So we're not all going to die of swine flu after all:- offical

" Deaths from swine flu could be less than half the annual toll from the usual winter flu, it emerged last night. The news came as an expert accused ministers of an 'alarmist' response to the outbreak. ...

All is Not Lost - HP and Home Depot Beats Expectations

"Hewlett-Packard boosted the tech sector on Tuesday. The computer maker said preliminary fourth-quarter earnings were higher than analysts expected. First-quarter guidance for 2009 was also above estimates. The...

Estimates Show Sarah Palin's Assets Top $1M

"Estimates Show Sarah Palin's Assets Top $1M(WASILLA, Alaska) — Sarah Palin and her husband have pieced together a uniquely Alaskan income that reached comfortably into six figures even before she became...

Loneliness 'makes you cold'

"     Loneliness and coldness are often associated in everyday language, but psychologists have found that social isolation does make people feel cold. The University of Toronto team found people feeling excluded said a room was colder than those...

Dyslexic doctor has overseen 40 executions

A 50 cent bullet to the back of the head is actually a more humane way to be executed, the condemed won't even feel the bullet enter, like they would various needles used in lethal injection. It's cheaper, totally painless and instant, unlike those botched executions you hear...

US HIV rate 'higher than thought'

The No of Aids victim in US is much higher than previously estimated. This is a wake up call and reveals that the infection is increasing in the proportion of epidemic and annual number of new infections is around 40,000.  There is pressing need to expand the...

AI to Venezuela: protect more abused women

Amnesty International (AI) has asked the Venezuelan government to protect the Human Rights of locally abused women. Sadly, AI figures show that a rather big number of cases go unpunished or unresolved. The government has not made any comment of the AI allegations...

UN calls for more family planning

Alarmed over the growth in the World Population, United Nations have called for more money to initiate efforts to slow down population growth. Rapid population growth has put pressure on environment and recent...

Biofuels to blame for 75 per cent increase in price of food

Rushing into change without thinking out the consequences is never a good idea. Here we what at first seems a great environmental idea leading to food shortages and hikes in prices. I suppose it's just common...

UN issues urgent plea for more funding to Burma

The United Nations issued an urgent plea today to stress to the international community that more funding is still needed. The UN says it will be forced to ground helicopters that have been ferrying aid unless...

Firefox 3 Claims Download World Record

Firefox 3 hit the web hard. Very hard. The Mozilla team is claiming victory in its world-record download bid, with over 8 million downloads in a 24-hour period."The early estimates from the Mozilla organization...

Floods cause corn prices to hit record high

Corn prices hit a record high today as a result of the flooding in the Midwest.  "The worst flooding in the Midwest for 15 years sent fresh shocks to global markets and consumers on Monday as corn prices hit...

BBC uncovers lost Iraq billions

"BBC NewsHenry WaxmanWaxman: "It may well turn out to be the largest war profiteering in history."A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly...

Cyclone victims face 'long-term' food shortages

" The cyclone, which battered the country last weekend with winds of 240 km/hr(150 mph) and 3.5 meter (11.48 feet) storm water surges, killed more than 22,000. Another 41,000 people are still missing, according to state-run media outlets in Myanmar, and the U.N. estimates one...

The Milky Way is weighed

" The Milky Way galaxy weighs about 1 trillion times as much as our sun, according to a new estimate. Previous estimates had ranged from 750 billion solar masses to up to 2 trillion. Lately, researchers have...

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