Afghanistan summit to plan for withdrawal

The nice thing about Gordon Brown he nearly always, well almost lets the cat get completely out of the bag. So we are now looking at 2 to 3 years for the war to be won, or, the peace to be gained by a truce, with...

Gayatri Devi: A maharani and a beauty

Gayatri Devi, once described as one of the most beautiful women in the world, has died at the age of 90.The fashion icon broke with tradition by winning election to parliament in 1962. She was re-elected twice.She...

Your wedding and honeymoon plans of how to please.

"The first is usually a wedding, where more than 15 thousand dollars is the cost. The big question is: who foot the bill? In the 21st century are treated in a way of shifting costs to guide them. When we left from the date of the wedding the bride’s family pay for all...

China to Dalai Lama: No, Again

"Monday, November 10, 2008 at 5:46 am China to Dalai Lama: No, Again Comments (2) | Email This Some more information has come out about the ninth round of talks between the Dalai Lama's representatives and Beijing officials....

Margo MacDonald bids to change Scotish law on aiding suicide

Margo MacDonald, a member of the Scottish parliament, has introduced legislation that would make assisted suicide legal in Scotland. The announcement comes a day after a British high court rejected an English petitioners request to clarify the law on whether it is illegal for...

FEMA refuses to help local PBS affiliate rebuild

"On the air, WYES-Channel 12 looks fine. Everywhere else, the local PBS affiliate's headquarters near City Park, devastated by 5 feet of Hurricane Katrina levee-failure floodwaters, remains a literal shell of...

The History of Atari: 1978-1981

I remember back when video games were real: knights atop giant birds, subterranean monsters that you must inflate with a pump, and, uh, Chopper Command.  Anyway, on gamasutra, there's a full-on history of the...

Action call over Pakistan missing

In the name of  fighting terrorism Pakistan government has kept hundreds of its citizen in illegal custody. Human rights group have been slamming the government over its illegal detention policy. Now famous human rights group Amnesty International has brought out 50...

Air Canada lays off 632 flight attendants

Aviation business is undergoing a tough time especially after soaring fuel price and many airlines are cutting short their routes and also doing exercise to  control the cost. Now Air Canada, a big north...

March of the penguins becomes a desperate crawl for survival

This makes me just so sad.Penguin numbers are dwindling fast meaning that the world's oceans are in trouble and a species that scientists thought would be relatively safe from the human impacts of global warming...

Clarke to propose curbing power of Welsh, Scottish MPs

Quite a conundrum now affects the United Kingdgdom, ten years after devolution first gave constituent countries their own parliaments. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all now have their own seperate...

British Columbia: No Skipping Gay-Friendly Classes

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly a test case in a city which touts Multiculturalism and Diversity for all which may backfire as some cultures abhor their children attending classes and...

Tiny Emilie is Tot-too artist

" TINY Emilie Darrigade is the world's youngest tattoo artist - after inking a design on her dad's arm at the age of just FIVE. Emilie etched the detailed picture of a bumble bee surrounded by a laurel crown...

Secret al-Qaida report found on London train

Update- Erring senior intelligence official have been suspended by the cabinet office. In an embarrasing incident top secret file prepared on Al-Qaida have been found in a train in UK. The report...

TSA's Millimeter scanners see through clothes, installed at 10 airports

"Leave it to the TSA to come up with new ways to check out what you're packing. In this case, those body-scanning machines we've known about for some time are being installed in 10 airports. They are already being...

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