There has been steep increase in the violence in Afghanistan and in this latest incident suicide bomber killed more than 20 innocent people. "A suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up next to a police patrol in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 20 people, while a...
A cow vaulted its fence and crossed a major road into a nearby garden. After residents were unable to contain the cow, police marksmen shot it. Were animal tranquilizers really out of the question? Since this took place in farmland, it's probably safe to assume some sort of...
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"TWO people were killed and nine injured in an explosion that ripped through a 12-storey apartment building in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. A local prosecutor said initial signs were that the blast...
"Firefighters from neighboring states arrived to help Monday after an "unprecedented" lightning storm sparked more than 800 wildfires, from Big Sur to wine country to Humboldt County. Along the coast in the Los...
The breeding programme of China's captive panda population could be at risk due to forced rationing of bamboo. This compounds the news that their wildlife habitat was damaged by the recent earthquake."China's captive...
I have yet to photograph a red squirrel.I am not convinced that culling grey squirrels will solve the current problem and I would much prefer to see other solutions such as supplying red squirrels with additional...
"The Bali Museum was established in 1910 by the Dutch who invaded Hindia Belanda ( the old name of Indonesia before gained it’s freedom). The main function of the museum was to collect and preserve artifacts of the...
When the quake first hit, some of the only good news to come out of China were a handful of stories about saved pandas, but now officials have some dire news to add. Many of the bears may be safe, but much of their...
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The massive flooding that has affected the Midwest is now spilling over into the Mississippi River, and the first lock and dam has already had to close."The first lock and dam on the upper Mississippi River closed to...
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" The 25-year-old man arrested for stabbing seven people to death on a Tokyo street had warned that he was about to kill in a series of messages he sent to an online noticeboard, some posted minutes before he went on the rampage.In the first post at 5.21am on Sunday, on a...
This is an important item from the Iraqi people that unfortunately will undoubtedly be ignored by the major media. For this reason, I have included the whole letter ."Statement by Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions to 2008 Chevron and ExxonMobil Shareholder MeetingsMay 30, 2008...
"Strong storms in North Rhine-Westphalia and parts of southwestern Germany flooded cellars and caused mudslides on Friday morning. Tennis-ball sized hail destroyed cars in Krefeld. Police reported that countless car windows and rooftops had been demolished in the city in the...
A realistic (abridged version) insight of how the British public views the UK Government surprisingly written by Rt Hon Dr Denis MacShane the Labour MP for Rotherham...."Politics is about both measures and men....
Even after two weeks of massive earthquake, China is still reeling under the impact of earthquake and now state media has reported that two further aftershocks have destroyed more than 420,000 houses. One...
"Editor of News Alliance is denied access to 'open source' documents in attempt to stop him uncovering the truth about what his uncle tried to expose in Government Service The National Archives is refusing the...