Watch the first five minutes of The Dark Knight

The first five minutes of the new Batman film 'The Dark Knight' has been leaked online.It's not very good quality but the film looks amazing.It features the late Heath Ledger in his last completed role before he...

Indonesian homemakers turn trash into fashion frills

Interesting way to do a business... " Used detergent labels and toothpaste tubes from Indonesia are going from landfills to fashion frills on bags and wallets sold in Singapore, Australia and the United States. ...

McCain visits evangelist Billy Graham and his son

John McCain, who has had trouble convincing the religious right of his Christian credentials, went to Billy Graham's Blue Ridge mountaintop retreat in western North Carolina to meet with the powerful preacher...

YouTube With a Purpose - Helping Kids in Bangladesh

How about something a bit more substantive than "Leave Britney Alone!" and Diet Coke & Mentos videos? Many in the NowPublic community might already be aware of my project in Bangladesh - how I'm using YouTube...

Woman locked up by family for 18 years

Seems like there are more and more stories like this everyday. People being locked in the basement for some odd reason, and they are living in ridiculous conditions and often abused. When they are finally found, 20years has gone by already. Can you imagine being locked up in...

Vegetable Prices Soar in Pakistan

During the last few months, Pakistan - in particular its biggest and richest city, Karachi - is in the grip of rising food prices. There has been a wheat and flour crisis and commodities such as fruits and...

China quake critic detained by police

A retired teacher in China was detained for writing articles criticizing the construction standards of the schools that collapsed. Around 900 children were buried in the rubble of their schools."Police detained Zeng Hongling in Sichuan's capital, Chengdu, on charges of...

Free instruments for poor children

At one time this was the norm in the UK - free music tuition and the use of an instrument with the county of Leicestershire leading the way. Sadly long gone under Thatcher and not reinstated by Blair or Brown....

Egypt bans 92-year-old's marriage

In a bizzare incident in the middle east a marriage between 92 old man and 17 year old egyptian girl have been stopped. "The Egyptian authorities have banned a 92-year-old man from marrying a 17-year-old girl, the Egyptian al-Akhbar newspaper has reported. The ministry of...

Pilot of crash plane 'over limit'

A pilot who killed himself and his family in a firey crash in the UK has been shown to have been five times over the legal alcohol limit. He had already had his flying license revoked three months before for health reasons."The pilot and co-pilot of a fatal light aircraft...

Humanitarian Crisis Deepening in Nepal

First published in www.groundreport.com   by Mohan Nepali    June 09, 2008 Humanitarian crisis is deepening in Nepal due to the skyrocketing market prices that have seriously tortured the Nepalis physically and mentally. Most of the working Nepalis within...

Homeless Feet

These were the feet belonging to two homeless boys in ChiangMai Thailand .. They were sleeping on the sidewalk outside a 7-11 store.. One with a slipper on ...The other just bare ... The are so many...

Senegal: Tourism in Eastern Senegal

" Tambacounda is the largest region in Eastern Senegal. It lies across major transit hubs linking Senegal to four of their neighboring countries; The Gambia, Guinea-Conakry, Mali and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. The region also has an Airport which is...

Food crisis: A daily quest for bread in Cairo

This is an important story:"Cairo - Every day at 4 a.m., Hagg Abdel Wahab walks down a narrow path past a simple coffee and tea shop to his bakery. For 40 years, this elderly man has donned a gray gallabeya robe smudged with white flour and baked thousands of...

Britain's roads 'littered with potholes' despite record taxes

Staples Corner Barnet, London, Gower Street, Camden, London WC1E, Avenue Road London NW8 and Edgware Road Barnet, London, are just a few of the roads in the capital which need resurfacing...."The Government...

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