Here is another fascinating article about the situation in South Ossetia that you will not see in a servile western press."For many the war in Georgia may have seemed as though it came from nowhere; as if it just...
If you want to help JetBlue test their new bag check and security system at JFK Airport, which is set to open in September, then you can now sign up for their trial, where you won't get to go anywhere, but you do get...
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Extraordinary example of a man with a tenacious yet creative spirit that overcame all kinds of obstacles in his life."Mexican musician-turned-actor Angel Tavira, who came out of nowhere in 2006 to win a...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYou know, I got to buy Stock in "For Sale" signs, just in my neighbourhood alone there are 6 For Sale signs on Late Model SUV's. With General Motors announcing...
"The international space station's lone toilet is broken, leaving the crew with almost nowhere to go. So NASA may order an in-orbit plumbing service call when space shuttle Discovery visits next week.Until then, the...
***OPINION***"My reactions are based on an article titled Israel-Syria Peace Deal Could Threaten Iran, Hezbollah. When you only read the title you think that things are improving (snicker, snicker) in the Middle...
"Last week, Electronic Arts held a showcase for its latest titles, jamming journalists into a small Islington studio, where we sat on an exciting revolving auditorium that juddered round to face the various game demos in turn. Each title got its own stage area, sort of like a...
This young man says it best " All I want to do is wake up in my own place, make a coffee" instead of waking up in an alley and going to a Mission at 10am and waiting 20 minutes for a coffee. I am not homeless,...
A retirement home for former sex-worked in Mexico City has been set up to take care of women who are retired from the sex trade."An estimated 3,000 prostitutes work in Mexico City at any one time
Go to the centre of Mexico City after dark and you can see the women start to...
"Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard broke down and sobbed after he knocked down a 10-year-old-boy outside a school.
Jamie Halliwell ran into the side of the footballer's Bentley - but escaped with only a broken leg.
A...
He is 23, and is newly installed at number one. If you buy the hype, he is the biggest thing to hit the world of pop in a generation. Guy Adams goes in search of the maverick behind 'Grace Kelly'
Take Freddie...
"People tend to stay fixated on the best time of their lives, and in the case of the neocons, that was undoubtedly the Cold War era. It is therefore no surprise that, with the coming of the "war on terrorism," they have likened the enemy, as Norman Podhoretz puts it in his...
"Iraq's firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Saturday lashed out at US President George W. Bush for refusing to set a timetable for the withdrawal of American troops.
Sadr, known for his anti-American stand,...
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"Nowhere is safe. Insurgents struck in the heart of the Green Zone yesterday, one of the most heavily defended places in Baghdad. The symbolism - and the bloody message - was clear with this attack on the home to the US-imposed democracy.
A suicide bomber cleared at least...
"In just three weeks, Fred Thompson has improbably transformed the contest for the Republican presidential nomination. It is not merely that he has come from nowhere to double digits in national polls. He is the talk of GOP political circles, because he is filling the...