UK homes are smallest in Europe

UK is facing an extreme space crunch and now houses are becoming smaller and smaller. London has the smallest house in the Europe and to end this woes London Mayor Boris Johnson has threatned to make a law about minimum space standards on all council flat houses. The Mayor...

High-security terror trial puts jail safety in spotlight

"High-security terror trial puts jail safety in spotlightNeco Cockburn, The Ottawa CitizenPublished: Friday, June 27, 2008In light of the extraordinary displays of security at the Ottawa courthouse during...

Victims of Xenophobic Attacks Can Stay in South Africa

South Africa's Home Affairs Minister has stated that victims of the recent xenophobic attacks, who were then sheltered in ad-hoc camps, will not be deported.""People affected by the violence and who have sought...

How to steal a European painting

"Europe has an especially high concentration of world-class art collections, many of which are housed in modest institutions. The art in Zurich was housed in a 19th-century villa, as opposed to a large-scale museum with a complicated entrance. Further, most security personnel...

Fire wreaks havoc in Wasaga Beach, Ontario

Does anyone have photos?UPDATE: Latest reports say that 80% of the main mall was destroyed or severely damaged. Investigators say it will take a few days to determine the cause, and arson hasn't been ruled...

User-generated site lands $10.6M in funding

Len revealed our plans to spend the cash on Canada AM today..."A Vancouver-based Internet company is aiming to become the world's largest news agency by leveraging the content created by regular people all over...

Video: Chinese cinema manager dies saving patrons

The manager of a cinema in Hunan province, in central China, died saving patrons from a fire that broke out during a viewing of Transformers. He reportedly stayed in the cinema evacuating patrons if he died. The...

Club Inferno: Gatecrasher Burns Down in Sheffield

One of the largest nightclubs in the UK has burnt down, though nobody was reported injured in the incident."Sheffield super-club Gatecrasher has been destroyed in a huge fire which engulfed the building on...

Baltimore County Warehouse Burns

" June 4, 2007 Maryland - A six-alarm fire raged last night through a Violetville warehouse that housed a family-owned trucking business and offices of a foundation that supports critically ill children. The roof collapsed on the building in the 1400 block of Rome Road, which...

British troops kill up to 100 Taleban fighters

"British troops claim to have wiped out up to 100 Taleban fighters and destroyed an enemy "regional headquarters" in Afghanistan in the Army's biggest single raid since it started policing the volatile Helmand province. The Taleban compound, in the area of Kostay south of the...

Firefighters Battling Blaze In South Loop

"Illinois - At 3:30 pm on October 24, 2006, the Chicago Fire Department dispatch received a call of a fire in the basement of a 6 story loft-type building at 630 S. Wabash Avenue. The building was 75 x 125 and...

panel hears cost of illegal aliens

Less than 2 percent of Missouri State prison population born outside the United States.

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