Plan to send Mideast refugees to Sudan draws protest

Is Sudan the only place to save those refugee?! Is that the right choice?! Do UNCHR fully aware about the safety for those refugee?!"Palestinian refugees along the Iraq-Syria border are so desperate, they may accept...

Updated : KFC employee spat and urinated in policeman's food

As PETA and other environmental and animal supporters across the world protest against KFC here's another bad PR story for the Colonel. Other KFC news at NP here.Of course this isn't really a KFC crime but one of...

Tim Rice in Machiavellian plot

Lyricist Tim Rice is set to return to theatre with with his first new musical in nearly 10 years - a musical based on the life of infamous Italian philosopher and writer, Niccolo Machiavelli."A central figure of the...

Australian Democrats farewell federal parliament

It is a very sad day in Australian politics, as the Democrats are no more! Senators Stott Despoja, Bartlett, Allison and Murray will be sorely missed. I hope they will consider becoming Independents. See more about...

Pig in Boots: The world's only porker who is afraid of mud

I am a bit fed up with the Lisbon Treaty and other depressing news so I needed something a bit lighter and as I know that all of you here really like pigs I thought that you might like this story.For more information...

Policy Shift Protects Trans-gender Youth In NYS Detention Centers

" The policy shift comes after a 2006 lawsuit that received little attention outside the gay media, but that created big waves inside the OCFS.Alyssa—formerly Andrew—Rodriguez was born male, but identified and...

Three ISPs Agree To Block Child Porn - Boon or Slippery Slope?

"Goobergunchand other readers sent in word that Sprint, Time Warner, and Verizonhave agreed to block websites and newsgroups containing childpornography. The deal, brokered by New York Attorney General AndrewCuomo, occurred after Cuomo's office threatened the ISPs with...

Another Haditha Marine Found Not Guilty

Are any of our congressmen and senators who condemned these men without a trial rushing to offer apologies? How about the media? What - no? All I've got to say is that these same people who convicted these Marines in...

Services begin at new £6m station

South London has gotten its first new tube station since World War Two. The new station is located at Epsom, and the first train arrived yesterday."Services have begun at a new railway station in south London.The first Southern Train to Epsom arrived at Mitcham Eastfields in...

South Africa: The Downside of Banning Mercenaries

"South Africa's sweeping legislation to outlaw mercenary activities might also hamper the country's peacekeeping efforts and affect non-governmental and aid organisations while targeting private military/security companies (PMCs)."The South Africa legislation is very...

England v New Zealand 1st Test

"First Test, Lord's (day two, close) New Zealand 277 v England 68-0 By David Ornstein ...

Dark Lord of the Sith Punished for Attacks

LONDON -May 13, 2008 A founding member of the Welsh Jedi Church was attacked by a drunk "Darth Vader" dressed in a black bin bag on Friday,  March 28. "Darth Vader" was given a suspended sentence today.The...

Breaking Wind... down into usable energy

USA to increase number of wind power plantsI'm glad we're finally moving in the right direction when it comes to harnessing clean energy.  I remember learning about all the different types of energy (solar,...

Aid workers fear Burma cyclone deaths will top 50,000

"Foreign aid workers in Burma have concluded that as many as 50,000 people diedin Saturday’s cyclone, and two to three million are homeless, in a disasteron a scale comparable with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.The official death count after Cyclone Nargis stood at just...

Superheroes Invade Met's Costume Institute

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is about to be filled with a superheroic, couturiered assortment of capes, spandex, and transformative suits, as its new Costume Institute exhibit, "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy"...

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