Internet Freedom Bill Introduced in the House

"New legislation would protect Net Neutrality once and for all !Date: July 31, 2009 WASHINGTON -- Today, Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) introduced the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of...

Spinster rejects £2m in battle to keep stars away

This story is followed by an excellent commentary from Rob Hopkins - a resident of beautiful Devon, UK, whose website www.TransitionCulture.org is definitely worth visiting:–"By Terri Judd– ...

Finland: Lynx Population Reaches 100-Year High

THE FINNISH Game and Fisheries Research has estimated that the native lynx population is thriving with between 1,350 to 1,500 of them.   The wolverine population has also grown at a more steady pace with...

South American leaders support Morales

The political crisis in Latin America has intensified, with Bolivian president Evo Morales accusing the United States of giving aid to the breakaway rebel region in the east. Morales expelled the American...

Legacy of Tagore to be preserved in the UK

London. July 13, 2008. The dance form of first Asian Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, will be the subject of a major study and preservation in the UK. "The project entitled Legacy, supported by Britain's...

Giant Banner Hung on The Bridge..

Environment Day that celebrated every June 5th was a momentum of students in Samarinda to hang a giant banner on Mahakam Bridge..The students said "Stop environment destruction, save our life..!!" with that...

Ghost hunting at The Old Mansfield Reformatory

Ghost hunting at the old Mansfield Reformatory is so popular that all dates for 2008 are almost sold out. The facility still holds the largest free standing cell block in the world at six tiers high.Built between...

Anti-Whaling Activists Held Hostage

gCaptain brings us breaking news from the Antarctic Japanese whalers have taken two activists hostage after they boarded the whaling ship Yushin Maru. The BBC tells us; " The Sea Shepherd campaign group said the two - a Briton and an Australian - had been assaulted and...

Brad Pitt's Pink House art installation ends Sunday

"Brad Pitt's Pink House art installation ends Sunday Posted by Doug MacCash, Art Critic January 05, 2008 4:20PM AP PHOTOActor Brad Pitt points to the Make It Right Pink House art installation, representing sites...

Tons of railroad steel held hostage by sleeping 6-ounce Prairie Dogs

Not since Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, and Ronald Reagan starred in the 1940 motion picture Santa Fe Trail has there been such shouting and commotion up and down the Rio Grande.Every newspaper...

How Sweet It Is! Brooklyn Sugar Plant Gets Landmark Status

"The Domino sugar factory, a towering brick presence along the Brooklyn waterfront since the mid-19th century and a reminder of the city's great manufacturing past, has been granted landmark status. The 13-story...

Yudhoyono hopes RI-Australia partnership will improve people`s welfare

""Though Kalimantan belongs to Indonesia, the benefits of its forests, peat land and biodiversity are also felt by other countries," the Indonesian head of state said here on Sunday after witnessing the signing of...

Affordable Townhouses in Brooklyn Near Completion

"The Marcy New Homes development, designed by Hugo Subotovsky Architects, consists of 31 three-family brownstone townhouses, reserved for low- to moderate-income residents. The first seven of these townhouses have been completed, with the remaining expected to be occupied...

Latinos set up hotlines to report racial profiling

"In response to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's hotline that encourages people to report information on undocumented immigrants, Latino organizations have created a network of hotlines for incidents of racial profiling. Leaders of the Hispanic community said Wednesday...

The leader of the project to get a Cold War Vulcan bomber airborne again has ...

"The leader of the project to get a Cold War Vulcan bomber airborne again has won a national award. Dr Robert Pleming, chief executive of the Vulcan to the Sky Trust, was named preservationist of the year 2007...

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