The hazard of living on a floodplain

Living on a floodplain is a hazard I truly feel sorry for people who experience a flood. Having said that, I also feel sorry for people who are so ignorant to make themselves vulnerable to floods year after year...

Pilots feared UK-bound easyJet flight would be shot down!

" The pilots of a holiday jet which suffered a potentially catastrophic electrical fault refused to divert to a nearer landing spot because they feared they would be shot down by military craft. The easyJet Airbus...

Fatal Tower Block Fire Blamed On TV Fault!! Breaking News

"Fatal Tower Block Fire Blamed On TV Fault " "A fire which killed six people in a tower block was started by an electrical fault in an old television, police have confirmed." " The portable TV set, which...

Study: Major California Earthquake Over Due

A new study suggests that California's San Andres Fault is more likely for a massive earthquake then previously thought.  Massive earthquakes were thought to occur once every 200 years but recent studies...

BigBang machine LHC collider gets warning system

Warning System VIDEO A bad magnet contact triggered Helium accident. A new warning system to install. " An official investigation into the accident at the Large Hadron Collider has recommended that an early...

Cheap turkeys are Bush’s fault.

" I stopped at the local Food Lion last night to pick up a few pre-Thanksgiving groceries. Walking from my car to the store I saw a sign advertizing turkeys for 29 cents a pound. The only hitch was that you had to buy $25 worth of groceries and I was only...

Apple's iPhone: So Far, the Best Phone Ever?

is Apple's iPhone is the best phone ever ? What you say on Apple's iPhone"The iPhone is having a stellar year. First, it blasts past RIM's Blackberry in sales. Then it ousts Motorola's RAZR as the top-selling...

Suit Filed Against Company That Employed Metrolink 111 Engineer

After admitting they were at fault, now Metrolink is trying to sue the company that employed the homosexual train engineer who was text messaging little boys when he crashed the Metrolink, killing 25 people.  Check it out."October 26, 2008 (by Otto Smyth) It has been...

Britain's fattest teen told lose weight to save her life

Georgia Davis can not live her life normally like other teenagers. She started comfort-eating at the age of 5. She get bullying at school, she even got a nickname 'fatty' and 'tub of lard'."Georgia Davis, from...

Chaos at London tube stations as many Oyster cards stop working

This morning there was chaos at many tube stations across London as a glitch in the computer system for Oyster Cards, the cards which you use to pay for the metro system in London, caused many of the cards to...

Fury as Tory leader David Cameron tells poor: It's your own fault

The differences between the Labour and Conservative parties in the UK have become increasingly blurred in the last 15 years. But yesterday David Cameron, the Conservative leader who is leading the charge to bring...

Poor O Canada -- will no one ever learn the words?

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor It's not a French or English thing!  It is a Canadian I am too busy with my own selfish little world  to bother to learn the words thing. That is only a small...

Newsflash to No One: Internet Screaming About Xbox Live Arcade Changes Overblown

Oops.  Apparently, Microsoft didn't explain it as well as they might have.  Can they get a do-over?"The Internet cried foul when Microsoft said underperforming Xbox Live Arcade games would be removed from the service.The blame falls on Microsoft, according to Aaron...

Videos:Strange Cloud Formations Linked to Quakes

"CAN unusual clouds signal the possibility of an impending earthquake? That's the question being asked following the discovery of distinctive cloud formations above an active fault in Iran before each of two large...

Engine fault 'caused Sudan crash'

"Engine failure has been blamed for a plane crash in which South Sudan's defence minister was killed along with at least 22 other people. "Two engines failed and there was nothing the pilot could do," said Salva Kiir, President of South Sudan."

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