Angolans face delays in first vote since 1992

Angolans are voting today for the first time since 1992. This election has experienced some "technical" promblems. However, most analyst suggest that governing Popular Liberation Movement of Angola would remain in office. "Les observateurs européens ont parlé de «...

British girl's remains found in suitcase in Brazil

The dismembered body of a British girl was found stuffed into a suitcase in Brazil yesterday, and her British boyfriend was arrested for the crime. Different parts of her body were found in different places, including off the side of a highway and in a nearby river. It is...

Filipino wins top honors in 2008 ‘Hollywood Olympics’

" LOS ANGELES - Thirteen-year-old Filipino Catherine Loria from Tiaong, Quezon shared honors with senior contestant Andrew Clarke from Jamaica when they were proclaimed Grand Champion Performers of the World in the 2008 World Championships of Performing Arts (WCOPA) or the...

Betancourt 'rescued in Colombia'

Miss Ingrid Betancourt is finally rescued with three other American after 6 years in the hands of the Farc rebel group.   " The three Americans rescued were defence department contract workers captured after their light aircraft crashed in the Colombian jungle in...

Street protests vs rice prices start

And then it has happened.  The stiff cost of food has brought people, especially the poor, out in the streets to vent out their dismay.  " Children of street vendors joined their parents in a noise barrage here Wednesday to express their dismay over not being able...

Tracking cell phone use could help curb epidemics -- study

Tracking demographic movement through cell phone usage can potentially curtail spread of communicable diseases, researchers found." Scientists searching for patterns in seemingly random human movements have found that people, in the aggregate, go about their daily lives with...