Georgia - Rumours and Lies, Facts and Fiction

For many people, it seems as though the White House is as much in the dark as anyone else. The lack of information and rumours going around make it hard for the average person to follow the story, let alone a major world power who is trying to make decisions based on shifting...

Peace bid as Ossetia crisis rages

"A delegation including envoys from the US, EU and OSCE is heading to Georgia as its conflict with Russia over the breakaway South Ossetia region deepens. The envoys hope to broker a truce after three days of...

US forces bomb wedding party: 22 Afghan civilians killed

More than two dozen  innocent Afghan civilians have been killed in the bombing by US forces in Afghanistan's eastern province. Afghan government has ordered a probe about this incident."  Nearly two dozen people were killed in an air strike by the US-led coalition...

Samsung in crisis after chairman quits

"SOUTH Korea's largest business group Samsung faces a leadership crisis after its chairman quit in the wake of a scandal, the acting chairman said today. "Without a captain or rudder, Samsung now...

Worlds first Moving skyscraper

"Construction of the world's first moving building, a 80-storey tower with revolving floors which give it an ever-shifting shape, is due to begin. The Dynamic Tower, which will be built in Dubai, will feature 80...

Parallels announced a Server application which is the first virtualization s...

"SWsoft (soon to be renamed Parallels) today announced the release of the beta version of Parallels Server, the company’s hypervisor-powered server virtualization solution. Parallels Server is the first virtualization solution designed to run on Apple hardware, including...

Corrupt civil servant jailed

"Corrupt civil servant Charles Myton has been jailed for two years having been found guilty of seven counts of forgery, after knowingly countersigning seven fraudulent passport applications. Myton's conviction follows that of another former civil servant, Valentina Costley,...

"Bird Flu Virus is Spreading Westward

"Newswise — In a paper in the May issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, an international team of researchers report the first ever large-scale sequencing of western genomes of the deadly avian influenza virus,...

German Army Racism Scandal: "Pretend You're Shooting at Blacks"

This is precisely the sort of publicity that Germany has been trying to avoid. A socially liberal country, Germany, like much of Europe, has seen racism and xenophobia creeping in from the fringes of society and into the fore."A video showing a German army instructor telling...

Toronto Transit Camp - Grassroots Public Transit Improvement

If you're reading this, and you live in Tee Dot, you're late."Toronto Transit Camp is a limited-attendance one-day summit on the best way to reform Toronto's public transit system. It appears to have been organized independently of the Toronto Transit Authority, and will be...

Fiji's tribal chiefs yet to agree on plan to return to civilian rule

"SUVA, Fiji: Fiji's powerful tribal chiefs failed Thursday to approve a draft plan to restore civilian rule to the South Pacific nation and end the crisis sparked by a military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase on Dec. 5. Late Thursday,...

Fiji's tribal chiefs yet to agree on plan to return to civilian rule

"SUVA, Fiji: Fiji's powerful tribal chiefs failed Thursday to approve a draft plan to restore civilian rule to the South Pacific nation and end the crisis sparked by a military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase on Dec. 5. Late Thursday,...

Fiji's tribal chiefs yet to agree on plan to return to civilian rule

"SUVA, Fiji: Fiji's powerful tribal chiefs failed Thursday to approve a draft plan to restore civilian rule to the South Pacific nation and end the crisis sparked by a military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase on Dec. 5. Late Thursday,...

Fiji coup tipped for tomorrow

A Fiji newspaper has today published what it says is the military plan for the take over of government early tomorrow morning."The Daily Post said that at 3am tomorrow (4am NZ time) soldiers will blockade the...

An In-Depth View of America by the Numbers

"In the days just before the election and as the U.S. population tops 300 million, TIME takes a close look at the country. Who are we, really? How do we live? What do we believe? How much do we earn? Some places on earth are simply too big to photograph: the Grand Canyon, the...

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