Horses have been left to suffer by the banks of Har-Ki-Pairi in one of the most sacred places to Hindus on earth - at Haridwar, India. Overgrown hoofs have left the horses limping or having fallen over,...
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In India, schooling ranges from advanced degrees in colleges, to children being forced to study in one-room schools with no drinking water or toilets. In Daliganj, an area of India, there is a school where this is just the case. This school is not new. It has been around...
A survey conducted by the New York Times has revealed that tap water in the United States may be extremely bad for your health. The paper found that tap water is causing rashes and skin burns in many Americans, as...
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Sad facts in state orphanages and foster homes...nearly half of the children said they have negative experience in care. " VULNERABLE children in Victorian state institutions were treated "as things, not human beings", a disturbing new report reveals. Children were...
If heads must roll, it makes sense to go for the top man."Police chief sacked in aftermath of Afghan prison break Last Updated: Thursday, June 26, 2008 | 8:35 AM ET Comments0Recommend0 CBC News ...
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Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has admitted he 'ensnared' the Government into bidding for the 2012 Olympic Games."Last night in London, he told a mayoral hustings that the event was just a way of extracting...
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On November 15, 2007 I reported on the Junk Science Studies of Overfishing by Newfoundlanders, much to the dismay of some readers who still believe newfoundlanders in their little 6 meter...
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Perhaps the following study will change how athletic trainers and physicians interact with female athletes. "According to a study to be published in the Journal of Athletic Training, in high school soccer, girls sustained concussions 68 percent more often than boys did....
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"In an interview on Australia's ABC television, Rice dismissed comments from former US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage that Washington was so distracted by the war in Iraq that it was ignoring Asia to...
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"Have you forgotten to recycle any newspapers or cans recently? Feeling guilty because you neglected to carbon offset your flight to somewhere, anywhere, this summer?
The Roman Catholic Church is at hand with a new line in "green confessions" to help eco-sinners to find...
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(CBS) It was a welcome Capt. Ben Morales could not resist. He walked into the room and a little boy reached out his arms to him, CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan reports. "
"In findings which recently published in the Jan. 17 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute,
the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston concluded that men with poor oral health have a significantly increased risk of developing pancreatic cancer over those...
"POPE Benedict has ushered in Christmas at midnight mass, saying the image of the baby Jesus born in a manger should remind everyone of the plight of poor, abused and neglected children the world over.
The 79-year-old Benedict, marking the second Christmas season of his...
Here are some amazing images of the Xingfu Amusement part, posted by Poagao on Flicker, and blogged by David on Formosa.
"Poagao has posted a fascinating set of pictures on flickr of the old Xingfu Amusement Park in Bitan (碧æ½å¹¸ç¦æ¨å). He has...
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