Today marks precisely ten years since the Real IRA bombing of Omagh, Northern Ireland, on 15 August 1998. The bomb which ripped through the town centre that busy Saturday afternoon claimed the lives of 29 people,...
The funeral for soul singer Isaac Hayes will be held this coming Monday, August 18th, in Cordova, TN, just outside of Memphis. As NowPublic previously reported, the singer died last Sunday of a stroke, at the age of...
The family of renowned American comedian Bernie Mac, who died Saturday from pneumonia at the age of 50, had expected that he would recover from the illness that had hospitalized him since the middle of July....
A Far Right Blogger claims that initial police reports claim that Li was a MUSLIM but have covered the story up because of the political implications. " I've learned for sure now, via a VFR reader who participates at...
"The memorial on the grounds of the old Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp could fall into disrepair due to a lack of funds, and organizers are looking to the international community for help. The spokeman for...
7th July, 2005 - the day that London joined that unenviable club of cities that had been attacked by Islamist extremists. A day that took the lives of 52 people and left hundreds of others injured.Just as New...
A French couple were given a four-month suspended prison sentence for making a porn video at Canada's First World War memorial in France. The married couple in their thirties were also fined about $1,500 for...
Globalization may be one to blame. But the confluence of different factors may have caused the decline in the Buddhism belief. However, it may also mean that Japanese people or people who are formerly part of this belief is seeing new light in some other faiths as...
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Monday marked the third anniversary of the London tube and bus bombings. Memorial ceremonies were held at the locations where the bomb victims met their tragic end, King's Cross, Edgware Road, Russell Square...
French president Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to the Israeli Knesset, or parliament, was notable for its distinct difference in tone not only from US president George Bush's address to the same body recently, but also from the recent speeches given to US Israel lobbying...
The 28-foot statue planned for Martin Luther King Jr national memorial is getting a bit of a makeover. The US Commission of Fine Arts has agreed to change the face of the statue as before they said he looked 'too...
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A funeral was held on Wednesday for NBC journalist Tim Russert, who died last week at the age of 58. In attendance were many of Russert's family, friends, and leading American journalists and politicians."Tom Brokaw...
Russert Memorial Highway Proposed
On Monday Sens. Charles Schumer, Hillary Clinrton, abd Rep, Brian Higgins will introduce a resolution that will rename a portion os U.S. Route 20 to become the Russert memorial...
Columbia -A local TV station is reporting that a 4 year old child removed a gun from her grandmothers purse and shot herself at the Sam's Club. The child was found in critical condition and is now...
Good to hear Australian PM Kevin Rudd speaking out against nuclear weapons during his recent visit to Hiroshima. According to a report on int'l military spending from the Stockholm International Peace Research...