Many killed in Pakistan bus crash

More than 60 bus passengers were killed when  the bus they were travelling collided with a milk tanker and caught fire in central Pakistan. Eyewtinesses said that The bus, travelling from Karachi,  was speeding when it struck the other vehicle on a...

UK homes are smallest in Europe

UK is facing an extreme space crunch and now houses are becoming smaller and smaller. London has the smallest house in the Europe and to end this woes London Mayor Boris Johnson has threatned to make a law about minimum space standards on all council flat houses. The Mayor...

India battles devastating floods

The condition of flood victims in India are not better despite temporary relief camps due to the lack of central co-ordination in flood affected areas. Trucks and vans carrying relief material stood...

Prisoners released early to free up space

UK prison guards are telling the government that the nation's prisons are full, on the same day that the number of British prisoners has hit an all-time high at 83,000. Over the bank holiday weekend, which saw an...

Twelve killed, dozens missing as boat sinks in Amazon

At least 12 people are reported dead when a boat capsized in the northwestern Brazil.  " Twelve killed, dozens missing as boat sinks in AmazonMon-May 05, 2008Rio de Janeiro / Indo-Asian News ServiceAt least 12...

Nine killed in Honduras jail riot

Nine prisoners in a northern Honduras jail have been killed in a riot involving knivers and machetes."It is understood the fight started after one inmate shot another at the overcrowded prison in San Pedro Sula.Government official Hector Mejia said eight of the victims were...

Judge says courts'overstretched'

"Judge says courts'overstretched' The most senior judge in England and Wales has said a "stream" of legislation had contributed to courts being "seriously overstretched". In his annual review of the courts, The...

Mayor tells locals don't die; cemetery's full

Locals of a small village in southwest France have been told they will be severly punished if they die, because there's no room left in the town's cemetery to bury them. I wonder how someone can be serverly punished...

Deregulating the Dream

"Deregulating the Dream America is close to being a 3rd world country when it comes to class and wealth. My take: Americans (mostly republican) constantly brag about how we are the BEST at everything, the problem is that we are not. Its time we faced facts and started...

Council Flats Unfit For Families

When you have a problem with council accommodation, if your council cant or wont help you there is always your local Member of Parliament. In this case MP Sally Keeble is trying to persuade Northampton borough council to do something about overcrowding and drug abuse in three...

Gimme Shelter: The Hout Bay Land List

The hot-button issue of land rights has taken a step forward. Interestingly, some of the land marked for consideration is not in the immediate vicinity of Hout Bay, no doubt pleasing the NIMBY* element of the...

Execution Records Raise Questions, and Possible 8th Ammendment violations

"He said records of executions raised questions about whether prisoners are always rendered unconscious before they are injected with potentially painful drugs that kill them. Testimony also revealed that untrained...

U-Pass brings more than “mayhem” to Vancouver - Georgia Straight

" U-Pass has brought significant benefits and not just overcrowded buses, as some have posited [“U-Pass brings bus mayhem”, August 24-31]. Since the Student Society of UBC introduced U-Pass in cooperation with TransLink and UBC, automobile traffic on routes to UBC has...

Suffolk Bill Is New Front On Illegal Immigration

"The thing that feeds illegal immigration is the hiring"."If every county and town and state used this type of law, it would go a long way in mitigating the immigration problem. If you dry up the jobs, you dry up the flow of illegal immigration."

The 'notorious' jails of Nigeria

Prisons in Nigeria are notorious, with many of the country's 40,000 inmates crammed into massively overcrowded, dilapidated cells in old prisons

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