" LITTLE Rhys Harris is bursting with life - after two months as the "boy in the bubble" fighting an incredibly rare illness. The brave seven-year-old is only the SECOND child in the world to be cured of the genetic...
Like in the US, the British have become additcted to borrowing. Today the utspoken and controversial leader of the Anglican church decried the creation of a debt culture that encourages people to spend what they don't have even in times of prosperity."Archbishop of Canterbury...
UPDATE, LANDING The distinctive twin sonic booms as Space Shuttle Atlantis streaked across the Florida sky told residents that the STS-122 crew was close to home. The textbook landing ended a 5.3 million mile...
I quite like chicken legs. This will be a shame and maybe harm KFC profits"Following survey revelations about crippled chickens in UK battery hen farms, we have discovered that researchers in Russia are working to...
"With all the large writedowns and losses announced for the fourth quarter, hardly any attention is being paid to just how profitable U.S. banks really are. That inattention has raised unnecessary concerns that the banks may be so crippled by losses that they will cut...
In my current, third, account at flickr, i was re-friending all my previous friends from my original pro account. i was sending them emails about what happened (mere links to here, actually). Then i got smacked with...
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"FAMILIES of soldiers killed in Afghanistan are furious that a former Taliban fighter is seeking asylum in Scotland.
The Record revealed yesterday how ex-jihad front-liner Muhammad Hanif Hanifi has settled in Glasgow and wants to stay here.
Bobby Wright, of Edinburgh - whose...
Bicycles will be out in force over the next few days as trains grind to a halt and Londoners take to foot, bike and busses.
The Bakerloo, Central, Victoria, and Waterloo & City lines (BCV) and Circle, District, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City and East London lines...
Catastrophe looms for Zimbabwe:"The economy of Zimbabwe is facing total collapse within four months, leaving the country facing a slide into Congo-style anarchy, The Sunday Telegraph has been told.
Western officials...
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"Analysis: Round Three with Iran
Council on Foreign Relations
July 5, 2007
Prepared by: Lionel Beehner
The economic noose around Iran may be tightening. Domestically, the government’s plan for gas rationing, in a country that exports the second-largest amount of crude oil,...
"A cyberattack that overwhelmed computers in Estonia may teach other nations how vulnerable the world is in the Internet age, a U.S. official said.
"This may well turn out to be a watershed in terms of widespread...
Zimbabwe's troubles continue, with its citizens crushed between oppressive government, a stagnant economy, and rampant inflation."Zimbabwe's annual inflation jumped to a record 2 200% in March, central bank Governor Gideon Gono said on Thursday as the country's economic and...
Research in Motion may well get a whole new group of kids hooked on their crackberry... existing smartphone users!"RIM has announced that they're essentially planning to offer BlackBerry service ... without the BlackBerry. The company plans an app suite that will turn its...
The BBC is reporting that Irish city Galway has been struck by a cryptosporidium outbreak that is causing a crisis for the city. Cryptosporidium is a protozoan that can cause severe vomiting, diarrhea, and stomach cramps in humans (cryptosporodiosis). What's worse,...
Trust me, I'm tired of news from Nepal that always consist of strikes, bandhs, killings, fights and launching of new protests. For the past few days, I didn't browse a single news portal. May be that was also due to...
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