The zoo in Gaza, which was badly damaged in the Israeli offensive, now only has about 10 animals left - they used to have about 400. Much of what is left includes Ostrich feathers on the ground and the burnt...
created by Amy Judd | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 510 views | 33 recommendations | 11 comments
Thousands of China's toy makers have shut down their factories in the busiest time of year, the run up to Christmas, because of the world economic crisis.Summer and autumn are usually the busiest times of year for...
created by Amy Judd | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 208 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
According to new research, more than half of all amphibians (frogs, toads and newts) living in Europe could go extinct within 40 years as a result of climate change, diseases and habitat destruction. Most...
created by Dave Keating | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 271 views | 5 recommendations | 6 comments
Some more wildlife animals are on the brink of extinction because of global warming. "Polar bears may not be the only Arctic wildlife threatened by global warming. Scientists have discovered that Arctic foxes also struggle as the ice disappears because they rely on the...
So, stage one is you lose touch with your audience. Stage two is you lose readership. Stage three is your advertisers run. Stage four is your valuations plummet. Stage five is the analysts...
created by Leonard Brody | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 504 views | 7 recommendations | 6 comments
Wendy Alexander, the Scottish Labour leader who ran into some trouble over campaign contributions last week, has resigned. The Labour Party in the UK is now scrambling to find a successor for her, but it will be...
created by Dave Keating | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 191 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
" Bernanke offers bleak view on U.S. economy By Michael M. Grynbaum Published: April 2, 2008 "Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, presented hisbleakest assessment yet of the economy on...
created by greg1usa | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 185 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Congratulation to novelist Alison 'A.L.' Kennedy for her Costa 'Book of the Year' Award win. As a sometime stand-up comedian, however, her book doesn't sound quite like the 'pick me up' one might imagine could...
Since striking sci-fi gold with her starring role as Agent Dana Scully on the X-Files, Gillian Anderson has been trying to expand her range. First, there was her moody attempt to speak/sing over earnest 90s...
" The New York Times may be having more trouble with its publishing company. The company has frozen new hiring, and has also cut a “small amount” of newsroom jobs. No journalists have lost their jobs (yet),...
created by comoms | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 512 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
"Buy-to-let landlords could trigger a house price crash as increasing numbers sell their properties because of higher interest rates and fears of price falls.
According to property website landlord.co.uk, many are panic-selling, fearing a bleak winter for the housing market....
"October 19, 1987, is known as Black Monday, the day the New York Stock Exchange suffered the worst crash in history, with a banf that echoed around the world. The Dow Jones Index (the Dow in short) then sank 22.6...
"So... uh, what did I miss?""The capsule arrived after a more than three-hour return trip from the orbital station, carrying space tourist Charles Simonyi, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, and American astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, according to a spokesman at Mission...
Zimbabwe's Independence Day is April 18th, though one must question how free the citizens are; they are held in thrall by a leader who many consider a despot: Robert Mugabe continues to bully any and all voices of...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 361 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments