Tricked-Out Inflatable House Provides "Instant Survival"

"SAN FRANCISCO — In tough circumstances, sometimes all you need is hope, but other times you need a blow-up survival shelter featuring a bed, a couch, freeze-dried food, a 50-gallon water bladder, a first-aid...

Afghanistan flooding EU with 7.700 tons of Heroin, 90% of world opium product...

Canabis down, Opium up With the smoking ban, Canabis consumation is decreasing, cheap Heroin from Afghanistan is flooding Britain. The soldiers are among the most exposed, followed by the everyday people in...

Meltdown fallout: India to see unemployment zoom

The worst fear has been confirmed. India has been debating about the imapct of US meltdown its economy and projected growth rate.Signals of the slowdown in the US economy is most visible in the real estate sector where prices have corrected by 15-20%. Other sectors of the...

Science and Mathematics Popular Degree Subjects Again After Decline

THANKS to a government injection of a £350m grant, more students are studying science and mathematics, reversing a recent worrying slump, with a shortage of teachers in the subjects, and scarce highly...

Number of millionaires rises to 1.23 lakh in India

" NEW DELHI: With economy growing in a rapid pace and stock markets rising sharply in 2007, India saw the fastest growth in the number of high networth individuals (HNI) worldwide and their combined wealth...

Global carbon emissions rising rapidly - study

 These are some of the intresting findings of latest study on carbon emossion .  The Global Carbon Project said in its report carbon dioxide emissions from mankind are growing about four times faster since...

Sarah Palin has a penchant for sun tans

Republican vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been under intense media scrutiny after being nominated. Sarah Palin has moved from a small town mayor, in a short span of two years to governor's office....

China "Re-Educates" student for pictures

China once again demonstrating that old quote from Chairman Mao is still accurate when looking at China. -"The power of communism comes from the barrel of a gun."   " Re-Education Through Labor August...

U.S. Leads World in Wind Energy Production

From my personal blog: " According to the American Wind Energy Association, the United States is now the leader in wind energy production. Wind energy in 2008 has risen and current wind power capacity is rated...

Nearly two million subscribers online in NZ

The latest figures from Statistics New Zealand show 1.5 million subscribers are now hooked up to the internet and most have broadband. " Broadband subscriptions have increased 10.7 per cent in the six months to March 2008, to reach 891,000. Subscribers with analog...

State facing famine after rat plague

"India - A million people in northeastern India face famine after rats destroyed most of the rice crop in their state, the International Rice Research Institute has said.The 2007 infestation spread over to the border areas of Bangladesh and Myanmar in early 2008, "increasing...

New Zealand tourism hits record level

New Zealand goes green.   " New Zealand's pristine environment helped boost tourism revenue by nearly 5 percent to a record of more than $15 billion last year, the government said. The tourism sector was responsible for some 9.2 percent of the nation's gross...

Taleban's '$100m opium takings'

" Taleban insurgents took an estimated $100m (£50m) from Afghanistan's opium trade in 2007, the head of the UN's anti-narcotics agency told the BBC. Antonio Maria Costa, head of the United Nations Office on...

Germany 'is world's greenest country'

German effiency sees them mking great strides forward in the race for a greener planet. " Germany has been labelled the world's greenest country after it cut its energy use by more than any other state in 2007. German use of oil, gas and coal in 2007 fell by 5.6 per cent...

Military Power in China

"China has become the 3rd largest military superpower, surpassing France.The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in Sweden reported it in its 2008 yearbook.It says world military expenditures in 2007 is estimated at 1,339-billion dollars, up 6 percent from the...

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