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Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani okays IMF bailout package

"Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani has given the green signal to finalise details of an economic bailout package with the International Monetary Fund and a six-member delegation will leave for Dubai next week to negotiate, official sources said here yesterday. Adviser on...

Heathrow T5 was 'national embarrassment'

The botched opening  of Heathrow's Terminal 5 generated lot of bad publicity and now even the British MP's have cited errors, inadequate training behind the chaos and called it a national embarrasment. The...

Estimates show Palin assets TOP $1 million

" WASILLA, Alaska (AP) -- Sarah Palin and her husband have pieced together a uniquely Alaskan income that reached comfortably into six figures even before she became governor, capitalizing on valuable fishing rights, a series of land deals and a patchwork of other...

Arctic sea ice at second lowest extent ever recorded

More alarming news on the global warming front as Arctic sea ice reaches the second lowest extent ever recorded. This comes at a time when some high profile politicians such as Republican vice-presidential...

Sarah Palin: "A cookie-cutter Republican"?

Republican Senator John McCain's vice-presidential nominee, Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, has definitely set the stage for a battle between the Republican and Democratic parties to secure the women's vote that...

U.S. ship heads for Arctic to define territory (Oil territory that is...... ....

With weighted Flag in hand I claim this underwater area for the U.S.A.........*splash*, glurp..glurp...g.l..u...r....p Underneath the ice, the Arctic Circle may contain as much as a fifth of the world's...

Who Is the San Francisco Hacker?

"San Francisco Department of Technology employee Terry Childs was in a jail cell Friday, accused of illegally locking out fellow authorized network administrators from the city computer network he helped build. But as the case against Childs entered its sixth day, questions...

Lunchtime Lock-in at schools to stop rush for chippie

Many well run secondary schools already operate this system unless a child has specific permission to go home for lunch - and that means home - not hanging around the shopping arcades or fast food outlets. With...

Ronaldo set for ankle operation

Must be all those fancy step-overs he does."Ronaldo set for ankle operation Ronaldo has not returned to Man Utd since the end of the season ...

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...

Another Female Suicide Bomber Strikes Iraqi Province, Killing 15 Near Courthouse

Another female suicide bomber has struck in Iraq, this time killing 15 people."The latest in a wave of female suicide bombers killed 15 people and wounded more than 40 others on Sunday near a heavily fortified courthouse and government outpost in central Baquba, Iraqi...

Drilon on ordeal: A ‘sobering experience’

" MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE 2) A “sobering experience” was how a television reporter who was freed late Tuesday night by her Abu Sayyaf captors described her nine-day ordeal as she thanked friends and...

Fire pushes 3,000 people out of homes near Halifax

New Update, Halifax: 3,000 Nova Scotia residents evacuated their homes as 6 major fires are currently underway in Nova Scotia. Power outage affecting another 8,100 homes where the blaze damaged a transmission...

Out of Egypt-A Voice of Reason

"In Focus: From Abu-Fana to Al-Burullus Opinion By Khalil Al-Anani, June 10, 2008Egypt is boiling; this is the least one can say of the general conditions in Egypt. From Abu-Fana monastery, which witnessed violent clashes between Muslims and Copts less than two weeks ago, to...

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...

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