this site to several f...
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“That's right: come Monday morning we will have managed to survive four decades of fiat money – though, given the chaos in markets in recent weeks, it is anyone's guess how much longer it will last…” *R...
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As the world's economies slip into the Greater Recession from which they had “emerged” only by massaging their numbers, the man who called for a housing bubble to "fix" the American economy during its las...
A few days ago I let loose with a provocative and kind of random tweet based on something I was reading about the post World War II American national security state in Glen Yeadon's book *Nazi Hydra In ...
Willow Garage recently announced the availability of a more affordable, single-arm version of their PR2 robot platform.
Once completed, travelers to Rome will get to see the square fully restored to its 17th-century Baroque glory.
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Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a far...
Chuckyman and I were discussing the allegations made by the peaceful activists regarding the Port city of Latakia/Syria. As mentioned in the comments section here, there are mixed messages with regard to t...
I curse them all now, but particularly Leon Panetta and the powers-that-be that sit in the control seat(s) of this Bush-agenda reinforcing/enhancing administration. (Not for not having an easy 60 votes to ef...
25 cases of Buruli Ulcer have been recorded in the Asunafo South District of the Brong Ahafo region. The District so far is the first to record the disease in the region. The disclosure was made by the d...
Shell has revealed that a leak at one of its North Sea platforms has pumped more than 200 tons of oil into the water. Five days after it first learned of the leak, Shell has revealed that 1,300 barrels w...
A killer bull has claimed another victim after fatally goring a 29-year-old man during festivities in Spain’s eastern Valencia region. The man, whose name was not released, died at a hospital in the town ...
Brian Greene's first popular book, *The Elegant Universe*, has been a bestseller and PBS/NOVA shot a $3.5 million TV program with the same name. His second popular book, *The Fabric of the Cosmos*, was a...
A father has admitted to chopping his son's head off with a meat cleaver and leaving it in the roadside outside his home so that the child's mother would see it. A passing motorist saw the decapitated hea...
Victims: Izabela Rzeszowska, top left, the couple's two children daughter Kinga and son Kacper, alongside Damian Rzeszowska, who has been arrested in connection with the alleged murder. These are the fir...
Magistrates have been ordered to send all those involved in last week's riots and looting to jail, a court heard today. Chair of the bench at Camberwell Green Magistrates Court, Novello Noades, revealed ...
The most recent man-made crisis of having to raise the debt ceiling lest the government default can be likened to a runaway spending train, speeding toward inevitable economic disaster. As we whiz by and i...
The margin of error for the world's economic managers is shrinking. The United States is on the cusp of a double-dip recession, the eurozone flirts with collapse, Japan continues to struggle with deflation...
Insiders may be buying stocks at the fastest pace in two years, but consumers’ wallets aren’t convinced that the recovery has taken hold (because, of course, it hasn’t): Confidence among U.S. consumers p...
Nearly one-out-of-two Americans (48%) think that cuts in government spending are at least somewhat likely to lead to violence in the United States, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone s...
Amidst a lot of indicators that say we could be heading for another round of recession—before the so-called recovery even reaches most people, let alone our millions of unemployed—June saw a jump in consum...
ncompatibility between our big aspirations and the reality of life is bound to disappoint unless we learn to be a bit more gloomy, says Alain de Botton. Today I want to advance the unusual idea that we'd...
Human Rights Watch has said all sides in Somalia's conflict are guilty of serious breaches of international law. The campaign group says civilians are bearing the brunt not just of a famine but also a fa...
A Tibetan monk has burned himself to death in China's Sichuan province, in an apparent anti-Beijing protest. Activists said the monk, whom they named as Tsewang Norbu, had shouted slogans including "long...
Reports indicate well-known B.C. gang member Jonathan Bacon — the eldest of the notorious Bacon Brothers — was killed in a brazen daylight shooting outside a Kelowna hotel on Sunday. Police say one perso...
A Maltese dog that disappeared more than a year ago after a fatal car crash in New Mexico has been returned to surviving family members in Michigan. The crash in June last year killed Gary Benson and his ...
I've met and interviewed more than a few Hezbollah men over the years. They are ascetics — a dour, mirthless lot, utterly convinced of their moral superiority, as religious fanatics so often are. Still, ...
As Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi urged supporters to take up arms and battle rebel forces Monday, the country's interior minister arrived in Cairo amid rumors that he had defected, Egypt's state-run Al-...
More than a dozen bombing and shooting attacks struck Iraq Monday, killing at least 74 people and wounding 247, officials with Iraq's Interior Ministry said. It was the worst wave of violence to strike t...
Farida Singh had not checked her e-mail in a few days and had no idea a life-changing letter awaited her until news of it appeared in an Indian newspaper. The man who had shot down her father's civilian ...
What struck me this past week was China's reaction to our credit downgrade. Its state-run media thundered that America needed to "cure its addiction" to debt. A Hong Kong newspaper widely read on the ...
Prime Minister David Cameron blames the riots that shook Britain over the past 10 days on a "slow-motion moral collapse ... in parts of our country," he said Monday. Cameron listed problems including "Ir...
Brace for more turbulence. This week could be just as bumpy as last week's wild ride, as Wall Street continues to deal with the fallout of S&P's downgrade, the problems in Europe and the fate of the U.S....
It started with such a simple concept: A solar light bulb that charges up during the day and lights the night when the sun sets. Inventor Steve Katsaros perfected his design in June 2010, and four days l...
Parents fleeing drought-stricken Somalia are abandoning their children at the world's largest refugee camp, Save the Childen has warned. There are currently around 400,000 people in Dadaab in northeast Ke...
A week after its historic downgrade by Standard and Poor's, investors have been piling their money into US bonds. 'It's a fantastic auction," exclaimed Bill O'Donnell from his desk on Royal Bank of Scotl...
Nuclear weapons are a waste of money, according to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president. Mr Ahmadinejad, who was preparing to receive a top Russian security official, said he was looking to build a...
Roll out the bunting. Tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of the modern global economy. That's right: come Monday morning we will have managed to survive four decades of fiat money – though, given the chaos...
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Northern Paiute Kwassuh, Wesley Dick/Censored News *SUMMARY – NEED FOR JUSTICE* *By Kawssuh Wesley Dick* *Censored News* *http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com* *Aug. 15, 2011* *Northern Paiute traditional g...
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Biased BBC - 10 hours ago
The second-most important election in human history is a mere 445 days away, and the BBC is already focused on informing you how awful the President's potential opponents are. They're especially focused on...
So-called nonlethal weapons can be lethal.
Want to hire a hacker? It's easier -- and cheaper -- than you think.
People with a natural knack for sensing number quantities tend to perform better in math.
I really did like Bill Clinton on a personal level. His love of music and the music business was completely endearing to me at the time and, although I assiduously avoid Washington, was happy to come to ...
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wmtc - 11 hours ago
I recently read a few unrelated items that dealt with racism, equality and civil rights in the US, which raised some thoughts I want to share. This time I'm purposely burying the lede, putting the easy stu...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 35 km ( 21.7 miles), the quake hit at 13:56:44 UTC Monday 15th August 2011. The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) North of Port-Vila, Efate, Vanuatu...
I always find myself making new journals at back to school time. I have always loved a cute journal and at this time a year, you can get the spiral bound notebooks for about .20 a piece. They make thoughtf...
. Quote from Peter Hitchens article in yesterday's 'Mail On Sunday': ".....The real danger from some of the defendants is emphasised by the floor-to-ceiling armoured glass which now surrounds the dock....
Agriculture and hunting appear to be the main culprits in the animals' steep decline.
Virtual model of healthy rat physiology will help researchers study cardiovascular disease.
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 35 km ( 21.7 miles), the quake hit at 13:56:44 UTC Monday 15th August 2011. The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) North of Port-Vila, Efate, Vanuatu...
[image: The Louis S. St.-Laurent breaks its way through Arctic sea ice in the once-treacherous Northwest Passage. NPR] *The Arctic may be the world's next geopolitical battleground. Temperatures there a...
Police Officials in San Francisco have come under scrutiny after it emerged that they shut down underground mobile access, in order to prevent protests over the death of a homeless man from spiraling out o...
A teenager suspected of looting during last week's riots was out on bail over a murder at the time. The 18-year-old had previously been arrested after a 21-year-old was chased down and repeatedly stabbed...
By Duane Craig Twenty seven years ago the Environmental Protection Agency made a deal with Colorado's health department that is playing out in lawsuits and potentially threatening the future of Colorado's...
Ricky Perry, Cadet, 1972... President Ricky? Cadet, cheerleader... Aggie By Common Dreams / The Rag Blog / August 15, 2011 Sure Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin are batshit crazy. But Rick Perry as a brown...
*The Alberta Liberals will be selecting a new leader on September 10th, from among 5 candidates: Laurie Blakeman, Hugh MacDonald, Raj Sherman, Bruce Payne, and Bill Harvey. To vote, simply register here as...
Capturing ammonia as opposed to scrubbing it from feedlot waste could provide farmers a local source for fertilizer.
Florida Power & Light employees heard a "loud bang" Thursday at the utility's Turkey Point nuclear plant near Miami when a large valve carrying water unexpectedly closed, turning off a system that cools eq...
Three men have appeared in court over the murder of three men who died after being hit by a car in Birmingham. The three are jointly charged with the murders of Haroon Jahan, aged 21, and brothers Shazad...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Bosnia/Herzegovina at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:08:35 UTC Monday 15th August 2011. The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) East of Metkovic No Re...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck offshore Honduras at a depth of 10.1 km ( 6.3 miles), the quake hit at 12:58:05 UTC Monday 15th August 2011. The epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) East of Trujillo, Hondu...
By Peter Gorenstein, Daily Ticker 12 August 2011 The United States military budget accounts for over 40% of the world's annual military expenditures and, at around $700 billion per year, more than 20...
The GOP Establishment-- call it plutocracy or fascism... it's the elites who run the right-wing show-- smells blood in the water... Obama's. They're positive they can beat him in 2012, sweep Congress and...
An interview with financier Jeremy Grantham in the NY Times ends with his question - *How do we get there?* - that is fascinating, because it implicitly assumes a massive decrease in earth's human populati...
About one in every 110 children is diagnosed with autism, and new touchscreen applications offer help.
You may recall this post : Like Israel, Japan is a "secret" nuclear power. Where I posed this question : "So how is it practical or logical that Japan, a nation chock full of nuclear power plants in a s...
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* As a fourth generation Texan, a descendent of Texas pioneers, I deny a favorite myth among the GOP inclined. There was *no* 'Texas Miracle' --a term cooked up in a...
Police on Jersey have said the suspect in a stabbing incident which left six people dead was related to four of the victims. All six victims, and the suspect, are of Polish origin, Sky News has learned. ...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Beaufort Sea, Canada at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:04:08 UTC Monday 15th August 2011. The epicenter was 129 km (80 miles) North of Tuktoyaltuk,...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 32.6 km ( 20.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:44:38 UTC Monday 15th August 2011. The epicenter was 121 km (75 miles) NNW of Bandar-e Abbas, Ir...
*Lepper.* On 12 August 2011, Poland's former deputy prime minister, Andrzej Lepper, 'committed suicide'. *Lepper had opposed Poland joining the EU. * Polish former deputy prime minister 'commits suic...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck State of Yap, Federal States of Micronesia at a depth of 33.1 km ( 20.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:42:44 UTC Monday 15th August 2011. The epicenter was 405 km (252 m...
Flights have been grounded, roads closed and power cuts have plunged vast areas of New Zealand into darkness following the country's heaviest snowfall in decades. Snow and gale force winds have brought t...
A small plane carrying all three teachers for a remote Alaska village school crashed in wilderness terrain at the weekend, killing the pilot and one of the teachers. A spokeswoman for the school said the ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Kuril Islands at a depth of 118.2 km ( 73.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:29:15 UTC Monday 15th August 2011. The epicenter was 423 km (262 miles) Southwest of Severo-Kur...
A man accused of repeatedly stabbing two colleagues wrote 'I would like to wake up from that nightmare' on Facebook hours before their bodies were discovered. Alice Adams and Tibor Vass, both 20, were fo...
Tackling gangs should be the "new national priority," the Prime Minister said as he blamed the recent riots on selfishness and family breakdown. The Prime Minister said a "social fightback" must follow th...
Record rainfall around New York City that flooded roads on Sunday could cause delays for commuters Monday morning. John F. Kennedy International Airport reported 7.72 inches Sunday night — the most ever r...
Residents in Pawnee County, Okla. have started to sift through the ashes following a wildfire that destroyed nearly 40 homes and may have done up to $20 million worth of damage, according to official estim...
Over in Japan reports indicate that more than five-hundred children in the country's Fukushima prefecture have been exposed to radiation. Japan's public broadcaster NHK reported over the weekend that radi...
A tornado and heavy rains damaged or destroyed about 60 homes and other buildings in two communities in the western Honduran province of La Paz, which borders on El Salvador, authorities said Sunday. The...
Heavy rains from a morning storm caused flash flooding and standing water in the city and throughout the region, officials said. At about noon Sunday, city and Baltimore County fire and rescue officials ...
Firefighters continue to battle a fire in Napa County that has burned more than 500 acres near Lake Berryessa, a Cal Fire spokesman said today. The fire was first reported at about 3:30 p.m. Saturday and ...
The Crater Regional Hazmat Team has determined the unidentified substance found in a Colonial Heights home Sunday afternoon to be pepper spray. Colonial Heights Fire Officials tell CBS 6 the call came in a...
The men in the crew have entertained themselves by swapping different cultural festivals such as Halloween. A group of astronauts have reached a landmark in their space mission by spending the longest am...
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Broken of Britain - 19 hours ago
Stargazers across the world watched a stunning light show with sightings of the annual Perseid meteor shower on Friday night. The Perseids, which come every August, are normally one of the highlights of ...
A Florida woman has been accused of child abuse after beating her son with a computer cable for using Facebook without permission. Althea Ricketts, 62 has been charged with aggravated child abuse. Ricke...
The bodies of a missing two-year-old Sacramento girl and her father were discovered last night in the man's vehicle, nearly a week after he took her during a child custody dispute, authorities said. Made...
After enduring nearly a year of drought, Texans have grown accustomed to seeing acres of withered crops, scores of dried-up ponds and mile after mile of cracked earth. But the drought that began last autu...
Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen killed at least 19 people at a governor's compound in central Afghanistan today. Witnesses reported hearing at least five explosions as Afghan security forces inside th...
Brigitte Bardot has been criticised for trying to save the life of a bull terrier that left a girl of four disfigured. The dog’s owners demanded it be put down after it mauled their little girl last month...
A hacker stole from friends and neighbours' bank accounts after working out their passwords from personal information they put on sites like Facebook and Friends Reunited. Iain Wood, 33, of City Road, New...
David Cameron will today promise to confront the ‘slow-motion moral collapse’ behind last week’s rioting. Announcing a social fightback to follow the security fightback of last week, he will accuse past ...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
Welcome to the working week! Monday morning dawns and a new Open Thread for your edification. Got something to say about the BBC? Say it here! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
A B-BBC reader observes; "The BBC's pro Islam, pro radical Islam, stance has been notice by numerous people, even Harry's Place: 'Anyone looking for proof that Britain is being ‘Islamised’ and that we’re...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
During the Labour years,our universities were turned into third rate academic factories as more and more young people were lured into participating in the chase for next to useless degrees. Sensibly, the ...
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Biased BBC - 20 hours ago
You just KNEW the second that David Cameron had the temerity to talk of the "moral collapse" that afflicts our society BBC knives would be getting sharpened. So when Iain Duncan Smith appears on the main p...
An American aid worker, who was volunteering with the Peace Corps, has been accused of sexually molesting at least five girls at a home for AIDS orphans in South Africa. U.S. investigators say social ac...
Presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann lived up to her 'Queen of Rage' moniker today, slamming Washington as 'vile and corrupt'. The Minnesota representative used the terms to emphasise how she claimed she ...
The already shaky U.S.-Pakistan relationship is set to be rocked by revelations that Pakistan gave China access to the previously unknown U.S. "stealth" helicopter that crashed during the commando raid tha...
A man and a woman have died following a fire in a caravan at a popular seaside holiday park. The pair, aged in their 40s, were found at Combe Haven Caravan Holiday Park in Harley Shute Road, Hastings, Eas...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 70.4 km ( 43.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:26:47 UTC Monday 15th August 2011. The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) So...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea at a depth of 108.9 km ( 67.7 miles), the quake hit at 05:47:58 UTC Monday 15th August 2011. The epicenter was 220 km (136 miles) WNW Saumlaki, Kepulauan...
*Detroit 1967 * The Economist suggests that riots help the 'right wing'. (Bagehot: After the inferno The Economist) In 1967, in President Johnson's USA, there were riots in Detroit and elsewhere. Th...
These pictures allegedly show Anders Breivik, escorted by police, on his return to the island for a police reconstruction of events. Does the body language suggest that this is Breivik or his double? ...
*TO THE PEOPLE OF THE USA:* The past year has brought about some substantial awareness through some unfortunate events that have occurred throughout our world. From internet censorship to the unnecessary ...
Kaye Adams, the BBC broadcaster, has been accused of being unfit to present a top current affairs programme after she tweeted in response to Boris Johnson's suggestion that rioters should face tough puni...
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CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago
*Direct Action to Protect Holy Peaks Continues* *By Klee Benally* *www.IndigenousAction.org* *Photos by Ethan Sing* *French translation:* http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=318 *Posted at Censored News*...
Sparrows, chaffinches, owls and nightingales are being killed off by an upsurge in malaria. Experts say at least 30 species of British birds are affected and growing numbers are dying. They believe the t...
The mother of an alleged looter who faces eviction from her flat now says her son is the victim of police brutality. Daniel Sartain-Clark, 18, was photographed bleeding outside a branch of Currys in Clap...
Police chiefs and Boris Johnson made an outspoken attack yesterday on David Cameron's calls for zero tolerance policing. In a new low for relations between the police and politicians, senior officers rid...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 34.5 km ( 21.4 miles), the quake hit at 03:48:49 UTC Monday 15th August 2011. The epicenter was 231 km (144 mil...
The teenage son of a devoutly religious nurse is accused of raping a 13-year-old girl at the height of last week's riots. Last night the distraught mother spoke of her 'shame' at failing to save him from ...
Three children are among six people who have been killed in a knife attack at a house on Jersey in the Channel Islands. Two women and a man also died in the attack, described by police as one of the dead...
Up to 25 people have been killed in Syria after authorities used gunboats to shell the coastal city of Latakia, activists claim. The violence came after thousands of people marched in the Mediterranean c...
*Perhaps Woody himself would approve of the idea of having this memorable scene from Take the Money and Run posted in Hungarian. In it the imprisoned aspiring career criminal Virgil Starkwell subjects hi...
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A man accused of chaining a 'collar bomb' to the neck of a teenage girl in Australia earlier this month has been arrested in the US, officials said. The 51-year-old man was arrested near Louisville, Kentu...
A 16-year-old boy will appear in court charged with the murder of a man attacked during the London riots, Scotland Yard said. Richard Bowes, 68, died on Thursday after being assaulted during disorder in ...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Carlsberg Ridge at a depth of 10.2 km ( 6.3 miles), the quake hit at 03:39:47 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 1257 km (781 miles) NNE of Victoria, ...
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Bonin Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 33.8 km ( 21 miles), the quake hit at 03:36:35 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 236 km (146 miles) Northe...
U.S. and South Korean troops began a 10-day military exercise around Seoul on Tuesday, maneuvers the U.S. commander called "defense-oriented" during a period of heightened tensions with the communist North...
At least four airstrikes hit Gaza early Tuesday, leaving two people critically wounded and a third on life support, Palestinian medical and security sources said. All three injuries occurred in a strike ...
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, saying he doesn't want to be "coddled" by Congress, says that wealthier Americans should pay higher taxes, and that higher taxes do not dampen job growth. Buffett, ch...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Central Alaska at a depth of 88.7 km ( 55.1 miles), the quake hit at 03:18:52 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 36 km (23 miles) Northwest of Petersville...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 202.2 km ( 125.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:07:43 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 179 km (111 miles) NNW of Nuku' Alofa, Tonga No...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 109.6 km ( 68.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:26:15 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 33 km (22 miles) Southwest of...
*"While [Rabbi Yisroel] was on his way to synagogue to celebrate the sacred Jewish holiday commemorating God's reneging on every promise, a woman stopped him and asked the following question: 'Rabbi, why...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 53.2 km ( 33.1 miles), the quake hit at 22:24:19 UTC Monday 15th August 2011. The epicenter was 117 km (72 miles) South of B...
*All the major players in Washington know that AT&T is fabricating its case for the T-Mobile takeover. But it seems that if you spread enough cash around, people are willing to pretend they buy your fairy ...
A police dog is recovering after being struck by a brick in the Tottenham riots and suffering a fractured skull. Three-year-old German Shepherd Obi was with trainer Constable Phil Wells in the midst of t...
Dramatic CCTV footage of two police officers being knocked down by a car as they chased looters during last week's riots has been released. The pair were hit by a green Citroen travelling at high speed in...
A pregnant woman who was advised to have a termination after an NHS ultrasound indicated she had suffered a miscarriage only found out her baby was still alive after requesting another scan. Chelsea Muff...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThree men have appeared in court over the murder of three men who died after being hit by a car in Birmingham. The three are jointly charged with the murders of Haroon Jahan, aged 21, and brothers Shazad...
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