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Release Candidate* here. Not everything will work flawless in this test-release, there are a few 'raw' ends still, that will be refined in the final release and updates. Url...
*Just the tip of the iceberg. The whole operation has been one long war crime.* "Soldier denies plot to kill Afghans; Lawyer admits client took body parts as trophies" November 01, 2011|By Gene Johnson, A...
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:53:48
UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 6 km ( 3.7 miles) South of
Van, Turkey No Re...
*Shall we digitize all bureaucracy and money transfers?* The city of Pilsen has been intermittently using its own coins, banknotes, and currencies for centuries. For example, you can buy 1/3 of a liter o...
After one of the strangest local weather days in memory, an Oklahoma woman with a sense of humor asked on Twitter earlier this week: "Wanna experience the apocalypse before it happens? Visit Oklahoma!" S...
A private plane has crashed into the English Channel just off the coast of Guernsey. A Royal navy vessel, HMS Tyne, has been drafted in to search for the light aircraft and the two people onboard. The M...
Two Britons have been killed when their helicopter crashed in a mountainous area of the Spanish island of Majorca. The helicopter came down in a wooded area between Andratx and Estellencs. A fire brigade...
*"The Laughter and Lesson Behind Family Humor"* by Kathleen Hubert "Family humor seems to have its own special stamp. There are laughs that can be shared by a family that are especially subtle, wacky, or...
According to the National Environment Agency (NEA), the highest rainfall recorded as at 5.30 pm was 91.4 mm at Kent Ridge in the West Coast area. The afternoon heavy downpour caused a canal at Block 611 in...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 59.8 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:28:15 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 33 km ( 20) North of Kalamata, Greece N...
Kids having sex on prime time broadcast TV? Must be sweeps month. It's so predictable, it's almost laughable. Almost. That is, it would be if it weren't for the fact that there are real-world consequences ...
Libya's post-Gaddafi world is showing a lurch towards radical Islam, with strict Sharia law and Al-Qaeda flags in evidence there. But are the US and NATO truly concerned about it? Not so long ago, the U...
RT talks to Lord Alexander Hesketh, who has become the most high-profile defector from David Cameron’s Conservative Party after he rejected a referendum on Britain’s leaving the EU. Lord Hesketh was in...
SPIEGEL: What should the government that leads Greece out of the crisis look like? Bakoyannis: With its black-and-white logic -- according to which one party is always right and the other one is always wr...
Women are overtaking men in education and in the workplace, a senior Government minister said yesterday – creating a new generation of stay-at-home fathers. Universities minister David Willetts predicted ...
The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunities for young adults and saddled them wi...
The expansion of the CIA’s undeclared drone war in the tribal areas of Pakistan required a big expansion of who can be marked for death. Once the standard for targeted killing was top-level leadership in a...
The Supreme Court is set to hear historic arguments Tuesday in what perhaps is the most important Fourth Amendment case in a decade — one weighing the collision of privacy, technology and the Constitutio...
Politicians of all stripes talk about small business being the backbone of the US economy. But the vast majority of Americans work for large companies, and it is big business doing most of the hiring - and...
Free Wi-Fi is everywhere. There are more than a million hotspots worldwide, in everything from coffee shops to airports to hotels, and more. Finding a free Wi-Fi hotspot is a great convenience, but it ca...
When I read that Joachim Fels, Global Head of Economics at Morgan Stanley, had observed that Sarkozy and Merkel had opened a "Pandora's Box" by publicly contemplating the possible exit of Greece from both ...
It’s not a national government – not, at least, in sense of a government that represents the nation. The coalition of the two big Greek parties has been formed for the sole purpose of pursuing an agenda th...
The six weeks allotted to save monetary union have expired. The G20 has come and gone, yet no workable firewall is in place as the drama engulfs Italy and threatens to light the fuse on the world’s third l...
America must cut taxes and reduce government spending in order to kick-start an economic recovery, Jim Skinner, the chief executive of McDonald's, has warned. "The question is, how can we get the ox out ...
I’m sitting with a friend I haven’t seen in a while. He’s black, parents from Guyana, in his forties, married to a white woman, and doesn’t have a single black revolutionary bone in his body. "You know, t...
When Bank of America announced it would charge customers a $5 monthly debit card fee in late September, it probably did not count on a 22-year old woman standing in its way. But for Molly Katchpole, a 2011...
Nov. 7, 1991, seemed like it would be a typical practice day for the Los Angeles Lakers. The season had just started, and the Lakers were trying to defend their Western Conference title, hoping to hang yet...
In a new book from TIME, Special Ops: The Hidden World of America's Toughest Warriors, International Editor Jim Frederick reports on the secret world of military special operations units. Now available in ...
As oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's Deepwater Horizon rig in May 2010, and then CEO Tony Hayward made his infamous statement that he wanted his life back, he likely had little fear of it being ...
The largest and most comprehensive study yet done on the effect of biofuel production from West Coast forests has concluded that an emphasis on bioenergy would increase carbon dioxide emissions from these ...
The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March released far more radiation than the Japanese government has claimed. So concludes a study1 that combines radioactivity data from across the glo...
The Greenland ice sheet can experience extreme melting even when temperatures don't hit record highs, according to a new analysis by Dr. Marco Tedesco, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and A...
On the southeastern outskirts of Washington, D.C., inside the Smithsonian Institution’s cavernous Museum Support Center, one can see some frogs that no longer exist. Alcohol-filled glass jars hold preserve...
Kids having sex on prime time broadcast TV? Must be sweeps month. It's so predictable, it's almost laughable. Almost. That is, it would be if it weren't for the fact that there are real-world consequences ...
Tens of thousands of Indians were poisoned when toxic gas leaked from a plant owned by a US corporation. Now they claim they are suffering even more after pharmaceutical companies used the opportunity to...
The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped last year by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-mad...
Libya's post-Gaddafi world is showing a lurch towards radical Islam, with strict Sharia law and Al-Qaeda flags in evidence there. But are the US and NATO truly concerned about it? Not so long ago, the U...
RT talks to Lord Alexander Hesketh, who has become the most high-profile defector from David Cameron’s Conservative Party after he rejected a referendum on Britain’s leaving the EU. Lord Hesketh was in...
SPIEGEL: What should the government that leads Greece out of the crisis look like? Bakoyannis: With its black-and-white logic -- according to which one party is always right and the other one is always wr...
Women are overtaking men in education and in the workplace, a senior Government minister said yesterday – creating a new generation of stay-at-home fathers. Universities minister David Willetts predicted ...
The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunities for young adults and saddled them wi...
The expansion of the CIA’s undeclared drone war in the tribal areas of Pakistan required a big expansion of who can be marked for death. Once the standard for targeted killing was top-level leadership in a...
The Supreme Court is set to hear historic arguments Tuesday in what perhaps is the most important Fourth Amendment case in a decade — one weighing the collision of privacy, technology and the Constitutio...
Politicians of all stripes talk about small business being the backbone of the US economy. But the vast majority of Americans work for large companies, and it is big business doing most of the hiring - and...
Free Wi-Fi is everywhere. There are more than a million hotspots worldwide, in everything from coffee shops to airports to hotels, and more. Finding a free Wi-Fi hotspot is a great convenience, but it ca...
When I read that Joachim Fels, Global Head of Economics at Morgan Stanley, had observed that Sarkozy and Merkel had opened a "Pandora's Box" by publicly contemplating the possible exit of Greece from both ...
It’s not a national government – not, at least, in sense of a government that represents the nation. The coalition of the two big Greek parties has been formed for the sole purpose of pursuing an agenda th...
The six weeks allotted to save monetary union have expired. The G20 has come and gone, yet no workable firewall is in place as the drama engulfs Italy and threatens to light the fuse on the world’s third l...
America must cut taxes and reduce government spending in order to kick-start an economic recovery, Jim Skinner, the chief executive of McDonald's, has warned. "The question is, how can we get the ox out ...
I’m sitting with a friend I haven’t seen in a while. He’s black, parents from Guyana, in his forties, married to a white woman, and doesn’t have a single black revolutionary bone in his body. "You know, t...
When Bank of America announced it would charge customers a $5 monthly debit card fee in late September, it probably did not count on a 22-year old woman standing in its way. But for Molly Katchpole, a 2011...
Nov. 7, 1991, seemed like it would be a typical practice day for the Los Angeles Lakers. The season had just started, and the Lakers were trying to defend their Western Conference title, hoping to hang yet...
In a new book from TIME, Special Ops: The Hidden World of America's Toughest Warriors, International Editor Jim Frederick reports on the secret world of military special operations units. Now available in ...
As oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's Deepwater Horizon rig in May 2010, and then CEO Tony Hayward made his infamous statement that he wanted his life back, he likely had little fear of it being ...
The largest and most comprehensive study yet done on the effect of biofuel production from West Coast forests has concluded that an emphasis on bioenergy would increase carbon dioxide emissions from these ...
The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March released far more radiation than the Japanese government has claimed. So concludes a study1 that combines radioactivity data from across the glo...
The Greenland ice sheet can experience extreme melting even when temperatures don't hit record highs, according to a new analysis by Dr. Marco Tedesco, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and A...
On the southeastern outskirts of Washington, D.C., inside the Smithsonian Institution’s cavernous Museum Support Center, one can see some frogs that no longer exist. Alcohol-filled glass jars hold preserve...
The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped last year by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-mad...
* “Propaganda”* by vigilantcitizen.com “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate t...
[image: A Thai resident throws his net to catch fish at a floods area in Phisi Charoen district in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, 12 November 2011. Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has struck ...
* * *"U.S. Millennial Generation Battles Against Wall Street"* By James Quinn “Jesse from Jesse’s Café Americain describes our political system perfectly: “Kleptocracy:"rule by thieves" is a form of politi...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 19 km (12.7 miles), the quake hit at 18:20:02 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 25 km ( 15.5) Northwest of Van, Turke...
Scientists at the Institute of Technology and Renewable Energies (ITER), an agency of the Cabildo of Tenerife and now form part of volcanological Institute of the Canaries, have established that from July ...
* "Weekly News Wrap-Up"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "Tensions with Iran and Israel continue to heat up, especially since the IAEA revealed new evidence about Iran’s nuclear weapons project and that ...
Among other new seven wonders of nature are the Amazon rainforest, South Africa's Table Mountain and Indonesia's Komodo.
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 20 km 12.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:05:21 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 21 km ( 12.7 miles) Northeast of Van, Turke...
"Breitbart, O'Keefe and our fair and balanced network may have put the kibosh on you, but we're still keeping an eye on you!" Because God knows unregulated capitalism has served us so well, right...
Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
It's probably important to begin by explaining that once Tancredo retired, he was replaced by someone even more bigoted and even more a captor of corporate interests than Tancredo, back-bencher Mike Coffm...
Tom Weis' Rocket Trike with Lakotas Photo Lakota Media Project Published with permission at Censored News*CITIZENS RALLY AT STATE CAPITOL TO DEMAND STATE LEGISLATURE PASS BILL REGULATING PIPELINE ROUTES*...
*Libyan victim of NATO Nazis.* The pro-Gaddafi *Libyan resistance control Tripoli* according to a post at Libya S.O.S. on 11 November 2011. "In Libyan cities today, clashes broke out between supporters o...
Two deaths have struck at the heart of the Occupy protest movement. A war veteran has killed himself at the Burlington encampment, while a young man was gunned down near the activists’ camp in Oakland. Th...
*Op Cartel* *By Barrett Brown* *Update 11/12/2011* 1. I've arrived in Brooklyn thanks to individuals associated with Occupy DC, who paid for a last-minute flight I would otherwise not have been able to a...
Voyage to the Land of the Living Dead By Manuel Carballal [This article, which graced the splash page of the old Inexplicata website from 1998 to 2000, is among the finest we've ever offered t...
[image: Converge on Ft Benning, Nov 18-20]School of Americas Watch November 18-20, 2011: Fort Benning, Ga. *STAND UP FOR DIGNITY, JUSTICE, SOLIDARITY AND SELF-DETERMINATION!* *http://soaw.org/take-action/n...
Security cameras in the Turkish city of Van have captured the dramatic moments when a 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck on Wednesday. At least 17 people were killed as two hotels collapsed, and 28 have bee...
A teenager has been charged with killing his mother, his mother's boyfriend and his sister. Donald Rudolph, 18, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, was arrested after police discovered a gruesome scene at his mot...
I'm stealing this essay and running it here because it speaks to my outrage (seen in my support of OccupyEverything) and is so pointedly poignant, evoking all those feelings about all those issues concerni...
Penn State was on alert today as the FBI was called in to investigate a possible bomb threat at the football stadium after the athletic program was plagued with scandal following sex abuse charges by one o...
A faulty temperature gauge was today blamed for 800 rare giant snails being accidentally frozen to death. Staff at New Zealand's conservation centre in Hokitika were said to be 'very upset' over the incid...
Russia's space agency has all but given up hope of saving a £100million spacecraft that was bound for Mars but conked out shortly after launch. Engineers had three days to fix a problem that caused the Pho...
In a letter addressed to Oakland’s Mayor Jean Quan on Nov. 8, two little-known entities, the Lake Merritt/Uptown District Association (LMUDA) and Downtown Oakland Association (DOA) implored Mayor Quan to ...
*Alameda Sheriff's officers beat women at Berkeley in stomachs with nightsticks and were present when two veterans were critically injured in Oakland. Alameda Sheriff's Department is denying records reque...
*I don't think they will have to worry*:* * *"Panetta has allies in Congress, especially Republicans on the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, who are preparing legislation that wouldundothe autom...
posted by David Preiser (USA) at
Biased BBC - 4 hours ago
For Twitter fans, it's a hashtag: #OccupyFail Here's just a sample of what the BBC doesn't want you to know about their favorite US political movement. A Petri Dish of Activism, and Germs *The chorus be...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 0.5 km (poorly constrained), the quake hit at 14:50:16 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 15 km ( 9.3) East of Ercis,...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck offshore Sucre, Venuzuela at a depth of 81.9 km (50.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:52:02 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 31 km ( 19 miles) Northwest ...
Under fear of retaliation from Mexican drug cartels, Barrett Brown, face of hacker collective Anonymous, leaves Dallas.
[image: Rewarding: Supporting a partner triggers the release of the feel-good chemical dopamine that is more usually associated with chocolate treats or sex] Rewarding: Supporting a partner triggers the...
Eating brown bread or wholegrain cereals three times a day cuts the risk of bowel cancer by a fifth, a major study has shown. But surprisingly, researchers found no 'significant evidence' that eating mo...
It isn’t the easiest of tasks to twist nearly 3,000 balloons into a 46ft-wide spider. It’s even harder when you suffer from arachnophobia. Yet that is exactly was party entertainer Adam Lee did to break ...
*The war-promoting rulers want it this way.* "Veterans for hire; Returning troops find job prospects bleak; programs try to increase opportunities, ease way into civilian life" November 11, 2011|By Katie ...
Reader Contribution; Only eight of 24 whales, which beached themselves on Tasmania's west coast early today have survived. Twenty sperm whales became stranded on Ocean Beach, near Strahan, with four mo...
Obama administration asks Senate to restore funds for coastal ecosystem Feds, Coast Guard, join BP to prove they’ve learned very little~Disenfranchised Citizen Repairs Begin for Mississippi River Levee at...
[image: Elixir: A £2million study has found a daily dose of pomegranate juice could slow the ageing process of DNA] Elixir: A £2million study has found a daily dose of pomegranate juice could slow the a...
An explosion has killed 15 people at an ammunition depot near the capital of Iran, officials have said. The blast apparently happened at a base belonging to the Revolutionary Guards outside the village o...
[image: Link]The Arab League has voted to suspend Syria while calling on its army to stop the killing of civilians. The 22-nation body warned Damascus it could impose economic and political sanctions if i...
Was anyone shocked at the decidedly anti-education tone of the Republican "presidential" debate this week? You shouldn't have been. Conservatism is inherently anti-education-- at least anti-education as ...
Readers of Inexplicata may wonder at the sudden appearance of older material from the INEXPLICATA Journal (issues 4, 5 and 6, to be precise) and from our long-forgotten SAMIZDAT newsletter of the 1990s...
Juan Carlos Victorio remarks on an article appearing in Spain's Mas Allá de la Ciencia magazine (October 2011, No.272) discussing a UFO crash in Spain a full forty-eight years before the birth of the ...
Eduardo Ghio, Nelson Morales, Diego Durán, Gaby Montura and Adrián Nicalawere engaged in a skywatch in a field on the western section of the Buenos Aires suburbs, hoping to witness the apparition o...
Alex Sender shares a video on the most recent events in Icá, Perú, that suggest a connection between earthquakes and UFOs - namely, the most recent seismic event in that country, which reached a 6.9 on...
Source: El Tribuno.com.ar Date: November 3, 2011 Daniel Ubaldo Padilla sends us this link to a video clip featured in www.eltribuno.com.ar. The text reads: "The images of this home-made video ...
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wmtc - 7 hours ago
Yesterday I received an update from the office of Senator Mac Harb, sponsor of the Harb Seal Bill. Here is the English-language portion. It's short, and I hope you will read the whole thing. Dear Friend, ...
Syrians snatched from their homes turn up dead, often mutilated. Soldiers gun down former comrades who defected to the opposition. A human rights group reports that electric shocks and hot iron rods are us...
The government has released soil radiation maps covering a much broader swath of Japan than previous releases, covering six new prefectures. The newly included prefectures are Iwate, Yamanashi, Nagano, Sh...
A fatal explosion has hit an Iranian military base near capital Tehran, according to local media reports. There has not been any immediate confirmation of casualties in the blast, which reports say happe...
New open thread as requested. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.) This is what a *real* Democrat and human being sounds like. This is Michigan State Senator Gretchen Whitmer speaking out against the perverted "Matt...
A magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck Southern Texas at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 10:34:53 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 67 km ( 41 miles) Northwest of Beeville, Tex...
POLLUTION fears have been raised after more than 50 dead fish were found in a Burnley river. Dead trout and chub were discovered washed up in the River Brun around the town centre and further upstream in...
Reader Contribution; Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was the first dignitary to arrive at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam this morning. Gillard - took part in Hawaii Veterans Day ceremonies and a...
A large number of dead fish of different varieties have washed ashore along the Al Hamriya Port in Dubai of late. The locally known varieties like Al Qarfa, Al Dardaman and Al Jad washed ashore were spott...
It is rare that the birth of an island can be watched by humans in real-time, but that could be what is happening in Spain's Canary Islands. Residents of La Restinga on the island of El Hierro were recent...
Health officials in Scotland are urging the public to be aware of the symptoms of botulism after two members of the same family were hospitalised with an illness which is now thought likely to be the infec...
Dozens of rescue workers laboring with jackhammers and hacksaws searched the rubble of a five-story hotel Friday, two days after it collapsed in a 5.6-magnitude earthquake. The death toll from Wednesda...
Major league catcher Wilson Ramos has been "found alive," two days after he was reported kidnapped by gunmen, Venezuelan state TV reported Friday. Ramos was found by security forces in Montalban, a mounta...
Security forces killed a man who hijacked a ferry in northwest Turkey and demanded the incident be shown on live television, authorities said Saturday. The man hijacked the ferry with 24 onboard Friday n...
Police are investigating a fatal shooting just outside the Occupy Oakland encampment in Northern California and the apparent suicide of a military veteran at an Occupy encampment in Vermont's largest city....
Diving into this doubtful controversy is likely a waste of time. It really is a battle of statisticalinterpretation and both sides are generally weak in their positions. In the end we ended up with a...
My off the wall guess is thatthis is a rare star that has yet to orbit through a star cluster which wouldstrip these arms away. Otherwise, justas a galaxy seems to form spiral arms It is plausible a d...
The only thing lost about thisnot so ancient civilization was the writer’s library card. In the event it is a reminderthat agriculture is a practical proposition in the Saharathe moment the water ques...
What becomes apparent is that theultra filtering process is unnecessary and only serves to allow substitution inthe first instance. It also allowsadulteration of honey with flavored corn syrup by manu...
An illegal immigrant who claimed to be paralysed from the neck down but was filmed dancing at his wedding cheated more than £400,000 in benefits, a court heard yesterday. But even though Mohamed Bouzalim,...
The poor countries obviously demand lower standards when it comes to the quality of products, the quality of the environment, and the quality of ideas they're ready to live with. *Communist Party of ...
Image: Known as the Tarantula Nebula, these stars have produced intense radiation say NASA. Very low levels of radioactive iodine-131 have been detected throughout Europe, but the particles are not believ...
David Cameron yesterday vowed to stop state-owned bank RBS from lavishing £500million in bonuses on its staff this year. The Prime Minister said the Government could and would ensure that the pot for pay ...
David Cameron is planning to fly to Berlin next week amid growing British anger at Germany’s refusal to bring an end to the euro crisis. Senior figures in Downing Street are furious that Chancellor Angela...
Fears of eurozone debt contagion have hit France - as Italy and Greece moved to change their governments in a bid to stabilise their battered economies. Leading economists have warned the £261bn worth of...
A magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck Utah at a depth of just 0.2 km (poorly constrained), the quake hit at 05:15:11 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 34 km ( 21 miles) ESE from Cleveland,...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Southwest Indian Ridge at a depth of 13.5 km (8.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:10:04 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 1080 km ( 671 miles) SSE of ...
Occupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt Wikipedia Gaza Strip Military occupation by Egypt 1948–1956 1957–1967 → Gaza Strip after 1950 Armistice Gaza Strip after 1950 Armistice Capital Gaza Language(s) A...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Taiwan Region at a depth of 25.2 km (15.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:38:41 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 70 km ( 43 miles) East of Hualien, Ta...
Steve Harper said he'd put Canada on the map and he has, in spades. Harper has drawn plenty of world attention to Canada. Regrettably, it's uniformly bad. *The Guardian* has chronicled Harper's deviou...
The herd on the way back to the barn. Photo courtesy: bruevalley.co.uk Cows are very intelligent sentient beings; and, I am glad to see a dairy farmer who respects them for the amazing animals that they a...
Shots were reported fired Friday night between the White House and the Washington Monument, setting off a flurry of law enforcement activity, a U.S. Park Police spokesman said. The incident was reported s...
[image: Into the drink: Almost a third of Britons, mostly men, have damaged their phones with water or fluid] Into the drink: Almost a third of Britons, mostly men, have damaged their phones with water...
Share your deepest secrets with her, and she will no doubt promise never to tell. But beware of putting your trust in a woman – for the likelihood is she will have broken your confidence barely half an ...
Image courtesy: freakingnews.com Autumn is here - no ifs, ands or buts about it. This means that many of our birds and winged pollinators will either be overwintering or migrating to warmer climes. To hel...
They say that quitting smoking is the hardest thing to do, now new research underlines just how difficult it can be. Just six per cent of people who try to stub out their nicotine habit actually succeed...
*SCHUMANN: "Widmung" ("Dedication"), Op. 25, No. 1* You my soul, you my heart, you my joy, o you my pain, you my world in which I live, my heaven you in which I soar, o you my grave in which I have buried ...
*The facts are easy, it is the acceptance that is difficult - cleanse your mind of thoughts and contemplate the accuracy of the ancient scriptures, it will all become very clear - the evil tribe of usurio...
Perfect teeth - white, straight and evenly aligned - may be the ideal in America, but that aesthetic is not for everyone. Japanese women are going gaga for a crowded, crooked-toothed smile with accentua...
Photo courtesy: grammyssweetnothings.blogspot.com Have you ever wondered why geese fly in a "V" formation or how fast they can fly? Well, you're about to find out. During migration, it is common for Canad...
The U.S. nuclear regulator on Friday approved the restart of the Virginia plant rocked by summer's historic East Coast earthquake. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said that after careful analysis it had ...
"Big, bright, and beautiful, spiral galaxy M83 lies a mere twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the very long constellation Hydra. This cosmic close-up, a mosaic based on data from...
Streamwood, Illinois, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
[image: A Pakistani man pushes his bicycle while children run away as they get caught in a sandstorm on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, 8 November 2011. Muhammed Muheisen / AP Photo] ISLA...
By Denis G. RancourtIn the steady state of a society, in the absence of large direct consequences of war at home, including civil war and class war, in the absence of believable threats of violence against t...
By Michelle Esteban 11 November 2011 SEATTLE – Debris the size of California is headed for the U.S. coast. The materials were swept out to sea after a massive earthquake and a tsunami hit Japan last ...
*"There are good people and institutions at the university and in State College who still need our support and involvement. Don’t walk away. Give your time, money and talents to those who are making a posi...
*Going to be waiting a long time.* *Last related*:* Sunday Globe Special: Wall Streets Protests Go Worldwide* *I'll pick up where I left off: * "Occupy movement, arrests continue to spread across US" Octo...
Virginia SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS" (Latin for "thus always to tyrants"). Depicting the state's motto on the flag is the goddess Virtue (who is holding a sword and a spear), who has defeated a tyrant, who is lyin...
It's a big man who can start a national column with an admission that he got it wrong. This little corner's been relatively silent on the whole Occupy thing, but now that it's gotten the Masters of the Un...
A star has been discovered with a record-breaking spin, but it will suffer one of the most violent explosions in the known universe.
Today is the 11th November 2011. On this day in 1918, the Great War finally ended with the signing of the Armistice at 11am. The War had been won by Germany in 1917, but the Zionist Establishment in Lon...
"As a result of this unrelenting propaganda against Iran, the talk now is not; ‘has Iran really got a nuclear weapons program’, or even; ‘if it has, how can this be a threat to any one of the nuclear arm...
A Canadian man claims to have captured video evidence of the legendary lake monster Ogopogo.
John Amato has been flooring me with all the research he's been gathering on Romney, especially the stuff from France and Mexico. I can't wait for Romney to get the nomination so Amato starts dropping tha...
John "Patriotic Truther" has long been a source of great news and information for the Coming Crisis on Youtube, as well as a friend of the website. We've decided to partner together and let John lead our...
An Embarrasment of Humanoid Riches by José Manuel Duran We sometimes complain that the subjects of our interest seldom receive the attention they deserve, and we're even forced to acknowledge at some point...
Humanoids in Galicia by Grupo FENIX The UFO wave remains in full force throughout the northern par to the country and some very well documented cases are becoming known. ENIGMAS magazine has visited the l...
Emiliano Zapata Municipality: The Mystery of the Forgotten Stones by Dr. Rafael A. Lara Palmeros, CEFP (Mexico) Since the end of December 1998, a series of insistent rumors had come to our attention: a bro...
*A bit hypocritically I might add*:"Penn State shows danger of putting sports beyond reproach November 10, 2011 TO MANY AT Pennsylvania State University, the beloved football program there long seemed be...
One Day on Earth is set to film today, will you be participating?
A growing number of smart phone apps are helping to make a tough transition from war zone to home a little smoother.
The response to the announcement of the creation of a “Dream Team” has been met with nearly unanimous approval. There have been the detractors, but there will always be detractors... Nothing can be done ab...
An ex-soldier shot himself at the Occupy Vermont encampment in Burlington yesterday, fellow protesters said. The 35-year-old was rushed to hospital in a critical condition but died shortly after arrival. ...
Australia is set to become home to hundreds of U.S. Marines - as America moves its servicemen to a military base on the northern tip of the country. In a bid to combat China's increase in global military a...
I am so so bogged down trying to write the next post about something that actually matters - our collapsing ecosystem. So briefly, here's all anybody needs to know about my regard for the gravity of the f...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 18:09:42 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 11 km ( 7 miles) Southeast Cuilapa, Santa Rosa, ...
*Pennsylvania by Lewis Hine * PENNSYLVANIA is the home of: *Hershey Childrens' Home sexual abuse* "The Milton Hershey School, the wealthy and nationally acclaimed free boarding school for disadvantaged c...
Pet owners in Albuquerque are on their guard after a spate of attacks on dogs by giant owls. Officials are uncertain if there is one owl on the prowl for small animals to eat, or whether there are several...
The consensus among astronomers is that the solar system has always had four giant planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. But now it’s claimed that it’s much more likely to have been home to a myst...
A man, whose teenage son was tragically killed in a car crash, died after crashing his own car after driving the wrong-way on the same highway hours later. Heartbroken father Sunil Sambhi's death on Thur...
* "Happy Belated Birthday, United State Marine Corps"* "The USMC birthday, November 10, comes on the eve of Veterans' Day, which was established to commemorate the signing of the armistice that ended Wor...
One of the world's greatest historical sites was closed today over fears Jewish Masons would try to claim it as their own on Magic Friday. Egypt's antiquities authority shut the biggest of the Giza pyramid...
Egyptian authorities took the step to avoid possible damage to the wonder from a rumored, bizarre ceremony.
Armed men stoned and shot dead a widow and her daughter in Aghanistan after the Taliban accused the women of 'moral deviation and adultery', according to reports. The killing happened on Thursday in the K...
*"As I've Aged"* Author Unknown “You ask me how it feels to grow older. I’ve learned a few things along the way, which I’ll share with you... As I've aged, I've become kinder to myself, and less critical...
The gadgets we marvel at can be used on us, not just by us.
*“Conversations: * *Samuel Johnson: Dying Easy & Supernatural Interposition...”* by VioletPlanet ”A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.” - Samuel Johnson *"A Conversation:* ...
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Press conference with David Heap and Ehab Lotayef, on their abduction, kidnapping and detention by Israeli forces: here. And a message from the Irish boat:
Mexican Interior Minister Francisco Blake was killed in a helicopter crash on Friday, a blow to the government as it fights powerful drug cartels. Television images showed the scattered wreckage of the he...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck New Caledonia at a depth of 130.7 km (81.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:00:47 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 143 km ( 89 miles) SSE of Tadine, Loyalty ...
Protesters camped out at St Paul's Cathedral have rejected proposals by the London Corporation to help resolve the ongoing occupation. Around 200 protesters have been outside the historic building for the...
I want to grind a personal axe today- While this has to do with the news coverage of the occupy movement in Canada to some degree. What this is largely about the censorship media outlets practice in the ...
Today's date holds special significance for many around the world. Is there reason behind the superstition?
Last-ditch attempts are being made to rescue the Russian Mars mission, but the reality is that uncontrolled reentry scenarios are now being discussed.
Police in London have arrested 173 people - including many believed to be English Defence League supporters - in order to "prevent a breach of the peace". A group was held outside the Red Lion pub in Wes...
I’m always writing about the tenacity of the America Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC is like a nasty blood-sucking mosquito – you can’t just brush them away – ‘cause they will just keep coming b...
Tranquility Park - Houston 27 Houston cops arrest six protesters for having tarp in parkIn all, a total of 27 police officers responded to the scene in 19 squad cars, according to the protesters. Police h...
* "The Fallen" * "They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted; They fell with their faces to t...
I just did something unusual. I listened to Feedback on BBC radio 4, whereupon I heard a strange item. Roger Bolton summoned Alison Hastings,chair of the Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee, to talk abo...
From Chris Hedges' "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" * * *"When Ernie Pyle, the American war correspondent in World War II, was killed on the Pacific island of Ie Shima in 1945, a rough draft of a colu...
Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
For months, Serbs in Northern Kosovo have been putting up barricades against the hated Kosovo authorities as well as NATO peacekeepers. Little by little, they are growing accustomed to living in a cage o...
French energy firm Areva on Tuesday showed to the media a new nuclear power plant that it says can withstand serious accidents. The European Pressurized Reactor is located in Olkiluoto, southwestern Finla...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 108.8 km (67.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:09:46 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 217 km ( 135 miles) SSW of Ka...
Prime Minister George A. Papandreou went on national television on Wednesday evening to announce that a new interim government had been formed. But he did not name his successor, and in the hours that foll...
Thousands of students marched through London on Wednesday in the latest display of anger against the Conservative-led government’s austerity measures. Four similar protests by students late last year led ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Western Montana at a depth of 6 km (3.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:51:54 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 8 km ( 4.9 miles) Southeast of Clinton, Monta...
The woman in the screenshot above has just jumped off a bridge onto a busy Chinese highway. In the video from which this screeshot was taken, it is clear the woman is still alive as she lies sprawled in ...
Russian scientists are struggling to get the country's first interplanetary mission in 15 years back on track. Should they fail, the probe that was due to head to the Martian moon Phobos may well turn in...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 26.3 km (16.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:57:23 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 45 km ( 28 miles) ENE of Van, Turkey No Re...
*"Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake"* *The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN* *by Greg Palast* ** for FreePress.org Friday, November 11, 2011 I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, bu...
Traffic pollution's imprint may begin before birth as newborns with higher exposure show permanent genetic differences.
The exoskeleton helps lighten the load of a 132-pound anti-radiation vest.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 37.9 km (23.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:06:18 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 177 km ( 110 miles) ...
The Liberal Roadmap to Renewal has been released and can be read here. There are several longer drafts floating around I've put on my weekend reading list, but at 80-100 pages, I may just wait for the movi...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 15:02:20 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 151 km ( 93 miles) Northeast of Neiafu, To...
One of the buzz stories of the week is in the new *Rolling Stone*, How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich. Where I grew up, they were always the Party of the Rich. Alas, in recent decades the Democrats ...
On this day I sometimes thumb through my dog-eared copy of Barry Broadfoot's "*Six War Years, Memories of Cahadians at Home and Abroad (1974)." *Broadfoot used the same technique as he did for his earl...
Russia launched an unmanned probe to one of Mars’ moons – Phobos – in the early hours of Wednesday, but it has hit technical trouble. Federal Space Agency officials say they have three days to sort the p...
Economists across the Continent have been warning about it for months. Now, the European Union too has said that a recession in the euro zone has become a distinct possibility. "Growth has stalled in Europ...
I confess the fact that a scientist in Texas made recently made the first strands of an invisibility cloak makes me really happy. Really nerdy, but really happy. I confess that as evil as they can be, I...
BBC, Reuters, AFP, and many other sources didn't overlook a message conveyed by the top Czech nuclear safety watchdog to IAEA: since October, the Czech stations (in Prague, Ústí, and elsewhere: not in Pils...
The U.N. nuclear agency is reporting "very low" — but higher than usual — levels of radiation in the Czech Republic and elsewhere in Europe. The International Atomic Energy Agency says the "very low levels...
The Pentagon crowd-sources parachute problems in humanitarian food drops.
A 4-year-old boy is in the fight of his young life after he was shot in the chest during a botched robbery in the Bronx. Police said the gunman, identified as 17-year-old Mauricio Acosta, pulled the trigg...
An armed elderly-looking man who robbed a bank inside a grocery a store in La Jolla was the so-called “Geezer Bandit,” according to the FBI. The bandit entered a Wells Fargo Bank located inside a Vons at 7...
An elderly Amish man has been attacked by his own son, who a sheriff says cut the man's hair and beard in the latest incident in a breakaway Amish community. The victim told the sheriff he was scared and u...
The home base for Occupy Atlanta has tested positive for tuberculosis. The Fulton County Health Department confirmed Wednesday that residents at the homeless shelter where protesters have been occupying ha...
A young man was fatally shot Thursday evening just yards from the Occupy Oakland encampment outside City Hall. And before the ambulance had even pulled away, people were debating whether the killing was so...
France is drawing up plans to create a breakaway organisation of eurozone countries with its own treaty, parliament and headquarters – a move that could significantly undermine the existing European Union....
Army Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs has been sentenced to life in military prison with eligibility for parole in 10 years. A military court-martial Thursday found Gibbs guilty of murdering three Afghan civilians...
Rep. Phil Gingrey has had three professions. He is a success in two of them. Gingrey was an obstetrician and proudly reports on his website that he has delivered 5,200 babies. He is a politician, represent...
That's right, high level rivers of moisture crossing the globe. Some are thought to carry more water than the Amazon. A report in *New Scientist* claims it was an Atmospheric River (AR) that caused the ...
Photo: Alameda Sheriff Deputies beating protesters, including young women, at UC-Berkeley on Wednesday. *Union City Police Officer blogs about Oakland and Alameda Sheriff's officers doing the 'dirty work' ...
From corrupt and incompetent local officials to Wall Street's credit crisis and toxic bonds, there was plenty of blame to go around on Thursday, a day after Alabama's Jefferson County declared the biggest ...
Vice President Joseph R. Biden, the landlord, can count on at least 12 more months of rental income from the agency that protects his life. Federal spending records show the U.S. Secret Service approved a ...
Oakmont Police are investigating after a 64-year-old man was hit in the head by a pumpkin. Police Chief David DiSanti says Rose and Daniel Wagner were walking along the 900-block of Pennsylvania Avenue ...
A group of armed men have stoned and shot dead a woman and her daughter in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, security officials have told the BBC. The officials blamed the Taliban, who they said had accused t...
The US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said a military strike against Iran could have "unintended consequences". He said it would only delay Iran's nuclear efforts by three years at most. Correspondent...
Meet Oakland police officer Fred Shavies who infiltrated the Occupy Oakland movement. He says the police violence against the Occupy protesters could be their "Birmingham moment." It's a rambling comment...
Conservationists in New Zealand have blamed a technical glitch after 800 endangered giant land snails were accidentally frozen to death. The rare snails, rescued from an area earmarked for coal mining, wer...
The Syrian government's "systematic" crackdown on civilians amounts to crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued Friday. The watchdog group has already urged the Arab League to pr...
Government forces shelled southwestern Yemen on Friday, killing 10 people and injuring 32 others, medics said. Fighting was ongoing in six areas in Taiz province, witnesses said. Clashes have intensified ...
The commercial heart of Thailand's capital is still at risk of flooding, with the next 10 days likely to be crucial in the battle to keep dry. So far the Central Business District, or CBD, has been shielde...
At least two bombs were dropped near the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan, resulting in an undetermined number of casualties, the spokesperson for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday. "We are...
China's censors are trying to keep online criticism and rumours from reaching a broader audience, issuing new orders prohibiting news media from reporting internet postings before they are verified. The r...
Bette Grande, a North Dakota Republican running for Congress, says she'll "padlock the doors" of America's Environmental Protection Agency. Watch her bizarre campaign video:
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It's 11.11.11 !!! And I'm posting this at 11:11, of course. 10.10.10 was cool, and 12.12.12 will be cool, too. And I love palindromes, so 12.22.21, if I'm around for it, will be totally kickass. But 11.11....
The Italian senate has adopted a package of austerity measures designed to avoid a bailout of the eurozone's third largest economy. The package is expected to get final approval in a vote by the lower hous...
If you want to know which way the political winds are blowing, watch John McCain. He was noticeably moderate, even a tad progressive, when he first ran against George w. Bush for the Republican nomination...
Saw a post on Huffington this morning that was of interest More than 60 state legislators are gathering for the invite-only leadership retreat hosted by the Progressive States Network, a group providing ...
It's been going on since January - record winds, an earthquake, floods, drought, tornadoes. Call it "global weirding" Oklahoma style. "*Even for Oklahoma, this is crazy," said Rick Smith, a National Weat...
In the last six weeks, Herman Cain has raised a whopping $9,000,000 in cash, $2.25 million coming since the sexual harassment scandal broke on * Politico* late last month. At the rate the money is flowing ...
Men in prehistoric Europe manipulated their privates with body art and piercings in ritual and to just fit in.
A solar-powered structure could transform desert air into ice and water.
Turn your existing coaxial cables into a network that maximizes wired, wireless and wide-band multimedia.
[image: The tanker Awanuia moves into position astern of the stricken container ship Rena to take a line which will transport oil between the two ships, about 12 nautical miles (22 km) from Tauranga, on ...
According to *Salon's* David Sirota, America is coming to its senses. He attributes it to a recent awareness of just two things - his country's burgeoning wealth gap and its collapsing social mobility. ...
[image: Pages from 'The Notebook', which investigative journalist Greg Palast uses to reveal that two senior nuclear plant engineers inspected the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and found that the plant...
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There's only one thing wrong with this cartoon: it shows an actual sticker, rather than a magnet. These folks usually don't "support the troops" enough to glue a piece of plastic to their vehicles.
Musicians roundtable discussion on New Orleans noise ordinance is Saturday ~Allison Fensterstock Happy Veterans' Day Y'all! ~I believe that all Veterans of our Armed Forces should recieve: 1- All the benefi...
It's called the "Air-Sea Battle" concept and the US military has established a separate agency to put it into operation. Reading the Marine Corps concept summary the unmentioned name "Iran" leaps out at t...
Iodine 131 - also called radioiodine (though many other radioactive isotopes of this element are known), is an important radioisotope of iodine. It has a radioactive decay half-life of about eight days. I...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 94 km (58.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:00:08 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 23 km ( 14.2 miles) Northeast of Nabire, P...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 17 km (10.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:45:10 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 24 km ( 15.2 miles) North of Van, Turkey No ...
We have no defensible choice but to end the development of the Athabasca Tar Sands. The 'best case scenario' International Energy Agency analysis released a few days ago warns we're on course to exhaust...
A 20-year-old man suspected of carrying out a sick attack on a cat today walked into a police station and gave himself up after the RSPCA was inundated with calls identifying him. The suspect has been nam...
*Miss McConnell was booted out of the Army after one week for groping a private's privates. He's been getting revenge ever since* Maybe last week you saw the vicious attack by self-entitled 1%-er Steve Wo...
The extremely rare meteorite was found by a farmer in a tiny Missouri town called Conception Junction (population 202).
No Federal law requires your employer to carry health insurance coverage for employees (a few states, like Massachusetts and Hawaii, are different). However, once they do have coverage, there are some Fede...
*Greece's new coalition cabinet and Prime Minister-designate Lucas Papademos are due to be officially sworn in, after a week of political chaos. The new government's most pressing task is to approve Gree...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 33.6 km (20.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:44:12 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 176 km ( 110 miles) ...
Fat snowflakes began to fall onto dozens of rescue workers laboring with jackhammers and hack-saws through the rubble of a five story hotel, which collapsed in Wednesday night's 5.6 magnitude earthquake....
W*ith Europe slowed down in crisis, President Barack Obama is launching a charm offensive this week to hitch the U.S. economy to growth opportunities in Asia that he hopes can help power the recovery he ...
Government forces shelled southwestern Yemen on Friday, killing 10 people and injuring 32 others, medics said. Fighting was ongoing in six areas in Taiz province, witnesses said. Clashes have intensified...
Another blogger has been beheaded by a drug cartel as a warning for those who use social media to report illegal activities and tip off police. The moderator of a social network was left under a blood-sta...
Isn’t Kevin Connolly like Mark Mardell? They’ve both got alliterative sounding names, their voices sound similarly sneery, and they even wear the same shirt. Kevin has been busy in the West Bank recordin...
Strolling along in scruffy jeans and sneakers, this is the young boy who police claim raped a girl of five in a McDonald's Playland. After seeing these photos the boy's parents brought him to the police. ...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 38.5 km (23.9 miles), the quake hit at 11:34:45 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 236 km ( 147 miles) SSW of Kag...
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have received a letter from a person claiming to be responsible for the Halloween night death of a teenager from British Columbia. Taylor Van Diest, 18, was dresse...
The man allegedly caught on CCTV swinging a cat around by its tail has handed himself in to police, the RSPCA says. A statement released by the charity says a 20-year-old man from Ramsgate voluntarily ha...
Two offshore racers have been killed after their powerful speedboat flipped up into the air before crashing at high speed at a world championship event. Spectators and organisers watched as Big Thunder M...
Eating brown bread or wholegrain cereals three times a day cuts the risk of bowel cancer by a fifth, a major study has shown. But surprisingly, researchers found no 'significant evidence' that eating mo...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 41.4 km (25.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:10:23 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 185 km ( 115 miles) ESE of...
*Yes, of course: this blog entry was accidentally posted in an 11-dimensional Universe on 11/11/11 at 11:11:11* *Go elsewhere to learn everything about 11* Last night, I went to Aussig (Czech: *Ústí nad...
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:02:46 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 286 km ( 177 miles) E...
With the eurozone in disarray, it's hardly the time for the EU to be flag waving. But proposals passed by the European Parliament yesterday say our sporting heroes should wear the EU flag on their nationa...
A senior manager of Transport for London fell six storeys to his death in front of shocked colleagues at the company's headquarters after allegedly hearing he was being made redundant. Jack Shemtob, 53, ...
A solicitor worried about paying his children’s private school fees jumped in front of a train and killed himself, an inquest heard. Vincent Buffoni, 49, was spending up to £30,000 a year to send Matthew, ...
[image: Limmy apologises for controversial tweets as Tory MP Louise Mensch gets involved] Is Brian "Limmy" Limond worthy of a BBC license payer funded pay cheque? "Scottish comedian Brian ‘Limmy’ Limond h...
[image: Mark Mardell] Mark Mardell is a busy chap these days. One moment is his salivating at Rick Perry's 53 seconds of forgetfulness during the latest GOP debate (It's finished Perry, reckons Mardell, a...
Africa's western black rhino is now officially extinct according the latest review of animals and plants by the world's largest conservation network. The subspecies of the black rhino -- which is classifi...
I wonder why some people get the idea that the BBC is pro-Palestinian and resolutely anti-Israel. Give this a listen. and weep. The bias is effortless. Click through to read and contribute comments on thi...
Venezuelan federal authorities on Thursday dispatched their "best investigators" to track the kidnappers of Major League Baseball catcher Wilson Ramos, the country's justice minister said. Ramos, a risin...
Facing international worries about the potential global impact of the country's financial crisis, Italy gave indications Thursday that there may be growing support for former EU commissioner Mario Monti to...
When the euro became official tender 12 years ago, it was hailed as an economic and social savior, "the beginning of a strong European Union," according to the EU's top official at the time. But now, in ...
The commercial heart of Thailand's capital is still at risk of flooding, with the next 10 days likely to be crucial in the battle to keep dry. So far the Central Business District, or CBD, has been shield...
Europe has been warned it could be *heading for a new recession next year*because of a "vicious circle" of government debt, vulnerable banks and a lack of consumer spending. US treasury secretary Timothy ...
The Syrian regime has committed crimes against humanity during its ongoing crackdown in Homs, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. The organisation says there is evidence of "systematic abuse" of ...
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A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:53:48 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 6 km ( 3.7 miles) South of Van, Turkey No Re...
*Shall we digitize all bureaucracy and money transfers?* The city of Pilsen has been intermittently using its own coins, banknotes, and currencies for centuries. For example, you can buy 1/3 of a liter o...
After one of the strangest local weather days in memory, an Oklahoma woman with a sense of humor asked on Twitter earlier this week: "Wanna experience the apocalypse before it happens? Visit Oklahoma!" S...
A private plane has crashed into the English Channel just off the coast of Guernsey. A Royal navy vessel, HMS Tyne, has been drafted in to search for the light aircraft and the two people onboard. The M...
Two Britons have been killed when their helicopter crashed in a mountainous area of the Spanish island of Majorca. The helicopter came down in a wooded area between Andratx and Estellencs. A fire brigade...
According to the National Environment Agency (NEA), the highest rainfall recorded as at 5.30 pm was 91.4 mm at Kent Ridge in the West Coast area. The afternoon heavy downpour caused a canal at Block 611 in...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 59.8 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:28:15 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 33 km ( 20) North of Kalamata, Greece N...
Kids having sex on prime time broadcast TV? Must be sweeps month. It's so predictable, it's almost laughable. Almost. That is, it would be if it weren't for the fact that there are real-world consequences ...
SPIEGEL: What should the government that leads Greece out of the crisis look like? Bakoyannis: With its black-and-white logic -- according to which one party is always right and the other one is always wr...
Women are overtaking men in education and in the workplace, a senior Government minister said yesterday – creating a new generation of stay-at-home fathers. Universities minister David Willetts predicted ...
The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunities for young adults and saddled them wi...
The expansion of the CIA’s undeclared drone war in the tribal areas of Pakistan required a big expansion of who can be marked for death. Once the standard for targeted killing was top-level leadership in a...
Politicians of all stripes talk about small business being the backbone of the US economy. But the vast majority of Americans work for large companies, and it is big business doing most of the hiring - and...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have received a letter from a person claiming to be responsible for the Halloween night death of a teenager from British Columbia. Taylor Van Diest, 18, was dresse...
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