" Confidential records and sensitive intelligence on tens of thousands of the most prolific criminals in England and Wales have been lost in a major breach of data security at the heart of Whitehall. Scotland Yard...
" Christian Bale has been named as one of the best dressed men in the world. The Dark Knight actor has been recognised for his love of sharp suits in a new style list by men's magazine Esquire. Grammy-award...
Fortunately, it is not nearly as bad here in Ireland (yet) ... how is it where you live? I am often asked to cease taking photographs but no one asks for my permission to be videoed (I am referring to street facing...
BA chief apology over terminal 5 farce. Willie Walsh vowed his compamy would not rest, until Heathrow's Terminal Five was working. Wille Walsh said: "We apoligise sincerely to our customers." Another Cock Up, but...
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Reaction is strong with this scandal. Most people think Richard is getting a pass because of his personality and looks "Here’s a reason to never wish The Hills were “more real”: so remember Richard? He raped a...
"Expansion of Middle East oil war is a bipartisan imperative
On May 22, 2007, Washington’s Democrats obediently capitulated to the Bush administration, handing Bush a war spending bill completely stripped of...
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"With its usual tin ear for public relations, the Bush administration provided another Kodak moment of incompetent belligerence by yet again sending a high-level administration official to use an aircraft carrier as a prop for a hawkish rant. Vice President Dick Cheney did...
"Ever since the fiasco of last summer’s war in Lebanon, Israel’s beleaguered prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has been living on borrowed time. His leadership has been fatally tarnished and his popularity is at rock bottom. The Winograd Commission condemned him severely for...
As the massive irregularities in the Nigerian presidential poll come
into focus, it has emerged that South African companies were asked at
the eleventh hour to print ballot papers that often did not reach
polling stations in time.A local printer says it declined a
request...
"WASHINGTON -- While the nation has been fixated on the fiasco of Don Imus, a virulently self-obsessed radio/TV shock jock who should have been fired long ago for trying to pose as an adult, a much more serious breach of intelligence has occurred:
The Bush White House has...
"Everyone knows that the United States has lost the war in Iraq. The politics of Washington, DC today is simply a series of maneuvers between Republicans and Democrats to position themselves so that the other party pays the electoral price for the fiasco. Will Afghanistan be...
"Currently my girlfriend and I are caught up in the mortgage fiasco surrounding New Century Financial which is the parent company of Home123 who she is trying to refinance through.
Unfortunately our fiasco began back in November of 2006 with Beneficial in Olympia WA. and we...
Tesco says sorry for contaminated petrol. There may be a long list of claimants as Tesco has promised to pay for repairs. Well fairplay, to Tesco, 'Every Little Helps' as they say. They have put their hands up and you cannot say fairer than that.
"One day, very possibly one day soon, ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro will die -- and a nascent committee sponsored by the city of Miami wants to be ready.
So it's planning a party.
The event, still in the very early planning stage, would be held in Little Havana's Orange...