Bomb explode near Baghdad Green Zone as US official visits

Two bomb blasts are reported to have struck outside Iraq's foreign ministry  tuesday as visiting US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte prepared to hold a press conference in the Green Zone compound nearby.  " Two powerful bombs exploded just...

Octogenarian man survives after shooting five times in head

In a miraculous escape an octogenarian man tried to kill himself but couldn't succeed even after 5 bullets. It seems the God doesn't want him to die soon.    " An 84-year-old Argentine man who shot himself five times in the head in an apparent suicide...

Bomb blasts hit Spanish resorts

Four bombs exploded in the north of Spain today. Nobody was injured in the blasts, as the areas surrunding the devices had been evacuated. According to the police, Eta (a Basque separatist group) had warned them of the impending blasts."The first device went off at about noon...

YouTube Penalty For Fast-Food Felons

It was no longer fun when the boys were charged with crimminal mischief and battery for throwing drink at a person." A judge has used YouTube to punish two boys who threw a soft drink over a fast food worker and posted a film of the attack on the video sharing site. Video was...

Half a Decade of War: Five Years After Iraq Invasion, Soldiers Testify at Win...

" AMY GOODMAN: [Five years ago] on March 19th, 2003, the US began bombing Baghdad. The invasion was on. Six weeks later, President Bush stood under a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” and declared an end to major military combat operations in Iraq. Now, half a...

The Gulf of Tonkin and the Strait of Hormuz

"An Ominous Non-Event The Gulf of Tonkin and the Strait of Hormuz By ROBERT FANTINA As the U.S. government continues to demonstrate its inability to learn from history, an alarming report from the Strait of Hormuz was broadcast to the world on January 7. The Associated Press...

Clinton Takes Page from Giuliani Playbook

"Clinton Takes Page from Giuliani Playbook Hillary: Al-Qaeda watching US election DOVER, New Hampshire (AFP) — Hillary Clinton on Monday warned that Al-Qaeda watched US elections, urging Americans not to risk electing an inexperienced president, in her latest implicit swipe...

Exploding dogs pose no threat to houses

I know my dog gets pretty gassy when fed on tinned food, but this...."The ABC in Australia reports:      The Northern Territory Government is confident it will not have any problems building a housing estate across the road from a crematorium in Darwin...

Web on mobile set to explode

I saw this short article on the emarketer website. It is a big indication of where the ‘web’ is expanding into. For us in Australia, we are still being retarded by high data charges imposed by the telcos. No doubt this will change in time. If you have business with...