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Claims Turkish woman is 125 years old

I am feeling my age, the aches and pains after my daily 10k walk and I find my self often acting like a grumpy old man especial when there is a power outage in the morning so I can't start brewing coffee. Well it...

Post 9/11: What is NATO doing in Afghanistan?

The world is remembering the eight anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, which killed nearly 3,000 people, but tens of thousands of others now mourn the deaths of those who unvoluntarily paid...

Arroyo-Obama meeting ‘a triumph for Filipinos’

" MANILA (3rd Update) -- Malacañang said Friday that the historic meeting between President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and United States President Barack Obama is a triumph for all Filipinos. "It's a historic...

Iran Urges Arabs to Act on Gaza

Iranian President Mahmood Ahmadinejad ask the Arab League to take action as possible as quickly against the Israeli aggression and attacks on Gaza. Mohmood Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran asked from the Arab...

25 feared dead in Indonesian sand mine collapse

There is bad news coming from Indonesia. Twenty five workers working in a sand mine have been trapped and lost their life. The incident happened on Thursday afternoon after a sand mine collapsed in Indonesia. " Twenty five workers were feared dead after a sand...

Five Dead in Turkey After Kurdish Rebel Attack on Police Officers

Five people are dead after a militant group ambushed Police officers in Turkey. 19 others were injured, some seriously. Four of the killed were police officers and one was an employee of a local precinct. Turkey's parliament extended their mandate to order strikes against...

We Hardly Knew Ye: Caribbean Monk Seal Extinct

Not seen for more than fifty years, the Caribbean monk seal has been declared extinct, with its Mediterranean cousins not far behind."Humans hunting the docile creatures for research, food and blubber left the...

Boise fire kills one -hundreds displaced from homes

The Mayor of Boise has made a declaration of disaster for the city of Boise.  A deadly fire that started Monday evening has already claimed the life of one victim.  It has destroyed 10 homes, and...

Vancouver and Montreal among top 25 cities in the world

Vancouver is the 8th most 'liveable' city in the world, according to international rankings put out by London-based Monocle magazine. Montreal was the only other Canadian city to make the cut, coming in at 16....

Octogenarian man survives after shooting five times in head

In a miraculous escape an octogenarian man tried to kill himself but couldn't succeed even after 5 bullets. It seems the God doesn't want him to die soon.    " An 84-year-old Argentine man who shot himself five times in the head in an apparent suicide...

Get Ready To Freeze Your N@ts Off This Winter - Farmers' Almanac Warns

Based off of looking at "sunspots, the position of the planets and the tidal action of the moon" this is what the Farmers' Almanac predicts for this winter."The almanac's 2009 edition, which goes on sale Tuesday, says at least two-thirds of the country can expect colder than...

Bertha Wanders - Now Extratropical! Iceland on Monday!

UPDATES: Bertha has been downgraded again, still with winds of 70 mph and moving at 36 mph. Bertha is now Tropical Storm and considered 'ExtraTropical.' This is the Last Advisory to be issued by the National...

$1000 a day to settle convicted pedophile Dennis Ferguson

Fearing their children will be targeted by pedophile, many parents have kept them away from school. " ALMOST 60 students of Queensland's Carbrook and Mt Cotton primary schools stayed home yesterday because their...

North Korea to sign non-aggression treaty with ASEAN: Singapore

Who was more frightened ASEAN or North Korea+China? "North Korea told Singapore, current chair of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), that it would accede to the treaty next week. The signing ceremony will take place after the ASEAN Regional Forum,...

Lebanese forces at a Shebaa Farm

Just as a new government is formed in Lebanon, its armed forces took over one of the occupied Sheeba Farms - Bastara Farm- that had been evacuated by Israel in 2000. Israel continues to occupy the rest of the Sheeba Farms which are also claimed by Syria and Lebanon. "...

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