Summer strikes for unions

800,000 public sector workers, including school dinner ladies and council trash collectors, are going to stage a strike in the UK next month. The union, Unison, is just one of many that are threatening to stage a "summer of discontent" of strikes over the skyrocketing cost of...

Euro 2008: Turkey 3-2 Czech R & Switzerland 2-0 Portugal

Turkey make it through and a good result for the Swiss even though it's academic."Turkey 3-2 Czech R & Switzerland 2-0 Portugal Basel/Geneva, 15 June 2008 606 debate |...

Flooding continues in Louisiana

Rain, rain and more rain.  Shreveport Louisiana got drenched with rain over the last few days and remains under a flood watch.  So far at least 125 have been flooded."A third day of drenching storms...

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