Cancer survivors 'left in limbo'

"We better start tackling these issues now as they will only increase in number and magnitude.""Many long-term survivors of cancer are not getting the help they need to cope with the after-effects of the disease, experts warn.More than 60% of adults with cancer can expect to...

Thousands of emails lost in spam attack

Onetel, which is owned by Carphone Warehouse, says the difficulties began over a month ago, after hackers hijacked the firm’s server to send thousands of illegal spam messages."Thousands of emails have been stuck in virtual limbo for days after a massive “spam attack”...

Teen awaiting deportation starts school

Columbian Juan Gomez and his brother came to the United States as toddlers and grew up in South Florida after their parents overstayed their short-term visas. Juan and his brother Alex are both 'stand out' students, and have been granted a 45-day stay of deportation whilst...

Freed man still in limbo

"He was serving a 25-year sentence for having 58 Vicodin pills in his bread truck. Jurors weren't told that it is legal to possess the drug with a prescription, which he had."

Telegraph is 0 for 4

Mr Nick Pisa at the Telegraph (although I grant that he is repeating what most of the media have reported and is consequently not alone in his errors) maintains the Telegraph's 'losing record'  in its reportage from Rome: four articles since I've been keeping track, four...

"The Pope Officially Abolishes Limbo"

That is the headline on this Ansa dispatch: which prompts the reflection that it must have been incredibly difficult in the late 60s and the 70s to follow Rome's decisions implementing the decrees of the Second Vatican Council when one had to rely on news services.  The...

After layoff, NASA ready to build space station

"For more than three years, the International Space Station has floated half- built above the Earth. Maintained by a skeleton crew, the station - an assemblage of modules and girders - has not come close to its stated goal of becoming a world-class research...