Britain's world record marrow

"The soggy weather might have cast a dampener on the traditional British summer - but it has ensured vegetables are thriving and breaking new records.This monster vegetable now holds the new world record for the...

Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies

News without opinion. " Celebrated poet (Mahmoud Darwish)  passes at age 67 in Houston hospital following complications after open-heart surgery " "Revered as the Palestinians' national poet, Darwish was...

World's oldest blogger signs off for the last time, aged 108

"An Australian woman renowned as the world's oldest blogger has died at the age of 108. Her last post described her ailing health but also how she still sang a happy song every day. Olive Riley, of Woy Woy about 50...

Everett sorry for calling troops wimps

" ACTOR Rupert Everett has apologised for calling British soldiers "wimps" and suggesting they joined the army to torture prisoners.The 49-year-old yesterday issued a lengthy statement apologising "without reserve" to the "many in this country, and hundreds and thousands of...

Helmsman of the Genome Project to Resign

“Watching our own DNA instruction book emerge letter by letter..." has been Francis Collins, director and face of the Human Genome Project. Over the course of his 15 year long career with The National Human Genome...

Mousetrap Technology - Microsoft's giant touchscreen

This reminded me of the film Minority Report. " Microsoft is trying to out iPhone the iPhone. The software company, not renowned for its slick interfaces, has built a piece of equipment that will turn any flat surface into a giant touch-sensitive screen.Michael...

Dove's 'Real Beauty' Pics Could Be Big Phonies

Beauty, it turns out, is more than skin deep..."BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) -- Dove's "real beauties" may not be so real after all, at least by the account of a renowned airbrush artist. In a May 12 profile in The New Yorker posted online, Pascal Dangin of New York's Box...

Miley Cyrus pulls out of Disney red carpet event after photo scandal

Miss Miley Cyrus has pulled out of her first scheduled public appearance since the Vanity Fair photo scandal emerged earlier this week."The 15-year-old star of "Hannah Montana" for weeks has been scheduled to appear...

Architects Vision a World-Class Derby Railway Station

The expert at converting redundant properties back into beneficial and exciting use, Architect  Derek Latham has set his sites on a world class station in  Derby which is located in the centre of...

Hundreds Turn Out At Charmaine Dragun's Memorial Service

" Network Ten's fragile anchor Charmaine Dragun was renowned for her humour, inner strength and courage, her memorial service in Perth was told today. The highly popular 29-year-old fell to her death at The Gap, in Sydney last week, after struggling with depression."

Police make Oink founder squeal

The pirator made a superb point. Though I do not think it will cut ice with the government."The founder of the file sharing site Oink, who was arrested by police on Tuesday, is insisting that he has done nothing...

India's tigers need miracle to survive

"NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's dwindling tiger population will never recover and it will take a miracle to save those left from habitat destruction and poaching, a renowned expert said on Wednesday. Failure by...

Paul Wolfowitz's fatal weakness by Juan Cole

"The cronyism that may cost him his World Bank job is also what caused the Iraq debacle. By Juan Cole May. 14, 2007 | The executive board of the World Bank mulled a possible vote of no confidence in the leadership of its president, Paul Wolfowitz, this weekend. How did the...

Image overhaul for Oxford Street

London's Oxford street buildings,Tottenham Court Road end, badly need external sandblast cleaning and some of the shop fronts need smartening up. The traffic fumes over the years have darkened the facia's and left...

A harrowing view from the top: global warming

I've submitted a couple of articles - Tibetans carry on as glaciers fall victim to global warming and Heatwave on the top of the world - regarding the evidence of global warming, climate change - whatever your semantic preference - in the high mountains of the world. And,...

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