Hope he won't be "the next Esmin Green". " AN 80-year-old war veteran was forced to wait nearly 20 hours overnight for treatment at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital emergency department, his wife claimed today. Edward Webster from Bedford was brought to SCGH emergency...
The Scottish National Party, the party calling for Scottish Independence which has recently won control of the Scottish parliament, has unveiled a new plan to release half of Scotlands prisoners, newspapers are...
NATO forces in their quest to route out the Taliban have now invaded Pakistan. One can only wonder what the ramifications will be when Pakistan a US ally will do next at this firing on their soil."KABUL -- NATO...
Every time I visit Nowpublic there appears to be another new natural disaster.Is this the result of Global Warming or are we just in the middle of a natural cycle?"Flash floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Fengshen have left at least 14 people dead and forced the...
The two backpackers' misadventure spanned six days and concluded Wednesday evening when a rescue helicopter airlifted them from the rugged terrain. " When Erica Nelson and Abby Flantz lost their way during an overnight hike into Denali National Park, they decided to keep...
These two young woman were supposed to be on a short backpacking trip through the preserve but haven't been seen since last week. This must be very hard for their families to have to deal with at this time. One of the women was supposed to be the maid of honor in her...
New Update, Halifax: 3,000 Nova Scotia residents evacuated their homes as 6 major fires are currently underway in Nova Scotia. Power outage affecting another 8,100 homes where the blaze damaged a transmission line,...
Welcome to Reality!"Gas prices skyrocket overnight across CanadaCanwest News ServicePublished: Saturday, June 07, 2008Gas prices across the country shot up as much as six cents on Saturday morning as the cost of...
I'm in Minneapolis and yesterday's downpour was pretty intense. Lots of us were worried about flying out but things generally cleared up by the evening."The metro area endured its second hailstorm in five days Thursday, this one peppered with lightning strikes and heavy...
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"ABC's Z. Byron Wolf reports: On the same day the second longest sitting senator had brain surgery, the longest sitting senator was hospitalized with a fever.Ninety-year-old Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., was...
Negative real interest rates courtesy of a dollar-peg, high oil prices, not a little media attention and still attractive price levels are keeping Dubai real estate booming. It is a total contrast to most global property markets where activity has slowed or is in recession.
Tha is a quick update about the fire in California"
Firefighters said this morning that the Summit fire, which has destroyed 20 homes and 18 other structures, is 50 percent contained and there was no significant...
These stranded scuba divers, bobbing in shark-infested waters, had seen "Open Water." The movie recounted the tragic story of Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who were left behind by a dive boat in 1988 and were never...
Darfur's government is saying that the attack earlier today in a suburb of Khartoum by Sudanese troops was defeated."It was the first time fighting had reached the city in decades of conflict between the...
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