The news comes a day after Ford posts its larger quarterly loss ever. Speculators say that consumers are buying more fuel effecient and most of the demand is coming from Asia and Brazil, while there is a decline in...
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Over the past few years we have come to expect McCain's errors on geography, culture, and history when it doesn't pertain to the United States. Of all the weeks to make a verbal gaffe, this sure wasn't it. McCain has...
"The End of White Flight For the First Time in Decades, Cities' Black Populations Lose Ground, Stirring Clashes Over Class, Culture and Even Ice Cream By CONOR DOUGHERTYJuly 19, 2008; Page A1 Decades of white flight transformed America's cities. That era is...
Nominees for this year's primetime Emmy Awards were announced this morning -- and Tina Fey's hit NBC comedy 30 Rock is the clear favourite with nods in multiple categories including best Comedy Series. The 2008...
The UK government has cancelled a planned 2p rise in fuel tax in light of the ever increasing petrol prices. However the timing to the decision, coming as it does shortly before the very important by-election in Glasgow East, has being deemed suspicious. Gordon Brown may be...
Wow, quite a story. Apparently these lasers were supposed to shoot into the sky, but because it was raining the set up tents and had the lasers reflect off them instead. The lasers were too powerful to be doing this,...
Could growing fresh vegetables help save crumbling inner cities around the world and tackle hunger? Putting in the spade-work at one of the charity's gardens That is the ambitious aim of a charity called Urban Farming, which has...
"TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- A mother and her 6-month old girl escaped unhurt after she calmed down a knife-wielding robber with a glass of iced tea and a chat, Tokyo police said Wednesday. The 30-year-old housewife was in the hallway of her apartment building Monday when a man...
"It is the year the world remembers for assassination attempts on President Reagan and Pope John Paul II, the wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer and Indiana Jones's first outing in Raiders of the Lost...
London stock exchange opened with deep correction after the news of fresh credit crunch. Investors mood are turned sombre with similar news from other European exchanges. "Fears of fresh losses in the financial...
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It appears ODESSA's ratline to Argentina was good for something:"Film historians had doubted they would ever find the missing parts of "Metropolis" -- until three reels of the science fiction movie made in Germany a long time ago, were discovered in a country far, far...
I spent the last ten minutes failing to dream up a Beatles-lyric headline for this story (left on the cutting room floor: "I should have known better that the Beatles hadn't finished releasing new material"). Post a...
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" The Jakarta administration's plan to replace 2,500 base transceiver station (BTS) towers with 850 newer ones will lead to cellular network chaos, says a member of the Indonesian Telecommunications Regulatory...
What a comeback under pressure, now has a big meeting with Nadal in the quarters."Andy Murray produced a stunning fightback from two sets down to beat Richard Gasquet, thrilling a packed Centre Court in the gathering...
"Greece Vs Spain HighlightsEuro 2008 HighlightsUEFA EURO 2008 GROUP DDate: Wed 18th JuneKick Off: 19:45 BSTVenue: Stadion Wals-Siezenheim, SalzburgWatch Live Streaming: Greece Vs Spain Liveaddthis_pub =...