Gordon Brown: 'I'm like Bronte's Heathcliff'

This has to be a major gaffe for Brown - Heathcliff was bordering on the mad - digging his dead lover's body up not once but twice." The Prime Minister likened himself to Bronte's dark, brooding vengeful character...

B.C.'s Emily Carr Art College to Become University

Granting ECIAD official university status is a good thing: now trust-funded starving artists can get Bachelor's and Master's degrees just like the rest of us. But this might not be a good thing from the perspective...

Emily Welch to go for women's world shearing record

Emily Welch will attempt the nine-hour women's lamb shearing world record ... which was held by New Zealander Jillian Burney who shore 541 lambs. And you thought rugby players and wrestlers were tough!

Jack is the most popular boy's name in England and Wales for the 13th year ru...

"Jack is the most popular boy's name in England and Wales for the 13th year running, while Grace is the most popular for baby girls in 2007. In the girls' top five, Ruby is at number two, up two; 2006's top name Olivia is down two places to three; while Emily is up one to...

Virginia Tech memorial grows on Facebook

UPDATE: A NowPublic member has made us aware of a charity accepting donations in Emily's name. Rawldogs.org, a no-kill dog shelter in Emily's hometown of Rappahannock is accepting monetary donations in lieu of...

Jeanette's Memory Lives On

"A HUSBAND whose wife died from leukaemia last year will today officially launch a new trust in her name to boost global health. Jeanette Crizzle, 51, died in October after a year-long search to find a suitable bone marrow donor failed. The Jeanette Crizzle Trust, launched by...

We Media: What's the word?

NowPublic is, as we speak, making ourselves known at the We Media conference in Miami. We're reporting live from there, but we wanted to know: What's the buzz about We Media out there in the stratosphere?Well, as a...

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Meet Nigerian Army's best female sniper

She joined the services of the Nigerian Army to defend Nigeria’s territorial intergrity after watching a shooting competition. She subsequently fell in love with guns and has been shooting professionally since then

Headstone found at Dickinson home (AP)

" AMHERST, Mass. - For Emily Dickinson, death was never too far from the imagination. The topic fueled her writing, making for some of the most memorable lyrics in American poetry. Now, death is posing a bit of a puzzle for the caretakers of her homestead. While making...

‘I love U guys’ text before slaying

As the hours dragged by and the gunman inside Platte Canyon High School released four hostages one by one, standing among the desperate parents was John Keyes, wondering about the fate of his 16-year-old daughter, Emily.Louis Gonzalez, a spokesman for the family, said the...

Emily Strikes Texas' South Padre Island

Hurricane Emily continued pushing turbulent waves onto this resort island, bending palm trees and rocking parked vehicles Wednesday afternoon, but the storm caused only minimal damage along Texas' coast.

Emily, Jacob Still Most Popular Baby Names (AP)

AP - A lot of kids must look up when teachers call out "Emily" or "Jacob" these days. Those were the most popular babies' names last year — and have been every year since the 1990s.

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