"Manatee area . . . proceed with caution.""by Kia Hall Hayes, The Times-PicayuneThursday July 17, 2008, 9:37 PM Confirming reports of manatees in and around Lake Pontchartrain, local scientists are spreading the word...
Militants have started brekaing through defences and into the temporary base in an outpost after US troops abandoned it. American foces have said that the outpost had been temporary and that "regular patrols" in the area would be maintained. " American troops...
This incident, which has happened in the the congested part of the Karachi, might open up the official's eye. "At least nine people were killed and more than a dozen others injured when a three-storey building collapsed in Karachi on Sunday, police said. Police said several...
At least it wouldn't be hard to learn to play this composition--unlike the boogie woogie and classical that I love to play!" More than 1,000 music-lovers showed up on Saturday, July 5, in a German town to hear a change of note in the longest-running and slowest piece of music...
At least a dozen people suffered injuries when the fireworks display at last night's 4th of July celebration in Charles City, IA malfunctioned. " Fire Department spokesman Erick Whipple says something went...
Japanese astronomers are looking for life in space. Let's hope they don't find King Ghidorah."Japan's biggest astronomical observatories are teaming up for an unprecedented quest to find out whether there is life in outer space.The project, led by Japanese astronomers, will...
UPDATE: 6:22PM EST" Floodwaters breached another levee in Illinois Wednesday as residents in other parts of the U.S. Midwest scrambled to shore up embankments along the Mississippi River. The breach happened in the...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly sickening, when as a Canadian soldier in a country you are sworn to protect witness hidden atrocities of allies you have trained who may one day save your life in...
The BBC is coming under fire again today as details are being leaked about how the company spends thousands of pounds a year (more than 2,000) on maintaining their fish tanks in just one of their London offices. I...
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"Afghan and foreign troops were hunting on Saturday hundreds of prisoners, including militants, who escaped the main prison in southern Kandahar city after a raid by Taliban insurgents, the government said....
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"Miami real estate agent Lucas Lechuga began blogging to share his knowledge of the local market. He didn't bargain for a $25 million defamation lawsuit when he wrote that a Miami developer had gone bankrupt decades...
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Imagine moving into a new home and then discovering you weren’t the only ones living there. I thought this was a joke when first reading it since it is Friday the 13th and all, but it’s a real story. A young couple had just moved into a rented house, decided...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorThe Chemical spill which happened yesterday, was far more serious than many believed. Here is a tidbit the Newspaper didn't tell you, most likely because they have no...
Emmylou Harris has long been one of my favorites. She gives one heckuva concert, and above all else, she has always seemed real. Now a thoughtful profile confirms that Harris is, indeed, real--and has lived her own...
While the United States "...remained one of the world's few democracies in which leading Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Trans-gender (LGBT) groups failed to organize even one single public IDAHO (International Day...