"A range of tough new powers to tackle alcohol-fulled disorder, knife and gun crime, including realistic imitation firearms and air weapons, have been welcomed today by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.
The new violent crime measures form part of the Violent Crime Reduction Act...
"Traders selling air weapons in North Wales are being warned they could face penalties of up to £5,000 or imprisonment if they fail to register with the Police.
On the 1st of October, 2007, a change will be made...
Dorset County Hospital in the UK is oepning its war on germs on a new front: flowers.
Florists have been put on notice that their budding wares will not be accepted in the wards any longer. Fruit is apparently...
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Tulip Enterprises' "Ceramixed Plates" will be available at the New Museum Store, New York. On December 1, 2007 the new building for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, opened, coinciding with its 30th...
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"Are Latinos being set up by the Left as the next victim class? Just like the Black’s? The Immigration Bill’s goal, that was a total failure, was to make millions of Immigrants instant citizens. Not only...
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"A memorial service to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, will take place in the Northamptonshire church which serves her childhood home at Althorp.
The service will be held at St...
"The international aid group, Care, has rejected a donation of $45m (£22.7m) from the United States government.
Care criticised the way US food aid is distributed, saying it harms local farmers, especially in Africa.
It said wheat donated by the US government and distributed...
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"A Nigerian school has received a gift of 300 laptops -- one per pupil -- but has no electricity to power them up, the official News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported Friday.
Ndidi Nnoli-Edozien, coordinator of...
Raised on a farm, fed to excess and sold a few weeks ago. The "wild" pig shot by young Jamison Stone in Alabama recently captured the imagination of the media. A young hunter slays the behemoth in a three-hour hunt.
"In a few weeks’ time a thickset middle-aged man with a ready smile and the gift of the gab will walk into a courtroom in San Jose, capital of California’s “silicon valley” and try to plead poverty before the judge.
The lawyers he will be facing will not believe him,...
An Australian woman who threw away a $15 000 engagement ring has been ordered to compensate her ex-fiance for the lost ring. At one point, she tried to give the ring back but was then told is was hers to keep by...
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This is a relief. Things were starting to get ugly there for a while."TEHRAN, Iran - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defused a growing confrontation with Britain, announcing the surprise release of 15 captive British sailors Wednesday and then gleefully accepting the...
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" March 25, 2007 Colorado - It's bright red, has 27,000 miles on its odometer and it sprays water. The tiny town of Wiley has about 600 residents, a bank, a school and now another shiny fire engine. The Wiley Fire Department recently took delivery of a 1972 Mack fire engine...