1,000 to be rescued from stranded cruise ship

    Passengers aboard the stranded cruise ship Mona Lisa have been rescued. They were rescued off Latvia.  " The Mona Lisa's captain had agreed to evacuate the ship after unsuccessful efforts to free it from a sand bank off Latvia's coast,...

Seas to absorb greenhouse gas, but food chain hit

""This is a massive and surprising change in the carbon content of these organisms," said Ulf Riebesell, a marine biologist at the Leibnitz Institute of Marine Sciences in Kiel, Germany, who led the German and Norwegian experiments. Other studies have shown that the oceans...

Exchange Students Find a New Way to Deal With Germans

"A new pilot project called "Rent an American," sponsored by the German-American Institute at the University of Tübingen, which arranges for American exchange students to visit local schools.One in four of the roughly 100 US exchange students in Tübingen has registered for...

Ellie killer dog was 'pit bull type' police confirm

"The dog that killed five-year-old Ellie Lawrenson was a 'pit bull terrier type', Merseyside Police have confirmed. Ellie was mauled by a dog belonging to her uncle in the early hours of New Year's Day in St Helens."

South Africa: SAS Isandlwana Officially Handed Over to SA Navy (AllAfrica.com)

" Email This Page Print This Page Visit ThePublisher'sSite BuaNews (Tshwane) Edwin Tshivhidzo Durban The second of the country's four new patrol corvettes, the SAS Isandlwana, was officially handed over today. Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota received the corvette on behalf...