"More than 200 passengers have been rescued from a Baltic Sea ferry after it caught fire near the German island of Fehmarn, maritime officials said. At least 20 people suffered light injuries, the German Maritime Emergency Centre said. There were reports of...
Barbora is the name of this 12' brushed stainless steel sculpture that has appeared in Thornton Park across the lane from Pacific Central Station near the Main Street Skytrain terminal in midtown Vancouver. It is here as a part of the Vancouver Biennale and it is the second...
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Three Baltic sisters - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia is struggling to survive Global recession.
Dalia Grybauskaite, Lithuania's new president, has admitted the country could be forced to seek help from IMF (International Monetary Fund). The finance ministry was considering...
Eating crow is an expression used by English speakers as an idiom for being humiliated. Despite the nursery rhyme about four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie, neither crows or blackbirds rate high on the...
created by Barbara McPherson | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 419 views | 34 recommendations | 2 comments
Dalia Grybauskaite has become a recent addition to the long history of Lithuania by becoming the first female elected President of the Baltic Nation. She is also an independent which is another first.
The turnout at the Presidential Elections was 52% with Ms....
Dalia Grybauskaite, former European Commissioner for Financial Programming and Budget, became the first female President of Lithuania, having won 68% of the vote. Grybauskaite was a clear favourite heading into...
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PORNOGRAPHY and PHARMACUETICAL SPAM EPIDEMIC HITTING THE INTERNET. USERS ARE BEING LURED WITH PORNO AND ADVERTISEMENT FOR PHARMACUETICALS, THEN IF THEY HIT THE USER PROFILE ON THE FORUMS, AN EXE PROGRAM IS...
Some like a drink more than others but this can also be said for countries. The lastest firgures from the World Health Organisation show a new list of big drinkers based on pure alcohol bought and drank in 2007. 1)...
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" Lithuania's newly elected parliament has chosen as its new speaker a popular television talent show host once convicted of placing a prank call about a bomb in a hotel. The speaker is first in line to lead...
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Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has said he will call of his threat to deploy missiles in the Kaliningrad region, a Russian excave within the EU, if Barack Obama calls off the Bush Administration's plans to build a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. An...
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" Polling stations have opened in Lithuania for the second and final round of voting to elect a new parliament. The first round of voting on October 12 saw 73 of Lithuania's 141 parliamentary seats decided, leaving 68 to be fought over in the second round....
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American President George W Bush has extended his support to smaller countries around the Russia. He also assured full cooperation to visiting leaders of these nations. USA is trying to seek greater energy cooperation with Lithuania and going to allow ...
No production, no income, no money to pay overpriced homes with no re-sell guarantee.A new economy model will look for other colateral than real estate, knowledge to medium sized production replaces homes. The...
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" Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:07:42 GMT Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says the emergence of extremism is the brainchild of the US policies in the Middle East. “Today, extremism in Afghanistan and...
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