Battery charge dropped in flatulence case

"CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AP) -- A West Virginia man accused of passing gas and fanning it toward a police officer no longer faces a battery charge. ...

Russian MPs back Georgia's rebels

"Russia's parliament has backed a motion urging the president to recognise the independence of Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Both houses voted unanimously in favour of the non-binding motion, which analysts say could help President Dmitry Medvedev...

Georgia conflict: Screams of the injured rise from residential streets

Innocent people are the victim of all this. Many building and apartment damaged by Russian airstrike." The ground shook and a series of explosions rippled through the air. From the middle of a housing estate in...

Quebec Tories Accused of Swapping Ad Expenses

Months after Canadians attention was grabbed by images of RCMP officers carting boxes of files out of the Quebec Conservative Headquarters, Elections Canada's lawyer says the party shifted hundreds of thousands of dollars.The accusation comes after months of investigations...

Back seat lovers survive cliff plunge

"Two lovers ended up in hospital in Taiwan after their car plunged 150ft down a cliff face as they made love in the back seat. Lin Gu, 25, and lover Lee Shin, 29, were left with broken bones and bruises after...

Senate Will Vote on Prohibiting Funds for Coercive Abortions in China

Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) made the following statement prior to a vote on a motion by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) to kill two of his amendments to the...

Is Apple Socially Responsible… or too slow to confirm it

"We witnessed the public stunt shown by Greenpeace everywhere about Apple’s products and its use of toxic substances in laptops and other devices. The main problem between Greenpeace guerrilla tactics is Apple slow...

St. John's city hall proposes bottled water ban

Bottled-water bans are starting to pick up some momentum in Canada. Check out yesterday's NowPublic coverage of a bottle ban in a B.C. school district. "Workers at St. John's city hall may soon be drinking their last...

Vlingo Offers Total Voice Control of BlackBerry Smartphones

Vlingo Corporation today debuted a new application for BlackBerry smartphones from Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM), offering the industry's first complete voice-powered interface based entirely on...

Thai Street Protests Continue as PM Refuses to Resign

In the face of an impending no-confidence vote, weeks of anti-government street protests, and widespread accusations of corruption, Thailand's prime minister Samak Sundaravej has defiantly refused to resign....

Flowers & Hidden Camera Taken from Cemetery

"MACCLENNY, FL -- A Baker County woman was so set on finding the crooks that kept stealing her husbands' grave flowers, she bought a high-tech motion activated camera to catch them in the act. So was she successful?...

Foreign film Oscar contenders whittled down to nine

Los Angeles (ANTARA News) - Oscars organizers on Tuesday revealed a nine-movie shortlist of contenders for this year's best foreign film prize. A committee from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences whittled down 63 films entered for the award, which will be...

Economic costs mount from Hollywood writers strike

""Those are 10,000 people who aren't getting paid, so they aren't spending money like they normally do in their communities," he told Reuters. Those 65 series account for at least 80 percent of all prime-time scripted programs produced nationwide, he said. Not included are...

Government UN vote exposes racist NT intervention

This article also applies to the United States for actively repressing Aboriginal rights in the U.S. and around the world.  The postion the United States has decided to take is nothing new.  The U.S. still...

Stop motion hard drive

Cool stop motion video of a drive opening itself up.

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