Tories caught up in Russian oligarch row

The Conservative party in the UK has been caught up in a scandal involving Russian oligarchs. Soe high-ranking Tory politians may have received some shady cash from Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska."The saga of Lord Mandelson, shadow chancellor George Osborne, Russian tycoon ...

Gold and silver break out of trading range, up 3%, 5% « Peter J. Cooper’s ...

" Chartists hold that a head-and-shoulders formation indicates a change in direction for a trend: either down or up. Gold seems to have taken a decisive step up, and broken out of its channel and should head higher now."

Tribute to a Poet Laureate - by lawdog

"As read at City Lights Bookstore as part of LaborFest 2004, and on Tasha's Place on TalkShoe 5/12/08Sometimes I lose my perspective. I forget what a truly incredible place San Francisco is, and how very fortunate I am to rub shoulders with the artists who have always been...

Chicago Video Surveillance Gets Smarter

Soon they'll be watching us on the streets of Chicago:"CHICAGO (AP) — A car circles a high-rise three times. Someone leaves a backpack in a park. Such things go unnoticed in big cities every day. But that could change in Chicago with a new video surveillance system that...

Diver escapes from shark's mouth

"An Australian diver fought himself free from the jaws of a 10ft great white shark that swallowed his head and shoulders and then bit him around the torso. Eric Nerhus, an abalone diver, told rescuers that he pushed his abalone chisel into the shark's head and poked it in the...

Wife saves husband from huge sea croc

"A swimmer off an Australian island was rescued by his wife after being attacked by a huge saltwater crocodile, a report says. The Times of London said the crocodile clamped its jaws around the head and shoulders of the swimmer, police Sgt. Jeff Tanswell of Thursday Island,...

Man Burns Self In Religious Protest

"California - A man doused himself with flammable liquid and set himself afire, apparently to protest a school district's decision to change the names of winter and spring breaks to Christmas and Easter vacation."

Kilimanjaro is melting

"NARO MORU, Kenya - Rivers of ice at the Equator — foretold in the 2nd century, found in the 19th — are now melting away in this new century, returning to the realm of lore and fading photographs. From mile-high Naro Moru, villagers have watched year by year as the...