IWD in Vancouver - A Century of Women and Work opens March 8

Sistahood Celebration 2009 is proud to present as part of its International Women's Day - and month's - events, the art exhibit, "A Woman's Place is Everywhere! A Century of Women and Work". The exhibition opens with...

$50 Million Lawsuit Filed in Oscar Grant BART Shooting Case

The lawyer for the family of Oscar Grant III, who was shot by a BART transit officer on New Year's Eve, has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the officer and the city. This is double the amount filed in the legal claim prior to the lawsuit. It names Johannes Mehserle in the...

U.S. regains honor? or Bataan death march Part 2

The United States finally agreed to pay a paltry $15,000 to a few who are still alive, from  hundreds of thousands of Filipinos who were promised full veterans benefits. The promise was made to anyone who volunteers to fight for the U.S. The Philippines was then a...

O Brother Where Art Thou? Part 3

The 69 million peso question Money, the root of all evil Let me tell you a tale of greed and corruption. This is a story of a televangelist who managed to take control of church properties worth 69 million pesos...

Valentine day special story from Dehradun

THE ENGLISH MAN AND THE PERSIAN PRINCESS Contributed by Gopal Bhardwaj: Feb 14 In the late autumn of the year 1823 was born, in Teheran, the capital of Persia, a princess, who was so beautiful that she was given...

Windows 7 to be released this year?

Windows 7 Desktop showing Google Chrome (browsing Ubuntu website) and the new Internet Explorer 8 co-existing quite nicely. Windows 7 might be released this year. This according to a column by Ina Fried at CNET. Microsoft has not announced any plans to release this...

Oakland BART Officer Arrested in Nevada for Murder of Oscar Grant

Johannes Mehserle, the BART transit police officer who is accused of shooting and killing 22-year-old Oscar Grant on New Year's Day at a BART train station in Oakland, California was arrested Tuesday in Nevada...

BART Officer Charged With Murder, Waives Extradition

Oakland BART officer Johannes Mehserle was arrested and formally charged with murder today, waving extradition and staying silent during his short court appearance. Mehserle was caught on by multiple eyewitnesses and cameras shooting an unarmed man in the back during a New...

CRPF must protect vital institutions: OP Uniyal

Source:http://www.garhwalpost.com/centrenewsdetail.aspx?id=9887;&nt=UttarakhandMUSSOORIE, 9 Jan: Mussoorie has many government and non-government institutions of national importance like the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Institute of...

Oakland Riots lead to at Least 100 Arrests After BART Shooting

Rioting broke out in Oakland on Wednesday night as protests over the shooting death of Oscar Grant spilled into the streets, bringing out hundreds of police and a large amount of damage in the city. Over a hundred...

Eli Soriano - O Brother Where Art Thou

“A flash in the pan!” When applied to a person, this idiom means the person rose to success and then disappears just as quickly. Such is what happened to Televangelist Eliseo Fernando Soriano. Hounded by a multitude of legal problems, the self-proclaimed “pantas” is...

Boa::Eat You Up - YUM!

"Boa::Eat You Up - YUM! October 21st, 2008 No comments Update: BoA comes out today!!! Be sure to grab it like its HOTTT! Thanks to BoA’s Jewelry Box for updates! 10.14.2008. That will be the anticipated release date of...

Police Take Oakland Teenager In Custody After Threat

Oakland, CaliforniaOakland Police have taken into custody a teenage male .  Reports say after a search of the teens home seven loaded guns were found including a rifle and a shot gun."Police Take Oakland...

Foreclosures Provide New Purpose for Refugee Center

The Lao Family Community Development Inc refugee center was established 28 years ago by grateful families who escaped the wars in Southeast Asia and would like to give back to the community after this seeming miracle that they experienced in their lives."The center was...

New Orleans named most crime-ridden US city

The city of New Orleans has the highest level of crime in the US, according to an annual ranking of crime rates in American cities.The report from CQ Press draws on data from the FBI on murder, rape, robbery,...
 

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