Flash floods in Vietnam have killed 100 people, and forecasters fear additional casualties as more rain is predicted for Monday. The floods have occured in the country's northern mountain procinves. More than two dozen people are still missing."Flooding and landslides in...
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Brian Clough was a great manager for Nottingham Forest winning two European Cups but just did not make it work at Leeds United, "The Damned United" should be an interesting film for Football fans, Leeds Fans and...
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Iconic Time Magazine has a new green cover for this issue, in order to address climate change."When time magazine first did a climate change front page with a lonely polar bear on thin ice, it was clear to all that the debate on the reality of climate change was coming to an...
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If you`re in the area, Len will be speaking here. Please drop by and say hello if you`re at the conference."PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Society for New Communications Research today announced the...
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(*room temperature)"Muqtada Al-Sadr Announces He’s Retiring From Leadership Of Sadrist Movement, Sequestering Himself
The leader of the Shi'ite Sadrists in Iraq, Muqtada Al-Sadr, has announced in a letter to...
I am pretty aware of what's going on in the world, as I know most people are at nowpublic, but to see the numbers sometimes really puts everything in perspective. "(CNN) -- Hopes are high that the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and armed groups can end a...
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"Director Oliver Stone, who has made movies about Presidents John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, is developing a project about the current occupant of the White House, but promises it will not be a hatchet...
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This is a really good article about the current situation in darfur. Once again we are somewhat helpless to provide any Major Assistance which is what they need, but I think it deserves attention.The first part of the article describes the detail of the human suffering in the...
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Well, let's see how this pans out. I don't think its going to work, anyway."Speaking to the BBC, Lord Triesman (above) - parliamentary Under Secretary for Innovation, Universities and Skills - has admitted that...
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"AN ISOLATED pinnacle of granite, lashed by North Atlantic waves and gales off the British coast, Rockall has long been the focus of passionate territorial disputes. But talks this week between four nations are focusing on the sea or, more specifically, the oil and gas...
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"England's secondary curriculum is being overhauled to give teachers more flexibility in the classroom whilst focusing on the basics, ministers say.
A quarter of the school day is to be freed up so that teachers can focus more on individual students' needs.
But more subjects...
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On Tuesday night, President Bush vetoed the supplemental war-funding bill. National Review Online asked a group of experts, who include a former senator, a former Cabinet secretary, an Iraq-war vet, a relative of an American murdered on September 11, 2001, a historian, and...
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"Chancellor Gordon Brown has urged people to wait for the "full facts" of the police investigation into cash-for-honours allegations to emerge.
His comments came as Downing Street once more insisted that it had...
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"MAKASSAR, Indonesia (Reuters) -- A U.S. navy ship joined the search on Tuesday for an Indonesian airliner that went missing eight days ago with 102 people aboard, with the hunt focusing on a large metal object far down on the sea floor.
The object was discovered on Monday by...