Evenflo Car Seat Recall - One Million Discovery Seats Recalled

"About one million child safety seats made by Evenflo are being recalled because they could fail to protect children from vehicle side-impacts.The seats being recalled are Evenflo Discovery child safety seat models 390, 391, 534 and 552 made between April 2005 and January 29,...

Bird flu disaster edges closer to Calcutta

"An alarming situation has arisen in India where the bird flu epidemic has taken hold and spread further. At present it has been confirmed in the Indian state of West Bengal with most of the districts in that...

CIA: Hackers shut down power to entire cities

"Computer hackers have managed to shut down power to entire cities by breaking into the systems of electricity companies and then demanding money, a senior CIA analyst has claimed.Tom Donahue told a utilities security conference in New Orleans all the successful hackings...

Charter apologizes after accidentally emptying 14,000 e-mail accounts

"Charter Communications officials believe a software error during routine maintenance caused the company to delete the contents of 14,000 U.S. customer e-mail accounts.A spokeswoman for the St. Louis-based company says there's no way to retrieve the messages, photos and other...

VISTA, HIV, AIDS And Dell

"What do Windows Vista, Dell, HIV and AIDS have in common? Well, the four have a deeper connection than meets the eye. Microsoft has confirmed that it has partnered with U.S. computer manufacturer Dell and with (RED) in order to ship exclusive (PRODUCT)RED branded products....

MoD to be quizzed over lost data

"The information watchdog is to grill the Ministry of Defence over its data protection policies after it lost the personal details of 600,000 people. Defence Secretary Des Brown will also speak in the Commons next week about the latest loss of personal data, which went...

India struggles with bird flu

"Laboratory workers on Saturday analysed new samples from dead chickens amid fears that India's worst-ever bird flu outbreak may have spread in eastern India as locals resisted a massive cull. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called the outbreak of avian flu among...

Vomiting bug sweeps UK

 What with train travel problems and winter vomiting lots of people here in the uk have still to return to work after the Christmas and New Year break - some people are heeding doctors warning to stay off...

Holly Hit Hard by Pollution

"Decorating the house with sprigs of holly is as much a pleasurable Christmas ritual for some folk as snuggling up by the fireside with an atmospheric Charles Dickens novel. 'The impact on the hollies is easily...

Norwalk virus closes Burnaby daycare

Any updates or additional information would be appreciated."Several suspected cases of Norwalk virus have forced the closure of a daycare in Burnaby. The daycare, attached to Burnaby South Secondary School, closed...

Islamists protest US Navy Cyclone Sidr relief

"Dhaka, Nov 24 - Several hundred activists of the radical Islamic group Hizb ut Tahrir staged protests here before the arrival of two ships of the US Navy for distributing relief supplies among cyclone-affected...

Disasters quadruple over last 20 years

"LONDON (Reuters) - Weather-related disasters have quadrupled over the last two decades, Oxfam said in a report published on Sunday.  From an average of 120 disasters a year in the early 1980s, there are now...

First officers from UN specialized police unit deploy for Chad to start key t...

"First officers from UN specialized police unit deploy for Chad to start key training role 21 November 2007 – The first officers from the United Nations Standing Police Capacity will depart for Chad today to start training recruits for a specialized Chadian police unit...

Massive Global Flooding Has Devastated Millions of LIves

"Millions of people have been affected by severe flooding as storms swept parts of Mexico, the Carribean, Vietnam and Australia in the past fortnight."

Argentina's first lady - Shades of Hillary

"Argentina's first lady Sep 27th 2007 From the Economist Intelligence Unit ViewsWire Cristina Fernández de Kirchner aims for the presidency Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina’s first lady, a popular...

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