Will Metallica opt for a pay-what-you want, free, or fixed price level of fan engagement? Note the last line of this highlighted story. It sounds like it's anyone's guess."As the September release of its first...
Canada has been ranked second to last, only beating the US in a new study of consumer habits and how they affect the environment.Out of 14 countries, Canada scored a very low rating from the National Geographic...
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"The mission of Cassini spacecraft continues as it monitors the powerful electrical storm on Saturn, where the lightning is 10,000 times more powerful than the lightning on Earth."
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"The UN peacekeeping chief Jean- Marie Guehenno on Sunday called on Kosovo Serb leaders to respect law and order as violence is not a way to solve problems.Guehenno, the UN undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations, made the appeal after meeting the presidents of...
" BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, April 28, 2008 – Several hundred citizens from a village near Tag Ab Valley in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province swarmed a makeshift hospital April 19 during a village medical outreach hosted by Task Force Gladiator servicemembers....
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India Government has given a green signal for the manned mission to moon called Chandrayan mission.India plans to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon by 2008 and has begun to study technologies...
Please keep in mind that many of these 'homeless' actually work, though at relatively low-paying, and sometimes sporadic, jobs. Many also make use of daytime facilities available that includes showers, laundry, meals, and phones. They are not 'filthy vagrants'."A month after...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorMany British Columbians are asking themselves, what the hell was a repeat rapist and murderer allowed in Minimum Security Prison given his long record of offences? ...
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Russia's Soyuz TMA-11 has landed in Kazakhstan, intact but off-course. ON board was a small international crew, including South Korea's first astronaut, Yi So-yeon."The crew are safe, but were subjected to severe...
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Five years on, and the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region continues. Around the world today, human rights campaigners are holding events to return this tragedy to the public eye; the region seems to be a vidtim...
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"South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-Yeon blasted off into space on Tuesday, prompting her mother, apparently overwhelmed by the occasion, to scream and fall to the ground.In another historic first, one of her fellow cosmonauts, Sergei Volkov, followed in the footsteps of his...
I'm not sure if it's actually cost effective energy wise to build giant buildings like that and it looks more like an prestige project than an attempt to become more "green" The region is known to...
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"Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia on Sunday sent 40 military personnel to join a UN peacekeeping force exercise in Bangladesh.The exercise code-named "Shanti Doot-2" was opened by Bangladeshi Air Force Chief of Staff Vice Marshal Zia Rahman at the Bangladesh Institute of...
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Neat idea via CNET, a company called Green Plug is having a 'what's under your desk' contest. The goal is simple, take pics of the mess under your desk, and send it in!My house has several 'choke' points of...