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Have you ever heard someone say all you need is love? Well whoever made up that saying or whatever dream world they lived in is just a dream world. The fact is you need more than love to survive in today’s...

UK Homelessness jumps by 14% in a year

The number of people officially classed as homeless in England has jumped by 14% – the biggest increase for nine years – as what charities have described as a "perfect storm" of rising repossession rates and ...

UN to send thousands of tents to Benin's flood victims

" The UN refugee agency is to start an emergency airlift of tents to the West African nation of Benin this week, amid the worst flooding there in decades. Some 3,000 tents will be flown in from Denmark to provide shelter for some of the estimated 680,000 people affected....

Toronto Humane Society Update: Re-opens to public

Original article: Animal cruelty: Humane Society officials and president arrested, November 6, 2009 In follow-up to the late November story about the closure of the Toronto Humane Society facility, CTV...

New York Homeless Organization Caught in a Fraud Scandal

The United Homeless Organization in New York City has been called a scam because although it takes donations it does not operate any services to the homeless community.  The operation works like this: The orgainizaiton owns hundreds of plastic jugs and tables that they...

Certified Pre-Owned Cats: Inspected, Detailed, Better Than New!

" With $0 down and 0% financing, you can bring a brand new (to you) cat home today.The shelter is charging no adoption fees for adult cats—hence the "$0 down, no payments" gimmick. The idea is to get...

Report: Illinois Cops Tasered 3 kids, Threatened 1 with Sodomy

"A shelter for adolescents in southern Illinois is suing the local sheriff’s office for what it describes as an unprovoked attack by two police officers on four children, three of whom were tasered, and one of...

Puppy Left Traumatised After Scissors Attack

"" Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.  ~Rue McClanahan "" this is such a sad and heart breaking report.....poor thing...i hope he recovers fast....the different form of cruelty that humans adopt to leave me speechless and heart broken...what state of...

Shelter wins Outstanding Film- Limited Release at GLAAD

Congratulations to the movie, Shelter for winning the Outstanding Film- Limited Release at the the 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards on March 28, 2009 in a tie with Noahs' Arc: Jumping the Broom. Shelter is one of...

Winnipeg Shelter has the Perfect Puppy for Obama

The Winnipeg Humane Society has a solution to solve one of the first major dilemmas faced by US President Barack Obama.  The shelter is offering a cute and cuddly Labradoodle puppy to the cammander-in-chief...

More bodies unearthed in Brazil mudslides

As the days pass, the real tragedy of the Santa Catarina mudslides comes out to light. Rescue workers continue to unearth more bodies as the death toll rises. .   "  2008-11-29 20:17:01 - ITAJAI,...

Parental love has no bounds

Parental love has no bounds: Pakistan man pardons son who threw him out of house A recent happening in Mazaffargarh district of Pakistan’s Punjab province has reinvigorated that the parental love has no bounds. According to a newspaper report, a man threw his parents out of...

New York City and the Homeless

During the current decade the number of homeless people sleeping each night in New York City shelters has reached modern-day record levels."NEW YORK - Twenty-two New York City churches have been ordered by the...

300,000 people in urgent need of Amnesty in Sri Lanka

The situation in srilanka is deteriorating day by day. The constant fighting etween the forces and militant group in the northwest forcing the Tamils to flee from their home.They have nothing in their posession to...

Growing 'tent cities' blamed on foreclosure crisis

"RENO, Nevada (AP) -- A few tents cropped up hard by the railroad tracks, pitched by men left with nowhere to go once the emergency winter shelter closed for the summer. ...

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