Street protests vs rice prices start

And then it has happened.  The stiff cost of food has brought people, especially the poor, out in the streets to vent out their dismay.  " Children of street vendors joined their parents in a noise barrage here Wednesday to express their dismay over not being able...

NHS is facing £4.5bn compensation bill over babies damaged at birth by hospi...

"The NHS is facing £4.5bn in compensation claims over alleged blunders by midwives and doctors that have left babies suffering severe brain damage, The Observer can reveal. The huge sum is detailed in confidential data from the NHS Litigation Authority, which handles most of...

Ferry Passengers Face Egg Barrage

"Cars from Jersey and Guernsey have been pelted with eggs in St Malo by French dockers protesting about ferry companies employing foreign workers. Passengers who arrived on the Friday morning Condor 10 ferry, were driving out of the ferry terminal when they were attacked. The...

Yahoo Bites the Hand that Feeds It, Gets Bitten Back

Yet another bog tech corporation learns that messing with its customers is perhaps not the best idea.Oh, and if you do not know what "goatse" is, then you must under no circumstances enter it into the search engine of your choice, and definitely not whilst at work."Yahoo has...

The Two-Faced Pig

"It's a two-faced, four-eyed pig Thursday, January 18, 2007  Two-faced pig  The recent barrage of two-faced (or otherwise unusually shaped) animals just won't stop coming.  Hot on the heels of the two-faced cow and the six-legged cow comes a new entrant in the...

E-mail mistakes that make you look bad

"I get an awful lot of e-mail. Sometimes, people are looking for help with their computers. Some of it is fan mail. Other folks are mad about something I said or wrote. Add to this the barrage of press releases and an occasional blast from the past when a former classmate or...

March 27, 1941 -- Takeo Yoshikawa arrived in Honolulu, Hawaii

Takeo was the Japanese spy inside Pearl Harbor. On December 6, 1941, Takeo sent his final message: *No barrage balloons sighted, Battleships are without crinolines. No indications of air or sea alert wired to nearby islands. Enterprise and Lexington [aircraft carriers]...