N.Korea celebrates the birthday of the "Great Leader" Kim Il Sung

North Korea celebrated the birthday of its "great leader" and "eternal president" late Kim Il Sung, the father of current leader Kim Jong Il, on April 15. The traditional North Korean festivities involving precise...

15 dead in China coal mine accident

This is not the single such story from the dark and deep mines of China, we hear such kind of mine blast on regular basis.Why chines are so unsafe to work.Even death toll is not the true picture of the reality.The much reguated chinese media dont have the liberty to...

Belarus parliamentary elections: mixed reviews

Many deem the current government of Belarus to be the "last dictatorship in Europe.” Hence, falsifications and inconsistencies were expected to take place in Parliamentary elections that happened yesterday in capital Minsk. Yet, international monitors claimed that despite...

Sarkozy in Russia/Georgia Talks, Pushes for EU Monitors

Russia announced today it would pull its military forces back to pre-conflict positions by Oct. 1, but only if they are replaced by 200 EU monitors. Russia is also due to pull out from checkpoints between Sinaki and the Black Sea port of Poti. Georgia stated they would not...

EL-Baradai admits Plutonium leaking at IAEA Austria

        Plutonium is the most dangereous form of nuclear material,milligrams can contaminate 100 to 1000 persons. In case itreaches somehow the Ozone layer, it is extremley dangerous.The...

Star Search Casting Exposes The Latest Entertainment Frauds & Scams

"Hollywood, CA (PRWEB) July 8, 2008 -- As the number of scams targeting aspiring actors, singers, dancers and models escalate, and scammers become more sophisticated in their methods, it can be tricky to identify the difference between a scam and a legitimate opportunity. In...

Born too soon: Can tiny fighters make it home?

" DALLAS - Seventeen weeks premature, our twin sons were so small, so fragile. And already they'd been through so much.Josh had had heart surgery, Jake a life-threatening bowel operation -- and that was just in their first week. They'd received blood transfusions, endured...

What's happening to London house prices?

As stocks of unsold properties pile up, and 3 million new homes are on the drawing board for development, prices are likely to come down with a big bump, unless you can afford a £5 million or above property,...

Opposition reunites in Zimbabwe

"Zimbabwe's rival opposition factions say they have reunited, declaring they have a majority in parliament. The announcement was jointly made by Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, whose faction split in 2005. The final results...

Comcast monitoring Twitter, blogs and other social media

This may eliminate long wait times on the phone listening to a robotic female voice saying 'please stay on the line; your call is important to us'. The power of Twitter can reach far and wide it seems!"Have a...

Global Cooling

[OPINION]Oh the weather outside is frightful... Frightfully cold that is. Maybe I'm being a little premature in saying that global warming, at least as the environmental alarmists make it out to seem, because...

GLAAD Award Nominees Announced

It's great to see how far we've come since the days of Ellen DeGeneres' sitcom being the only mainstream television series that promintently featured gay and lesbian characters.  As GLAAD Presiden Neil Giuliano notes, "This year's extraordinary nominees exemplify the...

On the Hunt: Bush backer seeks $1 billion for Peru project

"On the Hunt: Bush backer seeks $1 billion for Peru project DEPARTMENT Washington Babylon BY Ken Silverstein PUBLISHED December 18, 2007 Beginning tomorrow and over the next few weeks, the World Bank and other lenders will be voting, apparently in favor, on a package worth...

Detroit voting 'messy' due to ID requirement

"DETROIT -- Officials from the Detroit Branch NAACP monitoring voting this morning say the process is "messy" because of the new photo identification requirement. Melvin "Butch" Hollowell, general counsel to the Detroit NAACP, said there was one report of a voter being turned...

Ex-bank was HQ for burglars

"Ex-bank was HQ for burglars By ANDREW WELLNER awellner@adn.com Published: September 20, 2007 Last Modified: September 20, 2007 at 05:05 PM WASILLA - When she came to work July 30 at Arctic Beauty Supply on the...

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