A pretty amazing story that shows how journalists can be in life-threatening danger."A FOX News cameraman helped save the life of an injured Marine in Afghanistan — and was injured himself — when the armored Humvee convoy he was traveling in was struck by a roadside bomb...
"Nobody knows how to play with the media more than Apple does, even when a bad news can damage their profits Apple turns it into good news and generate more positive buzz than bad. Take for example the recently...
The UK government has cancelled a planned 2p rise in fuel tax in light of the ever increasing petrol prices. However the timing to the decision, coming as it does shortly before the very important by-election in Glasgow East, has being deemed suspicious. Gordon Brown may be...
If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend the "Where the Hell is Matt" video that's been all the rage on YouTube lately. The video shows a man, Matt, doing the same awkward dance with locals in 42 countries...
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About 38 people are dead after a ferry sank in a river in Burma yesterday afternoon.It sank in Burma's cyclone-battered Irrawaddy delta."The motorized ship sank in the Yway river in Burma, also known as Myanmar, Tuesday after water entered its stern section, the New Light of...
Today is World Environment Day! The world is encouraged to kick the habit of producing carbon dioxide. World Environment Day started back in 1972 by the United Nations. NowPublic member...
Update: the death toll has risen to at least 351."State television, which was still off air in Rangoon more than 36 hours after Nagris slammed into the city of five million, reported 20 000 homes destroyed on...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorHard to believe under Saddam, Iraqi women had rights, not seen since US international sanctions, Saddams demise and a new US sanctioned Iraqi Government in what can only be...
Londoners go to the polls today to select a new mayor, the most powerful directly elected position in the UK. The vote is being seen as a major test for Prime Minister Gordon Brown. A loss for Labour incumbent Ken...
UPDATE: 12:35PM EST - April 4It has now been confirmed that members from three generations of the same family died in yesterday's fire in Pennsylvania - most of them were children.Investigators are still sorting...
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"Sergei Ryabkov, chief of the Russian Foreign Ministry's department for European cooperation, spoke just before Russian President Vladimir Putin sat down for a meeting with NATO leaders on the sidelines of a summit in the Romanian capital. Ryabkov said Russia's ties...
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AMY GOODMAN: [Five years ago] on March 19th, 2003, the US began bombing Baghdad. The invasion was on. Six weeks later, President Bush stood under a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” and declared an end to major military combat operations in Iraq. Now, half a...
"A taxi driver who took the suspected arsonist who caused a large explosion on Broadway Wednesday said the man was half-naked when he stepped into the cab, and had a faint smell of gasoline on him.Kwok Yee Cheung...
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