Seasonal flu starts in Asia -- study

Next time you go down with that nasty flu--hopefully not the H5N1 strain--think about the thousands of kilometers those viruses (what ever happenedto 'virii'?) have traveled to get to your system. " Viruses that originate in East and Southeast Asia migrate around the...

RTÉ unveils St Patrick's Day coverage

"RTÉ has unveiled its St Patrick's Day coverage across television, radio and online. The annual Skyfest fireworks display will kick-off coverage on RTÉ Television on Saturday 15 March and will be broadcast live on RTÉ One from the Rock of Cashel. The event will be hosted...

Bo Derek launches Canadian campaign against horse meat

""A lot of the horses that would have gone to slaughter there are being shipped to Canada and Mexico," said Derek, who was invited to this west coast city to launch the Canadian campaign by the Canadian Horse Defense Coalition."Most people don't know what's going on," said...

Exeter's Temple of Doom Gives Up Treasure

"His real name is Derek Dugdale but all his mates call him Indiana Jones. He's the man who visited Exeter's very own Temple of Doom and emerged with a treasure beyond the dreams of avarice. Derek was digging deep and hard in Princesshay when he saw something strange,...

Conn. State Violated Crime Victims' Rights

"The Channel 3 I-Team has found evidence of the state violating crime victims' rights. A man slammed Derek "D.J." Benford's head into the pavement on a street in Hartford's South End in June 2005. Days later, Benford, 19, died."

'' British Film buffs link with Tanzania''

YOUNG film makers in Northampton and the East African state of Tanzania will be linking up with the hope of discovering similarities and differences between their lives. The project has been launched by Pixel Shift Productions, a film company based in Derngate, in partnership...

Another hand recount of votes in Washington : Reichert -Burner race refuses t...

"King County Elections officials today [MON] are scheduled to start preparations for a hand recount in the congressional race between Congressman Dave Reichert and Democratic challenger Darcy Burner. And as KUOW's Derek Wang reports, the results will not change the...

First Cut is the Deepest

Published on Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net (http://www.metamute.org) First Cut is the DeepestByPaul Helliwell Free improvisation guitarist and theorist Derek Bailey could be described as the Samuel Beckett of post-war...

Providing a Safety Net (Singapore)

While I jolly well understand the virtue of teaching a man how to fish, the issue is not about giving handouts. It is about coming up with measures to cushion the impact of income loss of this group while they are actively seeking employment during their unemployment period....

Wee Shu Min

"Wee Shu Min Who is she, why her name is in the top 5 of technorati? Smallnews has to do a search and here is what we found; “wrote about another blog article of Mr Wee, 35, a Singaporean who works for a multinational corporation. Wee Shu Min, disapproval the...

Soldiers who lost limbs learn to surf

"As a child of 1970s California, Derek McGinnis felt that riding waves was like a birthright, and losing his left leg to a suicide bomber in Iraq wasn't going to stop him from surfing again. So, he rallied nearly a dozen other wounded-in-action amputees he met in a military...