Calling All Bands - Green Man Music Festival Needs YOU!

Fancy being the first band to play at Green Man 2009, standing on the main stage on Friday August 21st as the sun beats down over the Black Mountains and opening the festival with one of YOUR songs in front of thousands of people?How about sharing the bill Animal Collective,...

Seize the Energy Opportunity or Slip Further Behind China

Why is America losing the “green stimulus” competition to China?"A Primer on Global Competition in Green Technology Investments SOURCE: AP/Xinhua, Li Rui Wind power turbines at a wind power plant in Ulanqab, which is in north China's Inner Mongolia...

Apple and Google Get Investigated for Anti-Competition

The Regulatory bodies in the United States of America are concerned about the increasing intimate relationship between the two heavyweights Apple and Google. The relationship is even so close that the two companies share board members. This is obviously worrying when both...

MATE ROV competitors explain their craft

Members of the South Kingstown High School Robotics team explain the vehicle they made for the MATE ROV 2009 regional competition at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. If you were a participant on one of the teams in...

Do you believe in Ghosts? Collection of 'ghost photos' revealed

Do you believe in Ghosts or is that just daft? A pile of photographs have been released to the media. Most of them are fakes and can be explained, a lot of them is light or dust but now and again some classics turn...

Schwarzenegger Speaks Out About Drug Use in Sports

     Ex body builder/Terminator turned governor appeared Sunday night on CNN to talk about the use of steroids in professional sport. Arnold Schwarzenegger believes that " there is no place for...

Lawsuit to declare Niagara Parks Commission & Maid Lease Illegal

The big news in Niagara Falls is the huge controversy over the secret practices of The Niagara Parks Commission in awarding a lease to Maid of the Mist Steamboat Company Limited to offer the boat service at Niagara Falls.  It is estimated that the lease will generate at...

Bocuse d'Or Culinary Competition Begins in Lyon France

Before the Food Network's prime time offerings of  Iron Chef and Top Chef there was the Bocuse d' Or Culinary Competition. Starting Tuesday chefs from around the globe will meet in Lyon, France to cook towards...

Just How Tough Are You?

The Tough Guy competition takes place this Sunday, February 1st and competitors battle for the win in this competition which has 21 extremely demanding tasks. Some of which include running on top of burning grass,...

Bocuse d'Or or IKA, Which Event is the True Culinary Olympics?

Help me here, Erfurt (Germany) hosted the 22nd IKA /Culinary Olympics in October 2008. Now I see that the Bocuse d'Or which took place on January 27 and 28 is also being reported on by the some media outlets under the same title. Elaine Sciolino's article (January 28)...

Competition "Nightmare bureaucracy in Mexico" best story wins!

I remember a famous Mexican comedian Hector Suarez playing the sketch of a bureaucratic public official asking for "your grandma's death certificate and your dog's rabies vaccine certificate" to...

Honda blames global crisis for F1 withdrawal

Well the circus F1 needs a new goal, Honda first to retreat " Chief executive Takeo Fukui announced at a news conference in Tokyo that the company would be willing to sell the team and will withdraw from the 2009...

Wife Carrying Championships

Couples from across the country gather in Maine to compete in the National Wife Carrying Championships. The winners take home there wifes weight in Beer. Wife Carrying Championships

ICL World Series: Preview

"The ICL World Series is a T20 competition between teams led by Inzamam-ul-Haq (ICL Pakistani), Chris Harris (ICL World), Habibul Bashar (ICL Bangladesh) and R Sathish (ICL India). Inzamam and Bashar have the advantage of playing with the same team that featured in the ICL...

Jealous Co-Stars "Froze Out" John Sergeant on Strictly Come Dancing

POPULAR celebrity Strictly Come Dancing contestant John Sergeant was "loathed" by his fellow contestants, it has been revealed, because of his huge public backing.  The viewers voted Sergeant back by...

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