Victimization of Tamil Peopel must stop - Elie Wiesel

Holocaust surviver, Jewish icon, and Nobel laureate, Professor Elie Wiesel stated that victimization of Tamil people must stop, and they should be able to live in peace in their homeland. " TAMIL PEOPLE STATEMENT:...

Carol Ann Duffy is named first female Poet Laureate

As Andrew Motion comes to the end of his term as Poet Laureate it appears hotly tipped Manchester based Carol Anne Duffy will step into his shoes. " Carol Ann Duffy is to be named as the new Poet Laureate, the first woman to be appointed in the 341-year history of the post. ...

Police raids Iran Nobel Laureate's office

"Iranian police on Sunday raided and closed the office of a watchdog group led by Iran's Nobel peace prize winner Shirin Ebadi ahead of a celebration to mark International Human Rights Day. Iran's judiciary...

Legacy of Tagore to be preserved in the UK

London. July 13, 2008. The dance form of first Asian Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, will be the subject of a major study and preservation in the UK. "The project entitled Legacy, supported by Britain's...

Iran Is No Threat, Unless Bush Makes It One

" ........Comparing Iran with the 1939 Nazi Germany is ridiculous. Germany was a powerful, industrialized nation that had been defeated in World War I. It had grievances against the victors who had humiliated it. Germany's culture was such that many Germans blindly...

13 Arrested in 'Plot to kill' Nobel Laureate

The Guardian reports that more than a dozen people have been arrested in connection with a planned assassination of Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author, Orhan Pamuk. Pamuk is an internationally respected author and...

Bali can succeed despite US, China: Nobel laureate

"China and the United States are the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases. He was speaking just hours before he was to accept the Nobel prize on behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The United Nations body of about 3,000 experts jointly won the...

Tila Tequila AKA Tila Nguyen, Hottest Celebrity On MySpace

"As far as unaccomplished celebrities go, Tila Tequila, the most popular person on MySpace, makes Paris Hilton look like a Nobel laureate. Discovered in a US mall by a Playboy scout eight years ago, Tequila, whose real surname is Nguyen, sits among the new breed of...

Laureate Award Recipients Shocked To Recieve The Award

"Five artists at the top of their chosen fields have received the prestigious Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award tonight. Pianist Michael Houstoun, dancer Sarah-Jane Howard, entertainer Moana Maniapoto, theatre director Colin McColl, and ceramicist Merilyn Wiseman...

Consensus science roadmap published for directing global energy

""The 'business as usual' energy path we are on today is not sustainable and is counter to the long-term prosperity of every nation," said Nobel Laureate Steven Chu today, co-chair of Lighting the Way and Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. "This report stresses...

Scientist James Watson flies home after employers suspend him

Good riddance, I say. It is a right and bold step. Kudos to the institute."The Nobel Laureate who provoked an international row by apparently claiming that black people are less intelligent than whites left...

Access to patent data, expanded visual analysis tools key

Columbus, Ohio (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - It took 30 years for Chemical Abstracts Service to publish its first million abstracts. CAS indexed more than a million records in 2006 alone, reflecting the accelerated pace of research and discovery around the globe. ...

Alleged attacker apologizes to Elie Wiesel

This past May, Elie Wiesel was accosted by a man claiming we wanted to take Wiesel to his hotel room to interview him. It later emerged that there were some anti-semitic undercurrents to the attack. Wiesel...

UK Science Committee To Be Disbanded

The influential House of Commons Science and Technology Committee in the UK could very soon be disbanded in the coming week, according to The Guardian.  It plays a prominent role in developing and advising on...

Desmond Tutu "ashamed" of church gay ban

"Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in the first authorized biography of the Nobel peace laureate, said he was ashamed of his Anglican church's conservative position that rejected gay priests. In the book, "Rabble-Rouser...

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